Joseph Oliver Hobbs Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by MLM, Volunteer 0000130. For the current email address, please go to http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00001.html#0000130 Copyright. All rights reserved. ************************************************************************ Full copyright notice - http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm USGenWeb Archives - http://www.usgwarchives.net ************************************************************************ Surname: HOBBS Source: History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915 Page 770 JOSEPH OLIVER HOBBS, who is engaged in the real estate business in Portsmouth, N. H., and also in farming, being the owner of a fine farm at North Hampton, was born in Boston, Mass., June 4, 1855, a son of Joseph Stacy and Mary Dearborn (Andrews) Hobbs. Mr. Hobbs acquired his literary education in the public schools of Boston, and afterwards attended the Massachusetts Agricultural Col- lege. About 1879 he became a resident of New Hampshire, settling in North Hampton, this county, where he engaged in farming and was thus occupied for several years. He then entered into the real estate business in New Hampshire and Massachulsetts, in which he has been very successful. He is a director and vice president of the Granite State Fire Insurance Company of Portsmouth and holds the same offices in the Portsmouth Fire Association. He is also a director of the First National Bank and trustee of the Piscataqua Savings Bank, of Ports- mouth; a director of Hampton Beach Improvement Company; secretary and trustee of the Centennial Hall Association; and a trustee of Hamp- ton Academy. He is a member of Derryfield Club, of Manchester, N. H.; of the Portsmouth Athletic Club; of the Abenaque Golf Club of Rye, N. H.; of the Country Club of Portsmouth; and of Rocking- ham Lodge, Odd Fellows of Hampton, N. H., and the Canton Lodge of Odd Fellows, of Portsmouth. In politics he is a Republican and Page 771 served formerly as a member of Governor Ramsdell's council. On his finely cultivated farm at North Hampton he carries on agriculture and dairying and also raises a large amount of fine stock. On December 19, 1883, Mr. Hobbs married Miss Annie Dora French, a daughter of John F. and Lemira F. French. She died after some years of happy married life, and Mr. Hobbs married for his second wife, Feb- ruary 28, 1908, Annie Winifred Hoyt, a daughter of Wesley and Agnes Hoyt of North Hampton, N. H. She is also now deceased. Mr. Hobbs' children are Joseph Harold Hobbs, John F W. Hobbs, Leon Pickering Hobbs, Paul Wesley Hobbs and Lemira May Hobbs. Mr. Hobbs has one sister living, Miss Carrie W. Hobbs of North Hampton, N. H.