Bayard Dodge

Bayard Dodge (1888–1972) was an Islamic scholar and former president of the American University in Beirut. The son of Cleveland Hoadley Dodge and Grace Wainwright Parish, he graduated from Princeton University in 1909.^[1] Dodge succeeded his father-in-law, Howard Bliss, as president of the American University in Beirut, then known as the Syrian Protestant College, in 1923.^[2] His great uncle, Reverend David Stuart Dodge, had also been one of the first professors to teach at the faculty in the 1860s.

Bayard Dodge would serve as president until he retired in 1948; afterwards he taught at several universities.^[1] His son, David S. Dodge, would later serve the same role.^[3] Dodge wrote a comprehensive history of Al-Azhar Mosque in 1961, a work that remains among the most complete histories of one of the most well known mosques and universities in the Arab world.^[4]

Family Tree of Bayard Dodge^[5]

David Low Dodge
(1774-1852)

Married
1798

Sarah Cleveland
(1780-1862)

Anson Green Phelps
(1781-1853)

Married
1806

Olivia Egleston
(1784-1859)

William Earl Dodge
(1805-1883)

Married
1828

Melissa Phelps
(1809-1903)

William E. Dodge, Jr.
(1832-1903)
m.1854
Sarah Hoadley
(1832-1909)

Anson Greene Phelps Dodge
(1834-1918)
m(1).1859
Rebecca Grew
(1836-1927)
m(2).1886
Rachel Rose Voorhees
(1852-1910)

Reverend David Stuart Dodge
(1836-1921)
m(1).1860
Ellen Ada Phelps
(1838-1880)
m(2).1885
Elizabeth Scott Boyd
(1846-1888)

Charles Cleveland Dodge
(1841-1910)
m.1863
Maria Theresa
Bradhurst Schieffelin
(1840-1910)

Norman White Dodge
(1846-1907)
m(1).1869
Grace Gillette
(1848-1870)
m(2).1880
Emma Hartley
(1849-1881)

George Eglestone
Dodge
(1849-1904)
m.1874
May Cossitt
(1853-1911)

Arthur Murray Dodge
(1852-1896)
m.1875
Josephine Jewell
(1855-1928)

Grace Hoadley Dodge
(1856-1914)

William Earl Dodge III
(1858-1886)
m.1879
Emmeline Harriman

Cleveland Hoadley Dodge
(1860-1926)
m.1883
Grace Parish
(1858-1949)

Mary Melissa Hoadley Dodge
(1861-1934)

Alice Clinton Hoadley Dodge
(1865-1948)
m.1886
William Church Osborn
(1861-1951)

Morris Jesup Dodge
(1867-1875)

Elizabeth Wainwright Dodge
(1884-1976)
m(1).1916
George Herbert Huntington
(1878-1953)
m(2).1956
Rev. Dr. Dumont Clark
(1884-1960)

Julia Parish Dodge
(1886-1965)
m.1911
James Childs Rea
(1882-1973)

Cleveland Earl Dodge
(1888-1982)
m.1919
Pauline Morgan
(1893-1971)

Bayard Dodge
(1888-1972)
m.1914
Mary Bliss
(1890-1982)

References

^ ^a ^b "Bayard Dodge Collection of Photographs of the Middle East". Princeton University Library Manuscripts Division.
^ "Bayard Dodge Head of Beirut College". The New York Times Company. 6 October 1922.
^ Hijazi, Ihsan (21 July 1982). "Lebanon and P.L.O join in search for American". The New York Times. p. 8.
^ Summerfield, Carol; Devine, Mary; Levi, Anthony, eds. (1998), International Dictionary of University Histories, Taylor & Francis, p. 13, ISBN 978-1-884964-23-7
^ Dodge, Phyllis (1987). Tales of the Phelps-Dodge Family. New York Historical Society. p. Inside front cover.

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[princeton-1] "Bayard Dodge Collection of Photographs of the Middle East". Princeton University Library Manuscripts Division.

[2] "Bayard Dodge Head of Beirut College". The New York Times Company. 6 October 1922.

[3] Hijazi, Ihsan (21 July 1982). "Lebanon and P.L.O join in search for American". The New York Times. p. 8.

[4] Summerfield, Carol; Devine, Mary; Levi, Anthony, eds. (1998), International Dictionary of University Histories, Taylor & Francis, p. 13, ISBN 978-1-884964-23-7

[5] Dodge, Phyllis (1987). Tales of the Phelps-Dodge Family. New York Historical Society. p. Inside front cover.

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