IIOBART
HOBART
Bradbury and Jane (Emott) Chandler, of Eliza-
betlitown, N.J., and granddaughter of Elias
Boudinot, Sr. He was in charge of St. George s
church. Hempstead. N.Y.. in lisOO, and in Septem-
ber of that year went to Trinity parish in New
York city as assistant minister. He was ordained
a priest by Bisliop Provoost in 1801, and was a
deputy to the general conventions of 1801, 1804,
and 1>*08. serving as secretary of the Iiouse of
clerical and lay deputies, at the two latter con-
ventions. He was elected coadjutor to the bisliop
of New York. May l.">, 1811. and was consecrated
iu Trinity church. New York city. May 29, 1811,
by Disiiops AVliite, Provoost and Jarvis. On the
death of Bishop Moore, Feb. 27. 1816, Bishop Ho-
bart succeeiled to the bishoi)ric and assumed full
charge of the diocese and the rectorship of the
Trinity parish. His double duties as rector of
the largest parish in America, and bishop over
the entire state of New York with periodical
visitations in New Jersey, 1815, and Connecticut,
1816-19, greatly taxed his strength and he sought
rest by travelling in Europe, 1823-25. He was a
founder of the General Theological seminary, and
professor of pastoral tlieologj- in that institution,
1821-30. He received the degree of D.D. from
Union college in 1S06. and was a trustee of
Columbia college, 1801-30. He founded a church
school in 1818, by uniting Geneva academy with
Fairfield academy, then a theological school,
and it became Geneva college with a univer-
sity charter, Feb. 8, 1825. This institution was
afterward named Hobart college in his honor.
He is the author of: Festivals and Fasts (1804);
Companion for the Altar (1804); Companion
to the Book of Common Prayer (1805); The
Christian Manual (1805); Apology for Apos-
tolic Orders (1807); Essay on the State of the De-
parted (1814); D'Oyley and ManVs Family Bible
(a work of five .years, Vol. I., 1818; Vol. II., 1820);
Redemption (sermons, London, 1824). See his
Life, by the Rev. Dr. John McVickar (1834).
He died in Auburn. N.Y., while visiting that
portion of his diocese, Sept. 12. 1830.
HOBART, John Henry, clergyman, was born in New York city, Oct. 1, 1817; son of the Rt. Rev. John Henry and Mary Goodwin (Chandler) Hobart. He was graduated at Columbia in 1836, and at the General Theological seminary in 1841. He was ordained a deacon in June, 1841, and a priest in 1842. He was engaged in mission work in New York, 1841-15; -was rector of Trinity church, Geneva, N.Y., 1845-46; missionary at Nashotah, Wis., 1847; assistant minister in Trinity parish. New York, 1848-63; rector of churches in the diocese of:Mai->iand. 1863-73; attended the Old Catholic congress in Cologne, (Jermany. as chaplain to the Rt. Rev. W. R. Whittingham, bishop of Maryland, in 1872; and
became rector of Trinity church, Fishkill, N.Y.,
in 1873. He received the degree of D.D. from
Columbia in 1856, and was a trustee of Hobart
college, 1846-54. He is the author of: Instruction
and Encouragement for Lent (1859); Medicevalism
(1877); Church Reform in Mexico (1887), and
edited Festivals and Facts, a work prepared by
his father, and TJte Clergy num's Companion
(1863). He died in Fishkill, N.Y., Aug. 31, 1889.
HOBART, John Sloss, seuat'or, was born in
Fairfield, Conn., May 6. 1738; son of the Rev.
Noah and Ellen (Sloss) Hobart, and grandson of
John and Esther (Burr) Sloss, of Fairfield, Conn.
His father (1705-1773), was graduated from Har-
vard in 1724,
and was pastor
of the Congre-
gational church
at Fairfield, ^^^^^^^*^\i Conn., 1733- ^SJ^^^T'l ^t > , 73; his mater- B^^Ml 8 " ' ' . ' 'lL nal grandfath- ^J^^^- -^ er, John Sloss, vrr?;?;:^:;; was a native the ols> meeti/vshouse. of Scotland; and his paternal great-grandfather, the Rev. Peter Hobart. was born in Hingham, England, and came to America, where he helped to found Hingham, Mass., and was minister there, 1635-78. John Sloss Hobart was graduated from Y'ale in 1757, and practised law in Suffolk county, N.Y. He was a member of the New Y^ork "Stamp Act" congress that met Oct. 7, 1765: became a member of the Sons of Liberty in November, 1765; was a dejjuty from Suffolk county to the 1st, 2d, 3d and 4th provincial con- gresses of New York, 1775-76, and when the last of these congresses, meeting just after July 4, 1776, assumed the name of convention of repre- sentatives of the state he was a leader in their deliberations. He served on the committee which reported the resolutions approving the Declaration of Independence; on that wiiich was appointed to prepare and report a constitution; on that which organized tiie council of safety (of which he was made a member), and on the committee of three, with Gouverneur Morris and John Jay, for devising the first great seal of the state. In May, 1777, although he had not been educated as a lawyer, he was elected one of the two associate judges of the newly organized supreme court of the state. In 1780 he served as a member of an important convention at Hartford for the discussion of the weaknesses of the confederation, and in 1788 he was a mem- ber from the city and county of New York of the convention for the adoption of the U.S. con- stitution, and was an earnest advocate of that ac'tion. In 1791 he inherited from his grand- father. John Sloss, a large propeitj" in Hunting-
