Kimball enterprise. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1883, 1883-04-27
Death ofHon. Leonard B. Hodges.

Hon. Leonard Bacon Hodges, known
widely as the great tree planter" died at his
residence in st. Paul on Saturday 14th inst,
from a complication OF diseases, having
their origin in an enfeebled condition OF
the digestive organs. Mr.. Hodges has long
been o 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-
eddy, and was a shock to the community at
large, as well 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 vitforous 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
more practical value than all the volumes
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
jet. He originated the system of planting
trees as windbreaks along
the cuts of railroads, which
are found TO be vastly more effective than
fences to protect the cuts from snow block
AIDES. 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 Blom6eid, Ontario county, N. Y,
where he was born upon the 18th of July,
1923. His father was DR.. Lewis l.. Hodges,
p,J ,,,,.n ,l,res,s,. n,.l ,,,-..a - :
war of 1872. His mother, Sarah Durham
Bacon was a sister of Leonard Bacon D..
descended. When only thirteen years
old, Leonard B. Hodges left his home and
set out to face the world. He first Went to
New Haven, Conn, where he found en-
ployment as a clerk in a book store and
afterward other employment. Then he
took up civil engineering and followed it
for sometime, residing at Rockford, ILL.,, ALL
sted 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 rom the time he came to the
day of his death his efforts to plant in the
minds of state and municipal authorities
and o the people st large q realization of
JIG 4AlPoIta1ce " lue supJrCt III when ne
was 90 greatly ints1ested was unremitting
and fruitful in practical results.
He had a kind heart, II liberality was
among his prominent traits. MT. Hodges
was twice married. Ills first wife, Eliza
beth Collins, of Iowa, to whom he was mar
ried in january, is49, died the following
June. Miss Margaret 3. Rogers of Saratoga
county, New York, was his second wife.
He was married to her on the 9th Of Au-
gust, 1856. OF the four children who were
the fruit of this union, only one survives,
namely: Margaret Elizabeth, who is now
nineteen years ofage.