William Albert Hobbie

Class of 1862

WILLIAM ALBERT HOBBIE, son of Samuel and Octavia B. (Wiggin) Hobbie, was born 25 Oct. 1837, at Vassalboro, Maine. He was prepared for college at Oswego, N. Y., but his home was at Garland, Me. After graduation he engaged in teaching, at first at Livermore and at Turner, Me., subsequently at Keokuk, Iowa, and at Warsaw, Ill. In March, 1864, he entered the army as a private in the 16th Iowa Volunteers. At the close of the war he resumed teaching for a time, but from 1866 to 1871 was a salesman in a Chicago commission house. From 1871 to 1878 he was engaged in his former profession in Texas, and from 1879 to 1889, in Oregon. From 1889 to 1891 he resided in Garland, Me., and during a portion of this period was engaged in trade. Returning to Oregon, the latter years of his life were given to agriculture, first at Damascus, and subsequently at Gresham, Oregon, where he died, 3 August, 1907, of apoplexy.

Mr. Hobbie never married.

SOURCE: Bowdoin College, Obituary Record Of The Graduates Of Bowdoin College And The Medical School Of Maine For The Decade Ending 1 June 1909, p. 445