HOBART, ALVAH SABIN: Baptist; b. at Whitby, Ontario, Mar. 7, 1847. He was graduated at Colgate (then Madison) University in 1873 and Hamilton Theological Seminary in 1875. He has held pastorates at Morris, N. Y. (1874-78), Mount Auburn, Cincinnati (187885), First Baptist Church, Toledo, 0. (1885-88), and Warburton Avenue Church, Yonkers, N. Y. (1888-1900). Since 1900 he has been professor of the English New Testament at Crozer Theological Seminary, Chester, Pa. . He was chairman of the Board of the American Baptist Home Missionary Society in 1897-99, and has been the recording secretary since 1890. He has written Life of Alvah Sabin (Cincinnati, 1885); Those OldFashioned Christians (Philadelphia, 1895); Gifts of the Spirit (Chicago, 1898); and Our Silent Partner (New York, 1908). In theology he ranks as a semiconservative.

HOBART, JOHN HENRY: Protestant Episcopal bishop of New York; b. in Philadelphia Sept. 14, 1775; d. at Auburn, N. Y., Sept. 12, 1830. He studied at Princeton (B.A., 1793) and was tutor there 1795-98, when he was admitted to holy orders. After having served parishes in Philadelphia, New Brunswick, N. J., and Hempstead, L. I., he became an assistant at Trinity Church, New York, in 1800. He was elected assistant bishop of New York in 1811, and bishop of New York and rector of Trinity in 1816. In 1821 he was appointed to the chair of pastoral theology and pulpit eloquence in the General Theological Seminary, New York, an institution that had been founded largely through his exertions. He also organized at Geneva, N. Y., an Episcopal college, which in 1860 changed its name to Hobart College. He was an eminently successful leader and organizer in his Church, a zealous advocate of episcopal ordination, and the author, or compiler, of a number of books that attained a wide circulation and contributed in a marked degree to the rapid growth of the Protestant Episcopal Church in America during the first half of the nineteenth century. His more important works are: A Campanionfor the Altar (New York, 1804); Festivals and Fasts (1804); Essays on Episcopacy (1806); The Clergyman's Companion (1806); An Apology for Apostolic Order (1807); The Christian's Manual (1814); and Sermons on . . . Redemption (2 vols., New York and London, 1824). His Posthumous Works were edited, with a Memoir, by W. Berrian (3 vols., New York, 1833).

Bibliography: J. F. Schroeder Memoir of Bishop Hobart, New York, 1833· J. MaeViekar, Early Years of the Late Bishop Hobart, ib. 1834; W. B. Sprague, Annals of the American Pulpit, v. 440-453 ib. 1859; Appleton's CycloPodia of American Biography, ed. J. G. Wilson and J. Fiske, iii. 221-222 ib. 1898; W. S. Perry, The Episcopate in America, pp. 25-27, ib. 1895.