Cleveland Hoadley Dodge
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Cleveland Hoadley Dodge was a capitalist and philanthropist
Philanthropist
A philanthropist is someone who engages in philanthropy; that is, someone who donates his or her time, money, and/or reputation to charitable causes...

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Biography

He was born on January 26, 1860 to William Earl Dodge, Jr. He established a charitable foundation in 1917 when the United States entered World War I
World War I
World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

 with an initial funding of five million dollars. He died on June 24, 1926 in Riverdale, New York of pneumonia.
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