Colonel Henry Wilson Hodge (April 14, 1865 – December 21, 1919) was an American civil engineer and bridge designer.
He served on the Public Service Commission for New York City from 1916 to 1917 and as a colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I, where he had responsibility for all railroad structures for the American Expeditionary Forces in France.
[1] He was educated at Young's Private School in Washington, D.C., and joined a surveying party for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway in the mountains of West Virginia at the age of 15.
[6] He advised and consulted on multiple projects; in January 1916, he accepted a position on the Public Service Commission of New York City to supervise the construction of subway system expansions.
[2] After his return from service in World War I, he was a member of the Board of Consulting Engineers for the New York and New Jersey Vehicular Tunnel.
[7] Around 1891, Hodge joined the 7th Regiment of the New York National Guard and subsequently received a commission to the Engineer Officers' Reserve Corps.
When the U.S. entered World War I, Hodges resigned from the Public Service Commission and sailed to France in July 1917 at the rank of major.