Jack was the fourth child and third son of Robert and Sophia.
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Jack was a Civil Engineer, a Surveyor, a Professor of Civil Engineering at Iowa State College and a Farmer.
His "Mayflower Society" index # was 10395.
As a "Son of the Revolution", Iowa Chapter- his national # was 46903, State #1053, his application was approved April 20, 1928.
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The following was written in 2007, by Jack and Josephine's son- Parry Dodds (1917-2014).
"Jack Dodds' Surveying-
In 1903 Daddy (John Simpson Dodds) was surveying in the Badlands of North Dakota. He was 18 then, with a crew from Mankato. They had taken horses west, from the end of the Railroad at Dickinson, N. Dakota.
In his buffalo leather bound photo album for that year, there is Daddy, shovel in hand by a 3'X 3'X 3' hole, with an 8" pointed stone that would be a quarter corner marker.
Maybe twice, Bob (Parry's brother Robert Hungerford Dodds 1914-1976) and I helped him in the '30s dig such holes out on rural road intersections in Story County, Iowa.
In old fashioned coveralls- I'm in a photo with a marker tree on the Minnesota border with Canada.
I went in 1935 with the Coast Survey to Carson City, Nevada and typed bench mark descriptions. On July 2, my diary reads, "ordered to bench mark party, Dayton, Nevada."
"Moving on to 2007, here is one of his Iowa State campus markers- a surveying marker. Daddy planted huge numbers of those bench marks for his surveying students to locate and describe. Over the years, there were lots of pictures of Jack Dodds with surveying instruments on the Iowa State campus. That was our Daddy. We all have bench marks. Thank Goodness... Parry"
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Jack was a leader among survey teachers and professional Surveyors up to his death.
Upon his graduation from the Mankato high school in 1903, he joined the Original Survey party in in western North Dakota.
In 1912, he graduated from Iowa State in Ames, Iowa, with a degree in Civil Engineering, having spent two more seasons on Original Survey, 3 winter terms at Carlton College, country school teaching and even a short stint as City Engineer at Canby, MN.
He stayed on at Ames, first with the Engineering Extension Service (1912), going around Iowa teaching farmers to build concrete silos. The Iowa Highway Dept. hired him in 1913 and Jack was instrumental in laying the first mile of Iowa's concrete highway.
Jack and Josephine married Oct 9, 1913 and raised their brood of 2 sons and 2 daughters in Ames.
In 1917 he became a full time Associate Professor of the Civil Engineering Faculty at ISU.
In 1923 Jack established Iowa State's "Ames Surveying Summer Camp" at Rainy Lake MN, where he took his students each year for 'tough surveying'.
During the Depression in 1932, Jack organized, for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), the office of Local Control Surveys, producing Depression jobs for 441 Civil and Surveying Engineers.
In 1934, Jack became a full professor at ISU, an honor he held until his death.
Jack was immensely popular among his many students and greatly loved by his wife, children and grandchildren, his parents and siblings. He will long be remembered by all whose lives he touched.
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Jack was a Civil Engineer, a Surveyor, a Professor of Civil Engineering at Iowa State College and a Farmer.
His "Mayflower Society" index # was 10395.
As a "Son of the Revolution", Iowa Chapter- his national # was 46903, State #1053, his application was approved April 20, 1928.
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The following was written in 2007, by Jack and Josephine's son- Parry Dodds (1917-2014).
"Jack Dodds' Surveying-
In 1903 Daddy (John Simpson Dodds) was surveying in the Badlands of North Dakota. He was 18 then, with a crew from Mankato. They had taken horses west, from the end of the Railroad at Dickinson, N. Dakota.
In his buffalo leather bound photo album for that year, there is Daddy, shovel in hand by a 3'X 3'X 3' hole, with an 8" pointed stone that would be a quarter corner marker.
Maybe twice, Bob (Parry's brother Robert Hungerford Dodds 1914-1976) and I helped him in the '30s dig such holes out on rural road intersections in Story County, Iowa.
In old fashioned coveralls- I'm in a photo with a marker tree on the Minnesota border with Canada.
I went in 1935 with the Coast Survey to Carson City, Nevada and typed bench mark descriptions. On July 2, my diary reads, "ordered to bench mark party, Dayton, Nevada."
"Moving on to 2007, here is one of his Iowa State campus markers- a surveying marker. Daddy planted huge numbers of those bench marks for his surveying students to locate and describe. Over the years, there were lots of pictures of Jack Dodds with surveying instruments on the Iowa State campus. That was our Daddy. We all have bench marks. Thank Goodness... Parry"
===============================
Jack was a leader among survey teachers and professional Surveyors up to his death.
Upon his graduation from the Mankato high school in 1903, he joined the Original Survey party in in western North Dakota.
In 1912, he graduated from Iowa State in Ames, Iowa, with a degree in Civil Engineering, having spent two more seasons on Original Survey, 3 winter terms at Carlton College, country school teaching and even a short stint as City Engineer at Canby, MN.
He stayed on at Ames, first with the Engineering Extension Service (1912), going around Iowa teaching farmers to build concrete silos. The Iowa Highway Dept. hired him in 1913 and Jack was instrumental in laying the first mile of Iowa's concrete highway.
Jack and Josephine married Oct 9, 1913 and raised their brood of 2 sons and 2 daughters in Ames.
In 1917 he became a full time Associate Professor of the Civil Engineering Faculty at ISU.
In 1923 Jack established Iowa State's "Ames Surveying Summer Camp" at Rainy Lake MN, where he took his students each year for 'tough surveying'.
During the Depression in 1932, Jack organized, for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), the office of Local Control Surveys, producing Depression jobs for 441 Civil and Surveying Engineers.
In 1934, Jack became a full professor at ISU, an honor he held until his death.
Jack was immensely popular among his many students and greatly loved by his wife, children and grandchildren, his parents and siblings. He will long be remembered by all whose lives he touched.
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Jack was the fourth child and third son of Robert and Sophia.
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Jack was a Civil Engineer, a Surveyor, a Professor of Civil Engineering at Iowa State College and a Farmer.
His "Mayflower Society" index # was 10395.
As a "Son of the Revolution", Iowa Chapter- his national # was 46903, State #1053, his application was approved April 20, 1928.
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The following was written in 2007, by Jack and Josephine's son- Parry Dodds (1917-2014).
"Jack Dodds' Surveying-
In 1903 Daddy (John Simpson Dodds) was surveying in the Badlands of North Dakota. He was 18 then, with a crew from Mankato. They had taken horses west, from the end of the Railroad at Dickinson, N. Dakota.
In his buffalo leather bound photo album for that year, there is Daddy, shovel in hand by a 3'X 3'X 3' hole, with an 8" pointed stone that would be a quarter corner marker.
Maybe twice, Bob (Parry's brother Robert Hungerford Dodds 1914-1976) and I helped him in the '30s dig such holes out on rural road intersections in Story County, Iowa.
In old fashioned coveralls- I'm in a photo with a marker tree on the Minnesota border with Canada.
I went in 1935 with the Coast Survey to Carson City, Nevada and typed bench mark descriptions. On July 2, my diary reads, "ordered to bench mark party, Dayton, Nevada."
"Moving on to 2007, here is one of his Iowa State campus markers- a surveying marker. Daddy planted huge numbers of those bench marks for his surveying students to locate and describe. Over the years, there were lots of pictures of Jack Dodds with surveying instruments on the Iowa State campus. That was our Daddy. We all have bench marks. Thank Goodness... Parry"
===============================
Jack was a leader among survey teachers and professional Surveyors up to his death.
Upon his graduation from the Mankato high school in 1903, he joined the Original Survey party in in western North Dakota.
In 1912, he graduated from Iowa State in Ames, Iowa, with a degree in Civil Engineering, having spent two more seasons on Original Survey, 3 winter terms at Carlton College, country school teaching and even a short stint as City Engineer at Canby, MN.
He stayed on at Ames, first with the Engineering Extension Service (1912), going around Iowa teaching farmers to build concrete silos. The Iowa Highway Dept. hired him in 1913 and Jack was instrumental in laying the first mile of Iowa's concrete highway.
Jack and Josephine married Oct 9, 1913 and raised their brood of 2 sons and 2 daughters in Ames.
In 1917 he became a full time Associate Professor of the Civil Engineering Faculty at ISU.
In 1923 Jack established Iowa State's "Ames Surveying Summer Camp" at Rainy Lake MN, where he took his students each year for 'tough surveying'.
During the Depression in 1932, Jack organized, for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), the office of Local Control Surveys, producing Depression jobs for 441 Civil and Surveying Engineers.
In 1934, Jack became a full professor at ISU, an honor he held until his death.
Jack was immensely popular among his many students and greatly loved by his wife, children and grandchildren, his parents and siblings. He will long be remembered by all whose lives he touched.
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Jack was a Civil Engineer, a Surveyor, a Professor of Civil Engineering at Iowa State College and a Farmer.
His "Mayflower Society" index # was 10395.
As a "Son of the Revolution", Iowa Chapter- his national # was 46903, State #1053, his application was approved April 20, 1928.
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The following was written in 2007, by Jack and Josephine's son- Parry Dodds (1917-2014).
"Jack Dodds' Surveying-
In 1903 Daddy (John Simpson Dodds) was surveying in the Badlands of North Dakota. He was 18 then, with a crew from Mankato. They had taken horses west, from the end of the Railroad at Dickinson, N. Dakota.
In his buffalo leather bound photo album for that year, there is Daddy, shovel in hand by a 3'X 3'X 3' hole, with an 8" pointed stone that would be a quarter corner marker.
Maybe twice, Bob (Parry's brother Robert Hungerford Dodds 1914-1976) and I helped him in the '30s dig such holes out on rural road intersections in Story County, Iowa.
In old fashioned coveralls- I'm in a photo with a marker tree on the Minnesota border with Canada.
I went in 1935 with the Coast Survey to Carson City, Nevada and typed bench mark descriptions. On July 2, my diary reads, "ordered to bench mark party, Dayton, Nevada."
"Moving on to 2007, here is one of his Iowa State campus markers- a surveying marker. Daddy planted huge numbers of those bench marks for his surveying students to locate and describe. Over the years, there were lots of pictures of Jack Dodds with surveying instruments on the Iowa State campus. That was our Daddy. We all have bench marks. Thank Goodness... Parry"
===============================
Jack was a leader among survey teachers and professional Surveyors up to his death.
Upon his graduation from the Mankato high school in 1903, he joined the Original Survey party in in western North Dakota.
In 1912, he graduated from Iowa State in Ames, Iowa, with a degree in Civil Engineering, having spent two more seasons on Original Survey, 3 winter terms at Carlton College, country school teaching and even a short stint as City Engineer at Canby, MN.
He stayed on at Ames, first with the Engineering Extension Service (1912), going around Iowa teaching farmers to build concrete silos. The Iowa Highway Dept. hired him in 1913 and Jack was instrumental in laying the first mile of Iowa's concrete highway.
Jack and Josephine married Oct 9, 1913 and raised their brood of 2 sons and 2 daughters in Ames.
In 1917 he became a full time Associate Professor of the Civil Engineering Faculty at ISU.
In 1923 Jack established Iowa State's "Ames Surveying Summer Camp" at Rainy Lake MN, where he took his students each year for 'tough surveying'.
During the Depression in 1932, Jack organized, for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), the office of Local Control Surveys, producing Depression jobs for 441 Civil and Surveying Engineers.
In 1934, Jack became a full professor at ISU, an honor he held until his death.
Jack was immensely popular among his many students and greatly loved by his wife, children and grandchildren, his parents and siblings. He will long be remembered by all whose lives he touched.
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