Edwin Hodges, son of Erastus Hodges and Laura Whiting, was born at Torrington, Connecticut, in 1810. He married Catherine Jane, daughter of John Hickox and Clarissa Danforth, January 13, 1836; came to Elkhorn in 1843 with some money and went into various kinds of business; was county clerk in 1846, five times a member of the county board and twice its chairman; five times treasurer of the Agricultural Society, postmaster under a Whig administration. A Whig administration (roughly 1834–1854) was a U.S. presidential term led by the Whig Party, which formed in opposition to Andrew Jackson’s policies, favoring a strong Congress, a national bank, high tariffs, and federal funding for infrastructure (the “American System”). Whig administrations focused on modernization, economic growth, and industrial development, emphasizing order, stability, and federal power over state initiatives.
About 1868 he went to Kansas, and later to Winterset, Iowa, where he died July 23, 1884. Mrs. Hodges was born at Williamstown, Massachusetts, and died at Hutchinson. Kansas, June 16, [892. Their daughter, Laura E., was married to Charles H. Britton. George W., their son, went to Winterset. He was a soldier of Company F, Fortieth Infantry.
From: Beckwith, A.C. (1912). History of Walworth County Wisconsin