The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-11-22


to which II has owed its subsequent
success. He was also receiver of the
Montclair railroad and the Jersey City
and Albany line. In 1880 the First Ma
tional bank of Newark failed. Mr..
Hobart was appointed receiver; in less
than six months he had closed up It's
affairs, paying all the depositors in full
His reputation as an able financial
manager having been thus firmly es-
tablished to him was offered several
flduciary places, and his advice was
sought in many important business en-
terprises.
His Many Places of Trust.
He had charge of the general man
agement of the East Jersey Water
company with it's allied interests. He
was the president of the Passaic Wat
er company, the Acquackanonk Water
company, the Paterson Railway COM
pany's consolidated lines, the Morris
County railroad and the Peoples Gas
company. He was a director in sew
eral banks, including the First Ma
tional bank of Paterson and the Pat
erson Savings Institution. He was also
on the directory boards of the New
York, Susquehanna and Western rail-
road the Lehigh and Hudson River
railroad, the Barbour Brothers COM
pany, the Barbour Flax Spinning COM
pany, the Pioneer Silk company, the
Edison Illuminating company, the
American Cotton Oil company AMI
about forty or fifty other corporations.
In many of these he also held the
place of legal adviser.
Mr.. Hobart was also selected as one
of three arbitrators by thirty railroad
presidents, representing the Joint Traf-
fc association.
In 1869 Mr.. Hobart married Miss Jen-
ME Tuttle, the daughter of Socrates
Tuttle, with whom he had studied
law. She was a mere girl and he was
but twenty-five years old. There were
two children, Fannie and Garret A.,
Jr. Three or four years ago when
Mr.. Hobart was travelling with his
| family in Italy, the daughter, then %
year old, died of diphtheria. She was
buried near Lake Como. 1t was a Sc
we're blow to Mr.. Hobart and he never
| fully recovered from it. Mrs. Hobart,
as a young girl, was remarkable for
her beauty. She is gracious and ac-
| complished and has much of the keen
! intellectually and sparkling wit for
which her father was noted through
out New Jersey.
Mr.. Hobart's character accounts for
the success that followed him in what
| ever channel he chose to direct his en-
| ergies. He was a man of unruffled
| temperament at all times, who made
! friends and knew how to keep them.
! He was quick to decide and almost in
variably decided for the BEST and when
| he had made up his mind, he was un-
| tiring in carrying out what he had de-
| termined to do. Attorney General
| Griggs long ago paid a tribute to Mr..
| Hobart in the following words:
Attorney General Griggs' Tribute.
ut is a popularity of Mr.. Hobart
| that he never makes a mistake. He
! seems intuitively to know what to do
no matter what the emergency may be
and had he hours and days to con-
slider the subject he could not reach a
| better decision than he does on the
jump, as it were. And another happy
faculty of his is that when he once
! makes a friend he never makes the
mistake of losing that friend. Once a
friend. always a friend, is the casa
| with Mr.. Hobart. He seems to be able
to read character as if it were a book.
| No man can deceive him. And so
| knowing every mans popularity, likes
| and dislikeS. he knows how to take
him, and treats him accordingly. The
result is that every man coming il
contact with him is charmed"
Mr.. HObart's character is summed
up in the remark of prominent citi-
zen of Paterson, who said: Mr.. Ho.
bart has no acquaintanCes here, fol
the transition from mere acquaint.
ances to friendship is 50 rapid as moi
to be perceived"
The old Hobart homestead in Ions
Branch, where Mr.. Hobart was born
was typical country farmhouse. I
was built for Joseph SlOcum long be
fore the revolution and contained fOul
rooms originally. a kitchen and dining
room on the first floor, and two sleep
ing rooms on the second floor. Addi
son w. Hobart. Mr. Huhart's father
came from New Hampshire and locat
ed at Marlboro Monmouth county, y
j., and there married Miss SOphia Val
DerVeCr, sister of Garret A. Van Der
Veer, after whom Mr.. Hobart wa
named. In 10t1, Mr.. Hobarts fatha
moved TO Long Rranch, and for man
years taught the only school in tn
neighborhOOd. In contrast with hi
birthplace is Carroll Hall, Mr.. Hobart
handsome place in Paterson. his resi-
deHCe for many years. 1t is situate
in one of the shadicSt and Quietcst an
most aristocratic streets in Paterson
and is a large rOOmy mansion, wit
many windows and broad piazZas. Th
house within Is sumptuOusly furnishe
and filled with pictures and works O
art, OWinG to the rather delicat
health of his son, with whom the SO
| air did not agree, Mr.. Hobart CAV
up his elegant summer house at At
lantic Highlands.
Not Surprise,