Artist: Robert Wadsworth Grafton (1876–1936)
James Edward Dodge
DODGE, JAMES EDWARD (1873–1934), inducted between 1920–1936
A native of Wisconsin, Jimmy Dodge became manager of Hood Farm in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1896. There he bred Jersey cattle and Berkshire hogs. In 1923, J. C. Penney hired him to manage his Guernsey herds at Emmadine Farm and Foremost Dairies, in Hopewell Junction, New York. A year after Dodge’s death, Alvin Sanders published a biography of the “farm-minded boy who won his way to fame in animal husbandry.” He was inducted into the National Dairy Shrine.
Source: Saddle & Sirloin Guidebook 2026, p. 81