John Hodgson was a member of the Wisconsin State Senate.
[1] In 1840, he married Cassandra M. Blake in Pontiac, Michigan.
They would have six children, including Manville S. Hodgson, before her death on January 5, 1860.
In December of that year, Hodgson married Esther Enos.
He had settled in what is now Waukesha County, Wisconsin in 1842.