Introduction

Biography

A jour­nal­ist, au­thor, po­et and lec­tur­er, Hodg­es wrote a col­umn called The Op­ti­mist for the Phi­la­del­phia North Am­eri­can (now the Phi­la­del­phia In­quir­er).

He worked with Emi­ly Bis­sell to in­tro­duce Christ­mas Seals to raise funds and aware­ness for lung dis­eas­es such as tu­ber­cu­losis. The Penn­syl­van­ia State Me­di­cal So­ci­ety gave him its Ben­ja­min Rush Aw­ard in 1952.

Works

• Golden Book of the Wa­na­mak­er Stores. Ju­bi­lee Year, 1861–1911, 1911
• The Great En­cour­age­ment, and Oth­er Help­ful Es­says, 1913
• Bird Guard­ians; a Masque for Bird Pro­tect­ion, 1915
• The Bard at Home, 1916
• The Op­ti­mist
• Christmas Seals for TB
• Poems We Love
• The Worth of Ser­vice