Thanks Gerry. I meant to put a litle intro to see if anyone could help Dennis on his Anna Hodges question. Luther H. Hodges was my great-uncle. Most of what you posted is accurate but my great-aunt Beulah used to get furious whenever that line about Luther being the only one to go to college was repeated because she did, too. He ws raised in Leaksville, in Rockingham County, NC, but he was born in Pittsylvania County, Va. near the town of Cascade. My dad was named after him. I will post the information on his brothers and sisters. Meanwhile, if anyone can shed any light on Dennis' Anna Hodges question, I will pass the information on. Bob Hodges -----Original Message----- From: Gerry Hackley <hackley@insync.net> To: HODGES-L@rootsweb.com <HODGES-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Saturday, April 17, 1999 1:41 AM Subject: Re: [HODGES-L] Fw: Re: Hodges of Pittsylvania - Franklin Counties, VA >Bob & Dennis, etc. I am writing to remind you & others who may be >researching the Luther Hartwell Hodges lines, that I sent some info on >Luther H. Hodges 9/28/1999 regarding the honors he received from the >Rotarians and other citizens of North Carolina. Luther had requested that >no buildings, highways, or other structures be named in his memory. But >the Rotarians wanted to place a portrait of him in the Raleigh Durham >Airport and his family gave permission. The Rotary bulletin had a picture >of one of his daughters. This was from the Oct. 1998 Rotarian magazine. >His daughter is Betsy Bernard. > >Luther wrote his biography "Businessman in the State House." >Luther was raised in poverty near Larksville, NC, one of his parents' nine >children to attend college. He graduated from the U. of NC in 1919, and >was President of the Student Council and senior class. He immediately >joined Marshall Field & Co. as an office boy eventually rising to become VP >of worldwide manufacturing by his reitrement in 1950. A WW II veteran, he >served as administrator of the Marshall Plan, working in several German >cities, and chief of industry, US Div. of Economic Cooperation, upon retiring. > >In 1952, Luther ran as a political outsider and was elected Lt. Governor of >NC, becoming governor when William B. Umstead died in office in 1954. As >US Secretary of Commerce, he established the Business Ethics Advisory >Council.l Continuing this theme, he wrote "The Business Conscience" in >1963 and expounded on ethical behavior in his autobiography, "Businessman >in the State House." The Luther H. Hodges Distinguished Professorship of >Business Ethics, funded by his friends, was the first such chair at the >University of North Carolina School of Business. > >Luther Hodges died at his home in Chapel Hill on 6 Oct 1974, at the age of 76. > >Does anyone have his autobiography? Do you know who his eight brothers and >sisters were?????? > >My Great Grandfather, Isaac Allen Hodges, first child was named Luther but >he died at the age of six (6) in Johnson Co., TX. I would like to know >more about this great individual. Thanks, > Gerry Hodges Hackley in Houston > gerry@hackley.com > > > > >At 10:53 PM 4/16/1999 -0400, you wrote: >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Dennis Boswell <dennisb@primenet.com> >>To: rlhodges@erols.com <rlhodges@erols.com> >>Date: Friday, April 16, 1999 11:06 AM >>Subject: Fwd: Re: Hodges of Pittsylvania - Franklin Counties, VA >> >>