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Contributed to the Ohio part of the USGenWeb Archives by:

        Jane Hodgson <hodgson@azstarnet.com>
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NATURALIZATION

The United States of America, The State of Ohio, Cuyahoga County, In the
matter
of the Declaration of Joseph Hodgson to become a citizen of the United States.

I, Joseph Hodgson, an alien, and a native of England, being duly sworn
according to law, declare and say, that I first arrived in the United
States on
the 12 day of July A.D. 1885; that it is bona fide my intention to become a
citizen of the United States, and to renounce forever all allegiance and
fidelity to any Foreign Prince, Potentate, State or Sovereignty, whatever, 
and particularly all allegiance and fidelity to Victoria Queen of whom I am 
a subject, so help me God.

Joseph Hodgson

Sworn to before me, and submitted in my presence, this 6 day of April 1895

S N Brown Dep Clerk

United States of America.

The State of OHio, Cuyahoga County, in the Matter of the Application of 
Joseph Hodgson for Admission to Citizenship of the United States of America.

  Now comes Joseph Hodgson and respectfully represents to the court that he 
is an alien, and a subject of England; that he was born, on or about the 18
day of Apr. 1855, at the ___ of ___ in England; that he first arrived in the 
United States on or about the 12 day of July 1885; that on the 6 day of 
Apr 1895 he duly declared his intention to become a citizen of the United 
States of America, the certificate of such declaration being hereto 
attached, marked Exhibit "A," and made a part hereof now on file in this 
Court ans being that he has never borne any hereditary title, or been of 
any of the orders of nobility in the country from which he came; that he 
has never been confined in any penal institution of this State, or any of 
the United States, under sentence of any Court therein; that he is a man 
of good moral character, attached to the principles of the Constitution of 
the United States, and well disposed to the good order and happiness of 
same; that he is by occupation a Forman and now resides at 176 Franklin Av 
Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio.

  Wherefore, Your petitioner prays, that on the final hearing of this 
petition he may be admitted to all the rights and privileges of a 
naturalized citizen of the United States.

Joseph Hodgson, petitioner
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Jane Hunter Hodgson
Tucson, Arizona
hodgson@azstarnet.com