1935 President Edwin T. Hodge
/Dr. Edwin T. Hodge - GSOC Founder
Edwin T. Hodge was born in Atlanta, Illinois, on July 12, 1891. His education was received in the North American Normal College, 1907; the University of Minnesota, from which he was given his B.A. degree in 1913, and his M.A. degree in 1915. In 1916 he received his Ph.D. degree from Columbia University, and was awarded membership in Sigma Xi.
1935 - DR. EDWIN THOMAS HODGE (Charter Member)
He was married to Lydia Herrick of Valparaiso, Indiana, on September 12, 1914, and has been a resident of Oregon since 1920.
In 1912 he was employed by the Minnesota Geological Survey, and by the Wisconsin Geological Survey in 1914. In 1915 he was geologist for the United States Government in Puerto Rico; in 1916 geologist for the Board of Appraisal and Apportionment, New York City. He became the head of the Department of Geology for the University of British Columbia in 1917, where he served until 1920. In that year he accepted the position of Professor of Economics and Geology for the University of Oregon, which he held until 1932. Since then he has been Professor of Oregon Deposits at Oregon State College, Corvallis, the position he now holds (1949). He is also consulting geologist for the United States and Canada to this date; was consulting geologist for Bonneville Dam; served the Board of Supplies of War Minerals in World War I; Director of Mineral Survey; Northwestern States Consultant, Bonneville Power Administration; Shell Oil Company 1940. He worked with the U.S. Engineers from 1931 to 1940.
Dr. Hodge is a member of the Society of Economic Geologists; the American Institute of Mining Engineers; a fellow of the Geological Society of America; the American Mineral Society; Scottish Rite Mason; Republican, and Protestant.
He was instrumental in organizing the Geological Society of the Oregon Country in Portland in 1935 and was its first president.
Reelected President, G.S.O.C., 1950. His newspaper obituary is found under his 1950 presidency description.
