The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-04-19

gational Sunday school, which she Joined,
her conduct has been such..as to make her
friends. Last Wednesday night when re-
turning from school she was confronted by
Marshal Carey and = man who claimed to
be her husband, from whom she ran away
two years ago. The girl admitted being the
mans vile, but positively refused TO have
anything to do with him, saying he shame
fully maltreated her while she lived with
him. Her friends agreed to stand by her,
and the abusive husband, who is an en-
ploye of the Chippewa Falls Lumber COM.
paDy, was obliged TO return without her.
Her real name is Alice Coring.
Death of Hon. Leonard b. Hodges.
Hon. Leonard Bacon Hodges, known
widely as the great ''tree planter" died at his
residence in St. Paul on Saturday 18th inst,
from a complication o; diseases, having
their origin in an enieebled condition of
the digestive organs. Mr.. Hodges has long
been a sufferer from chronic dyspepsia. and
although he had been confined to his house
for three weeks, and to his bed for two
thirds of that time, his symptoms did not
take on an alarming charac-
ter until the latter part of last week. His
death, therefore, came somewhat unexpect-
large, as we'll as to his family and more i'm
mediate friends. The deceased was in many
respects q remarkable man, and his faith
full and intelligent devotion to the cause of
horticulture, aud his vifforous accuracy of
the same by tongue and pen, placed him in
the front of the sanatarians and economists
Of the age.
Hewas the founder and soul ofthe forestry
association, and his contributions to the lit
erature of forestry, and especially in the
manual prepared by him, are, prehaps, of
which have been written on the subject by
others. He was the real author of the tim
Der culture act, and he inspired and moul-
ded most OF the state legislation on the SUBJ
ject. He originated the system OF planting
trees rs windhreaks along
the cuts of railroads, which
are found to be vastly more effective than
fences to protect the cuts from snow block
ades. He was employed in this capacity on
the Northern Pacific railroad at the time of
his death. He first saw the light Of day in
West Blom field, Ontario county, N. Y.
where he was born upon the 18th of July,
1928. His father was DR.. Lewis L. Hodges,
who was physician and surgeon in the
war of 1872. His mother, Sarah Durham
Bacon was a sister of Leonard Bacon D.
descended. When only thirteen years
Old, Leonard Is. Hodges lett his home and
set out to face the world. He tir>t went to
New Haven, Conn.,, where he found en-
ployment as clerk in book store and
afterward other employment Then he
took up civil engineering and followed it
for sometime, residing at Rockford, Ill.,, ALL.
amakee county, low, and at Oronoco, Ohm
stcd Co., Minnesota. In the We 1870, Mr..
Hodges, who had still continued to work
his farm, became a candidate for the state
senate upon an anti-monopoly platform.
Mr.. Hodges came to St. Paul in 1872
His zeal for forestry now began to manifest
itself, and from the time he came to the
day of his death his efforts to plant in the
minds of state and municipal authorities
and the people at large realization of
the Importance of the subject in which he
WAS 80 greatly interested was unremitting
and fruitful in practical results.
He had kind heart, and liberality was
among his pr ,minent traits. MIR. Hodges
was twice married. His first wife, Eliza
reth Collins, of 10 wa, to whom he was mar
ried in January, 1849, died the following
June. Miss Margaret B. Rogers Of Saratoga
county, New York, was his second wife,
He was married to her on the 9th of Au-
gust, 1855 Of the four children who were
the fruit of this union, only one survives,
namely: Margaret Elizabeth, who is now
nineteen years Of age.