Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1898 — GEN. GRANVILLE M. DODGE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GEN. GRANVILLE M. DODGE.

President of the* Commission Which Is Investigating Army Scandals. Gen. Granville M. Dodge, president of the commission that is inquiring into the management of the war, is one of the most distinguished of the soldiers produced by the United States. So highly did his old comrades rate his military and manly character that they gave him the position of president of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee in succession to Gen. Sherman. Gen. Dodge was born at Danvers, Mass,, in 1831. His youth was spent on a farm in the pure air and in that physical labor which gives men strdng constitutions. In 1846 he entered Norwich University, and was graduated four years later as a civil engineer. In 1857 he entered the service of the Illinois Central, and later that of the Rock Island, and was afterward employed by the Government in the surveys of the Pacific Railroad. About this time Gen. Dodge established the banking and trading house of Baldwin & Dodge at Council Bluffs, lowa, and he has never given up his residence in that city, although he speeds much of his time in New York. Gen. Dodge went to the civil war as colonel of the Fourth lowa infantry, and was severely wounded in the Missouri campaign. When he recovered he was made a brigadier general and placed in command of the Second division in Kentucky. After the war Gen. Dodge was

made chief engineer of the Union Pacific Railroad. As engineer, as Congressman, as director of the grand railroad construction across the continent, he evinced as much genius and vim as he had when a soldier.

GEN. GRANVILLE M. DODGE.