Moses Woodruff Dodd

Moses Woodruff Dodd

Moses Woodruff Dodd (November 11, 1813 – April 8, 1899) was the founder of a publishing company that eventually became Dodd, Mead and Company in New York City.

Biography

He was the son of Ira Dodd (1786-1869) and Anna Harrison (1785-1867) of Bloomfield, New Jersey. After graduation at Princeton in 1837, he entered the Princeton Theological Seminary, but was soon obliged by ill health to relinquish his studies for the ministry. In 1839, he formed a partnership with John S. Taylor, then a leading publisher of New York. When Taylor withdrew in 1840, he continued the business under the name of M. W. Dodd until his retirement in 1870. The publications of the house during this period were chiefly theological or religious.

Family

He had the following siblings:

  • Mary Kingsland Dodd (1811-1833)
  • Phebe Pierson Dodd (1816-1894)
  • Amarintha Dodd (1821-1889).

He married Rachel Hoe (1817-1897) and had the following children:

  • Ira Seymour Dodd (1842-1922)
  • Frank Howard Dodd (1844-1916) who took control of the company at his father's retirement.
  • Charles Townley Dodd (1846-1917)
  • Robert Hoe Dodd (1848-1934)
  • William Mead Dodd (1851-1928) who married Jean MacNeill
  • Edward Winslow Dodd (1853)

References

  • Wikisource-logo.svg "Dodd, Moses Woodruff". New International Encyclopedia. 1905. 
  • New York Times; February 28, 1928. "Announcement was made here last night of the death Sunday of William Mead Dodd in the Prince County Hospital, Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada, at the age of 77."

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