FUNERAL OF ALMON D. HODGES 



Service Held at St. James's Episcopal 

 Church in Roxbury 



Funeral services for Almon Danforth 

 HadK-cs, who rik-d on Slonday, in his sixty- 

 flfjlitli year, took pl<ace tills afternoon at 

 St. Janifts's Episcopal Church, St. James 

 street, Roxbury, and were conducted by 

 tlifi rector of the parish, Kev. jVIurray W. 

 Dewart. The usual ritual war, followed and 

 the choir of the church sang ."several selec- 

 tions. Afterward, the body was taken to 

 the crematory at Forest Hills. 



Almon Uanforth Hodges was horn in 

 rrovldeneo. R. L, on July 16, 1.843. the son 

 of Almon D. Hodges and Martha Comstock 

 (RodBers) HodgcK. He fitted for colle.se at 

 the Roxbury Latin School .md entered Har- 

 vard in l.sfio, receiving Ufa A. B. degree in 

 ■04 and that of A. M. In '67. 



On Ju.v Hi. 18(il, lie was elected and com- 

 mi.ssion" 1 a lieutenant in the Forty-Second 

 Massacln.selts Volunteers, having previous- 

 ly served as private in the Forty-Fourth 

 Massa.'huKotts. He was honorably dis- 

 charged at the expiration of his ti 



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rotur 



. ho 



d the ensinecrin? deiiartment of 



the Lawrence Solent llic School, where at 

 tho yearly examination he secured the 

 first place 'in his class. 



In Auf.usl. l.Siir., he sailed for Europe^, 

 and entereil the l;oyal Saxon Mining Acad- 

 emy at Freiberg, Saxony, where he re- 

 mained until ,Iuly , IWW, pursuing the 

 study of mining engineering. After fln- 

 Ishlrig the course at Freiberg he made a 

 mining and metallurg-ical 'tour tllirough 

 Middle Europe, and returned to the United 

 States in October, ISCS. He remained in 

 Boston until .lu.ie. l,s<W, and then travelled 

 throug-h the chief mining distrietB of Colo- 

 rado, riah and Nevada, reaching San 

 I'-i-nTicLse ) in l.Stra. 



He did important work as a consulting 

 mining engineer in examining and opening 

 up mines. On July 10, 1882, he married 

 Bertha Ijoulsa Bernard and after her death, 

 on May 14, 1S84, he retired to a large ex- 

 tent from the Eraotiee o£ his proiesBlon. 



The urgency of some of his friends and 

 former clients led hira, however, while re- 

 fusing general practice, to make two pro- 

 fessional visits to Peru, each lasting about 

 one year. Mr. Hodges published works 

 consisting, besides one or two translations 

 of small German textbooks, of various min- 

 ing reports and numerous articles on min- 

 ing and metallurgy. 



For many years past Mr. Hodges has 

 spent most of his time in Boston. Ha 

 leaves an only son, Frederick Hodges, now 

 living n,i California. Mr. Hodges belonged 

 to the Union Club, the New England His- 

 toric Genealogical Society, Rozbury City 

 Guard Veteran Association, Veteran Asso- 

 ciation o£ the Forty-fourth Massachusetts 

 liegiment. Harvard Club of San Francisco, 

 also, the Union and the Olympic and Lorlng 

 clubs of that city; Department of Califor- 

 nia, Q. A. R.; the Loyal Legion and many 

 scientific societies in tihs country and Eu- 

 rope. 



Henry Johnson's Poems 



The Se.r, anj Other Poem.. By Henry John- 

 ,n 'Drun'swteli: F. W. Ctiantller & Son. 

 •-T-«TiF title poem, the Seer, was read at 



The vague expression goes to 



duote a single stave: 



T e music of "he atom and the ^^Phere 

 we. ""^TltrtL^^h^Tfuf ;»a]° rf^o 



To'thun 

 Kor thic 



h all worlds TliK 



J shorter poems 

 n the form of the s 

 igcd with ease and 

 ,f satisfaction to tl 

 lias had much 



itest poet I 

 ..lany of them, 

 ine't. Tills is man- 

 flth a good degree 

 reader. The poet 

 ,„ in this kind of : 



5_ prevli: 



md hi 



iKly given to the I 

 rited version ol 

 Media. External 

 re are so closely 



rthrr":hap?r:rtlnd%Sred-skll. 

 I wander homeward with s'^^^^/P^etrflgo : 

 rhe^r.lWh™B''h'ym^^^ '''-■I"''' 

 ^ho hiUsiderst'lirkre strong 



I The 

 Thei 



ho.sf 



UPOl. . 



.„ Which : 

 mighty : 



Itraight ^out, scornlns to. 



„.lh-bent limbs, as it to stoop 



'llrr'^^^T beneath 



^i!Sl?Hir'r^"?^r h^vis"' Aems »«b- 



aS^'i the lovtnK thought 

 From thusB^^^'h-ar .seems 



The'reader of the sonnet, as he goes 

 , through the octave, may well ask, to 

 ' l\Car" these "-s addrossed^ Bu I 

 his Query Is answered as soon ab nc 

 cle's to'the sextet, and he '-n-^'-^^ ^ ' 

 discovers for what purpose and w th 

 how great propriety are the oaks in- | 

 ?rodttfed into the picture. , ^1- ^7^°^ 

 »iHnn as a -whole, is admirable. It is 

 along this line that Professor Johnsou. 

 - • In his work. i 



