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practitioner, winning and holding a wide patronage. Dr. Hitchcock is a member of the State Medical Society and the Fox River Valley Medical Association, and has been a Mason since 1858, also belongs to the Knights of the Globe and is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. In 1859 he married Miss Elizabeth M. Galloway, at that time of Earlville, but a native of New Jersey. Their children are Mrs. Hattie (Hitchcock) Montgomery, of Decatur, and Miss Mollie Hitchcock, of Aurora.
EDWARD G. HOBLER, manufacturer, Batavia, Ill.; born near Batavia, Ill., Sept. 8, 1860; entered the employ of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Company in 1879, and was connected with the supply store of the company for seven years; then became connected with the general office of the Appleton Manufacturing Company of Chicago. The manufacturing plant of this corporation was removed to Geneva, Ill., in 1894, and in 1900, the plant and general offices were removed to Batavia. After various promotions Mr. Hobler was made general manager of the company in 1895, and has since filled that position. He was married in 1886 to Miss Harriet Wells, of Geneva.
JOHN H. HODDER (deceased), Aurora, journalist and inventor, was born in Bridport, Eng., Dec., 1834, and educated in the schools of his native town. Coming to America in 1853, after spending about nine months in New York, he journeyed westward to Chicago, and from there to Aurora, where he entered the employ of D. & J. W. Randall, about the time they purchased the "Beacon" from Hall Brothers. In 1856 he began business for himself, starting the first book-bindery establishment in the county. In 1858 Mr. Hodder became a partner with O. B. Knickerbocker & Co., in the ownership and publication of the "Beacon." That year the "Beacon" and the "Republican" were consolidated under the management of Bangs & Knickerbocker, and Mr. Hodder engaged in job printing. In 1861 he established the "McHenry County Union," at Woodstock, where he remained until 1863. During the latter year he resumed the foremanship of the "Beacon" office, and in 1866 purchased Mr. Bangs' interest, the publishing firm thereafter being Knickerbocker & Hodder. Mr. Hodder died in Aurora Dec. 5, 1902. He is survived by his wife and two children: Frank H., Professor of International Law and History in Lawrence (Kans.) University, and Mrs. Kittie B., wife of Harry R. Freeman, of Salt Lake City.
FREDERICK HODGES (deceased), pioneer settler; born in Castlewellen, County Down, Ireland, in 1799; grew to manhood in his native country, where he was educated under the guidance of his mother and in the parish schools; married Margaret Hutchinson and came to the United States in early manhood, locating in Chicago, Ill., in 1838, but shortly afterwards came to Dundee, Kane County, where he passed the remainder of his life, dying there in 1872; his wife dying in 1871. The surviving members of his family now residing in Dundee are: Mrs. Sheldon Dickinson, and the Misses Susanna and Charlotte Hodges.
DENNIS J. HOGAN, Geneva, Ill., Mayor, was born in Chicago, Dec. 7, 1856, and educated at Notre Dame University, South Bend, Ind., where he graduated in 1873. He studied law and graduated from the Union College of Law, Chicago, in 1875. For some years he practiced law in Chicago, but was not entirely engaged in professional labors until he opened his office in Geneva in 1888. Here he has been successful in a marked degree, and has been four times elected Mayor of the city, besides acting in that capacity for part of a term. He was President of the Board of Trustees of the Hospital for the Insane four years, and is now (1903) a member of the State Board of Arbitration. Mr. Hogan has long been one of the recognized leaders of the Democratic party in Illinois, being at the present time the senior member of the Democratic State Central Committee, on which he is serving his ninth term, and as Chairman of the Committee on Organization, completing his sixteenth year. In 1879 he was married to Miss Mary A. Deekig, of Adare, Ireland, at which place the marriage ceremony was solemnized. Mr. Hogan has traveled much abroad and spent much of his life in Europe.
EMANUEL HOLBROOK (deceased), merchant, Batavia, Kane County, Ill.; born in Manchester, England, July 3, 1840; grew to years of maturity and obtained his educational training in his native country; came to the United States in 1869, locating immediately after his arrival at Batavia, where he already had friends residing. Having been trained to a
