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HODDER 534 HODDER elation for the best in art, literature and sci- ence. Of old English authors he was especial- ly fond, and also sang the old English and Scotch ballads with power and sweetness. Many of his addresses on horticulture and medical topics reach a high degree of literary style. As a practical horticulturist he did much to encourage the planting of trees and shrub- bery to beautify the city streets, and in the Northwest he was known as the "Father of Horticulture." When the War of Secession broke out, he was prominent as a supporter of the Union, and organized the medical corps at Camp Randall, where he had charge of 3,000 sick Confederate prisoners. He had the old-time hospitable habit of the English, loving to see his friends around him. He died at Madison, January 24, 1894, at the age of seventy-eight. The first wife of Dr. Hobbins died at Madi- son, December 13, 1870. On April 16, 1872, he married Mary McLane, daughter of Louis McLane of Delaware. Three of the six children of the first mar- riage survived him. Louis McLane Hobbins of Madison was the only child of the second marriage. Membership, titles and degrees were: Member, Royal College of Surgeons, Lon- don ; Royal Geographical Society, London ; Gold medahst. Royal School of Medicine and Surgery, Queen's College, Birmingham, England ; Doctor of medicine, Columbia Col- lege, Washington, District of Columbia; Fel- low of the Massachusetts Medical Society; Member of Wisconsin Stale Medical Society. Bettina Jackson. Madison Literary Club's Tribute to its Founder, Feb., 1894. Madison Literary Club's Anniv. Book, 1904. Portrait in State Historical Museum. Hodder, Edward Mulberry (1810-1868). Edward Mulberry Hodder was born at Sandgate, England, December 30, 1810. He was the son of Captain Hodder, R. N., and when twelve years of age entered the Royal Navy, as midshipman, under his father. He took only one cruise and left the navy at the end of a year, having a strong desire to study medicine. He received his first education at the Guernsey Grammar School ; afterwards at St. Servans, France, and began his medical studies in London, under Mr. Amesbury — very noted at that time as a surgeon — with whom he spent five years. At the end of this period of study he passed the Royal College of Sur- geons of England. He then went to Paris, where he spent two years in study and sub- sequently went to Edinburgh, where he spent some time in seeing the practice of the then famous teachers of that city. He began prac- tice in London, but stayed there only two years, removing to St. Servans, in France, in 1834. In 1835 Dr. Hodder made a brief visit to Canada, returning to St. Servans at the end of a few months, but, although he continued to practise in St. Servans for three more years, Canada had so possessed his imagination that he determined to live there, and moved to the neighborhood of Queenston, in the Ni- agara district, where he remained, doing a large and lucrative practice, for five years. In 1843 he removed to Toronto, where he con- tinued to practise up to the date of his death, which occurred on February 20, 1868. That Dr. Hodder was highly thought of by his fellow practitioners, is evidenced by the positions which were given him. He was elected a Fellow uf the Royal College of Sur- geons of England in 1854; in 1845 he received the degree of C. M. from King's College, Toronto, and M. D. from Trinity College in 1853, and in 1865 he was elected a Fellow of the Obstetrical Society of London. In 1834 he married Frances Tench, daughter of Captain Tench of the Royal Irish Fusiliers. They had a large family. In 1850 he established, with Dr. Bovell, the Upper Canada School of Medicine, which that year became the medical department of Trinity College. For several years Dr. Hodder was a member of the Faculty of the Toronto School of Medicine, but on the revival of his old school, in 1870, he was, by the unanimous wish of his colleagues, appointed dean of the faculty and was re-appointed in 1877, when the act, incorporating the school, passed the Pro- vincial Legislature. This position he held until his death. From 1852 to 1872 he was one of the leading members of the active staff of the Toronto General Hospital, and of the Burnside Lying-in Hospital, and at his decease was sen- ior consulting surgeon to both these institutions and to several others of like character. Al- though devoted to his professional work, Dr. Hodder found time, in the way of recreation, to gratify his continued love for the water, and was mainly instrumental in forming the Royal Canadian Yacht Club, of which he was com- modore for many years, up to the time of his death. The Med. Profess, in Upper Canada. Vm. Can- niff, M. D., 1894. Cyclop. Canadian Biog., G. M. Rose, Toronto, 1888.