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James B. Hodgskin (19th October 1830 -20th March 1879) was the sixth child of the Economist Thomas Hodgskin. He emigrated to the United States of America in 1856 and eventually followed his father’s preoccupations with journalism and economics. Unfortunately, he died unexpectedly on 20th March 1879, leaving behind his wife, and seven children under the age of twelve.

He was a member of the Gold Exchange executive committee and chairman of its Arbitration Committee at the time of the Black Friday (1869) Gold panic. He was called as the first witness at the congressional hearing into the causes of that Gold Panic before the Committee on Banking and Currency on 15th January 1870. He had been recommend to this Chairman, James A. Garfield, by Henry B. Adams, for Garfield to use as "a preliminary text-book".

He was activily involved in the management of several railroads, including being the Vice-president and Treasurer Atlantic and Great Western Railroad Company,