Daniel Russell Hodgdon was an American college administrator, better known for his series of science books for young people. He was born on April 13, 1885, in

Winthrop, Maine Winthrop is a town in Kennebec County, Maine, United States. Winthrop is included in the Lewiston-Auburn, Maine metropolitan New England city and town area. The population was 6,121 at the 2020 census. Winthrop's population, however, approxim ...

. He was a co-founder and later the President of

New Jersey Institute of Technology New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is a Public university, public research university in Newark, New Jersey, United States, with a graduate-degree-granting satellite campus in Jersey City. Founded in 1881 with the support of local indust ...

(called at the time Newark College of Engineering) from 1918 until 1920. In 1920 he became the president of Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital and then

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in Indiana. He resigned abruptly from Valparaiso on April 25, 1921, telling the trustees that "The university is a hotbed of

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and other cults, and nothing we could do to thwart their propaganda has been of any avail because of inside influences." Hodgdon was an author and co-author of the Creative Science Series of textbooks published by Hinds, Hayden & Eldredge, Inc., between 1919 and 1939, such as ''Junior General Science'', ''Elementary General Science'' (1919) and ''Everyman's Science''. Hodgdon died in Santa Barbara, California, on March 7, 1957. ''Maine Alumnus''
(February 1960) p.16

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