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Title: Contemporary American biography
Year: 1895 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York, Atlantic publishing and engraving co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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890, Judge Lucas was nominated for Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals, and in Novem-ber of that year he was elected by an overwhelming majority of the popular vote. On January1st following (1891), he was elected President of the Court, the office which he now holds. JAMES HODG-ES. Hon. James Hodges, a distinguished merchant and citizen of Baltimore, ex-mayor of thatcity, and one of its most noted public men, was born in Kent County, Md., at Liberty Hall, theancestral homestead of his family for six generations. He is lineally descended from six of theearliest settlers of that county—viz., William Hodges, who settled there in 1665; Thomas Ring-gold, 1650; Andrew Hanson, 1653; Simon Wilmer, 1688; Thomas Hynson, 1650; and Mar-maduke Tilden, grandson of Sir William Tylden, of Kent County, England, 1658. He is adirect descendant of William Hodges, who immigrated from Virginia, and settled in KentCounty, Md., in 1665, and who was a son of John Hodges, a native of Kent, England, who had
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CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 37 settled in James City County, Virginia, in 1634. His paternal grand-parents were James Hodgesof Liberty Hall, and Mary Claypoole. She was descended from James Claypoole, an admiredfriend of William Penn, long before the latters immigration to America. He accompaniedPenn to the New World, and took a notable part in the founding of the Philadelphia colonyin 1683. His father was Adam Claypoole, an uncle of Lord John Claypoole, who married Eliza-beth, the favorite daughter of the great Protector of England, Oliver Cromwell. AdamClaypoole married Dorothy, daughter of Eobert Wingfield and Elizabeth Cecil, sister of WilliamCecil, Lord Burleigh, Prime Minister of England in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Mr. Hodgesfather, James Hodges, of Liberty Hall, was a typical Maryland farmer and gentleman; genial,upright, and. generous to a fault; a politician, but in the highest acceptation of the term, withwhom political probity was synonymous with private honor. He

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