Fletcher Hodges Jr.

Fletcher Hodges Jr.

Fletcher Hodges Jr. (August 6, 1905 – March 13, 2006) was a leading American expert on the music of Stephen Collins Foster.

Hodges, an Indiana native, graduated from Harvard University. He was hired during the Great Depression by Josiah Lilly, owner of the Eli Lilly and Company pharmaceutical corporation, to organize the Lilly family's archive of Foster materials, which then numbered 20,000 items. Lilly was a friend of University of Pittsburgh Chancellor John Gabbert Bowman, and he later donated the archive in 1937 to Bowman's newly constructed Stephen Foster Memorial on the Pitt campus. Hodges moved from Indianapolis to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with the collection. What began for Hodges as a three month assignment for Lilly endured as a 51-year curatorship of the Foster collection.

Hodges' wife, Margaret Hodges, was a Caldecott Medal winning writer of books for children.

He died March 13, 2006 at his home in Oakmont.

Bibliography

Books

*Stephen Foster: America's Troubadour (co-written with John Tasker Howard), New York : Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1934.
*A Pittsburgh Composer and his Memorial. Pittsburgh : Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, 1938?
*Stephen Foster, Democrat. Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh, 1945.
*The Research Work of the Foster Hall Collection. Philadelphia : Pennsylvania Historical Association, 1948.
*Stephen Foster. An address by Mr. Fletcher Hodges, Jr., given at the 1949 Annual Meeting of the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio. Cincinnati : Printed and bound by the C.J. Krehbiel Co., 1950.
*Swanee Ribber and a Biographical Sketch of Stephen Collins Foster, White Springs, Fla. : Stephen Foster Memorial Association, 1958.

References

*Bob Hoover (2006). [http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06073/669833.stm Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Obituary of Fletcher Hodges Jr.] . Retrieved March 14, 2006.


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