I B Hodges

HODGES

Posted By: Tina Keister (email)
Date: 1/18/2006 at 20:11:56

I B Hodges, of the firm of Hodges & Andrews, dealers in hardware, stoves, tinware and agricultuaul implements, Boone, was born in Cattaraugus county, New York November 8, 1839, and when three years of age accompanied his parents to Kane county, Illinois, and thence to Clayton county, Iowa in 1854, he was raised with a mercantile experience in the hardware business, and came to this county in 1864, and engaged in the business in Boonesboro, and may be numbered with the old established houses of Boone county, he married Miss Josephine Brown, daughter of the Hon J A Brown of Pennsylvania, their family consists of two sons: Addison and Henry.

From the 1880 Boone Co History Book