Dallas County AlArchives Biographies.....Hobbs, Edward H. June 28 1840 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    EDWARD H. HOBBS, jeweler at Selma, Ala., was born at Gloucester, Maine, June
28, 1840. His parents were Josiah and Miranda (Merrill) Hobbs, both natives of
Maine. Josiah Hobbs was a farmer by occupation, and was the father of ten sons
and one daughter. He moved with his family to Illinois in 1856, where Mrs. Hobbs
died in 1872, at the age of seventy-four. Mr. Hobbs died at the home of Edward
H. in Selma, in 1876, at the age of eighty-four. He was a son of Josiah Hobbs,
who was born in Maine and was of English descent, his ancestors, however, having
been in Maine for several generations. He was a farmer by occupation, was a
colonel of a militia in his day, and served as a sergeant in the Revolutionary
war. Edward H. Hobbs was sixteen years old when his parents removed to Illinois.
In 1856 they had lived at Lawrence, Mass., and he attended the public schools at
that place, and when they removed to Illinois he attended public school there,
in Kendall county. In 1862 he enlisted in company H, Eighty-ninth Illinois
volunteer infantry, as a private soldier, and was honorably discharged at
Nashville, Tenn., June 10, 1865, as corporal of his company. The principal
engagements in which he participated were Perryville, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga,
the series of battles from Dalton to Atlanta; and after the fall of Atlanta he
was on detached duty at Nashville the rest of the war. On December 9, 1865, he
reached Selma, where he has ever since made his home. His brother, Samuel F.
Hobbs. had before the war come to Selma, and, being a jeweler and silversmith by
trade, was in business there at the close of the war, and was then joined by the
subject of our sketch. He, together with Captain Haralson, organized the
Matthews Cotton Mill company, became president of the company, held this
position until 1883, when he went to Illinois and there organized the Aurora
Cotton Mill company, and built the cotton mill there. Three years later he
returned to Alabama. He had conducted a jewelry business up to 1883, when Edward
H., who had been since 1865, continuously in his employ, purchased the business,
and has since then conducted it himself. In 1868 he married Miss Cornelia
Lathrop, of Illinois, who became the mother of four children, and died in 1885.
He then married in September, 1891, the widow of his brother, Samuel F. Hobbs.
She was a Miss John, and a daughter of Chancellor J. R. John, of Selma. Mr.
Hobbs is a member of the Presbyterian church, has been a member for about twenty
years. He is one of the substantial citizens of Selma, and is highly respected
by all.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 879
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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