Biography

"Catherine Lucretia Dodge, widow of John Cowninshield Dodge, died in Boston Saturday, aged eighty-four years. She was the daughter of Colonel John Holmes Prentiss of Cooperstown, New York, by his first wife, Catherine Cox Morris, daughter of General Jacob Morris, aide to General Charles Lee in the revolutionary war.  Mrs. Dodge's marriage to John Crowninshield Dodge took place on December 14, 1848. They made their home in Chicago, where Mr. Dodge was engaged for many years in active business and also interested in railway properties. For more than forty years the Summer residence of the family has been at Manchester-by-the-Sea, and Mrs. Dodge usually made her home in the Winter time with relatives in New York City. She was a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church. The only surviving member of the family is one son, John H.P. Dodge."