Background
Hodson, Clarence was born in February 1868 in Laurel, Delaware, United States. Son of Honorary Thomas Sherwood (Doctor of Laws) and Alice (Mauck) H.
Hodson, Clarence was born in February 1868 in Laurel, Delaware, United States. Son of Honorary Thomas Sherwood (Doctor of Laws) and Alice (Mauck) H.
Descendant Judge John Hodson, Maryland., 1664. Educated Crisfield (Maryland.) Academy and under private tutors. Doctor of Laws, Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland., 1922.
Admitted to Maryland. bar, 1889, and practiced at Crisfield, later at Baltimore, Maryland. Formerly officer banks, trust companies and fire insurance company. Chairman of the Board Clarence Hodson & Company, Incorporated., American Loan Company, Beneficial Loan Society, National Industrial Bankers, Incorporated., Collateral Bankers, Bankers National Life Insurance Company.
Member of the board Industrial Lenders Technology Institute. Member board visitors and Governors, Washington College Colonel on staff of governor Maryland, 1896.
Married Sara Marshall Payne, September 1, 1893 (died 1898). Married second, Lillian McKinley Brown, July 1901. Children: Clarence, George, Leila (Mistress James Neson Hynson).