Show I JOHN DODGE AUTO KING ING DIES OF 1 w PNEUMONIA Rose From Apprenticeship in Machine Shop to toBe to toBe Be Millionaire NEW fEW YORK Jan 15 John John Dodge of ot Detroit automobile automobile- manufacturer dle died here last nl night ht from pneumonia I DETROIT Jan 15 The The career of I John F. F Dodge paralleled In many ways that of ot a majority of ot Michigan's leading automobile makers It began In a a. small machine shop Included include I many mam struggles against poverty and failure and its close found him one of ot the motor kings of ot the world with witha witha a fortune fortune- estimated at upwards of at Dodge was born in Niles Nile Mich 64 54 5 years a ago o. o He served an apprenticeship apprenticeship apprenticeship in his fathers father's machine shop and in 1886 moved to Detroit to follow follow follow fol fol- fol- fol low his trade Shortly afterward he was joined by his Ills brother Horace E. E Dodge and for tor years the brothers worked together I as wage earning machinists Their first business venture was in 1901 I when they opened a shop of ot their i own employing twelve persons They I built parts for automobile concerns i just starting in business In 1912 the brothers announced their intention of ot entering tho the automobile business on their own account The enterprise was successful from the beginning and under the Impetus of 01 the tho war It grew until today the Dodge Interests employ approximately eighteen eighteen eight eight- een thousand I persons One of the Dodge Brothers' Brothers efforts after atter the United States entered the war was a a. ordinance plant which despite the tho skepticism of military milt mili tary experts expert produced the delicate re recoil recoil recoil re- re coil mechanism of ot the French millimeter millimeter millimeter mil mil- guns gUM John Dodge rarely figured in the social life Ufe of Detroit lie He was re regarded regarded regarded re- re as one of ot the city s most demo democratic millionaires He Ile Is Js s survived survived sur sur- by his widow a daughter and two sons eons |