Levi Dodge was born in Waldo county, Maine, July 5, 1814. In the fall of 1814, the family emigrated to Athens county, Ohio, and in the fall of 1837, from there to Clinton county, Missouri. He was married in Athens county, Ohio, January 12, 1934, to Sarah Hursey, born February 8, 1813, daughter of Ariel Hursey, a Free Will Baptist preacher, who had moved to Athens county, Ohio, in 1814.
Mr. Dodge was farming in Clinton county til 1850; Levi Dodge came to Holt County, Missouri in 1850. He kept the first post office in Graham, Mo., and was the proprietor of the once locally famous "Pool of Siloam" at Mound City, Mo. This mineral pool was comprised of a spring-fed pond 60X300 feet, stocked with 2,000 fish and equipped with a hotel & bathing facilities near the water, claimed to be a cure for all diseases. At different times, Mr. Dodge owned stock in the towns of Rulo, Winnebago, and St. Stevens, Neb., and Yankton, S.D.
then moved to Fillmore, Andrew county; and in the fall of 1852, settled in Holt county, on Squaw creek, on the farm now occupied by John Schrantz. During part of 1853 he sold goods at Graham, Missouri, and kept the first post-office ever established there.
Removing to Nebraska in 1954, he sold goods at the Falls of Nemaha. In 1856 he kept a trading-post on the old California trace. In 1857 and 1858 he was engaged in speculative enterprises at Winnebago, Nebraska, which proved unsuccessful. While living in Nebraska, Mrs. Dodge practiced medicine, for which she had a strong, natural inclination, and her success was fully up the average of the learned practitioners of the present day.
In the fall of 1839, Mr. Dodge moved back to Holt county. He has moved seventten times in eighteen years, and has always been busy at something, and is now one of the enterprising business men of the county."
Source: Historical Atlas Map, Holt county, Mo.,1877. (Holt County Missouri Periodical)-Jan 2, 1989
Source: Gone Home I-Eileen Derr
Mr. Dodge was farming in Clinton county til 1850; Levi Dodge came to Holt County, Missouri in 1850. He kept the first post office in Graham, Mo., and was the proprietor of the once locally famous "Pool of Siloam" at Mound City, Mo. This mineral pool was comprised of a spring-fed pond 60X300 feet, stocked with 2,000 fish and equipped with a hotel & bathing facilities near the water, claimed to be a cure for all diseases. At different times, Mr. Dodge owned stock in the towns of Rulo, Winnebago, and St. Stevens, Neb., and Yankton, S.D.
then moved to Fillmore, Andrew county; and in the fall of 1852, settled in Holt county, on Squaw creek, on the farm now occupied by John Schrantz. During part of 1853 he sold goods at Graham, Missouri, and kept the first post-office ever established there.
Removing to Nebraska in 1954, he sold goods at the Falls of Nemaha. In 1856 he kept a trading-post on the old California trace. In 1857 and 1858 he was engaged in speculative enterprises at Winnebago, Nebraska, which proved unsuccessful. While living in Nebraska, Mrs. Dodge practiced medicine, for which she had a strong, natural inclination, and her success was fully up the average of the learned practitioners of the present day.
In the fall of 1839, Mr. Dodge moved back to Holt county. He has moved seventten times in eighteen years, and has always been busy at something, and is now one of the enterprising business men of the county."
Source: Historical Atlas Map, Holt county, Mo.,1877. (Holt County Missouri Periodical)-Jan 2, 1989
Source: Gone Home I-Eileen Derr
Levi Dodge was born in Waldo county, Maine, July 5, 1814. In the fall of 1814, the family emigrated to Athens county, Ohio, and in the fall of 1837, from there to Clinton county, Missouri. He was married in Athens county, Ohio, January 12, 1934, to Sarah Hursey, born February 8, 1813, daughter of Ariel Hursey, a Free Will Baptist preacher, who had moved to Athens county, Ohio, in 1814.
Mr. Dodge was farming in Clinton county til 1850; Levi Dodge came to Holt County, Missouri in 1850. He kept the first post office in Graham, Mo., and was the proprietor of the once locally famous "Pool of Siloam" at Mound City, Mo. This mineral pool was comprised of a spring-fed pond 60X300 feet, stocked with 2,000 fish and equipped with a hotel & bathing facilities near the water, claimed to be a cure for all diseases. At different times, Mr. Dodge owned stock in the towns of Rulo, Winnebago, and St. Stevens, Neb., and Yankton, S.D.
then moved to Fillmore, Andrew county; and in the fall of 1852, settled in Holt county, on Squaw creek, on the farm now occupied by John Schrantz. During part of 1853 he sold goods at Graham, Missouri, and kept the first post-office ever established there.
Removing to Nebraska in 1954, he sold goods at the Falls of Nemaha. In 1856 he kept a trading-post on the old California trace. In 1857 and 1858 he was engaged in speculative enterprises at Winnebago, Nebraska, which proved unsuccessful. While living in Nebraska, Mrs. Dodge practiced medicine, for which she had a strong, natural inclination, and her success was fully up the average of the learned practitioners of the present day.
In the fall of 1839, Mr. Dodge moved back to Holt county. He has moved seventten times in eighteen years, and has always been busy at something, and is now one of the enterprising business men of the county."
Source: Historical Atlas Map, Holt county, Mo.,1877. (Holt County Missouri Periodical)-Jan 2, 1989
Source: Gone Home I-Eileen Derr
Mr. Dodge was farming in Clinton county til 1850; Levi Dodge came to Holt County, Missouri in 1850. He kept the first post office in Graham, Mo., and was the proprietor of the once locally famous "Pool of Siloam" at Mound City, Mo. This mineral pool was comprised of a spring-fed pond 60X300 feet, stocked with 2,000 fish and equipped with a hotel & bathing facilities near the water, claimed to be a cure for all diseases. At different times, Mr. Dodge owned stock in the towns of Rulo, Winnebago, and St. Stevens, Neb., and Yankton, S.D.
then moved to Fillmore, Andrew county; and in the fall of 1852, settled in Holt county, on Squaw creek, on the farm now occupied by John Schrantz. During part of 1853 he sold goods at Graham, Missouri, and kept the first post-office ever established there.
Removing to Nebraska in 1954, he sold goods at the Falls of Nemaha. In 1856 he kept a trading-post on the old California trace. In 1857 and 1858 he was engaged in speculative enterprises at Winnebago, Nebraska, which proved unsuccessful. While living in Nebraska, Mrs. Dodge practiced medicine, for which she had a strong, natural inclination, and her success was fully up the average of the learned practitioners of the present day.
In the fall of 1839, Mr. Dodge moved back to Holt county. He has moved seventten times in eighteen years, and has always been busy at something, and is now one of the enterprising business men of the county."
Source: Historical Atlas Map, Holt county, Mo.,1877. (Holt County Missouri Periodical)-Jan 2, 1989
Source: Gone Home I-Eileen Derr
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