Background
Hobart, Franklin Gatfield was born on January 31, 1864 in Oak Creek (now S. Milwaukee), Wisconsin, United States. Son of Adin P. and Clarrissa A. (Beckwith) Hobart.
Hobart, Franklin Gatfield was born on January 31, 1864 in Oak Creek (now S. Milwaukee), Wisconsin, United States. Son of Adin P. and Clarrissa A. (Beckwith) Hobart.
B. Mechanics Engineering, University Wisconsin, 1886, Mechanical Engineering, 1890.
Began as draftsman, successively with Sweets Manufacturing Company, Syracuse, New New York Babcock & Wilcox Company. New York City; Carnegie, Phipps Steel Company, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.
East. P. Allis Company, Milwaukee.
New Castle (Pennsylvania) Steel Company. Chief engineer Williams Engine Works, Beloit, Wisconsin (this firm later absorbed by Fairbanks, Morse & Company), 1889-1929, and as construction engineering with interest chiefly in gas and oil engines for pumping oil wells, since 1929.
Member Beloit Common Council, 1 term. Member Beloit School Board, 1 term. Fellow American Society of Mechanical Engineers Has held and assigned to Fairbanks, Morse & Company, about 45 United States patents.
Married Bertha C. Lewis, October 14, 1891. Married second, Daisy M. Buckeridge, September 12, 1918. Married 3d, Ida East. Schaub, March 6, 1937.
Children: Charles F., Carolyn F. (Mistress Walter L. Brooks).