Early Years
Hobart was born in Berlin in Washington County near the capital city of Montpelier in northern Vermont. He was school superintendent there, when in 1882 he heeded the advice of a cousin, Ira Hobart Evans, to relocate to Texas to work as an agent for the New York and Texas Land Company. At the time, the firm owned some five million acres (20,000 km²) from Brazoria on the Gulf Coast to the Panhandle. Hobart arrived in the fall of 1882 in Palestine, the seat of Anderson County in east Texas. He worked with a surveying crew under E.A. Giraud in southwestern Texas during an apprenticeship and learned about Texas climate, soil, vegetation, and wildlife. Added business compelled that he be shifted to the state capital of Austin for easier access to official records. In 1886, Evans placed Hobart in complete charge of a million acres (4,000 km²) of open range in the Panhandle.
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