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Robert Hatton Hodsden (November 23, 1806 – June 18, 1864) was an American physician, planter, and politician who served three terms in the Tennessee House of Representatives (1841–1845, 1861–1862). He worked as a government physician on the Cherokee removal ("Trail of Tears") in 1838, and served as president of the East Tennessee Medical Society in the mid-1850s. A Southern Unionist during the Civil War, Hodsden represented Sevier County at the East Tennessee Convention in 1861, and was later arrested by Confederate authorities. Hodsden's 1840s-era house, Rose Glen, still stands near Sevierville, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. ==Early life== Hodsden was born in Smithfield, Virginia, the son of Joseph and Mary (Pasteur) Hodsden. He attended common schools and an academy at Smithfield, and afterward began working as a tailor. In the late 1820s, he left Virginia due to what was described as "misfortune in a business transaction." He lived in Washington, D.C., Cincinnati, and Nashville, before settling in Rhea County, Tennessee, in 1830. That year, he began studying medicine with Rhea County physician John Hoyl. He afterward attended Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia.〔Ben B. Cates, "(The Medical Profession of East Tennessee )," ''East Tennessee: Historical and Biographical'' (Brookhaven Press, 1893), pp. 150-151.〕 In the Fall of 1833, Hodsden moved to Maryville, Tennessee, where he began practicing medicine in partnership with Dr. James Gillespie. In 1838, Hodsden worked as a government physician on the Trail of Tears, the operation in which the Cherokee were removed from their homelands in the southeastern United States to Oklahoma. Hodsden made two trips during the operation, the first from Ross Landing (Chattanooga) to Arkansas, and the second from Charleston, Tennessee, to Arkansas.〔 A Whig and supporter of Henry Clay, Hodsden was elected to Blount County's seat in the Tennessee House of Representatives in 1841, and was reelected in 1843.〔''(Tennessee Blue Book )'' (1890), pp. 214-215, 227.〕 He was appointed to the Committee on Public Lands, the Committee on Agriculture and Manufactures, and the Committee on Banks.〔''(Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Tennessee at the Twenty-fourth General Assembly )'' (Eastman, Williams, Roseborough, and Cameron, 1841), pp. 37-38, 49.〕 Bills he introduced included support for improvements along Little River in Blount County,〔''Journal of the Tennessee House of Representatives'', pp. 305, 409.〕 and amendments to tax collection laws.〔''Journal of the Tennessee House of Representatives'', p. 118.〕 In 1843, Hodsden married Mary Reese Brabson Shields, the widow of David Shields. He moved to the Harrisburg community in Sevier County and established a plantation, Rose Glen, on land his wife had inherited.〔Sally Ripatti, Beulah Linn (ed.), "(Sevier County Physicians )," Sevier County Public Library website, February 1982.〕 In 1850, he organized a masons lodge in nearby Sevierville, the Mountain Star Lodge, and was elected its first Worshipful Master.〔Carroll McMahan, "Upland Chronicle: Mason Temple in Sevierville Has Long, Rich History," ''The Mountain Press'', 12 June 2012.〕 Over the next few years, Hodsden was appointed to the state agricultural bureau, and served as president of the East Tennessee Fair.〔 In 1857, he was elected president of the East Tennessee Medical Society,〔 and delivered an address, "On the Advancement of the Profession of Medicine," at the group's convention the following year.〔"(Annual Session of the East Tennessee Medical Society, Held in Knoxville, October 19, 1858 )," ''The Nashville Monthly Record of Medical and Physical Science'', Vol. 1, No. 3 (November 1858), p. 170.〕 By 1860, Hodsden was one of the wealthiest men in Sevier County, with over $50,000 in assets.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert H. Hodsden」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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