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- ↑ "Hodgdon, Daniel Russell", in Who's who in America, Volume 11 (A.N. Marquis, 1920) p. 1355
- ↑ "Calls College Red, Resigns Presidency— Dr. Hodgdon Quits Valparaiso as 'Hotbed of Bolshevism and Other Cults'", The New York Times, April 26, 1921, p1
- ↑ Author Daniel Russell Hodgdon Worldcat.org
- ↑ Maine Alumnus (February 1960) p.16