# Frank Heywood Hodder

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**Frank Heywood Hodder** (November 8, 1860, [Aurora, Illinois](/source/Aurora,_Illinois) – December 27, 1935) was an American [historian](/source/Historian) and a professor first at [Cornell University](/source/Cornell_University) (1885–1890) and later at the [University of Kansas](/source/University_of_Kansas).

## Biography

Hodder took his degrees from the [University of Michigan](/source/University_of_Michigan) at Ann Arbor in 1883, studying under [Charles Kendall Adams](/source/Charles_Kendall_Adams). He then served in the Federal government at [Washington, D.C.](/source/Washington,_D.C.), through 1885.[1] Hodder later studied in Germany at the universities of [Göttingen](/source/University_of_G%C3%B6ttingen) and [Freiburg](/source/University_of_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](/source/Organization_of_American_Historians), Kansas State Historical Society, the [Phi Kappa Psi](/source/Phi_Kappa_Psi) fraternity, and the [Irving Literary Society](/source/The_Irving_Literary_Society_(Cornell_University)). Hodder died at [Lawrence, Kansas](/source/Lawrence,_Kansas) after a heart attack, on December 27, 1935. He was survived by his wife, Anna Florence Moon, and two daughters.[2]

## Expertise

Hodder was known for position on the [Kansas-Nebraska Act](/source/Kansas-Nebraska_Act), namely that the Act was offered by then-Senator [Stephen Douglas](/source/Stephen_Douglas) to ensure that the city of [Chicago](/source/Chicago) would serve as a railroad nexus of the North American continent. Professor Hodder’s *Government of the People of Kansas* (1895) caused controversy within the state regarding its record of the events preceding the American Civil War.

Hodder was introduced to the study of history just as several well-known practitioners in the field urged the profession to investigate the historical development of institutions at the state and local level. Hodder's first recorded research fell within this genre, "The City Government of Chicago," scheduled for publishing in the *Johns Hopkins University Studies in History and Political Science* but not included in the series addressing municipal government. The Chicago monograph was Hodder’s first evidence of future pursuits regarding the historical development of Chicago. His legacy to the field of American history was in the study of that city, especially in his later career.[1]

## References

1. James C. Malin (May 1936). ["Frank Heyworth Hodder, 1860-1835"](https://web.archive.org/web/20040414044733/http://www.kancoll.org/khq/1936/36_2_malin.htm). *The Kansas Historical Quarterly*. **5** (2): 115–121. Archived from [the original](http://www.kancoll.org/khq/1936/36_2_malin.htm) on 2004-04-14.

1. (28 December 1935). [Prof. Hodder Dies; Historian Was 75](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1935/12/28/93514045.pdf), *[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)*

## External links

- [Personal papers](http://www.kshs.org/research/collections/documents/personalpapers/findingaids/hodder.htm#bio) of Frank H. Hodder

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