Biography of H M Hodge, Independence Co, AR

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SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas. 
Chicago: The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889.
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page 678 

H. M. Hodge, examiner of public instruction and loan agent,
Batesville. The history of every community is made up, so far as its more
interesting features are concerned, of the events and transactions of the lives
of its prominent, representative citizens. In any worthy history of
Independence County, an outline of the career of the subject of the present
sketch should not fail to be given, together with a sketch of his family. His
parents, Louis and Willie (Cavenar) Hodge, are natives, respectively, of North
Carolina and Tennessee. They are still living in [p.678] the latter State, and
are happy and comfortable in their declining years. H. M. Hodge owes his
nativity to Marshall County, Tenn., where his birth occurred March 13, 1849. He
received his education at the Morrisville Male and Female College, at Marshall,
graduating from the same in 1869, and subsequently became a teacher in that
institution. One year later he went to Western Tennessee, and here wielded the
ferrule for four years. In 1875 he came to Independence County, Ark., and here
continued his former occupation for several years. In 1885 he turned his
attention to the manganese mines, and was very successful in this. He had
charge of the Keystone mines for one year, and was one of the first men
employed. He was also acting collector. He now owns a mining interest in Izard
County, and property in Batesville. He was married, in 1871, to Miss Fannie
Benton, and both he and wife are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
In April, 1889, he received his appointment as public instructor. Mr. Hodge is
a member of the Masonic fraternity, and is also a member of the K. of H.