Moses Woodruff Dodd (November 11, 1813 – April 8, 1899) was the founder of a publishing company that eventually became Dodd, Mead and Company in New York City.

Moses Woodruff Dodd was born in Bloomfield, New Jersey on November 11, 1813, the son of Ira Dodd (1786–1869) and Anna Harrison (1785–1867).

[1] In 1839, he formed a partnership with John S. Taylor, a publisher of New York City.

He died at his home in Manhattan on April 8, 1899.

[1] He had the following siblings: He married Rachel Hoe (1817–1897) in Brooklyn on May 20, 1831, and had the following children:[2] Dodd's granddaughter, Marion Elza Dodd, co-founded the Hampshire Bookshop in Northampton, Massachusetts.