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Ossian Euclid Dodge (October 22nd 1820 - October 17th 1876) was an American singer, composer, and performer active during the middle of the 19th century.[1]
born at Cayuga, New York to David Britain Dodge (1767-1849), and Cybele Ingraham Tyler (1787-1854). His parents were married on may 17th 1803. Genealogical information sourced from Familysearch.com. Ossian’s father was a mathematician, gaining a national reputation brokering English claims to Canada.[2]He showed musical talent at an early age which displeased his parents. In an attempt to curb this his parents apprenticed him to a cabinet maker at age 13. This earned him A reputation as an ornamental painter, bronzer, gilder, and manufacturer of perspective landscape window curtains[2]. His proficiency in making wax flower bouquets led him to female seminary schools, where he taught the art.[2] After being asked to compose and sing a song for the commencement of one of these schools, Dodge was inspired to pursue a new musical career[2]. He moved to New York City to pursue this career, touring in a group known as Dodge’s Bards, which popularized the well known song “Bury Me Not, On The Lone Prairie”[1]. Some of Dodge’s notable musical works include “Ossian’s Serenade”, “Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie” and “The miseries of sneezing”[1]. During his performing days, he met other notable entertainers such as P.T Barnum and Jenny Lind[3]. Dodge also mingled with those in the political field, notably Millard Fillmore and Statesman and Senator Henry clay[1]. Dodge swore to his mother to never touch alcohol, and refused to drink to the health of Henry Clay at a dinner honoring the Statesman. Clay is quoted as saying “Mr. Dodge, I honor your courage and respect your principles, but I can’t say that I admire your taste.”[1] In 1851, he was elected to the 1851 delegation for the International Peace Conference in London[4]. While in Europe, he served as the foreign correspondent for his own journal “The Boston Weekly Museum”[4]. He retired from singing in 1858 and moved to Cleveland, Ohio, later moving to St. Paul, Minnesota [1]. There he worked in real estate and he served as the secretary of the St. Paul chamber of commerce from 1869 to 1873[1]. Historian Phillip D. Jordan writes about Dodge: “Ossian Euclid Dodge arrived in St. Paul, Minnesota, in the early 1860s when he was of middle age and had reached a time when life held little more for him than financial distress, personal humiliation, and self-imposed exile… No doubt he greeted the city of St. Paul with his customary jaunty brashness, a disguise that lent him a gay and carefree aspect but hid a skein of frustrations and twisted feelings of inferiority… All in all, Dodge looked like a seedy artist struggling to convey an air of affluent respectability; and that, indeed, is what he was. He was also jealous, quick-tempered, unstable, quarrelsome, and inordinately ambitious.” [1] Dodge is also reputed to have stolen an original photo of poet Edgar Allen Poe. The picture hung in a photographers studio in Boston but soon vanished, and a daguerreotype of the image reappeared in Dodge’s store in Cleveland. [1] Dodge died alone in London in 1876, and is buried there (this information also from Familysearch.com).
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