Arthur P. Dodge (1849-1915) was born in Enfield, New Hampshire, and died in Freeport, New York. Over his career he was a lawyer, publisher, author, and inventor. In his early teens he served as a drummer boy in the New Hampshire Regiment of the Union Army in the American Civil War. In 1870 he married Elizabeth A. Dodge (b. Day) in Boston, Massachusetts, and in 1879 he was admitted to the Massachusetts bar. Dodge founded The New England Magazine in 1886, and later also founded The Bay State Monthly and The Granite State Monthly. In 1892 Dodge moved to Chicago, was admitted to the Illinois bar, and went into business with George W. Pullman developing the Pullman railroad car. He went on to invent several novel features of steam engines and street cars. Dodge moved to New York in 1897 and bought the Babylon Railroad on Long Island. He was a religious scholar, authored several books on religious topics, and became an early adherent of the Baha'i faith in the United States.

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