Bio of DODGE, Fred B. (b.1853), 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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FRED B. DODGE - Vol II, pg 293
Fred B. Dodge, of the law firm of Dodge & Webber & Palmer, has practiced his
profession in Minneapolis continuously since 1881. Mr. Dodge was the son of
James L. and Mary Budreau Dodge, and was born at Leicester in Livingston county,
New York, February 4, 1853. His father was of New England, and his mother of
French Huguenot stock. He prepared for college at the old Temple Hill Academy,
Geneseo, New York, was a member of the class of '75 of the University of
Rochester, and was admitted to the bar of New York in 1879. He was married June
4, 1885, at Freeport, Illinois, to Etta Elizabeth Purinton, daughter of Judge
George Purinton of that city. They have one surviving son, George Purinton Dodge
of Chester county, Pennsylvania, who married Miss Eleanor Rossum Rogers of
Fairfax county, Virginia.
In his long career as a practitioner at the Minneapolis bar, Mr. Dodge has
retained and enjoyed the confidence of a select and almost unbroken clientele.
He is known as a business man's lawyer, and in addition to his professional
activities has served as a director in a number of Minneapolis corporations.
In politics Mr. Dodge is a democrat, in church affiliation an Episcopalian, and
for many years has served as a warden of the Memorial (Episcopal) chapel at
Minnetonka Beach, where he resides. He is a director of the Minneapolis
Athenaeum, a member of the Lafayette and other clubs. His home at Minnetonka
Beach houses one of the large private libraries of the state. As a collector of
books he has specialized on the French Revolution.