Bio of DODD, Samuel A. (b.1885), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical
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SAMUEL A. DODD - Vol III, pg 184
Samuel A. Dodd, manager of the Minneapolis branch of the Johnson Candy Company,
is a successful business man. A native of Michigan, his birth occurred in
Cheboygan, on the 2d of August, 1885, a son of Samuel and Mary L. (Bellant)
Dodd. His father lived in Chicago, Illinois, and followed the lakes and ocean
throughout his life. He died in his fifty-fifth year. Mrs. Dodd was a daughter
of Peter Bellant, a pioneer lumber­man of Michigan, who died in his
seventy-second year.
The public schools of Cheboygan afforded Samuel A. Dodd his early education and
for two years he was a student in the local high school. At the termination of
that time he put his textbooks aside and secured a position in a lumber mill at
Duluth, where he remained two years. Subsequently he entered the service of the
United States government and for two years was assistant at the Wind Point
Lighthouse at Racine, Wisconsin. He resigned that position and became associated
with the National Biscuit Company at Racine, remaining in the employ of that
company for five years, later becoming associated with the Robert A. Johnson
Company, a candy concern of Milwaukee, and after ten years in the home office
was sent by them to Minneapolis as manager of the branch office. He is
discharging the many duties devolving upon him to the complete satisfaction of
all concerned and the best principles of honor and integrity govern him in his
transactions.
On the 3d of August, 1906, at Waukegan, Illinois, was celebrated the marriage of
Samuel A. Dodd to Miss Emma Sorenson, a daughter of Jacob Sorenson, of Racine.
Mr. Sorenson engaged in farming for many years, as had his father and
grandfather before him, and he is now living retired at the age of seventy
years. To Mr. and Mrs. Dodd two children have been born: Bernice, thirteen years
of age; and Ivy, aged three Mrs. Dodd is a woman of culture and refinement and
is socially prominent.
In his political views Samuel A. Dodd is a strict adherent of the republican
party and the principles for which it stands. During the World war he took an
active part in all drives and was one of the most effective war workers in
Milwaukee, in which city he was then residing. For recreation Mr. Dodd turns to
the great outdoors and he is particularly fond of fishing, in which sport he is
proficient. In early life he learned the value of close application to the thing
at hand and he devotes the greater part of his time and attention to his
managerial duties and to the care of his extensive property interests in Racine.