Biography of John B. Hedgman
FROM OUR COUNTY AND ITS PEOPLE
A DESCRIPTIVE AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD
OF SARATOGA COUNTY, NEW YORK
PREPARED AND PUBLISHED UNDER THE
AUSPICES OF THE SARATOGIAN
THE BOSTON HISTORY COMPANY, PUBLISHERS 1899
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Hodgman, John B., has been in business in Saratoga Springs longer than any man in the place. He was born May
15, 1823, a son of John and Zilpha(Buell) Hodgman. His father was a blacksmith and with him John B. learned his
trade and has been in the blacksmith business for nearly fifty-six years. Mr. Hodgman is a member of the Presbyterian
church, and is a deacon, having held that office for the past ten years. His- father "died in 1869 at the
age of seventy-three; his mother was born in 1807 and died in 1898 aged one hundred years and nine months. Mr.
Hodgman married Eliza P. Finney, who died in 1890, leaving two sons, Dr. W. A. Hodgman and John E.
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