Printed in "The Nebraska State Journal," Lincoln, Nebraska; Sunday, Sep 25, 1932, Page 32; by Lulu Mae Coe:
Grand Island Pastor is Member of Family Which Has Been in Ministry Over Century
When the Rev Dr. Ralph W. Hobbs chose for his subject, "Thirty-five Years in Thirty-five Minutes," for his anniversary sermon in the First Baptist Church of Grand Island, the three and one-half decades represented his own experience in the ministry. There are but a small portion of the decades in which the Hobbs family has not been serving the church, the same denomination. Back in the last years of the eighteenth century, young Hinson (Hynson) Hobbs was preaching the gospel, and his son, his grandson, and now his great grandson is carrying on the work.
Hinson (Hynson) Hobbs was born in Virginia, somewhere in Lee County, towards the close of the eighteenth century, presumably a son of Captain Vincent Hobbs of Jonesville, VA. The Rev. Dr. Hobbs' brother, Dr. Charles Hobbs of Minneapolis, has the family bible recording Hinson Hobbs' marriage and the birth of his children, but does not mention his own birthplace. Nor has the family any record of the year in which he came across the Cumberland Mountains into Kentucky. Spencer's Ministry of Kentucky Baptists states that he founded in Louisville, KY, a Baptist church which is still in existence, now the Walnut Street Baptist Church. One branch of the family still has the journal Hinson Hobbs kept when he rode on horseback in 1816 through southern Indiana, Illinois, and a portion of Missouri, preaching in scattered villages and hamlets. He died at 49, caught by a tree he was felling.
His son, William Hobbs, Ralph Hobbs' grandfather, was born in Shelby County, KY, November 21, 1802. When still young, he and his wife left Kentucky, because he could not endure slavery, and went into Illinois. In 1838, he was ordained, and served subsequently as pastor of the Kingston, Clayton, Perry, Hillsborough, Cedar Creek, and Scotia Baptist churches in Illinois. He was also a home missionary in Kansas for a few years preceding the Civil War.
When 65, he assumed his last pastorate, and added almost 300 members to the churches in his charge. William Hobbs' journal states that no less than 1,000 persons were baptized by him.
Charles A. Hobbs was born and reared on a farm near Clayton, Ill. As a boy he heard at Quincey one of the Lincoln-Douglas debates, and became an ardent Lincoln supporter. As he entered his freshman year in Shurtleff College, Alton, Ill., war was declared, and shortly before he was 18, he enlisted for more than three years in Co. B, 99th Illinois Volunteers. At the close of the war, he returned in Shurtleff, and graduated at valedictorian of his class in 1869. Dr. Hobbs held but four pastorates, one of them being at Delavan, Wis., for twenty-five years. He was prominent in Baptist affairs, serving on the foreign mission board and the board of the Baptist Young People's union, and was also known as an eloquent preacher, a poet of some distinction, and the author of several books and pamphlets. Shurtleff College conferred upon him the D.D. degree. Dr. Hobbs died August 15, 1929, at the age of 85.
His son, the Grand Island pastor, was born in Mason City, Ill., and is a graduate of Wayland Academy, Beaver Dam, Wis.; Shurtleff College, Alton, Ill., and the divinity school of the University of Chicago. He has pastorates at Superior, Wis.; Boone, Ia,; Mankato, Minn.; Fargo N.D.; and Lansing, Michigan.
Dr. Hobbs has been active in denominational affairs, serving among other groups as Who's Who states, on the board of examiners of Kalamazoo College, trustee of Sioux Falls, S.D. College, on the board executive committee of the board of managers of Baptist state convention in Nebraska, chairman of the state missions department, and member of the Nebraska Baptist student council. He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Fargo College in 1921 and from Shurtleff in 1923, as his father had before him. He is a past president of the Kiwanis club of Grand Island.
Grand Island Pastor is Member of Family Which Has Been in Ministry Over Century
When the Rev Dr. Ralph W. Hobbs chose for his subject, "Thirty-five Years in Thirty-five Minutes," for his anniversary sermon in the First Baptist Church of Grand Island, the three and one-half decades represented his own experience in the ministry. There are but a small portion of the decades in which the Hobbs family has not been serving the church, the same denomination. Back in the last years of the eighteenth century, young Hinson (Hynson) Hobbs was preaching the gospel, and his son, his grandson, and now his great grandson is carrying on the work.
Hinson (Hynson) Hobbs was born in Virginia, somewhere in Lee County, towards the close of the eighteenth century, presumably a son of Captain Vincent Hobbs of Jonesville, VA. The Rev. Dr. Hobbs' brother, Dr. Charles Hobbs of Minneapolis, has the family bible recording Hinson Hobbs' marriage and the birth of his children, but does not mention his own birthplace. Nor has the family any record of the year in which he came across the Cumberland Mountains into Kentucky. Spencer's Ministry of Kentucky Baptists states that he founded in Louisville, KY, a Baptist church which is still in existence, now the Walnut Street Baptist Church. One branch of the family still has the journal Hinson Hobbs kept when he rode on horseback in 1816 through southern Indiana, Illinois, and a portion of Missouri, preaching in scattered villages and hamlets. He died at 49, caught by a tree he was felling.
His son, William Hobbs, Ralph Hobbs' grandfather, was born in Shelby County, KY, November 21, 1802. When still young, he and his wife left Kentucky, because he could not endure slavery, and went into Illinois. In 1838, he was ordained, and served subsequently as pastor of the Kingston, Clayton, Perry, Hillsborough, Cedar Creek, and Scotia Baptist churches in Illinois. He was also a home missionary in Kansas for a few years preceding the Civil War.
When 65, he assumed his last pastorate, and added almost 300 members to the churches in his charge. William Hobbs' journal states that no less than 1,000 persons were baptized by him.
Charles A. Hobbs was born and reared on a farm near Clayton, Ill. As a boy he heard at Quincey one of the Lincoln-Douglas debates, and became an ardent Lincoln supporter. As he entered his freshman year in Shurtleff College, Alton, Ill., war was declared, and shortly before he was 18, he enlisted for more than three years in Co. B, 99th Illinois Volunteers. At the close of the war, he returned in Shurtleff, and graduated at valedictorian of his class in 1869. Dr. Hobbs held but four pastorates, one of them being at Delavan, Wis., for twenty-five years. He was prominent in Baptist affairs, serving on the foreign mission board and the board of the Baptist Young People's union, and was also known as an eloquent preacher, a poet of some distinction, and the author of several books and pamphlets. Shurtleff College conferred upon him the D.D. degree. Dr. Hobbs died August 15, 1929, at the age of 85.
His son, the Grand Island pastor, was born in Mason City, Ill., and is a graduate of Wayland Academy, Beaver Dam, Wis.; Shurtleff College, Alton, Ill., and the divinity school of the University of Chicago. He has pastorates at Superior, Wis.; Boone, Ia,; Mankato, Minn.; Fargo N.D.; and Lansing, Michigan.
Dr. Hobbs has been active in denominational affairs, serving among other groups as Who's Who states, on the board of examiners of Kalamazoo College, trustee of Sioux Falls, S.D. College, on the board executive committee of the board of managers of Baptist state convention in Nebraska, chairman of the state missions department, and member of the Nebraska Baptist student council. He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Fargo College in 1921 and from Shurtleff in 1923, as his father had before him. He is a past president of the Kiwanis club of Grand Island.
Printed in "The Nebraska State Journal," Lincoln, Nebraska; Sunday, Sep 25, 1932, Page 32; by Lulu Mae Coe:
Grand Island Pastor is Member of Family Which Has Been in Ministry Over Century
When the Rev Dr. Ralph W. Hobbs chose for his subject, "Thirty-five Years in Thirty-five Minutes," for his anniversary sermon in the First Baptist Church of Grand Island, the three and one-half decades represented his own experience in the ministry. There are but a small portion of the decades in which the Hobbs family has not been serving the church, the same denomination. Back in the last years of the eighteenth century, young Hinson (Hynson) Hobbs was preaching the gospel, and his son, his grandson, and now his great grandson is carrying on the work.
Hinson (Hynson) Hobbs was born in Virginia, somewhere in Lee County, towards the close of the eighteenth century, presumably a son of Captain Vincent Hobbs of Jonesville, VA. The Rev. Dr. Hobbs' brother, Dr. Charles Hobbs of Minneapolis, has the family bible recording Hinson Hobbs' marriage and the birth of his children, but does not mention his own birthplace. Nor has the family any record of the year in which he came across the Cumberland Mountains into Kentucky. Spencer's Ministry of Kentucky Baptists states that he founded in Louisville, KY, a Baptist church which is still in existence, now the Walnut Street Baptist Church. One branch of the family still has the journal Hinson Hobbs kept when he rode on horseback in 1816 through southern Indiana, Illinois, and a portion of Missouri, preaching in scattered villages and hamlets. He died at 49, caught by a tree he was felling.
His son, William Hobbs, Ralph Hobbs' grandfather, was born in Shelby County, KY, November 21, 1802. When still young, he and his wife left Kentucky, because he could not endure slavery, and went into Illinois. In 1838, he was ordained, and served subsequently as pastor of the Kingston, Clayton, Perry, Hillsborough, Cedar Creek, and Scotia Baptist churches in Illinois. He was also a home missionary in Kansas for a few years preceding the Civil War.
When 65, he assumed his last pastorate, and added almost 300 members to the churches in his charge. William Hobbs' journal states that no less than 1,000 persons were baptized by him.
Charles A. Hobbs was born and reared on a farm near Clayton, Ill. As a boy he heard at Quincey one of the Lincoln-Douglas debates, and became an ardent Lincoln supporter. As he entered his freshman year in Shurtleff College, Alton, Ill., war was declared, and shortly before he was 18, he enlisted for more than three years in Co. B, 99th Illinois Volunteers. At the close of the war, he returned in Shurtleff, and graduated at valedictorian of his class in 1869. Dr. Hobbs held but four pastorates, one of them being at Delavan, Wis., for twenty-five years. He was prominent in Baptist affairs, serving on the foreign mission board and the board of the Baptist Young People's union, and was also known as an eloquent preacher, a poet of some distinction, and the author of several books and pamphlets. Shurtleff College conferred upon him the D.D. degree. Dr. Hobbs died August 15, 1929, at the age of 85.
His son, the Grand Island pastor, was born in Mason City, Ill., and is a graduate of Wayland Academy, Beaver Dam, Wis.; Shurtleff College, Alton, Ill., and the divinity school of the University of Chicago. He has pastorates at Superior, Wis.; Boone, Ia,; Mankato, Minn.; Fargo N.D.; and Lansing, Michigan.
Dr. Hobbs has been active in denominational affairs, serving among other groups as Who's Who states, on the board of examiners of Kalamazoo College, trustee of Sioux Falls, S.D. College, on the board executive committee of the board of managers of Baptist state convention in Nebraska, chairman of the state missions department, and member of the Nebraska Baptist student council. He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Fargo College in 1921 and from Shurtleff in 1923, as his father had before him. He is a past president of the Kiwanis club of Grand Island.
Grand Island Pastor is Member of Family Which Has Been in Ministry Over Century
When the Rev Dr. Ralph W. Hobbs chose for his subject, "Thirty-five Years in Thirty-five Minutes," for his anniversary sermon in the First Baptist Church of Grand Island, the three and one-half decades represented his own experience in the ministry. There are but a small portion of the decades in which the Hobbs family has not been serving the church, the same denomination. Back in the last years of the eighteenth century, young Hinson (Hynson) Hobbs was preaching the gospel, and his son, his grandson, and now his great grandson is carrying on the work.
Hinson (Hynson) Hobbs was born in Virginia, somewhere in Lee County, towards the close of the eighteenth century, presumably a son of Captain Vincent Hobbs of Jonesville, VA. The Rev. Dr. Hobbs' brother, Dr. Charles Hobbs of Minneapolis, has the family bible recording Hinson Hobbs' marriage and the birth of his children, but does not mention his own birthplace. Nor has the family any record of the year in which he came across the Cumberland Mountains into Kentucky. Spencer's Ministry of Kentucky Baptists states that he founded in Louisville, KY, a Baptist church which is still in existence, now the Walnut Street Baptist Church. One branch of the family still has the journal Hinson Hobbs kept when he rode on horseback in 1816 through southern Indiana, Illinois, and a portion of Missouri, preaching in scattered villages and hamlets. He died at 49, caught by a tree he was felling.
His son, William Hobbs, Ralph Hobbs' grandfather, was born in Shelby County, KY, November 21, 1802. When still young, he and his wife left Kentucky, because he could not endure slavery, and went into Illinois. In 1838, he was ordained, and served subsequently as pastor of the Kingston, Clayton, Perry, Hillsborough, Cedar Creek, and Scotia Baptist churches in Illinois. He was also a home missionary in Kansas for a few years preceding the Civil War.
When 65, he assumed his last pastorate, and added almost 300 members to the churches in his charge. William Hobbs' journal states that no less than 1,000 persons were baptized by him.
Charles A. Hobbs was born and reared on a farm near Clayton, Ill. As a boy he heard at Quincey one of the Lincoln-Douglas debates, and became an ardent Lincoln supporter. As he entered his freshman year in Shurtleff College, Alton, Ill., war was declared, and shortly before he was 18, he enlisted for more than three years in Co. B, 99th Illinois Volunteers. At the close of the war, he returned in Shurtleff, and graduated at valedictorian of his class in 1869. Dr. Hobbs held but four pastorates, one of them being at Delavan, Wis., for twenty-five years. He was prominent in Baptist affairs, serving on the foreign mission board and the board of the Baptist Young People's union, and was also known as an eloquent preacher, a poet of some distinction, and the author of several books and pamphlets. Shurtleff College conferred upon him the D.D. degree. Dr. Hobbs died August 15, 1929, at the age of 85.
His son, the Grand Island pastor, was born in Mason City, Ill., and is a graduate of Wayland Academy, Beaver Dam, Wis.; Shurtleff College, Alton, Ill., and the divinity school of the University of Chicago. He has pastorates at Superior, Wis.; Boone, Ia,; Mankato, Minn.; Fargo N.D.; and Lansing, Michigan.
Dr. Hobbs has been active in denominational affairs, serving among other groups as Who's Who states, on the board of examiners of Kalamazoo College, trustee of Sioux Falls, S.D. College, on the board executive committee of the board of managers of Baptist state convention in Nebraska, chairman of the state missions department, and member of the Nebraska Baptist student council. He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Fargo College in 1921 and from Shurtleff in 1923, as his father had before him. He is a past president of the Kiwanis club of Grand Island.
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