{"id":228,"date":"2011-10-31T20:31:18","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T01:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea2\/?p=228"},"modified":"2011-11-06T15:05:23","modified_gmt":"2011-11-06T21:05:23","slug":"goodspeed-biography-of-george-c-dodge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/goodspeed-biography-of-george-c-dodge\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodspeed Biography of George C. Dodge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maj. George C. <strong>Dodge<\/strong>, a prominent attorney of Spring City, Rhea Co., Tenn., and the son of George C. and Lucy (<strong>Burton<\/strong>) Dodge, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, November 20, 1845.\u00a0 He was educated at the public schools of Cleveland, Ohio, and at the Western Reserve College at Hudson, Ohio.\u00a0 About this time the war broke out, and at the age of sixteen he enlisted in Company D, Forty-first Ohio Infantry.\u00a0 He went in as orderly sergeant and came out as captain, with the rant of brevet-major.\u00a0 He was attached to the army of the Cumberland and was at all the battles from Shiloh to Nashville, and at Chickamauga received a wound.\u00a0 He was the youngest commissioned officer in the State of Ohio.\u00a0 In December, 1868, he led to the altar Miss Laura J. <strong>Gedge<\/strong>, daughter\u00a0of W. H. Gedge, president at that time of the Kentucky Central Railroad.\u00a0 This union resulted in the birth of two children, one son and one daughter.\u00a0 In 1876 our subject was admitted to the bar and began practicing that year in Cleveland, where he remained until September 19, 1881, when he came to his present location and continued the practice of his profession.\u00a0 Maj. Dodge was secretary of the board of education, and was one of the members of the board.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Published by The Goodspeed Publishing Co 1887<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maj. George C. Dodge, a prominent attorney of Spring City, Rhea Co., Tenn., and the son of George C. and Lucy (Burton) Dodge, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, November 20, 1845.\u00a0 He was educated at the public schools of Cleveland, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/goodspeed-biography-of-george-c-dodge\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[167],"tags":[57,56,58],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goodspeed","tag-burton","tag-dodge","tag-gedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}