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  • ID: I30326
  • Name: Freeland G. Hobson 1
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: 13 OCT 1857 in Collegeville, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania 1
  • Death: 10 JAN 1906 1
  • Residence: Collegeville, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania 1
  • Note:
    from Rosenberger book of 1906 (page 134-135)...

    He was educated in the public schools of Upper Providence Township subsequently took a full course in and graduated from Ursinus College in 1876. He then entered the law office of Jacob V. Gotwals, at that time District Attorney of Montgomery County, and was admitted to the bar on October 1, 1880. He immediately opened an office in Norristown, where he soon began to build up a lucrative practice, and where he has remained ever since. He eas an eloquent pleader, and was uniformly successful in the trial of cases. In 1888 he put on foot the movement to organize the Norristown Title, Trust and Safe Deposit Company, and was made its secretary, treasurer, and trust officer. He was also founder and publisher of the Montgomery County Law Reporter and the author of the History of Providence township, and was one of the contributors to Col. Bean's History of Montgomery County. He was a leader in the Patriotic Order Sons of America, and a member of camp 267 at Ironbridge. In 1893 he was elected State President, and at the conclusion of his term at Erie, Pennsylvania, he was the happy recipient of a handsome cane made from the hull of the old flagship Lawrence. He was a prominent member of teh Valley Forge Memorial Association and a director of Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pennsylvania. He was for eight years an elder of Trinity Reformed Church of Collegeville. He has been a delegate to the Classes, Synods, and General Synods of the Reformed Church in the United States, taking very active part in all these bodies.




    Marriage 1 Ella M. Hendricks b: 4 SEP 1861
    • Married: 15 SEP 1881 1
    Children
    1. Has No Children Harold Hobson b: 30 JUL 1882
    2. Has Children Frank H. Hobson b: 19 AUG 1883
    3. Has No Children Anna Mabel Hobson b: 27 JUL 1885
    4. Has No Children Katharine Hobson b: 29 APR 1889

    Sources:
    1. Title: A Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Henry ROSENBERGER of Franconia, Montgomery Co., Pa.
      Author: Fretz, A. J.
      Publication: Milton, New Jersey: 1906.
      Note: Full Title: A Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Henry ROSENBERGER of Franconia, Montgomery Co., Pa. Together with Historical and Biographical Sketches and Illustrated with Portraits and other Illustrations.
      Repository:
      Media: Book
      Page: page 133
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