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Line 1: {{Short description\|American businessman}} ~~{{in use}}~~ {{Infobox person \| name = Telfair Hodgson \| image = ~~\| image_size =~~ \| caption = \| birth_name = Line 10 ⟶ 9: \| death_date = September 16, 1952 \| death_place = [[Sewanee, Tennessee]], U.S. ~~\| death_cause = heart attack~~ \| resting_place = \| resting_place_coordinates = ~~\| residence =~~ \| nationality = \| other_names = Line 22 ⟶ 19: \| occupation = Businessman, academic administrator \| title = ~~\| salary =~~ ~~\| networth =~~ \| term = \| predecessor = Line 29 ⟶ 24: \| party = \| boards = ~~\| religion =~~ \| spouse = Medora Cheatham \| children = 1 daughter Line 35 ⟶ 29: \| relatives = }} '''Telfair Hodgson Jr.''', also known as '''Telfair Hodgson''', (September 14, 1876 -– September 16, 1952) was an American businessman and academic administrator. He was the treasurer of [[Sewanee: The University of the South]] from 1908 to 1949. He was also the president of the Bank of Sewanee, and a developer of [[Belle Meade, Tennessee]]. ==Early life== Hodgson was born on September 14, 1876.<ref name="tennesseanobitjr">{{cite news \|title=Telfair Hodgson Dies At Sewanee. Heart Attack Fatal To Former Treasurer; Had Retired In 1949 \|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/111306781/?terms=%22Telfair%2BHodgson%22 \|accessdate=June 15, 2018 \|work=The Tennessean \|date=September 17, 1952\|pages=~~1-2~~1–2}}</ref><ref name="jacksonsunobit">{{cite news \|title=Telfair Hodgson Dies At Sewanee \|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/282490517/?terms=%22Telfair%2BHodgson%22 \|accessdate=June 15, 2018 \|work=The Jackson Sun \|date=September 17, 1952\|page=10\|via=[[Newspapers.com]]\|~~registration~~url-access=~~yes~~registration }}</ref> His father, [[Telfair Hodgson]], was an Episcopal priest who served as the third vice chancellor of Sewanee: The University of the South from 1879 to 1890. His mother, nee Frances Potter, was the daughter of a slave-owning planter from [[Savannah, Georgia]].<ref name="torianjstor">{{cite journal \|last1=Torian \|first1=Sarah Hodgson \|title=Ante-Bellum and War Memories of MRS. Telfair Hodgson \|journal=The Georgia Historical Quarterly \|date=December 1943 \|volume=27 \|issue=4 \|pages=350–356 \|jstor=40576904 }}</ref> Hodgson graduated from Sewanee: The University of the South in 1898.<ref name="tennesseanobitjr"/> He was a member of the [[Phi Delta Theta]] fraternity.<ref name="jacksonsunobit"/> Line 45 ⟶ 39: Hodgson began his career at [[Brown Bros. & Co.]], an investment bank in New York City. He returned to Sewanee, where he was the president of the Bank of Sewanee.<ref name="tennesseanobitjr"/> Hodgson served as the treasurer of his alma mater, Sewanee: The University of the South from 1908 to 1949.<ref name="tennesseanobitjr"/> He served on the board of directors of the Emerald-Hodgson Hospital in Sewanee, and he was the president of the Sewanee Civic Committee.<ref name="tennesseanobitjr"/> He was a registrar of the [[Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee]] and senior warden of the Otey Memorial Parish Church in Sewanee.<ref name="jacksonsunobit"/> With [[Luke Lea (American politician, born 1879)\|Luke Lea]] (the publisher of ''The Tennessean'') and David Shepherd, Hodgson became the owner of the Belle Meade Land Company in 1910. The ~~three men~~company developed the main streets of [[Belle Meade, Tennessee]], including Jackson Boulevard and Belle Meade Boulevard.<ref name="nrhpdoc">{{cite web\|url={{NRHP url\|id=04000675}}\|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Belle Meade Golf Links Subdivision Historic District \|publisher=[[National Park Service]]\|author= \|date= \|accessdate=June 15, 2018}} With {{NRHP url\|id=04000675\|photos=y\|title=accompanying pictures}}</ref> ==Personal life and death== Hodgson married Medora Cheatham, the daughter of Confederate Major-General [[Benjamin F. Cheatham]] and great-granddaughter of [[James Robertson (explorer)\|James Robertson]].<ref name="tennesseanmrshodgsonritestomorrow">{{cite news \|title=Mrs Hodgson Rites Tomorrow. \|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/113298502/?terms=%22Medora%2BCheatham%2Bhodgson%22 \|accessdate=June 15, 2018 \|work=The Tennessean \|date=March 16, 1969\|page=49\|via=[[Newspapers.com]]\|url-access=registration }}</ref> She served as the honorary president-general of the [[United Daughters of the Confederacy]] (UDC).<ref name="tennesseanmrshodgsonritestomorrow"/> They had a daughter, Alice,<ref name="tennesseanobitjr"/> who married surgeon Edward Frost Parker (d. 1998),<ref name="tennesseanmrshodgsonritestomorrow"/><ref name="indexjournalrenownedsurgeon">{{cite news \|title=Renowned surgeon dies in Charleston \|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/71901185/?terms=%22Edward%2BFrost%2BParker%22 \|accessdate=June 24, 2018 \|work=The Index-Journal \|location=Greenwood, South Carolina \|date=December 21, 1998\|page=4\|via=[[Newspapers.com]]\|url-access=registration }}</ref> who was the son of Edward Frost Parker (d. 1938),<ref name="tampabaycollegedean">{{cite news \|title=College Dean Dies \|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/314630515/?terms=%22Edward%2BFrost%2BParker%22 \|accessdate=June 24, 2018 \|work=Tampa Bay Times \|date=March 29, 1938\|page=2\|via=[[Newspapers.com]]\|url-access=registration }}</ref> the dean of the [[Medical University of South Carolina\|Medical College of South Carolina]].<ref name="tennesseanmisshodgsonbetrothed">{{cite news \|title=Miss Hodgson Is Betrothed \|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/147955656/?terms=%22Edward%2BFrost%2BParker%22 \|accessdate=June 24, 2018 \|work=The Tennessean \|date=November 26, 1942\|page=7\|via=[[Newspapers.com]]\|url-access=registration }}</ref> ~~Hodgson married Medora Cheatham. They had a daughter, Alice Parker.<ref name="tennesseanobitjr"/>~~ Hodgson died on September 16, 1952, in Sewanee, Tennessee, at 75, two days shy of his 76th birthday.<ref name="tennesseanobitjr"/><ref name="annistonstarobit">{{cite news \|title=Sewanee Treasurer, Telfair Hodgson, Dies \|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/115703902/?terms=%22Telfair%2BHodgson%22 \|accessdate=June 15, 2018 \|work=The Anniston Star \|date=September 17, 1952\|location=Anniston, Alabama\|page=9\|via=[[Newspapers.com]]\|url-access=registration }}</ref> He was buried in Sewanee.<ref name="ritestodayjr">{{cite news \|title=Telfair Hodgson Rites Set Today \|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/111308029/?terms=%22Telfair%2BHodgson%22 \|accessdate=June 15, 2018 \|work=The Tennessean \|date=September 18, 1952\|page=29\|via=[[Newspapers.com]]\|url-access=registration }}</ref> ~~Hodgson died on September 16, 1952 in Sewanee, Tennessee.<ref name="tennesseanobitjr"/>~~ ==References== {{Reflist\|30em}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Hodgson, Telfair Jr.}} Line 61 ⟶ 55: [[Category:1952 deaths]] [[Category:Sewanee: The University of the South alumni]] [[Category:Sewanee: The University of the South administrators]] [[Category:Businesspeople from Tennessee]] [[Category:American bankers]] ~~{{US-bio-stub}}~~ [[Category:Cheatham family]]