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vinity School, Middletown, Conn., where he
spent two years, and upon completing his course
in 1881 was ordained a deacon. During his last
year in the seminary, he ministered to a small
parish in South Glastonbury, Conn. After leav-
ing Berkeley he became assistant minister in
Calvary Church, Pittsburgh, Pa., where he was
ordained priest in 1882. In Pittsburgh, he was
put in charge of a new mission church, St. Ste-
phen's, where he displayed such gifts of preach-
ing, organization, and leadership, that in 1887 he
was promoted to associate minister of Calvary,
and became its rector on Jan. 25,1889. The next
five years were crowded with diversified activi-
ties. Influenced by Kingsley and Maurice, and
inspired by his own quick human sympathies, he
became devoted to the "social gospel" and, with
his church behind him, became a power for so-
cial betterment in the city. With tireless energy
he started and carried forward many philan-
thropic agencies, the most notable of which was
a social settlement named Kingsley House, which
he established in 1893 with the cooperation of
various communions, from Unitarian to Roman
Catholic. His sermons also, short, pithy, spar-
kling, rich in saving common sense, were eagerly
heard and widely read. In the full stream of his
success in Pittsburgh, he was elected, in June
1893, bishop coadjutor of Oregon, an honor
which he declined, but a few months later he ac-
cepted an invitation to become dean of the Epis-
copal Theological School in Cambridge, Mass.,
and assumed his new duties on Jan. 6, 1894.

In this new position his powers of leadership
were less conspicuous than they had been in
Pittsburgh, partly, perhaps, because the office
of dean did not call for them in the same degree.
Then, too, the philanthropic activities of Boston
and vicinity were already organized under effi-
cient leaders. Furthermore, the social move-
ment was entering upon a new phase. Organ-
ized labor with its demands for social justice pre-
sented a quite different problem from that of in-
dividual families in need of help. The changed
conditions demanded a more thorough training
in economic principles than Hodges possessed,
and he was too busily engaged in literary work to
make good his deficiencies. As a writer he was
extraordinarily prolific. Thirty-four books with-
in thirty-five years, innumerable essays and mag-
azine articles, and two sets of school readers
prepared in collaboration with others, flowed
from his facile pen. He expressed his thought
in terse, crisp sentences suffused with humor
and lighted up with flashing wit. He was not a
scholar, but he had a true eye for scholarship in
others and also a gift of putting the results of

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research into a captivating form for popular
comprehension and appreciation. In the best
sense of the word, he was an apt popularizer of
theological learning.

Catholicity was a marked trait in his character
and a prominent feature of his work. This trait
may have been due, in part, to his early religious
associations. His mother was a devoted Episco-
palian of the evangelical type; his father was an
upright, God-fearing man, although without
church connections. After his mother's death,
in 1862, her place in the household was taken by
his father's unmarried sister, and with her
George often attended afternoon service in a
Presbyterian or Methodist church. His father's
second wife was a Baptist, and George went to
a Baptist Sunday school. Amid all these di-
verse religious influences, the boy remained loyal
to his mother's church, in which he was baptized
and confirmed. With unfailing devotion to his
own communion, his comprehensive and gen-
erous personality won for him growing influ-
ence in Cambridge, Boston, New England, and,
through graduates of the school, all over the
country. He was twice married: on Oct. 18,
1881, to Anna Jennings, daughter of one of his
professors in St. Andrew's School, who died in
1897; on Apr. 10, 1901, to Julia Shelley, in
Cambridge, Mass.

J Julia Shelley Hodges, George Hodges (1926), con-
tains a full list of his publications; see also: A. D.
Hodges, Jr., Geneal. Record of the Hodges Family of
New England (1896) ; P. R. Frothingham, All These
(1927), a chapter reprinted from Proc. Mass. Hist.
Soc., vol. LIII (1920).] W.W.F.

HODGES, HARRY FOOTE (Feb. 25,1860-
Sept 24, 1929), military engineer, descended
from William Hodges who came from England
to New England about 1633, was born in Boston,
Mass., the son of Edward Fuller and Anne Fran-
ces (Hammat) Hodges. He received his pre-
paratory education at the Boston Latin School
and Adams Academy, Quincy, Mass., and enter-
ing the Military Academy at West Point, July
1,1877, graduated four years later, fourth in his
class. Assignment to the Corps of Engineers
followed, with staff service at Willett's Point,
and several years as assistant to Col. 0. M. Poe
[#.z>.], who was then in charge of the canal at
Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. On Dec. 8,1887, Hodges
married Alma L'Hommedieu Reynolds. He
served as an assistant professor of civil and
military engineering at West Point, 1888-92,
and thereafter supervised important engineering
works on the Ohio, Missouri, and Upper Mis-
sissippi Rivers, becoming a captain of engineers,
May 18, 1893. With the declaration of war
against Spain, be was commissioned lieutenant-

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