Show RAILROAD BUILDER DEAD general grenville M dodge P F alses away at iowa home council bluffs loa ion a general grenville at M dodge soldier and ra railroad builder died here monday general andge had been ir jr feeble health for a long period he ile vaa 84 years of age general Nl ellert dodge known throughout the west as the builder of 0 the union pacific railroad waa was born at dangers dan ers lass mass april 12 1831 abraham lincoln who bad done some legal work tor for the met dodge and the two bilked of building a railroad over the rocky mountains and to lie vie pacific coast work on the road final began v en the civil war broke out and dodge being an engineer engine pr and haying having had somo experience in indian fight ing in was given a colonels commission by his old friend president lincoln at big own expense ho he gassei drilled and o the fourth ira a infantry regiment shortly before the close of the war general dodge waa was called from the front by br president lincoln and requested to take up the work of con strutting tIng tho the long talkea of ot railroad across the mountains the union pacific company was organized and the road completed on may clay lo 10 1869 |