Thomas Hubbard Hobbs diaries

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0683

Scope and Contents note

The collection contains diaries of an Alabama lawyer, planter, and legislator from Athens, Limestone County, Alabama. Included is a three-month diary from 1862, when Hobbs was Captain of Co. F., Ninth Alabama Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. The diaries also cover his time as a legislator representing Limestone County, Alabama; his support for the railroads; and his work on the family plantation.

Dates

1840-1862

Creator

Hobbs, Thomas Hubbard (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

none

Conditions Governing Use

none

Biographical/Historical note

Hobbs was a lawyer, planter, and legislator from Athens, Limestone County, Alabama. He served as captain of Co. F., Ninth Alabama Infantry Regiment, during the Civil War. He was born on 19 April 1826. He represented Limestone County in the legislature from 1856 to 1861. He attended LaGrange College in Alabama, Hoffman's Law Institution in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the University of Virginia. He married Indiana Elizabeth Booth on 4 August 1852 in Richmond, Virginia. She died in 1854 in Athens, Alabama, after childbirth, and their baby girl died, as well. He later remarried Anne Benagh on 17 February 1958, in Lynchburg, Virginia. They had a two children. Thomas Maclin Hobbs was born on 29 November 1958, and James Benagh Hobbs was born in 1862.