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Note for: Olive Fairfield Dodge, 24 Sep 1885 - 16 Dec 1938 Index

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Unmarried. Olive was artistic; did designing for Tiffany stain glass studio in New York City.

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Note for: Charles Kilham Dodge, 12 Feb 1888 - 31 Jan 1966 Index

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Charles Sr., due to his father's premature death, went to work at an early age. His work was real estate and banking. He lived on Long Island until he retired to what was his summer home in Sherman, Conn.

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Note for: Henry Austin Dodge, 28 Mar 1893 - 11 Aug 1914 Index

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Unmarried.

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Note for: Charles Kilham Dodge, 7 Apr 1926 - 14 Sep 2008 Index

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      Graduated from Holderness (Episcopal) Preparatory School in Plymouth, New Hampshire. After military service, graduated from Dartmouth College in 1949. He has the franchise for the retail sale of Allen Organs in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. He is president of Allen Organ Sales, Inc. in White Plains, N. Y., and of Allen Organ Studios of Harttford, Conn.
        OBITUARY:Charles Kilham Dodge, Jr. of Sherman died on September 14, 2008 at Candlewood Valley Health and Rehabilitation Center; he was 82.
        Charlie, as he was known to family and many friends, was born in Manhattan, April 7,1926, to Charles K, and Anna C. Dodge. They had acquired a Sherman summer home the previous year and their newborn immediately assumed his lifelong ties to the town. His formal education commenced at the Gaylordsville one-room school house when it was heated by a pot-belly stove, before plumbing, electricity, and school buses. It was an era when his mother's cure for a chest cold was a mustard plaster - a poultice of dry mustard, flour, and oil.
        In later years he attended Holderness School, Plymouth, NH, graduating in 1944. In World War II he served first in the U.S. Maritime Service and then the U.S. Army Air Corps. He graduated from Dartmouth College where he fulfilled a lifelong interest in architecture by taking every course offered. He majored in musical theory and composition and was appointed undergraduate college organist. Later, in business, he combined his love of the organ with his entrepreneurial talents and established a series of showrooms with staff for the sale, installation, and maintenance of Allen Organs in the Northeast.
        Since his product was successful in achieving the tonal properties of wind-blown pipes, he was called upon to provide instruments for recording and concert venues that did not have a pipe organ. This resulted in working relationships with concert organists like E. Power Biggs and Virgil Fox and conductors of his day, Leopold Stokowski, Leonard Bernstein, Erich Leinsdorf, Robert Shaw, and Seiji Ozawa. Dodge's business partner, Richard Grant, was a concert organist of prodigious technique and sight reading ability and was the frequent and acclaimed performer on many of these rentals. In retirement Dodge embraced jazz improvisation but never forsook his deep love for the works of J. S. Bach.
        Dodge leaves no immediate family but is survived by his business associate, Richard Grant, of Shapleigh, Maine. Grant will oversee the interment in the Albert Dodge plot at Laurel Hill Cemetery, Saco, ME at a time to be announced.
        Charlie was fortunate to have local friends Lisa Cilio and Gary Gouveia to provide the essentials of life during his years of confinement. Visitors Dick McGoldrick, Rob Cowley, and Carl Josephson provided solace, too, as did his beloved but distant cousins Jane Hilles, Amy and Eleanor Kilham, and Steve Porter.
        Egalitarian and liberal in his persuasions, he nonetheless relished his Mayflower/Boston Brahmin heritage. He was a committed environmentalist and directly and indirectly preserved 80 acres in the valley of the Naromiyocknowhusunkatankshunk Brook. He has written that, if he is deemed worthy, he would appreciate donations to the Sherman Land Acquisition Fund, c/o Sherman Town Hall, P.O. Box 39, Sherman, CT 06784 01 the Naromi Land Trust. 3 Route 37 Center. Sherman, CT 06784.

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Note for: Susan Coffin Chadwick, 19 Sep 1823 - 1 Apr 1905 Index

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      Susan Coffin Chadwick was the daughter of Col. Peter Chadwick of Deerfield, N. H., and Exeter, N. H., and Susan Coffin March Chadwick; Col. Peter Chadwick was the son of Dr. Edmund Chadwick who married Elizabeth Gookin (see Gookin Genealogy). Susan (Susanna) Coffin March descended from Joseph March and Anna Coffin (see Coffin Genealogy), A crayon portrait of Anna Coffin March is owned by Austin D. Kilham and a copy in crayon is owned by Catherine Kilham Adams. (See Notes on John Chadwick and his Descendants.) Miniature painting of Susan by Henry Brown, son of her cousin Sarah Kellog who married William Brown, is owned by Austin D. Kilham; he also owns samplers made when Susan was 11 years old and by her sister Mehitable, March 7, 1834, when nine years old.
        Peter and Susan lived in the Gilman-Chadwick House (now owned by the New Hampshire Society of the Cincinnati).
        (Also see "Descent from Alfred the Great and Henry I of France," in Addendum to "Notes on the Descendants of Austin and Alice Kilham and Related Families," Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 75-112738, page K99-K100.)