From: KyArchives Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2018 6:46 PM To: Ky-Footsteps Subject: Hodge.Uriah.1817.Barren-Mercer.BIOS Uriah Hodge November 26, 1817 - Barren-Mercer County KyArchives Biography Source: The Good Old Times in McLean County, Illinois (The Leader Publishing and Printing House - 1874) Author: Dr. E. Duis Uriah Shelby Hodge was born November 26, 1817, in Barron [sic] County, Kentucky. He came with the family of his father, Jonathan Hodge, to Stout's Grove, in the spring of 1827. There he went to school--as a good little boy should--to Archibald Johnson. Young Hodge was an apt scholar and learned very fast. When he grew up to manhood he became a great hunter and had a special knack for catching wolves. He chased them with horses, bull- dogs and grey-hounds, and kept fast horses for the purpose of hunting. He grew up a farmer, but afterwards went into the mercantile business at Danvers and succeeded remarkably well. On the Fourth of July, 1851, very early in the morning, Mr. Hodge married Miss Mary C. Clark, daughter of Henry I. Clark of Eureka, and has lived in Danvers ever since. He has a remarkably interesting family and enjoys all the pleasures of cultivated society. Mr. Hodge is rather above the medium height, is quite muscular, and was formerly rather portly; but somewhat failing health has shown its effects. He has been very successful in mercantile life, and this has been due to his uprightness. This is shown by the fact that he has now the same customers who traded at his store when he first began business. Submitted by: Sandi Gorin http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00002.html#0000404 This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/kyfiles/