The following excerpts are taken from the publication for the 1957 Centennial celebration of Olathe, Johnson Co., KS, "Arrows to Atoms 1857-1957" a historical album of Olathe. Kansas:
Fank Hodges, senior member of the Hodges Lumber Company, and one of Olathe's most capable business men, was born in Wisconsin, September 19, 1863, and came to Kansas in (August 12) 1869, in a prairie schooner with his parents, his brother, George, and his sister, and settled in the then frontier town of Olathe.
In his early years Mr. Hodges taught Olathe schools, later becoming engaged in the lumber business with his brother. While he had a very active business career, he has given generously of his tome to public affairs. He serve as mayor of Olathe for two terms and remembered as the mayor "who took the town out of the mud." During his terms as mayor the plan for water and sewage system and universal grading of streets was sponsored and the 20-million gallon reservoir for the waterworks was built.
Mr Hodges has been Identified with the Democratic party all his life and has taken a active part in the welfare of the party. During World War II, he was appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
Mr. Hodges is a 32nd degree Scottish Rite Mason and is an ardent lover of the out-of-doors, and is known as a big game hunter. (Page 46)
The Hodges Brothers Lumber Company had its beginning in 1889 when George H. Hodges , a young man, who had worked for the G. B. Shaw and the F. R. Lanter lumber yards, borrowed money from W. H. Betts, Cashier of the Patrons Cooperative Bank, and bought out the Charles Pettigrew lumber yard. This yard was located just west of the Sante Fe tracks diagonally across from the present location of the Hodges Brithers lumber warehouse.
A year or two later Frank Hodges, an older brother joined the firm and thus began a joint association in business which has continued unbroken throughout the years, although the brothers engaged in wide and varied fields of activity George becoming a prominent politician, statesman and banker; Frank, a leading businessman, banker, realtor, sportsman and big game hunter.
The original company expanded until it owned and operated fourteen builders supply yards located in various towns in eastern Kansas. Eleven of those branches are still being operated as home-owned yards and their managers live in and are part of the communities which they serve.
It is a significant fact and a point of pride that many of the early employees of the Hodges Brothers company spent almost their entire whole lifetime in the service of the organization:.........(no Hodges mentioned)(Page 46)
In 1934 George H. and Frank Hodges gave a block of land which lies at Popular and Woodland. (This is the site of the Olathe Swimming Pool) (Page 51)
Fank Hodges, senior member of the Hodges Lumber Company, and one of Olathe's most capable business men, was born in Wisconsin, September 19, 1863, and came to Kansas in (August 12) 1869, in a prairie schooner with his parents, his brother, George, and his sister, and settled in the then frontier town of Olathe.
In his early years Mr. Hodges taught Olathe schools, later becoming engaged in the lumber business with his brother. While he had a very active business career, he has given generously of his tome to public affairs. He serve as mayor of Olathe for two terms and remembered as the mayor "who took the town out of the mud." During his terms as mayor the plan for water and sewage system and universal grading of streets was sponsored and the 20-million gallon reservoir for the waterworks was built.
Mr Hodges has been Identified with the Democratic party all his life and has taken a active part in the welfare of the party. During World War II, he was appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
Mr. Hodges is a 32nd degree Scottish Rite Mason and is an ardent lover of the out-of-doors, and is known as a big game hunter. (Page 46)
The Hodges Brothers Lumber Company had its beginning in 1889 when George H. Hodges , a young man, who had worked for the G. B. Shaw and the F. R. Lanter lumber yards, borrowed money from W. H. Betts, Cashier of the Patrons Cooperative Bank, and bought out the Charles Pettigrew lumber yard. This yard was located just west of the Sante Fe tracks diagonally across from the present location of the Hodges Brithers lumber warehouse.
A year or two later Frank Hodges, an older brother joined the firm and thus began a joint association in business which has continued unbroken throughout the years, although the brothers engaged in wide and varied fields of activity George becoming a prominent politician, statesman and banker; Frank, a leading businessman, banker, realtor, sportsman and big game hunter.
The original company expanded until it owned and operated fourteen builders supply yards located in various towns in eastern Kansas. Eleven of those branches are still being operated as home-owned yards and their managers live in and are part of the communities which they serve.
It is a significant fact and a point of pride that many of the early employees of the Hodges Brothers company spent almost their entire whole lifetime in the service of the organization:.........(no Hodges mentioned)(Page 46)
In 1934 George H. and Frank Hodges gave a block of land which lies at Popular and Woodland. (This is the site of the Olathe Swimming Pool) (Page 51)
The following excerpts are taken from the publication for the 1957 Centennial celebration of Olathe, Johnson Co., KS, "Arrows to Atoms 1857-1957" a historical album of Olathe. Kansas:
Fank Hodges, senior member of the Hodges Lumber Company, and one of Olathe's most capable business men, was born in Wisconsin, September 19, 1863, and came to Kansas in (August 12) 1869, in a prairie schooner with his parents, his brother, George, and his sister, and settled in the then frontier town of Olathe.
In his early years Mr. Hodges taught Olathe schools, later becoming engaged in the lumber business with his brother. While he had a very active business career, he has given generously of his tome to public affairs. He serve as mayor of Olathe for two terms and remembered as the mayor "who took the town out of the mud." During his terms as mayor the plan for water and sewage system and universal grading of streets was sponsored and the 20-million gallon reservoir for the waterworks was built.
Mr Hodges has been Identified with the Democratic party all his life and has taken a active part in the welfare of the party. During World War II, he was appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
Mr. Hodges is a 32nd degree Scottish Rite Mason and is an ardent lover of the out-of-doors, and is known as a big game hunter. (Page 46)
The Hodges Brothers Lumber Company had its beginning in 1889 when George H. Hodges , a young man, who had worked for the G. B. Shaw and the F. R. Lanter lumber yards, borrowed money from W. H. Betts, Cashier of the Patrons Cooperative Bank, and bought out the Charles Pettigrew lumber yard. This yard was located just west of the Sante Fe tracks diagonally across from the present location of the Hodges Brithers lumber warehouse.
A year or two later Frank Hodges, an older brother joined the firm and thus began a joint association in business which has continued unbroken throughout the years, although the brothers engaged in wide and varied fields of activity George becoming a prominent politician, statesman and banker; Frank, a leading businessman, banker, realtor, sportsman and big game hunter.
The original company expanded until it owned and operated fourteen builders supply yards located in various towns in eastern Kansas. Eleven of those branches are still being operated as home-owned yards and their managers live in and are part of the communities which they serve.
It is a significant fact and a point of pride that many of the early employees of the Hodges Brothers company spent almost their entire whole lifetime in the service of the organization:.........(no Hodges mentioned)(Page 46)
In 1934 George H. and Frank Hodges gave a block of land which lies at Popular and Woodland. (This is the site of the Olathe Swimming Pool) (Page 51)
Fank Hodges, senior member of the Hodges Lumber Company, and one of Olathe's most capable business men, was born in Wisconsin, September 19, 1863, and came to Kansas in (August 12) 1869, in a prairie schooner with his parents, his brother, George, and his sister, and settled in the then frontier town of Olathe.
In his early years Mr. Hodges taught Olathe schools, later becoming engaged in the lumber business with his brother. While he had a very active business career, he has given generously of his tome to public affairs. He serve as mayor of Olathe for two terms and remembered as the mayor "who took the town out of the mud." During his terms as mayor the plan for water and sewage system and universal grading of streets was sponsored and the 20-million gallon reservoir for the waterworks was built.
Mr Hodges has been Identified with the Democratic party all his life and has taken a active part in the welfare of the party. During World War II, he was appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
Mr. Hodges is a 32nd degree Scottish Rite Mason and is an ardent lover of the out-of-doors, and is known as a big game hunter. (Page 46)
The Hodges Brothers Lumber Company had its beginning in 1889 when George H. Hodges , a young man, who had worked for the G. B. Shaw and the F. R. Lanter lumber yards, borrowed money from W. H. Betts, Cashier of the Patrons Cooperative Bank, and bought out the Charles Pettigrew lumber yard. This yard was located just west of the Sante Fe tracks diagonally across from the present location of the Hodges Brithers lumber warehouse.
A year or two later Frank Hodges, an older brother joined the firm and thus began a joint association in business which has continued unbroken throughout the years, although the brothers engaged in wide and varied fields of activity George becoming a prominent politician, statesman and banker; Frank, a leading businessman, banker, realtor, sportsman and big game hunter.
The original company expanded until it owned and operated fourteen builders supply yards located in various towns in eastern Kansas. Eleven of those branches are still being operated as home-owned yards and their managers live in and are part of the communities which they serve.
It is a significant fact and a point of pride that many of the early employees of the Hodges Brothers company spent almost their entire whole lifetime in the service of the organization:.........(no Hodges mentioned)(Page 46)
In 1934 George H. and Frank Hodges gave a block of land which lies at Popular and Woodland. (This is the site of the Olathe Swimming Pool) (Page 51)
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