FUNERAL OF ALMON D. HODGES 



Service Held at St. James's Episcopal 

 Church in Roxbury 



Funeral services for Almon Danforth 

 Hodges, who died on Monday, In his slxty- 

 plghth year, took place this afternoon at 

 St. James's Episcopal Church, St. James 

 street, Roxbury, and were conducted by 

 the rect-or of the parish, Rev. Murray W. 

 Dewart. The usual ritual was followed and 

 the choir of the church sang several selec- 

 tions. Afterward, the body was taken to 

 the crematory at Forest Hills. 



Almon Danforth Hodges was born in 

 ProvidracB, R. I., on July IG, 1S4.3. the son 

 of Almon D. Hodges and Martha Oomstock 

 (Roilgers) IkKlges. He fitted for college at 

 the Roxburv Latin School and entered Har- 

 vard in istio, ruoeiving W.^ A. B. degree In 

 '64 and that of A. M. in 'GT. 



On ,Tuiv 10. ISGI, he wa.s cle-cted and com- 

 ml^.'jlon- 1 a lieutenant in' the Forty-Second 

 Massaflii.sctt.? Vohinleers, having previous- 

 ly ^u-■r^•o.l as virivatu in the I!\>rty-Fourth 

 Massaohu.sctts. lie was honorably dis- 

 charged at the expiration of his term of 

 service Nov. 11, 1S64. On his return home 

 he entered the engineering department of 

 the Law.-etire Splentiflc School, where at 

 the yearly examination he secured th« 

 ■nrst pl.Ti-c in Ills flasa. 



In Ai'i'ti.sl. 18(1"!, he sailed for Europej. 

 anil entercil the l.'oyal Saxon Mining Acad- 

 emy -it Frelbers, Saxony, where ho re- 

 mained until July . pursuing the 

 study of mining engineering. After fin- 

 ishing the course at Freiberg he made a 

 mining and metallurgical tour tliirough 

 Middle Europe, and returned to the United 

 18G8. He remained in 

 1(S<)0, and then travelled 

 mining districts of Colo- 

 Nevada, reaching San 



States In Octobe 

 Roston until Ju.ie 

 through the chief 

 rado, Utah and 

 I.^jincl.s.-.. in bSOtt. 



He did Impoita 

 mining 



; work as a consulting 

 in examining and opening 

 July to, 1882, he married 

 Bertha Louisa Bernard and after her death, 

 on May 14, 1884, he retired to a large ex- 

 tent from the firaotlBo o£ hla profeBsion. 



The urgency of some of his friends and 

 former clients led him, 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. He 

 leaves an only son, Frederick Hodges, now 

 living nl California. Mr. Hodges belonged 

 to the Union Club, the New England His- 

 toric Genealogical Society. Rozbury City 

 Guard Veteran Association, Veteran Asso- 

 ciation of the Forty-fourth Massachusetts 

 Regiment, Harvard Club of San Francisco, 

 also, the Union and the Olympic and Lorlng 

 clubs of .that city; Department of Califor- 

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

 scientific societies in tihs country and Eu- 

 rope. 



,as had much P-;^-„- ^^^^ the 

 Lte. spirited version ot 

 Jose Heredia. External 

 m nature are so closely 

 the poet's thought that he 

 e^ves the full development to the end 



homeward with slow steps along 



accu 



ture and huin- 

 indod in the 



The 



intry road 



earthl.v ^...k,.. 



The reader of the sonnet, ^- I 



^mer^oV: s:xt--,"an^d hi 



tro'uc^d into the picture. The compo- 

 sition as a whole. Is admirable. It la 

 along this line that Professor Johnson; 

 , succeeds best In his work. J 



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