Union County, Ohio Biographies Project - Andrew J. Hobert
ANDREW J. HOBERT,
Andrew J. Hobert, a farmer near Marysville, was born near Plain City,
in Madison County, April 27, 1828. His father was born in Vermont
January 3, 1802. His mother dying when he was an infant, he was taken
by Samuel Stone to rear, who removed to Madison County, Ohio, in 1816.
He was married August 25, 1826, to Margaret Gandy, who was born in
Columbiana County, Ohio, November 7, 1811, and came with her parents to
Leesburg Township in 1832. In the year 1883, Mr. and Mrs. Hobert
settled in Jerome Township, where they both died ; the former October
16, 1849, and the latter July 7, 1881. Andrew, the second child, was
reared to manhood on a farm, till nineteen, when he took up the
cooper's trade, and followed it in Frankfort seven years. He purchased
ninety-one acres, settling on it in 1858. He now owns 117 acres of well
improved and highly cultivated land. It has a sugar camp of 500 trees,
and manufactures about 1,000 pounds of sugar annually. June 6, 1858, he
was married to Miss Jane A., daughter of Chester and Emily Pool. Mrs.
Hobert was born in Cattaraugus County, N. Y., November 6, 1838. One
daughter, Josie M., is the only child. She was born September 26, 1860,
and married Prof. W. S. Kennedy. Mamie and Charlie are deceased. Mr.
Robert was a member of the Board of Township Trustees three terms.
Politically, he is Republican.<>