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Below is a family biography included in The History of Greene County, Illinois published by Donnelley, Gassette & Loyd in 1879. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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HOBSON, ROBERT, who took a leading position among the merchants of Carrollton, was born in Cumberland Co., England, May 1st, 1814. Passing by the early years of his life, spent in Great Britain, we follow his fortunes in the new world. It was during the year 1822, that his parents crossed the Atlantic for America, settling in Greene County, near the present city of Carrollton, where Mr. Hobson passed the days of his childhood—early youth, and grew to manhood, and where he followed agricultural pursuits until 1853, when he entered into a general merchandising business, continuing here two years. He then disposing of his stock, turned his attention to the vocation that had been his from boyhood. In 1874, became extensively engaged as a stock dealer and shipper, and during the Autumn of 1875, becoming engaged in the stove line of trade, forming a co-partnership business with O. B. Hardcastle, which was dissolved Feb. 1, 1879.
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