Civic Leadership
Throughout his later years, Hobart devoted himself to civic improvements in Pampa. He was the president of the Panhandle-Plains Historical Society during the latter 1920s and early 1930s.. He assisted the board in securing funding to construct the first portion of the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon in Randall County south of Amarillo, which was dedicated on April 14, 1933. He also was a banker and twice president of the trade association, the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association, based in Fort Worth.
In 1888, Hobart had married the former Minnie Wood Warren of Vermont. They had four children; a son died in 1910. Minnie and the three other children survived Hobart, who died of pneumonia.
Lester Fields Sheffy published Hobart’s biography, ‘’The Life and Times of Timothy Dwight Hobart’’ through the Panhandle-Plains Historical Society in 1950.
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