William Harrison Hobbs Biography This biography appears on page 1221 in "History of Dakota Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. V (1915) and was scanned, OCRed and edited by Maurice Krueger, mkrueger@iw.net. This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit organizations for their private use. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. This file is part of the SDGENWEB Archives. If you arrived here inside a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is at http://usgwarchives.org/sd/sdfiles.htm WILLIAM HARRISON HOBBS. William Harrison Hobbs, an enterprising young agriculturist of Benton township, Minnehaha county, is busily engaged in the operation of a farm which is generally conceded to be one of the most attractive and best improved in that part of the state. His birth occurred in Jackson county, Iowa, on the 3d of June, 1889, his parents being G. W. and Liza Hobbs, who came to South Dakota in 1892 and took up their abode in Benton township, Minnehaha county, where they still reside. The father purchased a tract of two hundred and forty acres and continued its cultivation successfully until he was obliged to retire as an invalid since which time the place has been under the able management of our subject. William H. Hobbs acquired his education in the public schools of Iowa and also pursued a commercial course in the Sioux Falls Business College after coming to this state. After putting aside his textbooks he assisted his father in the operation of the home farm and also purchased eighty acres of his own. For a short time he held a position in the city of Sioux Falls. As above stated, he has managed his father's farm of two hundred and forty acres since the latter's retirement and its splendid appearance gives ample evidence of his wise and careful supervision. He feeds sixty head of cattle, a number of hogs and ten head of horses, meeting with excellent success in both his farming and live-stock interests. Mr. Hobbs was married in the fall of 1913. He gives his political allegiance to the republican party and in religious faith is a Methodist. In his home community he is well known and highly esteemed as a progressive farmer and a young man whose upright, honorable principles are manifest in every relation of life.