Jones County IA Archives Biographies.....Bodenhofer, John 1872 - 
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Author: A Narrative History of The People of Iowa

A Narrative History of The People of Iowa

JOHN BODENHOFER is not lacking in a full measure of popular confidence and
esteem in his native city and county, as is evidenced by the fact that he
served two terms as a member of the county board of supervisors and was then, in
1921, appointed county sheriff, in which office by successive reelections, he
has been retained to the present time. He is thus an efficient and popular
member of the governmental official family of Jones County and has his
executive headquarters in the courthouse at Anamosa, the county seat, in which
city his birth occurred April 11, 1872.

Sheriff Bodenhofer is a son of the late Jacob and Rebecca (Soisbe)
Bodenhofer, with whose names is associated a distinct measure of pioneer
prestige in the Hawkeye State. Jacob Bodenhofer was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in
1832, was reared and educated in the old Buckeye State and was about seventeen
years of age when, in 1848, he severed the home ties and came to Iowa, where he
found employment on a pioneer farm. He later studied law and gained admission
to the Iowa bar, he having thereafter been engaged in teh active practice of
his profession at Anamosa for many yeas and having been one of the venerable
and honored pioneer citizens of Iowa at the time of his death, which occurred
in the year 1906, his wife having died in 1897, and having been a sister of
Samuel Soisbe, who served as a representative in the Twenty-eighth Iowa
Legislature. Rev. George Bodenhofer, grandfather of the present sheriff of Jones
County, was a clergyman of the Christian Church and after coming to Iowa was
here associated in the establishing of Cornell College, which is now one of
the important and well ordered educational institutions of the state.

In the Anamosa public schools John Bodenhofer continued his studies until he
was graduated in the high school and thereafter he was actively engaged in
farm enterprise in his native county for a period of thirty years, he being at
the present time the owner of two well improved farms in Jones County and
this landed estate having an aggregate area of 300 acres. While still
residing on his farm Mr. Bodenhofer served two terms as representative of his
township on the county board of supervisors, and this office he resigned at the
time of his appointment to that of county sheriff, in 1921. As sheriff he has
given a signally loyal, circumspect and effective administration, and the
popular estimate placed upon the same is shown in his continued retention of the
office since the year mentioned.

The political allegiance of Mr. Bodenhofer is given to the Republican party,
he and his wife have membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church, he is
affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and the Knights of Pythias, and the
Wapsipinicon Country Club claims him as one of its appreciative and popular
members.

October 26, 1893, marked the marriage of Mr. Bodenhofer to Miss Emma L.
Manley, daughter of the late Thomas and Alice (Hannum) Manley, who were honored
citizens of Jones County at the time of their death, Mr. Manley having been
here the owner of a fine farm estate of 720 acres. Mr. and Mrs. Bodenhofer have
three children: Helen is the wife of Roy Simpson, of Cedar Rapids, this
state; Hazel is the wife of Philip Hammond, of Lisbon, Linn County; and Hylah is
the wife of Ernest Towne, their residence being maintained on the old home
farm of Sheriff Bodenhofer, near Mechanicsville, and Mr. Towne being in active
charge of the place.


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