Hodge
Hodge names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Hodge FREDERICK WEBB, an American ethnologist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
FREDERICK WEBB, an American ethnologist, born in Plymouth, England, in 1864. He was brought to this country at the age of seven years and was educated in the public schools, and entered Columbian, now George Washington, University. He took part in several archæological expeditions carried on by the United States Government and archæological societies in Arizona and New Mexico from 1886 to 1889. In the latter year he became editor of publications and librarian of the Bureau of American Ethnology. He continued his researches among the Indians of Arizona and New Mexico and was the first to successfully climb the "Enchanted Mesa" in New Mexico. From 1905 he devoted special attention to the Handbook of the Bureau of American Ethnology. From 1910 he was ethnologistin-charge at the Bureau of American Ethnology. He was a member of many scientific societies. His published writings include "Coronado's Route from Culiacan to Quivira" (1899). He edited the narratives of early Spanish explorers.
Hodge HENRY WILSON, an American civil engineer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
HENRY WILSON, an American civil engineer, born in Wash- HÖDUR ington in 1865. He was educated at private schools and at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, from which he graduated in 1885. He acted as assistant engineer to several bridge building companies and designed many important bridges for railroads and for other purposes. He was engineer for the City of New York in the construction of a number of large bridges and aqueducts. He was consulting engineer for the Brooklyn Rapid Transit and for the New York and New Jersey Interstate Bridge and Tunnel Commission, and many other corporations. He was public service commissioner for the State of New York in 1917. During the World War he acted as director of railways in France for the American Expeditionary Force. He was a member of many scientific societies. Died Dec. 21, 1919.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's wrote about Frederick Webb Hodge in 1921 as a man still at work, and he had a long career left: he moved to the Museum of the American Indian in New York and from 1932 directed the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles, dying in 1956 at 92. The Handbook the entry mentions "special attention" to — the two-volume Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico (1907–10) — is still consulted, though its tribe-by-tribe framing and terminology are now treated as a period document rather than current ethnography. His claimed first ascent of the Enchanted Mesa near Acoma is also read differently today, since Acoma tradition always held the mesa had been used by people, and such claims are now weighed against Indigenous testimony rather than over it. The engineer Henry Wilson Hodge, dead in 1919, needs no updating.
Written for this edition, 2026.