Additional information courtesy of Ross.
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The following is courtesy of Find A Grave member # 49127960:
James Marcellus Hobson, the son of Judge James Marcellus Hobson, Sr and Sally Croom Pearson Hobson, was born on Dec 17, 1876 at the family's plantation home, "Magnolia Grove", in Alabama.
In 1898 he was accepted into the West Point Military Academy, graduating in 1900. After his acceptance, he gave an interview to the New York Journal about his brother Richmond Pearson Hobson. Here are two excerpts from the article titled "HOBSON'S BROTHER
HE TALKS OF THE HERO'S BOYHOOD CAREER" :
"Into the Military academy at West Point went this week a young man of 21 years, courteous, quiet, steady-eyed and a chin modeled like the prow of a battleship, His name is Hobson—James Marcellus Hobson —and he is the brother of that Hobson who needs neither adjectives nor further description. Take from the face of the elder Hobson his beard and something of the gravity which has come with years and responsibility, and you have the younger brother. The likeness is startling. Those who know go further, and say that the resemblance extends to methods of thought, speech and action. The younger Hobson has the aplomb and dignity which belong to more years than are his. He has a quiet way of considering his opinions before he gives them. He answers all questions but he does not make conversation. The "Speak when you are spoken to" training of his earlly boyhood seems to persist. He is the sort of a boy any one would trust, on sight, and he looks unspollable. There is nothing self-important about him. All the adulation that has been lavished upon his brother and all the fame into which the Hobson family has found itself suddenly drawn have passed yards over his head." ...
"James Marcellus Hobson hasn't any one but himself to thank for his appointment to West Point. He won it in fair fight, by competitive examination, from a score of candidates. Llke his brother, he wanted to go to Annapolis, but a congressman—Turpln of Alabama—stood In the way. For four years the unswerving Turpln blocked every move. He would not appoint young Hobson, either directly or as alternate, not because he did not think he would make an excellent cadet, but because Judge Hobson differed from him in politics.—New York Journal"(Los Angeles Herald, Volume 25, Number 304, 31 July 1898, page 17)
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James would have a long and distinguised military career, retiring in 1930, but the highlight of his life was always his family. In 1913, James married Mary Grace Williamson (1884-1961) and together they had a daughter, Mary Margaret Hobson (1914-1988) and son, James Marcellus Hobson III (1917-2010).
James passed away on Christmas Eve, 1940 at the age of 64
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From the SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER Newspaper [San Francisco, California] December 26, 1940:
"HOBSON - In this city, Dec. 24, 1940, Lieut. Col. James M. Hobson, retired, beloved husband of Mary Grace Hobson, loving father of Mary Margaret and James M. Hobson Jr.
Friends may call at Mortuary of Julius S. Godeau, Inc., 41 Van Ness Ave., near Market. Services will be held Friday, Dec. 27th, at 10:30 a.m., at New Post Chapel, Presidio."
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The following is courtesy of Find A Grave member # 49127960:
James Marcellus Hobson, the son of Judge James Marcellus Hobson, Sr and Sally Croom Pearson Hobson, was born on Dec 17, 1876 at the family's plantation home, "Magnolia Grove", in Alabama.
In 1898 he was accepted into the West Point Military Academy, graduating in 1900. After his acceptance, he gave an interview to the New York Journal about his brother Richmond Pearson Hobson. Here are two excerpts from the article titled "HOBSON'S BROTHER
HE TALKS OF THE HERO'S BOYHOOD CAREER" :
"Into the Military academy at West Point went this week a young man of 21 years, courteous, quiet, steady-eyed and a chin modeled like the prow of a battleship, His name is Hobson—James Marcellus Hobson —and he is the brother of that Hobson who needs neither adjectives nor further description. Take from the face of the elder Hobson his beard and something of the gravity which has come with years and responsibility, and you have the younger brother. The likeness is startling. Those who know go further, and say that the resemblance extends to methods of thought, speech and action. The younger Hobson has the aplomb and dignity which belong to more years than are his. He has a quiet way of considering his opinions before he gives them. He answers all questions but he does not make conversation. The "Speak when you are spoken to" training of his earlly boyhood seems to persist. He is the sort of a boy any one would trust, on sight, and he looks unspollable. There is nothing self-important about him. All the adulation that has been lavished upon his brother and all the fame into which the Hobson family has found itself suddenly drawn have passed yards over his head." ...
"James Marcellus Hobson hasn't any one but himself to thank for his appointment to West Point. He won it in fair fight, by competitive examination, from a score of candidates. Llke his brother, he wanted to go to Annapolis, but a congressman—Turpln of Alabama—stood In the way. For four years the unswerving Turpln blocked every move. He would not appoint young Hobson, either directly or as alternate, not because he did not think he would make an excellent cadet, but because Judge Hobson differed from him in politics.—New York Journal"(Los Angeles Herald, Volume 25, Number 304, 31 July 1898, page 17)
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James would have a long and distinguised military career, retiring in 1930, but the highlight of his life was always his family. In 1913, James married Mary Grace Williamson (1884-1961) and together they had a daughter, Mary Margaret Hobson (1914-1988) and son, James Marcellus Hobson III (1917-2010).
James passed away on Christmas Eve, 1940 at the age of 64
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From the SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER Newspaper [San Francisco, California] December 26, 1940:
"HOBSON - In this city, Dec. 24, 1940, Lieut. Col. James M. Hobson, retired, beloved husband of Mary Grace Hobson, loving father of Mary Margaret and James M. Hobson Jr.
Friends may call at Mortuary of Julius S. Godeau, Inc., 41 Van Ness Ave., near Market. Services will be held Friday, Dec. 27th, at 10:30 a.m., at New Post Chapel, Presidio."
Additional information courtesy of Ross.
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The following is courtesy of Find A Grave member # 49127960:
James Marcellus Hobson, the son of Judge James Marcellus Hobson, Sr and Sally Croom Pearson Hobson, was born on Dec 17, 1876 at the family's plantation home, "Magnolia Grove", in Alabama.
In 1898 he was accepted into the West Point Military Academy, graduating in 1900. After his acceptance, he gave an interview to the New York Journal about his brother Richmond Pearson Hobson. Here are two excerpts from the article titled "HOBSON'S BROTHER
HE TALKS OF THE HERO'S BOYHOOD CAREER" :
"Into the Military academy at West Point went this week a young man of 21 years, courteous, quiet, steady-eyed and a chin modeled like the prow of a battleship, His name is Hobson—James Marcellus Hobson —and he is the brother of that Hobson who needs neither adjectives nor further description. Take from the face of the elder Hobson his beard and something of the gravity which has come with years and responsibility, and you have the younger brother. The likeness is startling. Those who know go further, and say that the resemblance extends to methods of thought, speech and action. The younger Hobson has the aplomb and dignity which belong to more years than are his. He has a quiet way of considering his opinions before he gives them. He answers all questions but he does not make conversation. The "Speak when you are spoken to" training of his earlly boyhood seems to persist. He is the sort of a boy any one would trust, on sight, and he looks unspollable. There is nothing self-important about him. All the adulation that has been lavished upon his brother and all the fame into which the Hobson family has found itself suddenly drawn have passed yards over his head." ...
"James Marcellus Hobson hasn't any one but himself to thank for his appointment to West Point. He won it in fair fight, by competitive examination, from a score of candidates. Llke his brother, he wanted to go to Annapolis, but a congressman—Turpln of Alabama—stood In the way. For four years the unswerving Turpln blocked every move. He would not appoint young Hobson, either directly or as alternate, not because he did not think he would make an excellent cadet, but because Judge Hobson differed from him in politics.—New York Journal"(Los Angeles Herald, Volume 25, Number 304, 31 July 1898, page 17)
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James would have a long and distinguised military career, retiring in 1930, but the highlight of his life was always his family. In 1913, James married Mary Grace Williamson (1884-1961) and together they had a daughter, Mary Margaret Hobson (1914-1988) and son, James Marcellus Hobson III (1917-2010).
James passed away on Christmas Eve, 1940 at the age of 64
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From the SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER Newspaper [San Francisco, California] December 26, 1940:
"HOBSON - In this city, Dec. 24, 1940, Lieut. Col. James M. Hobson, retired, beloved husband of Mary Grace Hobson, loving father of Mary Margaret and James M. Hobson Jr.
Friends may call at Mortuary of Julius S. Godeau, Inc., 41 Van Ness Ave., near Market. Services will be held Friday, Dec. 27th, at 10:30 a.m., at New Post Chapel, Presidio."
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The following is courtesy of Find A Grave member # 49127960:
James Marcellus Hobson, the son of Judge James Marcellus Hobson, Sr and Sally Croom Pearson Hobson, was born on Dec 17, 1876 at the family's plantation home, "Magnolia Grove", in Alabama.
In 1898 he was accepted into the West Point Military Academy, graduating in 1900. After his acceptance, he gave an interview to the New York Journal about his brother Richmond Pearson Hobson. Here are two excerpts from the article titled "HOBSON'S BROTHER
HE TALKS OF THE HERO'S BOYHOOD CAREER" :
"Into the Military academy at West Point went this week a young man of 21 years, courteous, quiet, steady-eyed and a chin modeled like the prow of a battleship, His name is Hobson—James Marcellus Hobson —and he is the brother of that Hobson who needs neither adjectives nor further description. Take from the face of the elder Hobson his beard and something of the gravity which has come with years and responsibility, and you have the younger brother. The likeness is startling. Those who know go further, and say that the resemblance extends to methods of thought, speech and action. The younger Hobson has the aplomb and dignity which belong to more years than are his. He has a quiet way of considering his opinions before he gives them. He answers all questions but he does not make conversation. The "Speak when you are spoken to" training of his earlly boyhood seems to persist. He is the sort of a boy any one would trust, on sight, and he looks unspollable. There is nothing self-important about him. All the adulation that has been lavished upon his brother and all the fame into which the Hobson family has found itself suddenly drawn have passed yards over his head." ...
"James Marcellus Hobson hasn't any one but himself to thank for his appointment to West Point. He won it in fair fight, by competitive examination, from a score of candidates. Llke his brother, he wanted to go to Annapolis, but a congressman—Turpln of Alabama—stood In the way. For four years the unswerving Turpln blocked every move. He would not appoint young Hobson, either directly or as alternate, not because he did not think he would make an excellent cadet, but because Judge Hobson differed from him in politics.—New York Journal"(Los Angeles Herald, Volume 25, Number 304, 31 July 1898, page 17)
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James would have a long and distinguised military career, retiring in 1930, but the highlight of his life was always his family. In 1913, James married Mary Grace Williamson (1884-1961) and together they had a daughter, Mary Margaret Hobson (1914-1988) and son, James Marcellus Hobson III (1917-2010).
James passed away on Christmas Eve, 1940 at the age of 64
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From the SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER Newspaper [San Francisco, California] December 26, 1940:
"HOBSON - In this city, Dec. 24, 1940, Lieut. Col. James M. Hobson, retired, beloved husband of Mary Grace Hobson, loving father of Mary Margaret and James M. Hobson Jr.
Friends may call at Mortuary of Julius S. Godeau, Inc., 41 Van Ness Ave., near Market. Services will be held Friday, Dec. 27th, at 10:30 a.m., at New Post Chapel, Presidio."
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