Dodge (surname)

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Dodge is a surname.

People surnamed Dodge

United States

Most Dodges in the United States descend from either the brothers William and Richard Dodge of Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts and previously Somerset in England, or from the possibly unrelated Tristram Dodge of Rhode Island.

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Descendants of Richard Dodge:

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