Biography

1807 - 12/02/1881


HODGSON, John, a Representative from Chester County; born, 1807 in England; major, Pennsylvania Militia; printer; pubisher, West Chester Herald (1843); publisher and editor, Jeffersonian (1843-1866); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1857; died, December 2, 1881 in Chester, Delaware County, Pennsylvania; interred, Oaklands Cemetery, West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania. 


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