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From: Gregory McReynolds <>
Subject: Re: [Q-R] Quaker Hobson Line
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2003 20:02:22 -0700
In-Reply-To: <20030801.193415.-234003.6.fplum@juno.com>


Hello Forrest,

Your John Watt Hobson (b. 1835-?) and my Belinda Hobson Schofield
(1834-1924) were siblings. I was surprised to find the extent of Aunt
Alice's writing regarding Linneas as I don't think our family kept up with
him. I think S.U.I is the State University of Iowa but I don't know for sure
- maybe someone on the list knows.

Best wishes,
Gregory








On 8/1/03 5:10 PM, "Forrest G Plumstead" <> wrote:

> Hi Greg and List!
>
> Greg, I'm the one responsible for starting the thread on the HOBSONs and
> Linneas. Let me better introduce myself to the list. I am Forrest Gene
> PLUMSTEAD, son of Arthur James PLUMSTEAD, son of Florence Ellen HOBSON
> w/o Robert Clemens PLUMSTEAD d/o Linneas HOBSON. This man has fascinated
> me. According to family legend he had a fierce temper, and although I
> have heard no stories about violence, he was not a man you wanted to
> cross. The story that I heard was that he was disbarred as a lawyer
> because of his temper. There was also a story that he was orphaned at an
> early age and kicked around from foster home to foster home until at age
> 16 he went out on his own, however that story has been disproved by the
> 1880 Blackhawk Co. Census which showed him living with his father,
> stepmother and grandmother HEALD. Another story which I heard recently
> was that when he went to Denver, (where my grandmother was born 1899) he
> made some bad business decisions regarding some get rich quick schemes
> and lost all his money. He died in 1934 I do not know where but when my
> great aunt, Florence's sister wrote her and told her of her father's
> death, her only reaction was "Good riddance!" Greg if you missed my
> first post you managed to answer the one question which has been bugging
> me for over a year and that is where did he go to law school (I presume
> that SUI would be Southern University of Iowa?) and where he practiced
> law.
>
> I also have Lydia Watt in my records as the wife of Stephen HOBSON. You
> already have my records of John HOBSON's wives.
>
> Forrest Plumstead
> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~fplum
> For New to Genealogy and Favorite Links click above
> Researching: Plumstead Schroeder Risser Hobson Senne Heald Thayer Ross
>
> On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 19:52:43 -0700 Gregory McReynolds
> <> writes:
> Hi Jerry,
>
> Its definitely Lydia Watt, she was the daughter of John Watt and Jane
> Starr - Lydia is my my gt-gt-gt grandmother. The Plymouth record must be
> wrong. Stephen Hobson and Lydia Watt were married 3 Nov 1831 in
> Jefferson Co., Ohio.
>
> Thank you for the clarification on Mary Ann Heald. From the family
> record kept by my grandaunt Alice Fawcett Emerson:
>
> John Hobson of Waterloo, Iowa - first wife Lucinda Engle? - 2 children,
> one a son Linneas (lives Denver). John Hobson had a second wife name
> unknown, no children. Third wife was Ella_________.
>
> "Linneas (her spelling) graduated from law school at S.U.I Practiced in
> Orange City, Ia. Gave it up on conscientious scruples. Later moved to
> Denver, Colorado."
>
> Is the interest in Linneaus due to a descendant sending in a query that
> I missed?
>
> Best wishes, Gregory
>
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