Marcellus Hartley Dodge Sr.

Marcellus Hartley Dodge Sr.
A bronze plaque of Dodge
Born	(1881-02-28)February 28, 1881 New Jersey
Died	December 25, 1963(1963-12-25) (aged 82) Giralda Farms, Madison, New Jersey
Occupation	Owner and Chairman of the Remington Arms Company
Spouse(s)	Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge
Children	Marcellus Hartley Dodge Jr.
Parent(s)	Emma Hartley Norman White Dodge

Marcellus Hartley Dodge Sr. (February 28, 1881 – December 25, 1963) was the chairman of the board of Remington Arms Company and a member of the family associated with the Phelps Dodge Corporation. He was the president or director of several companies and the president of the Y.M.C.A. in the United States. He was a well-known philanthropist with significant donations to many institutions and organizations and was a major contributor to the successful efforts to protect the Great Swamp.

He was born on February 28, 1881 to Emma Hartley who died from complication of childbirth on March 3, 1881; and Norman White Dodge. His paternal grandfather was William E. Dodge Sr., an abolitionist, that supported the institution of slavery with his leadership in Phelps-Dodge, a company that exported cotton from the deep south to Liverpool, England. His maternal grandfather was Marcellus Hartley, a merchantwho died in 1902 and left his grandson as heir to $60 million (approximately $1,660,846,000 today) at the age of twenty-one, while he was attending Columbia University and living with his grandmother, Frances Chester Hartley, at 282 Madison Avenue in Manhattan.

In 1903, Dodge graduated from Columbia University, where he was president of his class, manager of the track team, and coxswain of his class crew (sometimes referred to as college rowing).

Upon his graduation, he and his maternal aunt, Helen Hartley (Mrs. George W.) Jenkins, presented the Hartley Hall dormitory to Columbia. The building became Columbia's largest dormitory and created more of a college atmosphere for the new campus in Morningside Heights.