William Herbert Hobbs


William Herbert Hobbs, Ph.D. was an American geologist.

Background and education

William Herbert Hobbs, geologist and leader of four expeditions to Greenland, was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, July 2, 1864, the son of Horace and Mary Paine Hobbs. He was educated at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, at Johns Hopkins, and at Heidelberg.

Career

He filled several positions at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. From 1886 to 1906 he served with the United States Geological Survey. He received his appointment as Professor of Geology, Aug. 6, 1906. He also taught at the University of Michigan.
Professional and scientific organizations to which Hobbs has been elected to membership or to office are the following:
He became editor of the Journal of Geology in 1909.

Personal

On June 23, 1896, he was married at Evanston, Illinois, to Mrs. Sara Kimball Sale, who died in 1940. They had one daughter, Winifred Sara Weston Hobbs, who later became Mrs. Joseph Newhall Lincoln.
He died in Ann Arbor, MI on January 1, 1953, at the age of 88.