SOBEY  BIOGRAPHIES, Henry County, Missouri
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SOBEY, Isaac E. - b: 1831 aboard ship from England to France
source: 1883 History of Henry Missouri , National Historical Co. - page: 595
residence: Windsor Twp

Isaac E. Sobey, lumber merchant, was born on the ocean, on the passage from 
England to France, in 1831. His parents, Thomas Sobey and Elizabeth nee Perry, 
were born in England, but both were of Scotch ancestry. The subject of this 
sketch is the seventh of a family of thirteen children. He came to this country 
with his parents in 1852 and settled in Dubuque, Iowa, on a farm, and in 1860 he 
went to Colorado and engaged in mining, remaining there until September, 1861. 
Then he enlisted in the Rocky Mountain Rangers Regiment, raised by Gov. John 
Gilpin, and was there until the spring of 1862, when the command was ordered to 
New Mexico, under Capt. John B. Sexton. They were all through Utah, Arizona, New 
Mexico, Colorado and Nebraska. Mr. S. re-enlisted and remained in the army from 
1861 to 1865, serving as quartermaster and clerk much of the time. Returning to 
Denver, Colorado, he received an honorable discharge. After visiting home he 
again went to the plains in 1866, in the interests of the Union Pacific Railroad 
Company, and remained with them until 1869. In the spring of 1869 he went to 
Fort Scott, in the interest of the Fort Scott & Gulf Railroad, being interested in 
contracts, etc. In 1870, after completing these contracts, he kept books for a 
large wholesale house in, Fort Scott. In the fall of 1870 he became connected 
with the Fort Scott Planing Mill Company until it was destroyed by fire in 1875. 
He worked at the carpenter's trade for three years, and in 1879 was appointed 
street commissioner for the city. In March, 1880, he came to Windsor in the 
interest of G. W. Dulany & Co., as manager of their lumber yard, which was 
started in 1877. Mr. Sobey married Miss Eliza E. Hatch, in 1868. She was the 
daughter of William Hatch, of Dubuque County, Iowa. They have two children, 
Florence E. and Jesse C. Mr. S. politically is a Democrat. He is an active and well 
informed Mason, and belongs to the A. O. U. W., and to the American League of 
Honor. He is an excellent bookkeeper and accountant, having learned this 
profession in England. Mr. Sobey will be remembered by the old settlers of 
Cheyenne as having built the first house of that city.

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