TIMELINE: GRACE HOADLEY DODGE, 1856–1914

1856 – Born in New York City. First daughter and oldest child of Sarah Hoadley and William Earl Dodge, Jr., granddaughter of William Earl Dodge, Sr., "The Christian Merchant."

1872–74 – Attended Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut.

1875 – Began teaching Sunday school at Madison Square Chapel.
Began teaching in the industrial schools of the Children's Aid Society.

1876 – Met evangelist Dwight Moody, a guest in Dodge family home.
New York State Charities Aid Association.
Chair of the Committee on the Elevation of the Poor in their Homes.

1880 – Helped found the Kitchen Garden Association.

1881 – Formed first Working Girls Society.

1884 – Reorganized the Kitchen Garden Association into the Industrial Education Association.

1885 – Formed the Association of Working Girls Societies.

1886 – One of the first women named to the New York City Board of Education.

1887 – Hired Nicholas Murray Butler as president and reorganized the Industrial Education Association into the New York College for the Training of Teachers.

1892 – New York College for the Training of Teachers becomes permanently chartered as Teachers College.

1892–1911 – Served as first treasurer of the Board of Trustees of Teachers College.

1905 – Established the Girls' Public School Athletic League

1905 – Mediated dispute between two rival central groups within the Young Womens Christian Association.

1906 – Named president of the National Board of the Y.W.C.A. of the United States.

1907 – Consolidated several church-supported organizations into the New York Travelers Aid Society.

1910 – Attended the Edinburgh Ecumenical Council.

1911–1914 – President of the Board of Trustees of the American College for Girls at Constantinople.

1912 – Merged the American Association for the Abolition of State Regulation of Vice and other social purity groups into the American Social Hygiene Association.

1913 – Contributed $625,000 with her brother Cleveland to the combined building drive of the Y.M.C.A. and Y.W.C.A. of New York.

1914 – Died in New York City.

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