"Chicago Herald", Feb 8, 1891:PROFESSOR DODGE KILLED. Run Down by an Engine While Crossing the Tracks at Alton.
Professor George B. Dodge, a prominent resident of Upper Alton, who of late years has been engaged in the real estate business at St. Louis, met with a horrible death here shortly after 7 o'clock this morning. He attempted to cross the Chicago & Alton Railway tracks in front of the Washington street depot and was struck by the south-bound passenger train. Death, was instantaneous, his body being frightfully mangled. Professor Dodge was a native of Madison County, having been born at Woodburn in 1837. For twenty-eight years he was engaged in eductional pursuits and at different times creditably filled a professor's chair at Shurtliff College, Wyman Institute for the deaf and dumb in Jacksonville, and at the high school in Centralia. Failing health compelled him to seek less confining pursuits, and for several years he has been engaged at St. Louis in the real estate business. He leaves a wife and two grown sons. The funeral will take place at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon from the family residence in Upper Alton.
Professor George B. Dodge, a prominent resident of Upper Alton, who of late years has been engaged in the real estate business at St. Louis, met with a horrible death here shortly after 7 o'clock this morning. He attempted to cross the Chicago & Alton Railway tracks in front of the Washington street depot and was struck by the south-bound passenger train. Death, was instantaneous, his body being frightfully mangled. Professor Dodge was a native of Madison County, having been born at Woodburn in 1837. For twenty-eight years he was engaged in eductional pursuits and at different times creditably filled a professor's chair at Shurtliff College, Wyman Institute for the deaf and dumb in Jacksonville, and at the high school in Centralia. Failing health compelled him to seek less confining pursuits, and for several years he has been engaged at St. Louis in the real estate business. He leaves a wife and two grown sons. The funeral will take place at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon from the family residence in Upper Alton.
"Chicago Herald", Feb 8, 1891:PROFESSOR DODGE KILLED. Run Down by an Engine While Crossing the Tracks at Alton.
Professor George B. Dodge, a prominent resident of Upper Alton, who of late years has been engaged in the real estate business at St. Louis, met with a horrible death here shortly after 7 o'clock this morning. He attempted to cross the Chicago & Alton Railway tracks in front of the Washington street depot and was struck by the south-bound passenger train. Death, was instantaneous, his body being frightfully mangled. Professor Dodge was a native of Madison County, having been born at Woodburn in 1837. For twenty-eight years he was engaged in eductional pursuits and at different times creditably filled a professor's chair at Shurtliff College, Wyman Institute for the deaf and dumb in Jacksonville, and at the high school in Centralia. Failing health compelled him to seek less confining pursuits, and for several years he has been engaged at St. Louis in the real estate business. He leaves a wife and two grown sons. The funeral will take place at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon from the family residence in Upper Alton.
Professor George B. Dodge, a prominent resident of Upper Alton, who of late years has been engaged in the real estate business at St. Louis, met with a horrible death here shortly after 7 o'clock this morning. He attempted to cross the Chicago & Alton Railway tracks in front of the Washington street depot and was struck by the south-bound passenger train. Death, was instantaneous, his body being frightfully mangled. Professor Dodge was a native of Madison County, having been born at Woodburn in 1837. For twenty-eight years he was engaged in eductional pursuits and at different times creditably filled a professor's chair at Shurtliff College, Wyman Institute for the deaf and dumb in Jacksonville, and at the high school in Centralia. Failing health compelled him to seek less confining pursuits, and for several years he has been engaged at St. Louis in the real estate business. He leaves a wife and two grown sons. The funeral will take place at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon from the family residence in Upper Alton.
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