Horace Elgin Dodge, Sr. (May 17, 1868 – December 10, 1920) was an American

United States

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 automobile manufacturing pioneer and co-founder of Dodge Brothers Company

Dodge

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He was born in Niles, Michigan

Niles, Michigan

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 on May 17, 1868. His father owned a foundry and machine shop, Horace Dodge and his elder brother John Francis Dodge

John Francis Dodge

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 were inseparable as children and as adults. In 1886, the Dodge brothers moved to Detroit, Michigan

Detroit, Michigan

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 where they took jobs at a boiler maker plant.