DODGE, WILLIAM E. 



DORE, GUSTAVE. 



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Mutual Life Insurance Company. He early be- 

 came a member of the Chamber of Commerce, 

 and was for three terms chosen to be its presi- 

 dent. He was an active manager and friend of 



WILLIAM EARL DODGE. 



the American Bible Society, was a trustee and 

 benefactor of Union Theological Seminary, and 

 was among the most zealous of the founders of 

 the Union League Club. 



In 1844 Mr. Dodge found it necessary to 

 -make a voyage to Europe for his health. In 

 1872 he visited the East, and laid the corner- 

 stone of the Syrian Protestant College at Bey- 

 rout. He also visited England in 1881, and 

 made an eloquent and forcible address regard- 

 ing the English and Foreign Bible Society and 

 its works. 



Mr. Dodge devoted both time and money to 

 the support of the Government during the civil 

 war, and was a member of the Thirty-ninth 

 Congress. Later, President Grant appointed 

 him one of the Indian Commissioners, and he 

 visited the Territories, and made himself per- 

 sonally acquainted with the Indian question in 

 all its important phases. 



Active, unceasing benevolence and good- will 

 to men marked his whole course. He was spe- 

 cially a friend and helper of the freedmen, and 

 was a patron and benefactor of Lincoln Uni- 

 versity for colored men. He was President of 



the National Temperance Society, and aided in 

 establishing in New York a temperance Chris- 

 tian home for men, and also a like home for 

 women. Only ten days before his last, fatal 

 attack he delivered in the Taber- 

 nacle, West Thirty -fifth street, an 

 interesting lecture entitled u Recol- 

 lections of Fifty Years." 



Although now considerably be- 

 yond three-score years and ten, Mr. 

 Dodge in no wise slacked his efforts 

 to do good. Premonition came, the 

 Saturday before his death, in an at- 

 tack of angina pectoris. Yet, with 

 undaunted courage, he nerved him- 

 self for whatever work was before 

 him to accomplish. On Friday, Feb- 

 ruary 9th, he rose as usual ; but the 

 summons had come, and, supported 

 by the arms of his loved ones, he 

 was laid on his bed and passed away. 

 The funeral services were held on 

 the 12th inst., in the Church of the 

 Covenant, Park Avenue, of which 

 congregation he had for fifteen years 

 been an active and honored member. 

 In addition to unnumbered gifts 

 and charities during his lifetime, Mr. 

 Dodge left by will sums of $50,000, 

 $20,000, and $10,000 to various char- 

 itable and educational institutions. ' 

 DORE, Gnstave, a French artist, 

 born in Strasburg, Alsace-Lorraine, 

 Jan. 10, 1833; died in Paris, Jan. 

 23, 1883. At a very early age he 

 manifested unusual talent and pas- 

 sion for drawing, and was sent to 

 the lyceum of his native city. He 

 was only eleven years old when his 

 first lithographs were published, and 

 excited much attention as coming 

 from a boy of that age. In the following year 

 he accompanied his father to Paris, and was 

 sent to the Charlemagne Lyceum, for the pur- 

 pose of completing his education and training 

 for the life that seemed to be opening to him. 

 In 1848 he published his first series of sketches, 

 " The Labors of Hercules," which were pre- 

 pared for the " Journal pour rire." They were 

 so satisfactory, and well adapted to the objects 

 of that journal, that the youthful artist became 

 one of its regular contributors. 



At the age of twenty Dor6 began to exhibit 

 oil-paintings, and the next year (1854) he 

 established his reputation by illustrating the 

 works of Rabelais. He contributed largely to 

 the "Journal pour tous," which was founded 

 in 1856, and that same year he gave to the 

 public a series of charming pictorial com- 

 mentaries on Balzac's mirtlfful " Contes Drola- 

 tiques," and on the well-known legend of the 

 Wandering Jew. These latter, though hav- 

 ing a considerable element of the grotesque, 

 bear the stamp of Holbein and Albert Durer, 

 together with the quiet humor of Hogarth. 

 In 1861 he was .decorated with the Cross 



