Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-09-10
GARRETT A. HoBART's ANCESTRY
E~x-Surveyor General e. f. Hobart 10
Undoubtedly a Relative of the
Candidate.
rrom the BeIo,t. wis. Free Press.

New Hampshire, through the columns
of the Lancaster Gazette, gives the fol-
lowing account of the ancestry Of Gar
ret A. Hobart, republican candidate
for the vice-presidency, from which il
is seen that our former prominet pio-
peer citizen, Deacon Horace Hobart,
was a great uncle of the candidate. and
a former publisher Of the Free Press.
MIR. Henry A. Hobart, was a cousin.
and Mr.. Edward F. Hobart formerly
our city engineer and more recently
surveyor general of New Mexico is also
a cousin, the last mentioned being sons
of Deacon Horace Hobart. Mr.. Jor-
dan says:
/ notice some discussion In the press
as to the ancestors and birthplace OF
our car didate for vice-president. Much
of it is erroneous. l know the history
of the Hobart family. 1t is this: In
1886 Abel Hobart, then in his even.
teenth year, left Holland, Mass, and
came to Columbia. His outfit was an
ak and a change Of underclothes
When he reached the town he found
only two settlers there before him. The
next year the Wallac,s came to the
same town. Among them va Betsey
Wallace. In 1875 Mr.. Hobart married
her. He had already began clearing a
farm on the lot now occupied by Sam
uel |. Bailey, Esq. This couple reared
ten children-fve sons and rs many
daughters. The captain and wife
walked hand in hand sixty-five years.
They we're strong, resolute, Christian
people. Their son, Harvey, died 10
1854. He was prominent in own and
county-represented his town In the
legislature IN the years 1916 and 1847,
was a deputy sheriff and man of large
business capacity. 4
Horace and wife and three of bis
sisters with their husbands were pio-
neers in settling the town Of Beloit,
Wis. Arson L., went to Worcester,
Mass , where for many years he was q
most successful physician.
Roswell, or the msjor as we called
him, also held all the town offices, and
he, too, represented his town in 1928
and 1886. Ills first wife was one Of
the Columbia Bundys, an excellent
They raised q large family Of
children, Addison being one of them.
He, like his father, was q school teach
er, and when a young man went to
New Jersey to keep school. There he
met a Dutch lady of culture and re-.
fnement. Carrot Augustus Hobart,
our candidate, is their on. So you
see he is the son of Addison, grandson
Of Msjor Roswell, aud great grandson
of Capt. Abel.
About the time Capt. Hobart's boys
we're going to school at Colebrook and
there came to Colebrook a
Futile family. The head OF 1t was q
blacksmith, and there be fashioned iron
and steel many years. Yet, in all this
he fund much time for study
and reading. He was almost a crank
On books. Among his children was
Socrates, who, when he got fit to teach,
followed Addison Hobart on to New
Jersey and there taught for two years
or more; then read law. was admitted
the bar, opeDed an Office In Patter-
ION, 500 had a lucrative practice which
kept till his death. only a few years
lgo. He was made mayor of that city,
md often ran for congress on the re-.
ticket IN Q democratic dis
riot. He married in that state. After
'oung Hobart graduated from Rutgers
he entered Mr.. Tuttle's Office
8 a law student, became acquainted
With his daughter and married her. So
GU see, Mr.. Editor, that we have rea-
10 claim the candidate for vice
resident, and his wife, for Coos. Our ]
eople are much pleased with the selec /
on. Hobart has many relatives here
mong the Hobarts. Wallaces and Fritz :
ellis in the north part Of the county.jS
he late DR.. Charles A. Tuttle was . :
of Socrates. :