William Marshall Dodds and Hazel Shepard

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Husband William Marshall Dodds ¹

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           Born: 18 Jul 1888 - Butler Co, PA 1
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         Father: John Brown Dodds (1842-      ) 2 3
         Mother: Agnes J. Douthett (1844-1924) 2 3

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       Marriage: 27 Feb 1912 1

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Wife Hazel Shepard ¹

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           Born:  - Bakerstown, Allegheny Co, PA
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         Father: George Shepard (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Ida Whiteside (      -      ) 1

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Children

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1 F Dorothy Agnes Dodds ¹

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         Spouse: Donald Faloon (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Husband - William Marshall Dodds

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He attended public schools in Nixon, Butler County, Pennsylvania, and in 1908 was graduated from Renfrew High School, in that county. He then studied for a year at Butler Business College, in Butler, before becoming a timekeeper with the Standard Steel Car Company there. Remaining with that organization for two years, he then operated a farm in his native county for two years, after which he sold it and bought a grocery store which he operated for a year, in Pittsburgh. Selling his store at the conclusion of that time, he became associated with the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company as an agent at Freeport, but after a year was transferred to New Kensington, where he was an agent for the same company until 1921. In that year he was pro­moted to assistant manager in New Kensington, remain­ing there until 1929 and serving in his last two years there as supervising manager.
It was on November 1, 1929, that he was made district manager of the Oil City-Meadville district, with head­quarters in Oil City. He distinguished himself by his con­stant demonstration of fine managerial capacity and execu­tive ability, and at the same time participated exten­sively in community affairs. A Republican in politics, he belonged to the Wanango Country Club and the Rockmere Boat Club, and was also a member of the Chamber of Com­merce. Formerly he was president of the Kiwanis Club in Oil City. He was a member of New Kensington Lodge, No. 644, Free and Accepted Masons, in which order he was affiliated with the Venango Lodge of Perfection, in Oil City. He was also a member of the official board of Grace Methodist Church and was on the advisory board of the Salvation Army. During the World War he led in sales of War Savings Stamps in Westmoreland County.

1 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 170.

2 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 1122.

3 C. Hale Sipe, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Topeka - Indianapolis: Historical Publishing Co., 1927), Pg 757.