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Biographical History of Cherokee County, Iowa
W. S. Dunbar & Co., Chigago - 1889

[page 501-502]

    CALEB E. P. HOBART, the senior member of the well-known firm of HOBART
    & SNYDER, dealers in grain and coal, Cherokee, Iowa, has been closely
    identified with the people and general business interests of Cherokee
    County since 1870.  He came to Cherokee when it was hardly worthy the
    name of hamlet, and put in a stock of lumber and building material,
    following that business for two years, when he dropped the lumber in-
    terest.  In 1871 he formed a co-partnership with CYRUS SNYDER, who had
    hitherto been engaged in the coal trade.  This firm built a large grain
    elevator that season, and also an office suitable for both branches of
    their business.  At that day Cherokee was the central trading point of
    a territory having a radius of seventy-five miles, and the business
    interests were indeed immense.  The counties of Woodbury, O'Brien, Ida,
    Buena Vista and Osceola all did the most of their trading at Cherokee.
    To be fully equipped for business the above firm built a second grain
    elevator in 1872.  Its size is 30 x 50 feet, 40 feet high, and the
    combined storage capacity of the two grain houses is 35,000 bushels.
    Steam-power is employed to propel the elevating machinery.  The market
    outlets at an earlier day were Chicago and Milwaukee.  Mr. HOBART is a
    native of Vermont, born in the town of Randolph, Orange County, March
    24, 1819.  His father was CALEB HOBART, an extensive manufacturer of
    woolen goods in the "Green Mountain" State.  His mother was LYDIA
    (PACKARD) HOBART, a native of Massachusetts.  She and her husband were
    of Puritan ancestry, the families coming to New England in 1634.  CALEB
    E. P. is the oldest son and second child of a family of six who grew
    to maturity, five of whom are still living.  His youthful days days
    were passed at Randolph, Vermont, where he attended school, including
    the Randolph Academy, in which institution he was a student three
    years.  After leaving school he drifted west to Wisconsin, and engaged
    in the real estate business, in which he continued until 1870, at which
    date he removed to Cherokee, Iowa, establishing the business before
    mentioned.  In 1854 Mr. HOBART was married to Miss ELIZA ANN TIBBETTS,
    a native of the State of Maine, and a daughter of ALVA TIBBETTS, Esq.
    By this union seven children have been born, four sons and three
    daughters: LILLIE, the wife of N. C. BUSWELL, a merchant at Meriden,
    Cherokee County; ALVA C., a practicing attorney at Cherokee; SARAH,
    the wife of [illegible], for seven years a teacher; ADDA, also a
    teacher; EDWIN A., associated in business with his father; MARK C.,
    a student of the Iowa Agricultural College, Ames, Iowa; and VICTOR.
    Politically  Mr. HOBART is a stanch Republican.  He has been very
    active in local politics, and has often held offices of trust and
    responsibility.  He has been a member of the School Board of the
    independent district of New Cherokee several years.  He has been
    president of the Temperance Alliance, president of the Bible Society,
    and warden of the Episcopal Church, of which he was one of the charter
    members.  He is a firm believer in and supporter of the prohibitory
    liquor laws enacted in Iowa during the past decade.  To have been an
    honored citizen, a successful business man, and the father of a large
    and universally respected family in so goodly a county as Cherokee, is
    indeed worthy of notice is such a work as this.

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