November i, 1909. 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



51 



The Obituary Record. 



THE LATE CHARLES A. H0D3MAN. 



A CONNECTION of fifty years with a single important 

 business concern is an experience which falls to few, and 

 one worth making note of. In modern Germany it may ob- 

 tain a decoration from the Emperor, and. by the way, doing good 

 work for a half century would seem to afford a better reason 

 for honors from a sovereign than most of them have been 

 based upon. 



Charles A. Hodgman, who passed away on October 5. was in 

 "his sixteenth year when, in 1859. ' le began work in the rubber 

 factory, at Tuckahoe, near New York, owned by his father, 

 Daniel Hodgman, one of the pioneers in the industry. He re- 

 mained in connection with the business, taking part in its growth 

 to large proportions, and filling successively every position in 

 the corporation into which it developed. 



The story of Daniel Hodgman's beginnings in the rubber in- 



dustry and of the success he attained has been told in these 

 pages. When he died, in 1874, his son Charles had had the 

 benefit of association with him in business for fifteen years. 

 It was allotted to the son, when the founder had passed away, 

 to assume control of the factory management, while his slightly 

 younger brother, the late George F. Hodgman, took general 

 ■charge of the business administration. This division of affairs 

 existed so long as both lived. When the Hodgman Rubber Co. 

 was incorporated, in 1885. Charles A. Hodgman took the office 

 •of secretary ; on May 16, 1889. he was elected vice-president ; 

 and after the death of his brother, in October, 1906, he became 

 president. This position he resigned in January last, on account 

 ■of failing health, being succeeded by his nephew, George B. 

 Hodgman. 



While Charles Hodgman was in charge of the factory, he 

 "kept in close touch with the selling and administrative depart- 

 ments of his company's business, by reason of which he came 

 "to be considered as one of the best known and most thorough 

 rubber manufacturers in the country. 



The subject of this sketch was born September 25, 1843, m 

 New York city — in what would now be called very far down- 

 town. His father has been mentioned; his mother was Margaret 

 De Frate. From the time he entered the factory his residence 

 was in Tuckahoe. During the civil war he enlisted in the Union 

 forces and served in the field for a short while. On December 

 13, 1865, he married Miss Mary E. Dusenherry, daughter of 

 James Dusenberry, of Tuckahoe. His wife survives, with a 

 daughter. Miss Marie L. Hodgman. and a son, Frederick A. 

 Hodgman. the latter succeeding his father as manufacturing 

 manager of the company, and filling recently the office of vice- 

 president. 



In business, outside of the rubber industry, Mr. Hodgman 

 was a director in the Westchester Fire Insurance Co. He was 

 long prominent in Masonic circles. At the time of his death he 

 was a thirty-second degree Mason, a Knight Templar, and a 



Mystic Shriller. For many years he was treasurer of Bethlehem 

 Commandery, No. 53, K. T., and it was only upon his refusal 

 to accept the office longer that a successor was elected. Mr. 

 Hodgman was active likewise in church affairs, being a trustee 

 of the Asbury Methodist Episcopal Church at Tuckahoe. He 

 long had been a member of the Union League Club, of New 

 York; the American Geographical Society, and the New York 

 Athletic Club. 



Funeral services were held at the late residence of Mr. Hodg- 

 man on the afternoon of October 8. The interment, which was 

 private, was in Kensico cemetery. 



THE LATE GEORGE M. ALLERTON. 



The death of George M. Allerton, at Allerton Farms, Nauga- 

 tuck, Connecticut, on October 16, followed an illness of several 

 months, which his friends confidently hoped he would recover 

 from during his sojourn during the past summer in the Adiron- 

 dacks. This hope was not realized, however, and toward the 

 end his constant longing for home led the physicians to decide 

 that it might be best for him to return. 



