HOBART, DR. A. J.

HOBART, HOLMES

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Date: 10/3/2001 at 22:02:53

From the book "The History of Clinton County Iowa" by L. P.
Allen (1879) Pages 669-697
Biographical Sketches of Clinton Residents

DR. A. J. HOBART, physician and surgeon, Fifth avenue; is a native of Yates Co., N. Y., and was born July 15, 1829; when 8 years of age, his parents removed to Michigan, where he attended school and completed his education at Oberlin College; he studied medicine and graduated at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1859; he also took the Ad eundem degree at Bellevue Hospital College, New York, in the spring of 1873, taking a special course in Normal and Pathological Histology; he came to Clinton in the fall of 1866, and since then has practiced here; during the war, he was appointed Assistant Surgeon of the 1st Mich. V. I.; after serving fifteen months, he was commissioned Surgeon of the regiment, and served two years; he is connected with the County and State Medical Societies, and the American Medical Association. Dr. Hobart married Miss Alice G. Holmes, in October, 1864; she was born in Cleveland, but was brought up in Detroit, Mich.; they have three children.