San Luis Obispo County Biographies

T. E. HODGES

Submitted by Peggy Hooper

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T. E. HODGES, a resident of the lower portion of the Arroyo Grande, was 
born in Missouri, in August, 1846. At the age of eighteen years he enlisted in 
the Union army, and was in the ranks until the close of the war. In 1865 the family 
removed to Kansas, where young Hodges lived for eleven years, except the time he was 
in school, at the age of twenty-three. In 1876 he came to California, and was for two 
years employed upon his farm in See Cafion; was one year on John McGlashan's place, and 
then came to his present property in the lower part of the Arroyo Grande Valley. It 
comprises fifty -three acres, twenty-five of which are in orchard, an object of pride to its 
owner. It contains apricots, peaches, apples, pears and prunes. Many of the branches on 
the trees at the time this sketch was written were bolstered up by strong ropes, in order 
to help sustain the enormous quantity of fruit. Mr. Hodges has had great success 
also with ills English walnut trees; and this year he will plant many more of these trees 
in his twenty-acre bean-field. His drying house is a considerable invention, and is the 
largest and most complete in the valley. 

Mr. Hodges was married in the fall of 1872, to Miss Sarah E. Weininger, of Kentucky, and 
they have six children. 

History of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura Counties, California  - by 
C.M. Gidney, Benjamin Brooks, Edwin M. Sheridan, Vol I, II.  -Lewis Publ. Co., 
Chicago, 1917.