Silas H. Hodges

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Silas H. Hodges ( January 12, 1804 , in Clarendon , † April 21, 1875 in Washington, DC ) was an American lawyer, clergyman and politician who was State Auditor of Vermont from 1844 to 1850 . He was also the commissioner of the United States Patent and Trademark Office .

Life

Silas Henry Hodges was born in Clarendon, Vermont. He trained at Brandon Academy and graduated from Middlebury College in 1821. He studied law in Rutland , where he was admitted to the bar and practiced in Rutland until 1832.

Hodges began studying at Auburn Theological Seminary in 1833 and was ordained as pastor of the Congregational Church in 1835. He pastored various congregations in southern Vermont through 1841. He then started working again as a lawyer in Rutland.

Hodges served on the Middlebury College Board of Trustees from 1840 to 1860 .

In 1845 Hodges, Hodges, who was a member of the Whig Party, was elected State Auditor. His term of office lasted until 1850.

Hodges served Hodges as Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property from 1852 to 1853 . He was appointed Chief Examiner at the US Patent Office in 1861 , a position he held until his death.

In 1865, during the Lincoln assassin trial, Hodges testified to Marcus P. Norton's reputation for truthfulness. Norton had testified that a man he later than in March 1865 Samuel Mudd realized burst into his room at the National Hotel. Norton claims the man apologized and said he thought this room belonged to a man named Booth. John Wilkes Booth had actually rented the room directly through Norton. This would have been a pre-assassination link, as Mudd claimed that he did not know who Booth was when treating Booth's broken leg after the Lincoln assassination.

Hodges died in Washington, DC His grave is in Rutland Evergreen Cemetery.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Catalog of Officers and Students of Middlebury College , edited by Middlebury College, 1901, p. 67
  2. ^ The Vermont Historical Gazetteer , edited by Abby Maria Hemenway, Issue 3, 1877, pp. 566-567
  3. ↑ General Biographical Catalog of Auburn Theological Seminary, 1818-1918 , edited by Auburn Theological Seminary, 1918, p. 51
  4. ^ Catalog of the Officers and Alumni of Middlebury College , edited by the College, 1890, p. 51
  5. ^ Minutes of the Seventy-sixth Annual Meeting of the Congregational Convention of Vermont , edited by the Convention, 1875, pp. 44-45
  6. ^ Journal of the Patent Office Society , published by the U.S. Patent Office Society, Issue 2, Number 1 (September 1919), page 67
  7. ↑ Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography , edited by James Grant Wilson and John Fiske, Volume 3, 1887, p. 224
  8. ^ The Assassination of President Lincoln and the Trial of the Conspirators , compiled by Benn Pittman, Recorder, Military Commission for the trial of the conspirators, 1865, 221
  9. ^ Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography , edited and edited by Thomas William Herringshaw, Volume 3, 1914, p. 180
personal data
SURNAME Hodges, Silas H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hodges, Silas Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer, minister, and politician who was a Vermont State Auditor
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1804
PLACE OF BIRTH Clarendon
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1875
Place of death Washington, DC