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Bradbury and Jane (Emott) Chandler, of Eliza- betlitown, N.J., and granddaughter of Elias Boudinot, Sr. He was in charge of St. George s church. Hempstead. N.Y.. in lisOO, and in Septem- ber of that year went to Trinity parish in New York city as assistant minister. He was ordained a priest by Bisliop Provoost in 1801, and was a deputy to the general conventions of 1801, 1804, and 1>*08. serving as secretary of the Iiouse of clerical and lay deputies, at the two latter con- ventions. He was elected coadjutor to the bisliop of New York. May l.">, 1811. and was consecrated iu Trinity church. New York city. May 29, 1811, by Disiiops AVliite, Provoost and Jarvis. On the death of Bishop Moore, Feb. 27. 1816, Bishop Ho- bart succeeiled to the bishoi)ric and assumed full charge of the diocese and the rectorship of the Trinity parish. His double duties as rector of the largest parish in America, and bishop over the entire state of New York with periodical visitations in New Jersey, 1815, and Connecticut, 1816-19, greatly taxed his strength and he sought rest by travelling in Europe, 1823-25. He was a founder of the General Theological seminary, and professor of pastoral tlieologj- in that institution, 1821-30. He received the degree of D.D. from Union college in 1S06. and was a trustee of Columbia college, 1801-30. He founded a church school in 1818, by uniting Geneva academy with Fairfield academy, then a theological school, and it became Geneva college with a univer- sity charter, Feb. 8, 1825. This institution was afterward named Hobart college in his honor. He is the author of: Festivals and Fasts (1804); Companion for the Altar (1804); Companion to the Book of Common Prayer (1805); The Christian Manual (1805); Apology for Apos- tolic Orders (1807); Essay on the State of the De- parted (1814); D'Oyley and ManVs Family Bible (a work of five .years, Vol. I., 1818; Vol. II., 1820); Redemption (sermons, London, 1824). See his Life, by the Rev. Dr. John McVickar (1834). He died in Auburn. N.Y., while visiting that portion of his diocese, Sept. 12. 1830.

HOBART, John Henry, clergyman, was born in New York city, Oct. 1, 1817; son of the Rt. Rev. John Henry and Mary Goodwin (Chandler) Hobart. He was graduated at Columbia in 1836, and at the General Theological seminary in 1841. He was ordained a deacon in June, 1841, and a priest in 1842. He was engaged in mission work in New York, 1841-15; -was rector of Trinity church, Geneva, N.Y., 1845-46; missionary at Nashotah, Wis., 1847; assistant minister in Trinity parish. New York, 1848-63; rector of churches in the diocese of:Mai->iand. 1863-73; attended the Old Catholic congress in Cologne, (Jermany. as chaplain to the Rt. Rev. W. R. Whittingham, bishop of Maryland, in 1872; and

became rector of Trinity church, Fishkill, N.Y., in 1873. He received the degree of D.D. from Columbia in 1856, and was a trustee of Hobart college, 1846-54. He is the author of: Instruction and Encouragement for Lent (1859); Medicevalism (1877); Church Reform in Mexico (1887), and edited Festivals and Facts, a work prepared by his father, and TJte Clergy num's Companion (1863). He died in Fishkill, N.Y., Aug. 31, 1889. HOBART, John Sloss, seuat'or, was born in Fairfield, Conn., May 6. 1738; son of the Rev. Noah and Ellen (Sloss) Hobart, and grandson of John and Esther (Burr) Sloss, of Fairfield, Conn. His father (1705-1773), was graduated from Har- vard in 1724, and was pastor of the Congre- gational church

at Fairfield, ^^^^^^^*^\i Conn., 1733- ^SJ^^^T'l ^t > , 73; his mater- B^^Ml 8 " ' ' . ' 'lL nal grandfath- ^J^^^- -^ er, John Sloss, vrr?;?;:^:;; was a native the ols> meeti/vshouse. of Scotland; and his paternal great-grandfather, the Rev. Peter Hobart. was born in Hingham, England, and came to America, where he helped to found Hingham, Mass., and was minister there, 1635-78. John Sloss Hobart was graduated from Y'ale in 1757, and practised law in Suffolk county, N.Y. He was a member of the New Y^ork "Stamp Act" congress that met Oct. 7, 1765: became a member of the Sons of Liberty in November, 1765; was a dejjuty from Suffolk county to the 1st, 2d, 3d and 4th provincial con- gresses of New Y''ork, 1775-76, and when the last of these congresses, meeting just after July 4, 1776, assumed the name of convention of repre- sentatives of the state he was a leader in their deliberations. He served on the committee which reported the resolutions approving the Declaration of Independence; on that wiiich was appointed to prepare and report a constitution; on that which organized tiie council of safety (of which he was made a member), and on the committee of three, with Gouverneur Morris and John Jay, for devising the first great seal of the state. In May, 1777, although he had not been educated as a lawyer, he was elected one of the two associate judges of the newly organized supreme court of the state. In 1780 he served as a member of an important convention at Hartford for the discussion of the weaknesses of the confederation, and in 1788 he was a mem- ber from the city and county of New York of the convention for the adoption of the U.S. con- stitution, and was an earnest advocate of that ac'tion. In 1791 he inherited from his grand- father. John Sloss, a large propeitj" in Hunting-