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The Tragic True Story Behind The Dodge Family’s Meadow Brook


John Francis Dodge (left, 1864-1920) and Horace Elgin Dodge (right, 1868-1920), the legendary Dodge Brothers who built one of America's greatest automotive empires from nothing. Starting with a small machine shop in 1900, they became Henry Ford's primary parts suppliers before founding Dodge Brothers Motor Company in 1913. By 1920, Dodge was America's second-largest automobile manufacturer. Tragically, both brothers died in 1920 within eleven months of each other—John from Spanish flu in January, Horace from cirrhosis in December. Their widows sold the company in 1925 for $146 million, the largest cash transaction in American business history at that time.