Private, Inf., Co. Med. Att. 323, 81st Div., 323rd Regt., Inf.; of Robeson County; son of J. W. and Mary C. Hodgin. Entered service May 28, 1918, at Red Springs, N.C. Sent to Camp Jackson, S. C. Transferred to Camp Sevier, S. C. Transferred to Camp Mills. Sailed for France July 31, 1918. Fought at St. Die. Returned to USA Jan. 14, 1919. Mustered out at Camp Lee, Va., June 26, 1919.
Pvt., Co. 10, 3rd Div., 155th Depot Br. Son of R. L. and C. A. Hodgin, of Alamance County. Entered service July 23, 1917, at Burlington, N.C. Sent to Camp Sevier. Sailed for France Feb. 26, 1918. Was a messenger boy while on front. Returned to USA April 1, 1919. Mustered out at Camp Lee, Va., April 12, 1919.
Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon J. S. Hodgin Dies, Father of Library John S. Hodgin, father of the Enterprise public library, died at a La Grande hospital Sunday morning, May 5, 1940, following a heart attack with which he was stricken about ten days ago. Shortly after he came to Enterprise as a young lawyer in 1900 he began collecting books for a circulating library, keeping them in a room adjoining his office on the second floor of the present Berland grocery building. Others became interested in the project and the books were moved to a room in a frame building … Read more
Fireman 2nd (Navy); of Alamance County; son of Robert and Cinthy Hodgin. Husband of Lodie Hodgin. Entered service April 17, 1918, at Swepsonville. Sent to Norfolk, Va. Transferred to Pensacola, then to U. S. S. Alabama; transferred to U. S. S. Nashville, then U. S. S. Rondo. Mustered out at Norfolk, Dec. 9, 1918.