Hobart attended Dickinson College with the Class of 1843 but left two years early. He became a real estate lawyer who worked many years for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. He never married and died in 1904.
Life Span
to
Dickinson Connection
Class of 1843
Life Summary
Full name
Robert Henry Hobart
Place of Birth
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
North
Origins
Free State
No. of Spouses
0
No. of Children
0
Family
Nathaniel Potts Hobart (father), Ivanna Holland Hobart (mother)
Education
Dickinson (Carlisle College)
Occupation
Attorney or Judge
Relation to Slavery
White non-slaveholder