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Marcellus Hartley Dodge Sr.
Marcellus Hartley Dodge, Sr. (February 28, 1881 – December 25, 1963) was the chairman of the board of Remington Arms Company and a member of the family associated with the Phelps Dodge Corporation. He was the president or director of several companies and the president of the Y.M.C.A. in the United States. He was a well-known philanthropist with significant donations to many institutions and organizations and was a major contributor to the successful efforts to protect the Great Swamp.
==Biography==
Dodge was the son of Emma Hartley Dodge (d. March 3, 1881) and Norman White Dodge. He was the grandson of William E. Dodge Sr., his paternal grandfather, a noted abolitionist, and promoter of the rights of Native Americans who served as the president of the National Temperance Society from 1865 to 1883, represented the New York 8th congressional district in the United States Congress for a portion of the 39th United States Congress in 1866-67, and was a founding member of the Young Men's Christian Association (Y.M.C.A.) in the United States. He had married Melissa Phelps (1809-1903), the daughter of Anson Greene Phelps and Olivia Egleston and in 1833, William E. Dodge and his father-in-law founded the mining firm Phelps, Dodge, and Company, one of America's foremost mining companies.
Dodge was also the grandson and successor to Marcellus Hartley, his maternal grandfather, a famous merchant and financier of Manhattan. His grandfather had provided a home on Thirty-seventh Street adjoining his on Madison Avenue for his daughter, Emma, as a wedding present when she had married Norman W. Dodge on May 6, 1880. Emma died on March 3, 1881, a few days after the birth of her son. () Several years after the death of his mother, his father remarried on January 5, 1897,() () and Marcellus was raised by his maternal grandparents. () The death of Marcellus Hartley in 1902 left his grandson as heir to a large fortune of $60 million at the age of twenty-one, while he was attending Columbia University and living with his grandmother, Frances Chester (Mrs. Marcellus) Hartley, at 282 Madison Avenue.
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