The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 1051 

ARTHUR W. HODDER.

Arthur W. Hodder was born in England, October 3, 1868, a son of Jacob and Ann
Hodder, who came to the united States in 1870, settling first at Belleville,
Illinois. The father was a coal merchant in England and engaged in mining coal
in the new world. After living for some time in Illinois he removed to Colorado,
where he resided for five years and then became a resident of Oskaloosa, Iowa.
In his later life he returned to Illinois, settling at Canton, and afterward
became manager of a mine at Norris, Illinois, where he was residing at the time
of his death, which occurred in 1913. His widow survives and makes her home in
Canton, Illinois, at the age of eighty years.

Arthur W. Hodder acquired a public school education in Iowa and entered the coal
mines when seventeen years of age. Since that time he has been identified with
mining interests in various capacities. He came to Washington in 1897, making
his way to Roslyn, where soon afterward he accepted a position as fire boss at
the mines, in which capacity he served for nine years. On the expiration of that
period he became foreman of the Dip mine and was occupying that position at the
time that the connecting mine was blown up. In September, 1913, he became
superintendent of No. 57 Extension of the Cle Elum mine at Cle Elum, which
employs two hundred and seventy men and has an output of three thousand tons of
coal per day. His position therefore was one of heavy responsibility, but his
duties were most faithfully and capably discharged. He brought long experience
to his work and with every feature of mining he is thoroughly familiar. He
resigned his position February 1, 1919.

In 1902 Mr. Hodder was united in marriage to Miss Hannah Stewart, who was born
in England, a daughter of David Stewart, who was a coal miner and on coming to
the new world settled at Streator, Illinois. Mr. and Mrs. Hodder are parents of
two children, Rena May and Earl.

From the time he attained his majority Mr. Hodder has been affiliated with the
Knights of Pythias and his political support is given to the republican party.
His entire life has been devoted to mining and he has enjoyed growing success
and progress in that field of labor. While born across the water, practically
his entire life has been spent in this country and he is strictly American in
thought, feeling and principle.

********************************
Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in January 2008 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.