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It's typically "Grenville Dodge." That's how it's spelled on his gravestone.

There is an old joke that the modern American legal system was created to sort out disputes between banks and railroads in the mid-19th Century and hasn't changed since. Suffice it to say it was difficult to have a successful law practice and not be involved in railroad cases.

by rifek on Thu Jan 30th, 2014 at 08:28:28 PM EST
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It's typically "Grenville Dodge." That's how it's spelled on his gravestone.

And in all of my sources, too. Ooops, sub-conscious mis-reading.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Fri Jan 31st, 2014 at 07:54:11 AM EST
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I said "typically" because there are records where it was spelled "Greenville." His middle name got spelled a couple of different ways, too.

by rifek on Fri Jan 31st, 2014 at 10:54:37 AM EST
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