Frank Heywood Hodder
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Frank Heywood Hodder (November 8, 1860, Aurora, Illinois - December 27, 1935) was an American historian and a professor first at Cornell University (1885-1890) and later at the University of Kansas.
Hodder took his degrees from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1883, studying under Charles Kendall Adams. He then served in the Federal government at Washington, D.C., through 1885.[1] Hodder later studied in Germany at the universities of Göttingen and Freiburg, 1890-1891 and took a full professorship at Kansas in the early 1890s, and was elevated the chairman of the History Department in 1908. Hodder was a member of the Organization of American Historians, Kansas State Historical Society, the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, and the Irving Literary Society. Hodder died at Lawrence, Kansas after a heart attack, on December 27, 1935. He was survived by his wife, Anna Florence Moon, and two daughters.[2]
