William E. Dodge Jr.

William Earl Dodge Jr. (February 15, 1832 – August 9, 1903) was an American businessman, activist, and philanthropist.

[2] He began working for the Phelps Dodge Corporation, and in 1864 was named a partner in the firm.

[2] Together, the couple had six children:[1] William E. Dodge Jr. died of heart failure on August 9, 1903, at his summer home in Bar Harbor, Maine.

[2] In 1863,[12] Dodge built a summer retreat known as Greyston, a gambrel-roofed Gothic Revival mansion of granite designed by James Renwick Jr., in Riverdale, Bronx, New York City.

[13] With Lyndhurst, Tarrytown, and Ingleside, Dobbs Ferry, it is one of only three mid-nineteenth century survivors along the intensely redeveloped lower Hudson.