Copied from the Olathe Daily Mirror of June 8, 1916
MRS. LYDIA A. HODGES
Lydia A. Hodges was born in the state of Ohio, July 16, 1836, and died at Olathe (Johnson Co.) Kansas, Monday June 5, 1916, thus rounding out almost eighty years of useful, active, and forceful life.
In the broad sense she was a forceful and masterful woman. Pioneer blood was in her veins. Her father, Dr. George Hartshorn was not only a physician, but was Methodist Preacher of the type that the in the early and middle part of the last century carried the Gospel to the Western Wilderness; and so after Lydia Hartshorn in young womanhood had married W. W. Hodges, a young school teacher, the family went to Wisconsin--then frontier country--and finally in 1869 the Missionary, the Schoolteacher, and Home Builder--always the woman-- came to Kansas by wagon over the trail that led to high hopes in the new country that is now Kansas.
The Hodges family pitched its tent and set up its alter on Block 80, Olathe, and there throughout the struggles of Forty-seven years that home has remained and none has departed therefrom save through the gates to the silent city.
Essentially Lydia A. Hodges was home builder, a family builder, and a character builder. She took the very highest pride in keeping her family together on that sacred spot where she fought out for them the problems of early life and imparted to them the strength of character, firmness of purpose, that business and political integrity and manliness which has enabled her sons to take a commanding place in the business and political affairs of the state.
When the younger son went to Topeka in 1913 to be inaugurated as Govenor of our great state, there was back of her maternal pride a note almost of regret that the family circle was to be broken even temporarily. An intimate friendship of over 40 years with Mrs. Hodges enables the writer to say that whatever of business and political success has come to Frank and George Hodges, they owe their to their mothers's ideals of true manhood and her wise counsel and her insistence of that ideal.
When the time was ripe for civic improvement in Olathe, it was the son of this woman who led the fight for it and won, and today the magnificent street and sewer improvements in Olathe trace back to the home in Block 80. If the statute books of Kansas are filled with progressive laws, in a great measure , these laws are to be credited to the legislature and Govenor who received his training in that home. Even the great lumber business of Hodges Brothers is a monument to the mother's business sagacity and ideals.
MRS. LYDIA A. HODGES
Lydia A. Hodges was born in the state of Ohio, July 16, 1836, and died at Olathe (Johnson Co.) Kansas, Monday June 5, 1916, thus rounding out almost eighty years of useful, active, and forceful life.
In the broad sense she was a forceful and masterful woman. Pioneer blood was in her veins. Her father, Dr. George Hartshorn was not only a physician, but was Methodist Preacher of the type that the in the early and middle part of the last century carried the Gospel to the Western Wilderness; and so after Lydia Hartshorn in young womanhood had married W. W. Hodges, a young school teacher, the family went to Wisconsin--then frontier country--and finally in 1869 the Missionary, the Schoolteacher, and Home Builder--always the woman-- came to Kansas by wagon over the trail that led to high hopes in the new country that is now Kansas.
The Hodges family pitched its tent and set up its alter on Block 80, Olathe, and there throughout the struggles of Forty-seven years that home has remained and none has departed therefrom save through the gates to the silent city.
Essentially Lydia A. Hodges was home builder, a family builder, and a character builder. She took the very highest pride in keeping her family together on that sacred spot where she fought out for them the problems of early life and imparted to them the strength of character, firmness of purpose, that business and political integrity and manliness which has enabled her sons to take a commanding place in the business and political affairs of the state.
When the younger son went to Topeka in 1913 to be inaugurated as Govenor of our great state, there was back of her maternal pride a note almost of regret that the family circle was to be broken even temporarily. An intimate friendship of over 40 years with Mrs. Hodges enables the writer to say that whatever of business and political success has come to Frank and George Hodges, they owe their to their mothers's ideals of true manhood and her wise counsel and her insistence of that ideal.
When the time was ripe for civic improvement in Olathe, it was the son of this woman who led the fight for it and won, and today the magnificent street and sewer improvements in Olathe trace back to the home in Block 80. If the statute books of Kansas are filled with progressive laws, in a great measure , these laws are to be credited to the legislature and Govenor who received his training in that home. Even the great lumber business of Hodges Brothers is a monument to the mother's business sagacity and ideals.
Copied from the Olathe Daily Mirror of June 8, 1916
MRS. LYDIA A. HODGES
Lydia A. Hodges was born in the state of Ohio, July 16, 1836, and died at Olathe (Johnson Co.) Kansas, Monday June 5, 1916, thus rounding out almost eighty years of useful, active, and forceful life.
In the broad sense she was a forceful and masterful woman. Pioneer blood was in her veins. Her father, Dr. George Hartshorn was not only a physician, but was Methodist Preacher of the type that the in the early and middle part of the last century carried the Gospel to the Western Wilderness; and so after Lydia Hartshorn in young womanhood had married W. W. Hodges, a young school teacher, the family went to Wisconsin--then frontier country--and finally in 1869 the Missionary, the Schoolteacher, and Home Builder--always the woman-- came to Kansas by wagon over the trail that led to high hopes in the new country that is now Kansas.
The Hodges family pitched its tent and set up its alter on Block 80, Olathe, and there throughout the struggles of Forty-seven years that home has remained and none has departed therefrom save through the gates to the silent city.
Essentially Lydia A. Hodges was home builder, a family builder, and a character builder. She took the very highest pride in keeping her family together on that sacred spot where she fought out for them the problems of early life and imparted to them the strength of character, firmness of purpose, that business and political integrity and manliness which has enabled her sons to take a commanding place in the business and political affairs of the state.
When the younger son went to Topeka in 1913 to be inaugurated as Govenor of our great state, there was back of her maternal pride a note almost of regret that the family circle was to be broken even temporarily. An intimate friendship of over 40 years with Mrs. Hodges enables the writer to say that whatever of business and political success has come to Frank and George Hodges, they owe their to their mothers's ideals of true manhood and her wise counsel and her insistence of that ideal.
When the time was ripe for civic improvement in Olathe, it was the son of this woman who led the fight for it and won, and today the magnificent street and sewer improvements in Olathe trace back to the home in Block 80. If the statute books of Kansas are filled with progressive laws, in a great measure , these laws are to be credited to the legislature and Govenor who received his training in that home. Even the great lumber business of Hodges Brothers is a monument to the mother's business sagacity and ideals.
MRS. LYDIA A. HODGES
Lydia A. Hodges was born in the state of Ohio, July 16, 1836, and died at Olathe (Johnson Co.) Kansas, Monday June 5, 1916, thus rounding out almost eighty years of useful, active, and forceful life.
In the broad sense she was a forceful and masterful woman. Pioneer blood was in her veins. Her father, Dr. George Hartshorn was not only a physician, but was Methodist Preacher of the type that the in the early and middle part of the last century carried the Gospel to the Western Wilderness; and so after Lydia Hartshorn in young womanhood had married W. W. Hodges, a young school teacher, the family went to Wisconsin--then frontier country--and finally in 1869 the Missionary, the Schoolteacher, and Home Builder--always the woman-- came to Kansas by wagon over the trail that led to high hopes in the new country that is now Kansas.
The Hodges family pitched its tent and set up its alter on Block 80, Olathe, and there throughout the struggles of Forty-seven years that home has remained and none has departed therefrom save through the gates to the silent city.
Essentially Lydia A. Hodges was home builder, a family builder, and a character builder. She took the very highest pride in keeping her family together on that sacred spot where she fought out for them the problems of early life and imparted to them the strength of character, firmness of purpose, that business and political integrity and manliness which has enabled her sons to take a commanding place in the business and political affairs of the state.
When the younger son went to Topeka in 1913 to be inaugurated as Govenor of our great state, there was back of her maternal pride a note almost of regret that the family circle was to be broken even temporarily. An intimate friendship of over 40 years with Mrs. Hodges enables the writer to say that whatever of business and political success has come to Frank and George Hodges, they owe their to their mothers's ideals of true manhood and her wise counsel and her insistence of that ideal.
When the time was ripe for civic improvement in Olathe, it was the son of this woman who led the fight for it and won, and today the magnificent street and sewer improvements in Olathe trace back to the home in Block 80. If the statute books of Kansas are filled with progressive laws, in a great measure , these laws are to be credited to the legislature and Govenor who received his training in that home. Even the great lumber business of Hodges Brothers is a monument to the mother's business sagacity and ideals.
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