Santa Rosa County FlArchives Biographies.....Hobbs, Raymond B. February 27, 1893 - 
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Source: Vol. II  pg.57-58  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present   

        RAYMOND BRUIT HOBBS, of Milton, Santa Rosa County, is here giving a
most progressive and effective administration of the office of county
superintendent of schools, and in this position he is able alike to express his
fine loyalty to his native county and his advanced policies and the ordering of
the public schools.
	Mr. Hobbs was born on his father’s farm in Santa Rosa County, and the 
date of his nativity was February 27, 1893. He is a son of the late JOHN and 
PAMILLA (ROBINSON) HOBBS, who passed their entire lives in Florida, the father 
having been a farmer and stockgrower and having been prominently connected with
the logging and general timber business in this section of the state.
	After having profited by the advantages of the public schools of his na
native county RAYMOND B. HOBBS took an effective course in the Starts Academy,
at Montgomery, Alabama. Thereafter he gave seven years of admirable service as 
a teacher in the schools of his home county, the greater part of his work in
this having been in the graded schools. Upon retiring from the pedagogic
profession he became a train conductor on the line of the Florida & Alabama
Railroad. He continued his service in this capacity three years, and then 
resigned, owing to his appointment to the office of county superintendent of
schools for Santa Rosa County, in the summer of 1920, after the resignation of
the regular incumbent. In the autumn of the same year he was elected to this
office for the regular term of four years beginning in January, 1921, and his
administration is fully justifying his selection for this important office.
	Mr. Hobbs is found loyally arrayed in the ranks of the democratic
party, he and his wife are active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, and he is affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America and the Knights
of Pythias, including the Dramatic Order of the Knights of Khorassan.
	In July, 1914, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Hobbs to Miss LELIA 
HESSIE SIMMONS, who likewise was born and reared in Santa Rosa County, and who 
is a daughter of O. O. and MARGARET SIMMONS, the latter of whom still resides 
in this county. O. O. SIMMONS was at the time of his death one of the honored 
and influential citizens of this county where he had been actively concerned in 
farming and logging enterprises, besides having conducted a general store at 
Botts. He served as county demonstrator and agent, as postmaster at Botts and 
as a member of the school board of that village, which last named position he 
held several years. Mr. and Mrs. Hobbs have two fine little sons, RAYMOND 
SIMMONS, and JOHN.

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