. History of Steuben County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794. Lansing D. Hodgman, son of Leonard and Jennette (Morey) Hodgman, was born Nov. 11, 1815, in Stillwater, Saratoga Co., N. Y. He is the eldest of a family of eight sons and one daughter, of whom seven sons are living. Mr. Hodgman re- mained at home on the farm until the spring of 1834; received a classical education at Cambridge, N. Y., Bennington Academy, Vermont, and finished his preparation for
. History of Steuben County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794. Lansing D. Hodgman, son of Leonard and Jennette (Morey) Hodgman, was born Nov. 11, 1815, in Stillwater, Saratoga Co., N. Y. He is the eldest of a family of eight sons and one daughter, of whom seven sons are living. Mr. Hodgman re- mained at home on the farm until the spring of 1834; received a classical education at Cambridge, N. Y., Bennington Academy, Vermont, and finished his preparation for the occupation of a civil engineer at the Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N. Y. In the spring of 1834 he commenced engineering under Judge Wrightj chief engineer of the Erie Eailway, in the preliminary survey, and continued on the Erie until the spring of 1837, when be engaged on the Erie Canal enlargement, eastern divi- sion,-in Montgomery County, as assistant engineer, under Isaac W. Crane and A, C. Powell, until November, 1840. He then resumed duties on the Erie Railway in charge of a locating party from Cuba, Allegany Co., west to the Indian Reservation. In the spring of 1841 he was made resident engineer in charge of the construction of the road from Hornellsville to Friendship, and continued until the suspension of the Erie Company in the fall of 1842. Thenceforward until the fall of 1843 he was agent for the assignees of the Erie Railway Com- pany. In July, 1843, he came to Bath, as superintendent for Messrs. Magee & Cook, in charge of the flouring-mill and books of the firm, and of the men generally in their employ, in which position he remained until Aug. 5, 1845. At this latter date he was married to Abby C, only daughter of Hon. Constant Cook, and commenced merchant milling for himself in Bath, which he has continued until the present time (Feb. 6, 1879), and also at Painted Post, in company with his brother, W. S. Hodgman. They bought and operate the Erwin Mills an
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