BIOGRAPHIES:  James HOBART, Fairchild, Eau Claire Co., WI 

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James Hobart, farmer, P. O. Fairchild, Eau Claire county, was born
in Lake county, Ohio, April 8, 1818, and is the eighth in the family
of sixteen children of Benjamin and Mary (Wheeler) Hobart, natives of
New Hampshire and Massachusetts respectively.  His father was born
June 10, 1777, and died August 13, 1852; his mother was born in
Greenwich, Hampshire county, Mass., September 13, 1785,a nd died in
1855.  Their children were Sarah, deceased wife of Ira Herrick;
Speedy, deceased wife of Horace Winehell; John Sullivan, died in
1885; Lydia, deceased wife of Jefferson Rogers; Betsey, deceased wife
of Z. Norton; Julia Ann, died in 1888, wife of Sherman Clark;
Florilla, died when twelve years of age; Benjamin Franklin; Mary
Wheeler, wife of Joseph Skinner; Minerva Jane and Luther.  The rest
of the children died in infancy.

James Hobart was reared to manhood in his native state, and remained
there until 1849, when he came to Wisconsin, and settled in Dane
county.  In 1859 he came to Monroe county and in 1863 to Eau Claire
county, where he homesteaded eighty acres of pine and tamarac timber
land.  His first years were full of hardship so common to the early
settlers.  He has owned 600 acres of good farming land, but sold a
part, still retaining 260 acres of good tillable land.  This he has
improved with a comfortable residence, other buildings and fences. 
He is a progressive farmer, and is turning his attention to the
raising of the best grades of stock, preferring the Shropshire breed
of sheep and short horn cattle.  He is meeting with great success in
the culture of bees, having about fifty stands.  Mr. Hobart was
married, February 12, 1836, to Marietta Clark, a daughter of James
and Clara (Blanchard) Clark, natives of Vermont.  Mrs. Hobart was
born in Licking county, Ohio, April 11, 1816.  They have eight
children, namely:  Orpha J., wife of William H. Miller; Caroline
Amerlia, deceased wife of T. M. Hobart; Clarissa C., wife of J. R.
Waste; Minerva Melissa, wife of Albert Ayres; James Jr.; Ida Irena,
wife of Holland Cole; Frances Emma, wife of Henry Fielder, and Orson,
the eldest child was killed during the battle of the Wilderness, in
Virginia, in May, 1864, a volunteer from Wisconsin.  Mr. Hobart is a
republican in politics, and has served his county in offices of trust
and honor, among with are those of supervisor and justice of the
peace.  He is charitable in his dealings with his neighbors and has
won for himself a host of friends.

-Transcribed from the "Historical and Biographical Album of the
Chippewa Valley Wisconsin, 1891-2," pages 587-588

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