CHARLES MILLARD DODSON was the youngest of the three Dodson brothers. Because of the limited advantages offered by the public schools in the neighborhood of his home at that time, he was sent when about fourteen years of a age to Baltimore, Maryland. where he attended the private school known as Newton Academy, conducted by Thomas Lester & Brother on West Baltimore street. Two years afterward he became a student in Luzerne Academy, at Wyoming. Pennsylvania, and after a two years' course became a clerk in the office of William Milnes, a miller and shipper of anthracite coal at Jeanesville, Pennsylvania, later transferring to the shipping office at Mauch Chunk. Pennsylvania. Subsequently he was in the transportation department of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company at Wheeling, West Virginia, and after three years in this service he began the study of law in the office of Messrs. Wheeler and Kimball. For a year he continued office work, then, after a course in the law office at Cleveland, Ohio. he was admitted by the Supreme Court to the Ohio bar. In partnership with judge Wilson C. Lennert he began the practice of his profession in Bucyrus, Ohio, and continued in legal work until 1863, when he joined his brother Weston in anthracite coal operations at Weston Dodson & Brother, with a main office at Bethlehem and branch offices at No. 228 Dock street, Philadelphia, and Old Trinity building, New York. His association with the firm continued under its later designation, Weston Dodson & Company, and from 1908 until his death he was its president, his entire membership in the firm and his presidency of the corporation covering a period of fifty-four years. He was for many years a director of the Lehigh Valley National Bank, and for several years was president of that well known institution.

Mr. Dodson was interested in many local philanthropic and charitable institutions and was a trustee of St. Luke's Hospital. He was senior warden of Trinity Episcopal church, devoted in his religious duties, a man who conformed to high personal standards.

Mr. Dodson married, December 20. 1872, Maria Rebecca Craig, born March 3, 1842. and they were the parents of Charles Weston, Trunmn Monroe and Alan Craig Dodson.