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From: "Jan Miller" <>
Subject: [NY-HudsonRV) Fw: [NYWESTCH] Resend response: Hobby's Regiment?
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 20:07:53 -0700


When I went to get the correct info from the Internet before sending bio of
Ms Oveta Culp Hobby, my ISP SENT THE MESSAGE. It was incomplete
--so please disregard the previous message--it's 1/4 and 3/4 wrong.

Here is the correct information on Ms. Hobby--we all know people migrated
and maybe "yours" did too.....At least we can understand it IS a surname.

Oveta Culp Hobby Biography
Throughout her professional career, Oveta Culp Hobby held leadership
positions, shaped major institutions and influenced large numbers of people.
At 21, Hobby became an expert in the intricacies of parliamentary law,
serving as parliamentarian for the Texas House of Representatives and
composing a widely-read textbook on parliamentary law, "Mr. Chairman", in
1937. She also rose through the ranks to become manager of the Houston Post,
one of the nation's major newspapers.

In 1941, Hobby accepted a $1-a-year position as Director of the Women's
Interest Section of the War Department. Army Chief of Staff George C.
Marshall instructed her to organize a military unit for women. In 1942
Congress authorized the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAACS, later become
the Women's Army Corps, WACS). Hobby became America's first woman Colonel.
Her leadership and organizational skills were challenged by recruiting,
organizing and training women in a military environment as often hostile as
helpful. When she retired in 1945, she had commanded 100,000 women at more
that 200 posts and in every theater of wartime operations.

After the war, Hobby returned to the Post, serving as co-editor. From
1952-1955 she played another pioneering role in government as the first
Secretary of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. She was the
only woman to serve in the Cabinet of President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Awards Homepage | Oveta Culp Hobby Award Winners

Jan


----- Original Message -----

From: "Jan Miller" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 7:46 PM
Subject: Re: [NYWESTCH] Hobby's Regiment?


>I don't have the exact date, but a Secretary of the Treasury under FDR was
> Oveta Culp Hobby--(Ms).
> I don't know if she was from Westchester but it is/was a surname.
> Jan
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "quillpen1" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 9:47 AM
> Subject: Re: [NYWESTCH] Hobby's Regiment?
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>
>> Charles,
>>
>> If you find out anymore please let me know too.
>>
>> Hobby might have been a nickname or possibly a family name.....or family
>> name mangled??
>>
>> Maureen
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>>
>>
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "C. Frank" <>
>> To: <>
>> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 8:41 AM
>> Subject: [NYWESTCH] Hobby's Regiment?
>>
>>
>>> Jacobus (James) Minnerly of Philipsburg Manor was a member of "Hobby's
>>> Regiment of NYS Militia" during the War of 1812. Any one know any more
>>> about this Reg., or who Hobby was? It sounds like a nickname. ?
>>> Charles
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>>> Have you checked out the Westchester County GenWeb site yet?
>>> http://www.rootsweb.com/~nywestch/
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