ABOUT HORACE ELGIN DODGE
Automobile pioneer who co-founded the Dodge Brothers Company.
He and his brother went from their father's machine shop to a boilermaker factory and then started their own auto parts company.
His company started out supplying transmissions to the Olds Motor Vehicle Company, eventually moving on to manufacturing their own models.
He and his brother were born in Niles, Michigan, and were inseparable both in childhood and in adulthood.
He and his brother went from working with Ransom Olds to competing against him.
