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'''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]].

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=1-21–2}}</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]]|registrationurl-access=yesregistration }}</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>

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 mencompany 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>

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]]|registrationurl-access=yesregistration }}</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 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]]|registrationurl-access=yesregistration }}</ref>

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