Biographical Sketch of Joseph D. Bodenhamer, Webster County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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Joseph D. Bodenhamer, another successful agriculturist of Grant town-
ship, is a native of Webster county, Mo., born March 5, 1854, being the
son of William Frederick and Mary E. (Rudd) Bodenhamer.  The father was
born in Tennessee in 1822, and came to this county with his parents in
1836.  He was a Republican in politics, a soldier in the late war, and
was captain of Company B, Twenty-fourth Missouri.  He represented Web-
ster county, Mo., in the Legislature, and was one of the leading men
and early settlers of this part of the state.  He took a leading part
in the affairs of the county, and was a man universally respected.  He
died in Webster county in 1887.  The mother was born in North Carolina
in 1833, and died in August, 1887.  They were the parents of four 
children, three now living, of whom Joseph D. is the eldest.  He was 
reared to manhood on the farm, and now owns the old homestead.  He
attended the county schools in his boyhood; has all his life followed
agricultural pursuits.  He is the owner of 240 acres of land in Grant
township.  January 18, 1882, he was united in marriage to Miss Matilda
A. Goodwin, who was born in Illinois in 1867, and who is a daughter of
Thomas Goodwin.  One child is the result of this union, named Ella
Maude, whose birth occurred June, 1884.  Mr. Bodenhamer has been a 
resident of Grant township all his life; a Republican in politics, and
is a highly respected man.  The Bodenhamer family is one of the oldest
in Webster county.  Jacob Bodenhamer, father of P. G., a well known
citizen, settled in the present limits of this county, in April, 1837,
in Township 30, Range 19.  He raised a family of sixteen children, the
three youngest being born in that neighborhood, where he lived until
1844, then removing to Pierson Creek, Greene County.  C. W. and W. F.,
his eldest sons, still remain here.  The family originally came from
Giles county, Tenn., and upon locating here found but four other
families: Spencer Clark, Mrs. Sally Hoover, George Kepley and A. E.
Goss, Sr.  Reference to this is made elsewhere in this volume.

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