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| | Garret Hobart, Vice Pres. of US |
 | | HOBART, Garret Augustus, twenty-fourth Vice-President of the United States, was born.in Long Branch, N.J., June 3, 1844; son of Addison W. and Sophia (Vandeveer) Hobart; and grandson of Roswell Hobart, a farmer in the Columbia [p.277] valley, Coos county, N.H....Mr. |
 | | Hobart's father left the homestead in New Hampshire to teach school in Long Branch, N.J., where he was married to Sophia, daughter of David G. and Catherine Vanderveer. |
 | | Hobart became an eminent corporation lawyer and was president or director of many important railway, banking and industrial corporations centering in Paterson, and acquired large wealth through careful investments. |
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