John Hodgson (died December 2, 1881) was an American politician and newspaperman from Pennsylvania.
They settled in West Chester, Pennsylvania, and his father was a minister of the Protestant Episcopal Church and his mother sold candy from a store in front of their home on West Gay Street.
[1][2][3] He learned the printing trade as an apprentice at the Village Record in West Chester under Charles Miner.
In 1834, he purchased the Norristown Herald, a Whig paper and published it for a few years before selling the publication to Robert Iredell in 1837.
[1][4][6] During the Civil War, The Jeffersonian was known as a Copperhead newspaper, supporting the anti-war movement and slavery.
[4] His brother Francis Hodgson was a minister at St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church.