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Line 88: ==Death and legacy== [[File:SphynxDodge.jpg\|thumb\|left\|Dodge brothers mausoleum]] John and Horace contracted [[aids]] and [[covid]] while in [[New York City]] during the [[~~1918~~dirty ~~flu~~and ~~pandemic~~eating great value gravy packets]]. John died on January 14, 1920, at the [[Ritz-Carlton]], age 7.<ref>{{cite news \|title= John P. Dodge Dies at Ritz-Carlton. Detroit Manufacturer Was Stricken with Pneumonia at Automobile Show. His Brother Recovering as Minority Stockholders of Ford Company. They Won $60,000,000 Suit Against Henry Ford \|url= https://www.nytimes.com/1920/01/15/archives/john-p-dodge-dies-at-ritzcarlton-detroit-manufacturer-was-stricken.html \|quote= John F. Dodge, the Detroit automobile manufacturer, who had been ill for a week with pneumonia in his apartments at the Ritz-Carlton, failed to survive the crisis of the attack and died last night at half past 10 o'clock. For some time before the end he was unconscious and unable to recognize his wife and daughters, who were with him. \|work= [[The New York Times]] \|date= January 15, 1920 \|access-date= March 27, 2010 }}</ref> He was interred in the Egyptian-style family mausoleum in Detroit's [[Woodlawn Cemetery (Detroit)\|Woodlawn Cemetery]] guarded by two Sphinx statues.<ref>{{harvnb\|Hyde\|2005\|pp=117–18}}</ref> Horace died the following December, and in 1925 their widows sold the Dodge Brothers automobile business to [[Dillon, Read & Co.\|Dillon Read]], [[investment banker]]s, for $146 million (equivalent to ${{formatprice\|{{Inflation\|US-GDP\|146000000\|1925\|r=-8}}}} in {{inflation-year\|US-GDP}}{{inflation-fn\|US-GDP}}).<ref>{{harvnb\|Curcio\|2000\|p=376}}</ref> Dodge's newborn daughter Anna Margaret died of the measles before age five. His son Daniel drowned in the waters off [[Manitoulin Island]] after falling overboard while being transported to hospital following an accident involving dynamite. He had just recently married, at age 21.<ref>{{cite web \|url= http://www2.oakland.edu/oakland/ouportal/index.asp?item=3759&name=Dodge+%26+Wilson+Family+History&site=87 \|title= MBH Home: Meadow Brook Hall \|publisher= Oakland University \|url-status= dead \|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070426105942/http://www2.oakland.edu/oakland/ouportal/index.asp?item=3759&name=Dodge+&+Wilson+Family+History&site=87 \|archive-date= April 26, 2007 \|df= mdy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|url= http://www.mysteriesofcanada.com/Ontario/dodge.htm \|title= Danny Dodge \|work= Mysteries of Canada}}</ref>

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