Background
Hobson, Henry Wise was born on May 16, 1891 in Denver, Colorado, United States. Son of Henry Wise and Katherine Sophia (Thayer) Hobson.
Hobson, Henry Wise was born on May 16, 1891 in Denver, Colorado, United States. Son of Henry Wise and Katherine Sophia (Thayer) Hobson.
Bachelor, Yale University, 1914. Bachelor's Degree, Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1920. Doctor of Divinity, Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, 1930.
Doctor of Divinity, Yale University, 1937. Doctor of Laws, Miami University, 1954. Doctor of Laws, Ohio State University, 1955.
Doctor of Humane Letters, Marietta College, 1959.
He graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts in 1910 and Yale University in 1914. After the war he entered the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and graduated in 1920. Henry Wise Hobson died on February 10, 1983.
Member national county Protestant Episcopal Church, 1937-1946, 50-55. Trustee Kenyon College. President of the board of trustees Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, from 1947.
Head Fight for Freedom Committee Captain and adjunct 356th Infantry, 89th Division, United States Army, 1917. Major in command 3d Battalion of same, 1917-1918. Member Yale, Cincinnati Country, Hay Harbor, Fishers Island clubs, Skull and Bones, Psi Upsilon.
Married Edmonia Taylor Bryan, May 4, 1918. Children: Katherine Bryan, Henry Wise, Anne Jennings, Margery Thayer.