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Hobby, William

clergyman, author, was born in 1707, in Massachusetts. He was a congregational clergyman of Reading, Mass., and the author of Vindication of Whitefield; and Self-Examination. He died in 1765. lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 7, HOBLITZELL, FETTER S., soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 7, 1.838, in Cumberland, Md. He served in the confederate army during the war of the rebellion. He was elected a member of the state house of representatives in 1870, again in 1876, and was re-elected in 1878, serving the last term as speaker.

He was elected a representative from Maryland to the forty-seventh and forty- Maryland to the forty-seventh and fortyeighth congresses as a democrat.

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