Bio of DODD, John, Wright Co., MN
(Partial bio)
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1089   HISTORY OF WRIGHT COUNTY  

John Dodd, an early settler of Chatham township, was born in County Down, 
Ireland, and as a young man, in 1829, came with his wife to Quebec, Canada, 
where she died. He later, at Montreal, married Mrs. Jessie (Watts) 
Cochrane, and by this marriage had five children: Sophia Jessie, 
Campbell, George P., Charles and Kate. When the Manchester Unity Lodge 
of Odd Fellows was organized there in 1831, he became one of the charter 
members. In 1855 he moved his family to By Town, now the city of Ottawa. 
There he did an extensive business as an importer of military clothing. 
His business prospered, and he and his family lived in tranquillity and 
comfort until the outbreak of the Civil war. Before the beginning of that 
conflict, James E., William H. and John W. Cochrane, sons of Mrs. John Dodd 
by her former marriage to John Cochrane, came to St. Paul direct from 
Ottawa. The secession of the Southern states, found William H. and John
W. in New Orleans, to which city they had gone from St. Paul. Hostilities 
commenced, and the Confederates made an effort to draft the two young men, 
but upon their claiming allegiance to the Queen of England, they were 
allowed to depart. Finding their