Hodgson, Arthur Joseph

HODGSON

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Date: 10/10/2007 at 15:42:26

Hodgson, Arthur Joseph

Iowa Press Association Who’s Who in Iowa 1940. Jackson County Section by Helen O. Stoddard.

Attorney; born New York City, NY, March 5, 1905; son of Arthur Joseph Hodgson-Laura Dunn; educated Blackburn University, 1922; president senior class; Cumberland University, Lebanon Tennessee, LLB 1927; 1923-24 manager college athletics & business manager of newspaper & annual; City College of New York 1925; Columbia University, BA 1925; married Margaret Dorsep June 15, 1929, Ozark Mo; son Harold Everett; 1924-25 employed in engineering department & chemical lab of New York Edison Electric Light & Power Company, New York City, NY; 1928-33 practiced law with J.O. Boyd, Keokuk; 1933-36 traveled in US; 1936- practiced law, Maquoketa; Jackson County & Iowa State Bar Associations; Commercial Club, director 1929; Rotary, secretary since 1938; Izaak Walton, president Iowa division since 1939; BSA, national counselor of Mesquakie Area since 1937; Congregational Church, deacon since 1937; Republican, delegate to state convs 1928, 1930, 1932, 1938 & 1940, presidential elector for 2nd district of Iowa, 1940; hobbies: fishing, hunting, old furniture; office 110 ½ S Main; residence 317 S Prospect, Maquoketa.