[5] A consortium of businessmen led by Dodge purchased large tracts of timberland in this area following the Civil War.

[7] He joined Peter Cooper in organizing the privately funded United States Indian Commission in 1868 and helped institute Ulysses S. Grant's Peace Policy toward Native Americans.

Dodge lobbied for the prosecution of the U.S. cavalry commanders responsible for the 1870 Marias Massacre in Montana, which left 173 Blackfeet dead.

[8] A monument to William E. Dodge stands on the North side of Bryant Park in New York City.

Dodge was a founding member of the Board of Trustees for the Syrian Protestant College, later renamed the American University of Beirut.

As Treasurer, he laid the cornerstone of College Hall, the first building on the present campus in Ras Beirut, on December 7, 1871.