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 HOBART

HOBART

valley, Coos county, X.H. His first ancestor in America, E.lmund Hobart, of Norfolk, England, settled at Charlestown, Massachusetts colony, in 1633. Edmund's sou Peter, born in Norfolk in 1604, graduated at Cam- bridge univei'sity, ■was a teacher and pastor of a chui-cli in Suffolk county, Eng- land, and emigrated to America in 1635, joining his father at Charlestown. He re- moved to, and named the town of Hingham after his birthplace, built the Congrega- tional church there, and was its pastor for forty years. He liad four sons, John, Ger- shom, Japliet and Nehemiah. The last three named were graduated at Harvard in 1667, were aH Congregational ministers, and Ne- hemiali was a fehow of Harvard, 1681-92. Of the next three generations little has been re- corded. Mr. Hobart's father left the homestead in New Hampshire to teach school in Long Branch, N.J.. where he was married to Sophia, daughter of David G. and Catherine Vanderveer. In 1846 he opened a county store in Kej'port, and then reuioved to Marlboro, where he conducted a store and farm, and where young Hobart pre- pared for college. He entered the sophomore class of Rutgers college and was graduated in 1863. He then tauglit school iu Marlboro to pro- 'cure money to enable him to study law. In 1864 he went to Paterson, N.J., as a law student in the office of Socrates Tuttle, a native of New Hampshire, and a friend of his father. He was admitted to the bar as an attornej- in 1866, and as a counsellor in 1869, and the same year was married to Jennie Tuitle, daugliter of his law preceptor. They liad one son. Garret A. Hobart, Jr., and one daughter, Fannie, who died at Lake Como, Italy, in June, 1895. Mr. Hobart became an eminent corporation lawyer and was president or director of many important railway, banking and industrial corporations centering in Pater- son, and acquired large wealth through careful investments. He served as counsel for the city of Paterson in 1871, as counsel to the board of chosen freeholders of Passaic county, 1872, and as representative in the state assembly, 1873-75, serving as speaker in 1874. He was state senator, 1878-82, and president of the senate in 1881-82. He was cliairman of the Republican state com- mittee, 1880-91, and the New Jersey member of the Republican national committee, 1884—96. He

was the unsuccessful candidate for U.S. senator in 1884, but five times declined the nomination as representative in congress. He was delegate at large for New Jersey to the Republican na- tional conventions of 1876 and 1880, and declined the nomination for governor in 1892 and 1895. He received the nomination for Vice-President of the United States on the ticket with William McKinlej' at the Republican national convention of 1896. Ho was elected and took the oath of office, March 4, 1897, and contrary to precedent became a confidential adviser of the President. In 1897 he gave to Rutgers college the sum of $5000. He died at Paterson, N.J., Nov. 21, 1899, HOBART, John Henry, third bishop of New York, and 11th in succession in the American episcopate, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 14, 1775; son of Capt. Enoch and Hannah (Pratt) Hobart; grandson of John, who removed from Hingham, Mass., to Philadelphia, married a Swedish lady and renounced the Con- gregational faith for that of the estab- lished church; great- grandson of Peter, a graduate of the Uni- A'ersity of Cambridge, England, 1629, teach- p er and pastor in Suf- \ folk county, England, who emigrated to America in 1635, founded the town of Hingham, where he

built, and was for forty years pastor of the Congregational church; and greats-grandson of Edmund, the first of the family in America, who came from Norfolk, England, in 1633, and settled in Charlestown, Mass. Enoch Hobart, a sea captain, died in 1776, leaving the son to the care of his mother. He was a pupil in the Episcopal academy when nine years old, and studied classics luider President John Andrews, 1785-90, and followed Mr. Andrews when he became vice-provost to the University of Pennsylvania, where he attended, 1790-91. He transferred to the junior class of the College of New Jersey, Princeton, and was graduated, A.B., 1793. A.M., 1796. He was tutor at Prince- ton, 1796-98, while pursuing his studies in theol- ogy under the direction of Bishop "White, and was ordained deacon by Bishop White in Phila- delphia, Pa., June 3, 1798. He was in charge of Trinity church, Oxford, Pa., All Saints, Perkio- men. Pa., and Christ church. New Brunswick, N.J.. 1798-99. He was married, ilay, 6, 1800, to Mary Goodwin, daugliter of the Rev. Dr. Thomas