Background
HODGE, Frederick Webb was born on October 28, 1864 in Plymouth, England. Taken to United States when seven years of age.
HODGE, Frederick Webb was born on October 28, 1864 in Plymouth, England. Taken to United States when seven years of age.
Brought to the United States at age of 7. Public schools and Columbian (now George Washington University (non-graduate). Doctor of Science, Pomona College.
Doctor of Laws, University of New Mexico. Doctor of Letters, University of Southern California.
Entered United States Geological Survey, 1884. Field Secretary of Hemenway Archaeological Expedition in Arizona and New Mexico, 1886-S9. Served as Librarian, Editor, and Ethnologist, Bureau of American Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution.
Conducted expeditions in Arizona and New Mexico, 1895, 1897, and 1899. Scaled the Enchanted Mesa in New Mexico, finding evidences of prehistoric occupancy, 1897. Assistant in Charge of Office of the Smithsonian Institution, and Acting Curator of International Exchanges in 1901-1905.
Ethnologist, Bureau of American Ethnology, 1905-1909. Ethnologist-in-charge of same, 1910. Member Washington Academy of Sciences.
Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Sciences. Founder, Editor and Member of the Council of the American Anthropological Association. Member Board of Managers, Anthropological Society of Washington.
Member American Historical Association, American Ethnological Society, American Antiquarian Society, Archseological Institute of America, American Folk-Lore Society, Texas Historical Association, National Geographic Society, etc.
Member advisory board Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona Has conducted several archæol. and ethnological expeditions in the Southwest. Member National; Clubs: Ends of the Earth (New York).
Spouse 1891, Margaret Whitehead Magill, of Washington.