Horace Elgin Dodge Sr. (May 17, 1868 to December 10, 1920) was an American automobile manufacturing pioneer and co-founder of the Dodge Brothers Company, the firm that became the present-day Dodge. He was born in Niles, Michigan, to a father who owned a foundry and machine shop, and he moved to Detroit with his elder brother John Francis Dodge in 1886. He was a gifted mechanic and inveterate tinkerer who invented the first dirt-proof ball bearing, and in 1901 the brothers used the proceeds of a bicycle business to set up their own machine shop in Detroit. In 1896 he married Anna Thompson.
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(May 17, 1868, December 10, 1920) was an American automobile manufacturing pioneer and co-founder of Dodge Brothers Company.
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Horace Elgin Dodge Sr. (May 17, 1868, December 10, 1920) was an American automobile manufacturing pioneer and co-founder of Dodge Brothers Company.
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Founded as the Dodge Brothers Company machine shop by brothers Horace Elgin Dodge and John Francis Dodge in 1900, Dodge was originally a supplier of parts and assemblies to Detroit-based automakers like Ford.
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