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Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Bodge, Edward Ellis December 14, 1881 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders. Published by the Honolulu Star Bulletin, 1925
Author: George F. Nellist, Editor

EDWARD ELLIS BODGE, Corporation Official. Edward E. (Dick) Bodge, corporation 
executive and a supervisor of the City and County of Honolulu, came to Hawaii 
in 1908 to take charge of the automobile department of the von Hamm-Young Co., 
Ltd., backed by an extensive training in mechanical and executive lines. He 
was elected vice-president and a director of the von Hamm-Young Co. in 
February, 1925 and exercises general supervision over that firm’s big 
automobile business.
  A rather remarkable tribute was paid to Mr. Bodge in January, 1925, when he 
was appointed by Mayor John H. Wilson to fill a vacancy on the board of 
supervisors, the appointment being unanimously confirmed by the board in a 
complete submergence of party lines. Mr. Bodge’s appointment ended a deadlock 
which had existed on the board for months and was hailed with satisfaction by 
the public.
  Learning the trade of machinist when a boy, working for the Brown and Sharpe 
Manufacturing Co. in Providence, R. I., Mr. Bodge went to the Alden Speares 
Sons’ in Bellows Falls, Vt., as a tool maker, and later worked in various 
motor car factories across the continent and as automobile road man for the 
Middleton Motor Car Co. in San Francisco and as a sales executive for the 
Morris Motor Car Co.
  Mr. Bodge was born in Newton Center, Mass., Dec. 14, 1881, the son of Dr. 
James Henry Bodge, physician, and Florence Nightingale (Brown) Bodge. He was 
educated at the Newtown High School.
  He has been a member of the territorial Board of Harbor Commissioners, a 
director of the Chamber of Commerce, has served on the Board of Governors of 
the Commercial Club, and is a member of the Oahu Country and Pacific clubs, 
the Elks, Hawaiian Masonic Lodge No. 21, Royal Arch Chapter No. 1, Honolulu 
Commandery, Knights Templar; Aloha Temple, Mystic Shrine; Royal Order of 
Jesters, Honolulu and Hawaii automobile clubs and the Honolulu Ad and Hilo 
Yacht clubs. In 1911 he married Nadine Center of Puunene, Maui, and they have 
one daughter, Jean Margaret.


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