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Old 01-21-2010, 08:50 AM
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This is all in fun. My Trivia book stated: Dodge, John & Horace Their first car came off the assembly line in 1914. Both brothers died within less than a year of each other during the influenza epidemic in 1920.
I varified it here before asking it and had same result: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Francis_Dodge said In January 1920, Dodge and Horace contracted influenza and pneumonia while in New York City. Dodge died on January 14, 1920, aged 55. He was interred in the family mausoleum in Detroit's Woodlawn Cemetery with two Sphinx statues between them. Horace died the following December, and in 1925 their widows sold the Dodge Brothers automobile business to Dillon, Read investment bankers for $146 million.

alk's answer matched what I had found, so I can only go by what I was looking for.
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