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John Francis Dodge is born October 25th 1864
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Horace Dodge is born May 17th 1868
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The brothers co-founded a bicycle company.
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1900 the brothers have sold the bike shop and moved to Detroit and opened a machine shop for the growing auto industry.
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Brothers are hired by Ransom Olds to make engines for his new curved dash mobiles.
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Henry ford contracts Dodge to build engines, transmissions, and axles. Ford unfortunately is not able to pay them in cash and payed them in stock.
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Brothers leave ford and create Dodge Brothers Motor company.
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Brothers come out with their 1st 4 cylinder cars.
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1915 Dodge sells 45,000 cars
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1918 Dodge makes 1st trucks and supplies America during ww1
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Dodge sells Ford stock for $21 million dollars.
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Brothers travel to a auto expo. Both get sick with the flu and pneumonia. That same month John dies. Later in the year in December Horace dies. One of the widows sell the company and Chrysler buys it for $170 million.
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The $170 million Chrysler used to buy Dodge in 1920 is equal to $2,259,767,724.87 in the money we use today
