Bio of Hobbs, William H. (b.1855) Wabasha Co., MN
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This bio comes from "HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY" 1884.
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Hobbs, William H., Lake City, is the son of George H. and Sarah M.
(Crandall) Hobbs, and was born at Buffalo, New York, October 12, 1855. His
father was a native of Grand Isle, Vermont, and was by trade a machinist
and engineer. His mother was born in Saratoga, New York, and her parents
in the State of Rhode Island. Her father was a soldier in the war of 1812.
In 1859 the family removed to Wisconsin, where our subject's father
enlisted in the war for the Union as a member of Co. I, 11th Wis. Vol.
Inf., in 1861. Soon after his connection with military affairs he was
transferred to the naval service and assigned a position as first
assistant engineer on the gunboat Osage on its famous expedition up the
Red River. Wm. H. received a good common-school education, as well as the
mason's trade, after his removal to Lake City in 1870. He followed his
trade in this state about seven years, principally as a contractor and
builder. In 1879 he entered the hardware store of J. Cole Doughty as
salesman, and about two years later bought an interest in the business,
which was again sold in the winter of 1884. As an evidence of the esteem
in which he is held by his fellow citizens, he was elected to city school
board in the spring of 1883, and on its behalf superintended the erection
of the new brick school built that year. One meritorious trait of
character in Mr. Hobbs is his manly and filial treatment of his widowed
mother, who resides with him in this city. He has an only sister, Lura M.,
now Mrs. C. S. Lilley, of this city.