The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-10-25
H. M. HOBBIE
 PASSES AWAY AH lS 2:
 @, sfl Death of Most Useful
 Citizen.
 AN INSPIRING CAREER
Made His Own Way to Wealth
 and Influence.
Great Merchant of Montgonery and
 Owner of Farming Intefests Passes From Community Where He Was Reared

Henry Martin Hobbie. for more than . generation familiar and potential figure in the business life of Mont gomery. died at 11:25 o'clock yesterday morning at his residence, 533 South Court Street, in the home where he had lived twenty-five years.
 For more than three weeks, from day to day, his life had been dis spaired of by his family and friends. and when, yesterday morning. he quietly breathed his last those about him who had watched and waited were not shocked; their grief was only more poignant.
 The career of MT. Hobbie from his boyhood to the time of his death was . most remarkable one. As business man of Montgomery, he was without Q peer, and to the hundreds of young men with whom he had been sur rounded during these years his life was an example, of the influence for good that the man of right principles. of integrity, of honesty of purpose. and of Christian character exercises in the business life of a community.
 An Active Churchmon,
 In the death of Mir Hobbie, the Court Street Methodist Church loses one of its strongest members and closest friends. Since a boy h!5 na:ne has been enrolled among those who as- sisted in making of that church one of the first of the Methodist denomt- nations in the State. For years he had served in the most important offices of his church. and only in recent years he had begged off from official church duties to make room for the young men who were coming into the church. He held that responsibilities of church ity fnr in formation of Christian character in those on whom his mantle would, soon CT or later, fall.
 A few days before his death, realiz- ing that the end was near, he called to his bedside his three sons and in the few words which his failing strength would permit, he charged them to continue his business and ad- monished them to let the life which he had passed with them be the guide of their future.
 His whole career as a business man and as a Christian gentleman is an inspiration to the young men of the country. From a boy without means he worked his way in the business world until at the time of his death he was one of the most prosperous and influential men of Alabama, wl,n extensive farming interests through out the State.
 He was well known for his philan- thropy and right living. With the for tuner which he had accumulated dur ing these years he did much of good both fin the building up of the church of which he was devoted member, and in answering the calls of charity which comes to every man of means
 Native of Montgomery. /.
 MT. Hobbie was a son of MT. and Mrs AShnrV Martin and in gomery, January 13, 1S49. His father died two years after his birth. On the death of his mother. which occurred soon after that of his father, he was adopted by Mrs. Rebecca E. Hobbie, wife of Simon Hobbie of Montgomery. In accordance with the earnest desire of his foster motheE he added the name of Hobbie to that of his own. With no means, and with only limited educa- tion, he started out early in life with a determination to win success.
 The story of his life, which will ap- peal especially to ambitious youths. is that his foster mother went with him when he was nineteen years old to the late Dr. M. P. LeGrand, who at that time conducted one of the largest wholesale grocery stores on Commerce street. and asked that the boy be taken into the store and taught the business without any pay for his services for one year. One of the most highly priz- ed possessions of MT. Hobbie was the letter which he received at the end of that year from his employer. Enclosed with the letter was a check for s25o. The check was the first money which he had ever earned, was a complete surprise, and a very pleasant one but the letter, faded and yellow. is kept safe among his other treasures locked in the vault at his place of business.
 Letter To Re Prized.
 As page from the history of MT.