Background
Hodge, Henry Wilson was born on April 14, 1865 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of John Ledyard and Susan Savage (Wilson) Hodge.
Hodge, Henry Wilson was born on April 14, 1865 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of John Ledyard and Susan Savage (Wilson) Hodge.
Civil Engineer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1885.
Assistant engineer Phoenix Bridge Company, Philadelphia, 1885-1891. Chief engineer Union Iron Works, New York, 1891-1893. Member Boller, Hodge & Baird, consulting engineers, since 1899.
President The Porterfield Construction Company Designed municipal bridge over Mississippi River, at Saint Louis, G.N. Railroad bridge, Duluth, Minnesota, C.,Rhode Island&P. bridge, Little Rock, Arkansas, all bridges for Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf Railroad, National Railroad Company of Mexico, and for Wabash-Pittsburgh Terminal Company, including the large cantilever bridges over Monongahela River and Ohio River, the former the largest Railroad bridge in the United States Engineer for City of New York for Melrose Avenue viaduct, 96th Saint bridge.
Commissioner for Blackwell’s Island bridge and Manhattan Suspension bridge over East River. Construction engineering for Brooklyn Rapid Transit County, New York and New Jersey Interstate Bridge and Tunnel Commission, and many other corporations, et cetera
Appointed public service commissioner, State of New York, January 1916, resigned July 1917. Commissioned major Engineer R.C.U.S.A., and director of rys. in France, July since 1917.
Member Boller, Hodge & Baird, consulting engineers
Married Sarah Cunningham Mills, December 14, 1897.