Gilbert Dodge

American composer (b. July 10, 1890 Jersey City, NJ - d. October 15, 1935). The son of a patent lawyer, William A. Rosenbaum, and his wife, Lottie née Gilbert, Dodge attended Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut for two years. After dropping out of college, he briefly worked as a producer and booking agent for vaudeville acts, as an insurance agent, and in his father's law office. In the fall of 1914, Dodge began writing songs under the pen name Gilbert Dodge, which he later legally adopted. In May 1915, he joined Bernard Granville's music publishing company as a staff writer. Between March 1917 and June 1919, he served in the Navy, last as a machinist's mate 1st class on a submarine chaser out of Seattle, WA. From the 1920s to early 1930s, he worked as a factory manager in Montclair, NJ; in 1934 as a chemist in Cranston, RI. He is buried in Wakefield, Massachusetts. His greatest hit was the 1921 song "Peggy O'Neil" (with Harry Pease and Edward G. Nelson) about the Irish American actress of that name.