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<p>New page: &#039;&#039;&#039;Roderick Lathrop &quot;R. L.&quot; Dodge&#039;&#039;&#039; was a prominent Little Rock physician and pharmacist, and temperance advocate. Dodge was born in Vermont in 1808. He graduated from the Medical Depart...</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Roderick Lathrop &quot;R. L.&quot; Dodge''' was a prominent Little Rock physician and pharmacist, and temperance advocate.<br /> <br /> Dodge was born in Vermont in 1808. He graduated from the Medical Department of Dartmouth College in 1834. After graduation he became a medical missionary to the Cherokee and Creek in the Indian Territory (Oklahoma). He began publishing ''The Temperance Journal'' in 1844. <br /> <br /> R.L. and his sixteen year old daughter [[Mary S. Dodge]] became embroiled in the case of [[David Owen Dodd]], the &quot;Boy Martyr of the Confederacy,&quot; in 1863. Dodd was a seventeen year old who was caught with a notebook detailing positions and number of Union troops occupying Little Rock. Dodd, who was purported in the city to make a tobacco deal for his father, had spent time with Mary at the Dodge home in Little Rock before his capture. Cast under a cloud of suspicion by occupying General [[Frederick Steele]] R.L. and Mary were summoned to a gunboat on the [[Arkansas River]] and escorted to Vermont for the duration of the [[Civil War]]. Dodd was hanged on January 8, 1864.<br /> <br /> Dodge died on March 21, 1893, and is buried at [[Mount Holly Cemetery]].<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> <br /> [[Category:Physicians]]<br /> [[Category:Pharmacists]]<br /> [[Category: 1808 births]]<br /> [[Category:1893 deaths]]</div>

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