HOBBS, JOHN W.

HOBBS

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 4/19/2019 at 14:50:54

Keokuk City
(P.O. Keokuk)

HOBBS, JOHN W., broker and loan agent; office, Main street, corner Fourth ; born in Mt. Vernon, Knox Co.. Ohio; came to Nauvoo, Ill., in 1858; lived there until 1860, then moved to Fort Madison, Iowa ; resided there three years and then went to Carthage, Hancock Co., Ill.; he was in the County Clerk's office for a short time; afterward connected with the Hancock County National Bank ; came to Keokuk Feb. 1, 1869, and was connected with the banking-house of Bower, Barclay & Co. until the organization of the Commercial Bank, when he was elected Cashier of that institution, and continued with it until he resigned his position Feb. 1, 1876, to go South and attend to a Government contract which had been awarded to him; since 1877, he has been engaged in his present business

Source: BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY
HISTORY OF LEE COUNTY IOWA
CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY, 1879

Transcription typed/proofed as article was originally published in 1879