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HOBSON, PETER, farmer and stock raiser, Sec. 29, P.O. Carrollton. Mr. Hobson is a descendant of the foremost families of England, and one of the oldest settlers within the borders of Greene County. He was born in Cumberland County, England, on the 29th day of December, 1804. He was in his eighteenth year when his parents, whose names are elsewhere recorded, settled in Greene County, on land previously purchased from the United States government. On the homestead property young Hobson worked from the time his head reached the plow handles. His pioneer days, spent in the usual fashion, were fraught with an interest of no ordinary nature; attending quietly to the duties of a farm, uncultivated with the exception of a small tract. A few short years before the red men had been as the leaves of the forest, but were compelled to go still farther westward, as the encroachments of the white man entered the domain where they had hunted from their earliest childhood. Mr. Hobson from a youth, was possessed of a wonderful energy, working with unflagging zeal. The old adage that in eternal vigilance is the secret of success, has proven a true one in this case. After many years of economy and self-denial he is today a wealthy farmer, owning 534 acres of land in Montgomery and Greene Counties. At the age of forty-five, in 1848, he was united in marriage to Mary Chron, by whom he had seven children, two of whom died in early infancy; five are living: Thomas, Robert, George, Charles and William. But a short time ago Mr. Hobson, whose wonderful vitality rendered him a hard worker, was unfortunately paralyzed, a source of regret to his many friends, who know him for his personal integrity and kindness of heart.