From impoverished beginnings arose a success story of two inseparable brothers who would change the automotive industry as we know it: John Francis Dodge and Horace Elgin Dodge. Born on October 25, 1864, young John Dodge couldn’t be separated from his brother, Horace—from his very first day of life, May 17, 1868, right up until his very last. The boys were the best of friends, and grew up playing in the streets of Niles, Michigan, where they were born