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Hobbs, Mrs. Mary Erwin – Hodges, James Harrison

Hobbs, Mrs. Mary Erwin

poet, was born June 21, 1841, in Bethany, N. Y.

She was a writer of Portsmouth, N. H.; and the author of a volume of poems.

Hodge, Charles

clergyman, author, was born Dec. 28, 1797, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a presbyterian clergyman, for nearly forty years editor of the Princeton Review, which he founded and to which he was the chief contributor. He was the author of Systematic Theology; Commentaries on the Epistles; Constitutional History of the Presbyterian Church in the United States; What is Darwinism?; Discussions in Church Polity; and Conference Papers. He died June 19, 1878, in Princeton, N. J.

Hodge, Frederick Webb

ethnologist, author, was born in 1864, in England. He was an ethnologist at the Smith- 'sonian institution, and the author of Arch- itecture of the Prehistoric Pueblos of Southern Arizona; and Methods of Irrigation of the Ancient Inhabitants of the Salado Valley.

Hodge, Hugh Lenox

educator, physician, author, was born June 27, 1796, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is a physician who was professor of obstetrics in the university of Pennsylvania. He was the author of Principles and Practice of Obstetrics; and Diseases Peculiar to Women. He died Feb. 26, 1873, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Hodge, Hugh Lenox

physician, surgeon, was born July 30, 1836, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1861 he was appointed demonstrator of surgery and chief of the surgical dispensary of the university of Pennsylvania, and in 1870 was made dem- 1881, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Hodge, John Aspinwall

clergyman, author, was born in 1831, in Pennsylvania. He was a presbyterian clergyman in Hartford in 1866-92, and is the author of What is Presbyterian Law?; Theology of the Shorter Catechism; and Recognition After Death.

Hodges, Asa

lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Jan. 22, 1823. He moved to Arkansas; and in 1866 was a delegate to the constitutional convention under the reconstruction acts of congress.

In 1868 he was elected a representative in the general assembly. In 1870 he was elected a member of the state senate; and was elected to the forty-third congress from Arkansas.

Hodges, Charles D

congressman.

He was elected a representative in congress from Illinois, and took his seat during the second session of the thirtyfifth congress.

Hodges, Daniel F

poet, was born Feb. 17, 1835, in Belfast, Maine. He composed a number of song books, and is the author of a number of poems.

Hodges, George

clergyman, author, was born in 1856, in New York. He is HODGES, GEORGE, clergyman, author, an episcopal clergyman, dean of the theological school at Cambridge from 1894, and prominent among broad church ological school at Cambridge from 1894, thinkers. He is the author of The Heresy of Cain; Christianity Between Sundays; and Faith and Social Service.

Hodges, George T

merchant, banker, congressman, was born July 4, 1789, in Clarendon, Vt. He served frequently in both houses of the state legislature. He was a representative in congress from Vermont during the third session or the thirty-fourth congress. For more than a quarter of a century he was president of the bank of Rutland. He died Sept. 9, a quarter of a century he was president 1860, in Rutland, Vt.

Hodges, James Harrison

physician, surgeon, scientist, was born June 16, has gained prominence as a physician and surgeon; and lectures on surgery and medicine in the Florida Medical association. He is also the president of the Florida Society for Scientific Research.

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