Olmsted County MN Archives Obituaries.....Dodge, Elam Prentice March 4, 1916
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Olmsted County Democrat (weekly edition), Friday, March 10, 1907 p2 col 1&2; reprinted from the previous Saturday's daily edition
ELAM P. DODGE PASSES AWAY
        SUDDENLY IN TAMPA, FLORIDA

From Saturday's Daily
Rochester people received a shock
this morning when they learned that
Elam P. Dodge had died at Tampa,
Fla., where he had gone but a few
weeks ago on a pleasure trip. During
the week rumours had come from the
south that the condition of the Roch-
ester man was none too satisfactory,
but it did not seem possible that he
was to be so soon removed from the
scene of his early activities, and con-
sequently the sad tidings that he is
no more, brot (SIC) poignant grief to the
many who knew this whole-souled
gentleman.

Friday the Bulletin was apprised by
wire from Florida, that Mr. Dodge was
a very sick man. During the night a
telegram which read as follows,  was
filed at Tampa, Fla.:

E. P. Dodge of Rochester was oper-
ated on Friday afternoon at the Gor-
don Keller Hospital, Tampa, for an ul-
cer to the rear of the right eye and in
front of the brain. Friday night his
condition became precarious and Dr.
J. B. Farrior, who performed the op-
eration, stated that the condition of
the patient was such as is similar fol-
lowing other operations of this char-
acter. Patients are always in dan-
ger."

Then this morning came the tele-
gram which told the worst to those
who were eagerly hoping that Mr.
Dodge had passed the crisis and that
he would soon be on the way to com-
plete recovery.

Mr. Dodge went to the hospital in
the Florida city two weeks ago, short-
ly after arriving there from Rochester.
He was accompanied on his southern
trip by Mrs. Dodge and by Mr. and
Mrs. R. C. Drips.

Mrs. Dodge was a guest at the Hills-
boro hotel in Tampa during her hus-
band's illness.

Elam P. Dodge was born in Roch-
ester on December 2, 1867. He spent
his entire life here. In Rochester he
received his education, in Rochester
he grew to manhood, and in Roch-
ester, when he was still a youth, he
became associated with his father, the
late W. H. Dodge, in the lumber and
fuel business. He was distinctly  a
Rochester product. During only one
year of his life was he absent from
the Queen City, and that year he sent
out west.

On June 1, 1892, he married Miss
Alice Bennett, the ceremony taking
place at Simpson. Mrs. Dodge and one
son, Walter, survive, and to them is
extended the heartfelt sympathy of the
community.

Mr. Dodge's father died Feb. 19, 1907,
and his mother passed away Nov. 12,
1913.

Elam P. Dodge was a citizen who be-
lieved in serving his fellows to the
best of his ability. Tho a busy mer-
chant, he consented to sacrifice his
time for a term on the Board of Ed-
ucation and two terms on the city coun-
cil. His abilities were recognized on
these bodies by his associates and fre-
quently the quality of the services
which he rendered, was commented
upon by them and by others who were
in a position to know Mr. Dodge's w
real worth.

Taken in the prime of life with years
of usefulness before him, his death is
in the nature of a calamity to this city,
for it can ill afford to lose men of Mr.
Dodge's stamp.

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