Barren-Mercer County KyArchives Biographies.....Hodge, Uriah November 26, 1817 - 
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Source: The Good Old Times in McLean County, Illinois (The Leader Publishing and Printing House - 1874)
Author: Dr. E. Duis

Uriah Shelby Hodge was born November 26, 1817, in Barron [sic] County, Kentucky. He

came with the family of his father, Jonathan Hodge, to Stout's Grove, in the spring

of 1827. There he went to school--as a good little boy should--to Archibald Johnson.

Young Hodge was an apt scholar and learned very fast. When he grew up to manhood he

became a great hunter and had a special knack for catching wolves. He chased them 
with horses, bull-dogs and grey-hounds, and kept fast horses for the purpose of 
hunting. He grew up a farmer, but afterwards went into the mercantile business at 
Danvers and succeeded remarkably well. On the Fourth of July, 1851, very early in 
the morning, Mr. Hodge married Miss Mary C. Clark, daughter of Henry I. Clark of 
Eureka, and has lived in Danvers ever since. He has a remarkably interesting family

and enjoys all the pleasures of cultivated society. Mr. Hodge is rather above the 
medium height, is quite muscular, and was formerly rather portly; but somewhat 
failing health has shown its effects. He has been very successful in mercantile 
life, and this has been due to his uprightness. This is shown by the fact that he 
has now the same customers who traded at his store when he first began business.

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