Background
Dodge, Wendell Phillips was born on August 12, 1883 in Manchester, New Hampshire, United States. Son of Arthur Pillsbury and Elizabeth Ann (Day) Dodge.
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Wendell Phillips Dodge
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Student Chicago The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Musical College, Chase School, National Academy of Design, Art Students League (New York). Сivil engineering, New York University, 1903-1906.
Career
May 25, 1947), Richard William. Numerous engineering, industrial, commercial, reportorial assignments, 1905-1913, including covering Thaw Murder trial for New York Evening World. Founder, proprietor The World Wide News Service, 1913, general manager managing editors
Contributor to magazines, United States and foreign.
Founder-director American Theater in Paris, 1929. Presented Maurice de Fe’raudy, vice dean de la Comedie Française in only American appearance, 1924.
Produced several plays, 1919-1932. Directed Mlle. Lucienne Boyer, Escudero, Nikita Balieff, 1934.
London Intimate Opera Company.
New York City and Canada, 1937-1938. Produced Explorers television Program station WNBT, New York City, 1949. Explored Dead Sea, and site Gomorrah in Jordan Valley, Syrian and Red Deserts, 1901.
Excavated mounds of Balawat, east of Mosulate site of Ninevah, also vicinity of Baghdad.
Excavations at tomb of Cyrus on Plain of Pasargadae, 1900-1901. Circumnavigated world on square rigger, 1902.
Organized and directed P’an Ku Exploration and Exhibition Company, Far East and Near East expeditions, 1939. Honorary vice-president, director directors National Sesqui-Centennial Committee, 1926.
General chairman David Belasco Centennial Celebration, since 1953.
Achievements
Membership
Member American advisory board, Yenching University, Peiping, China. Served to Lieutenant commander of The United States Navy Reserve, retired 1939. Fellow Royal Geography Society (London).
Member several professional associations.
Clubs: Lambs, Explorers (past director), Army and Navy, Circumnavigators.
Connections
Married Clothilde Beatrice Masson, June 23, 1908. Children: Wendell Phillips (deceased May 25, 1947), Richard William.
