George Thomas Hobson (1895)

HOBSON

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 4/21/2008 at 09:04:38

Winterset Reporter
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, November 14, 1895
Page 8

George Hobson Dead.

At 5:30 o’clock, a.m., Thursday, November 7, George Thomas Hobson died at the home of his parents, in this city, of consumption. He had suffered with lung trouble some time, and last summer went out west in hopes of recuperating his health, but the trip was of no avail.

He was born in Madison county, March 17, 1872, and in 1888 he left the high school to engage in the printing business. He served an apprenticeship at this trade and worked at it up to the time of his last sickness, his last work being in an office in Des Moines.

The funeral was held Saturday at the M. E. church in this city, Rev. Harris, assisted by Revs. Stire and Hoover in charge. The pall bearers were, Em Coon, John Biggs, Chas. Knight, Wilber Hodgson, Frank Walker and Newton Fields, all but the latter printers. George was a good young man, and his many friends will greatly miss him.
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Semi Weekly Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Friday, November 8, 1895
Page 2

County and City

Geo. T. Hobson, died at his parents’ home in this city, Wednesday night, or Thursday morning. For a year or more he has been failing with consumption, and has fallen while yet a very young man a victim to it.

He was a young man of industrious habits, personal integrity, and kind-hearted disposition. He was a printer by trade, and worked in the different office in this city, and in Des Moines, and last winter engaged in the job printing business in that city, which he was forced to abandon on account of his ill health.

His funeral will be held at two o’clock tomorrow afternoon at the Winterset Methodist church.

Friends from the different offices will be pall-bearers.

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