David Low Dodge helped to establish the New York Peace Society

New York Peace Society

The New York Peace Society was the first peace society to be established in the United States. It has had several different incarnations, as it has merged into other organizations or dissolved and then been re-created.- First incarnation :...

 and was a founder of the New York Bible Society and the New York Tract Society.

Biography

David Low Dodge was born in Brooklyn, Connecticut

Brooklyn, Connecticut

Brooklyn is a town in Windham County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 7,173 at the 2000 census. The town center village is listed by the U.S. Census Bureau as a census-designated place...

 on June 14, 1774. His parents were David Earl Dodge

David Dodge

David Dodge is the name of:* David A. Dodge , Canadian economist and Governor of the Bank of Canada from 2001 to 2008* David F. Dodge , American novelist...

 and Mary Stuart

Mary Stuart

-People:*Mary Stewart, Countess of Buchan , fifth daughter of James I of Scotland, 1st Countess of Buchan*Mary, Queen of Scots , queen regnant of Scotland, wife of Francis II of France and mother of James I of England...

. David Dodge was of English and Welsh colonial stock. His mother is said to have been the daughter of a Scottish nobleman. From the age of seven to fourteen, except two months of district school in winter, he was working on a farm in Hampton, Connecticut

Hampton, Connecticut

Hampton is a town in Windham County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 1,758 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which, of it is land and of it is water....

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He was a teacher at the age of nineteen, first in community schools then in private ones. He later began selling dry goods in Hartford, Connecticut

Hartford, Connecticut

Hartford is the capital of the U.S. state of Connecticut. The seat of Hartford County until Connecticut disbanded county government in 1960, it is the second most populous city on New England's largest river, the Connecticut River. As of the 2010 Census, Hartford's population was 124,775, making...

. He also managed the first cotton

Cotton

Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective capsule, around the seeds of cotton plants of the genus Gossypium. The fiber is almost pure cellulose. The botanical purpose of cotton fiber is to aid in seed dispersal....

 factory

Factory

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 built in Connecticut

Connecticut

Connecticut is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, and the state of New York to the west and the south .Connecticut is named for the Connecticut River, the major U.S. river that approximately...

, near the town of Norwich

Norwich, Connecticut

Regular steamship service between New York and Boston helped Norwich to prosper as a shipping center through the early part of the 20th century. During the Civil War, Norwich once again rallied and saw the growth of its textile, armaments, and specialty item manufacturing...

. In the early 19th century he relocated to New York City.

On June 7, 1798, he married Sarah, the daughter of Rev. Aaron Cleveland

Aaron Cleveland

Aaron Cleveland was a clergyman. He established the first Presbyterian church in Canada. He was a great great grandfather of United States President Grover Cleveland.-Biography:...

. He was the father of William E. Dodge

William E. Dodge

William Earle Dodge, Sr. was a New York businessman, referred to as one of the "Merchant Princes" of Wall Street in the years leading up to the American Civil War. Dodge was also a noted abolitionist, and Native American rights activist and served as the president of the National Temperance...

 and Elizabeth Clementine Stedman

Elizabeth Clementine Stedman

Elizabeth Clementine Stedman was an American writer, a daughter of David L. Dodge, a sister of William E. Dodge and the mother of Edmund Clarence Stedman. She was born in New York City. She was married first to Edmund B. Stedman, a merchant who died in 1835, and was married again, in 1841, to...

 and great-grandfather of Grace Hoadley Dodge

Grace Hoadley Dodge

-Biography:She was the great-granddaughter of David Low Dodge, and granddaughter of William E. Dodge. Grace Dodge donated about $1.5 million and many years of service to philanthropic work. She was instrumental in forming the Kitchen Garden Association, which became the Industrial Education...

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He died on April 23, 1852 in New York City

New York City

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Founded Organizations

• New York Peace Society
  New York Peace Society
  The New York Peace Society was the first peace society to be established in the United States. It has had several different incarnations, as it has merged into other organizations or dissolved and then been re-created.- First incarnation :...
  
  
• New York Tract Society
• New York Bible Society

Publications

• The Mediator's Kingdom not of This World (1809)
• War Inconsistent with the Religion of Jesus Christ (1812)