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MRS. J. BELLE (HOLMAN) HOBRON
A native daughter of California and
a woman well known in educational circles is Mrs. J. Belle Hobron, principal of
the Greenwood school on the Waterloo Road.
She was born in Wallace, Calaveras County, the daughter of William E.
and Anna E. (Miller) Holman, both natives of the Golden State. Her grandfather, Ira Holman, was a California
pioneer and for many years he farmed land he had purchased from the
Government. The ranches owned by Ira and
William Holman adjoined and are located partly in San Joaquin County. Ira Holman lived to reach the age of
ninety-one years.
William E. Holman was born on the
ranch owned by his father and on that same ranch all of his children first saw
the light of day. They are: J. Belle, Mrs. Hobron; Dora became the wife
of H. P. Sullivan and lives in Sacramento; Bertha E. married Charles Murdock
and resides in Stockton; Clarence A. is also a resident of the slough city;
Jesse L. resides at Marysville; Frank E. lives at Wallace; Mabel E. married
Joseph Chirhart and lives in Lodi; Luther W. makes his home in San Francisco;
and Velma A. also resides there.
J. Belle Holman attended the Wallace
grammar school and the Ione high school, then took a course at Chestnutwood Business College in Santa Cruz, after which
she engaged in teaching in San Joaquin and Calaveras counties. She was married at Stockton, on January 20,
1901, to George C. Hobron, born in Coulterville, California, a son of Cornelius
and Emily Hobron; the former owned and operated a lumber mill at Coulterville
in partnership with a brother. In early
life he had been a seafaring man. When
George C. was a lad of four, his parents moved to San Francisco, and two years
later settled at Santa Cruz, where the father lived a retired life and where
later George C. conducted a stationery store.
In 1910 Mr. and Mrs. Hobron removed to Wallace, Calaveras County, and
Mr. Hobron farmed for a year and Mrs. Hobron taught school; next they moved to
Murphys and Mr. Hobron took up assaying, and the next year they returned to
Wallace and he was engaged in mining, continuing until he became an employee of
the Southern Pacific Railroad as station agent at Turlock; one year later he
was transferred to Wallace in the same capacity. In the meantime Mrs. Hobron engaged in
teaching at Wallace.
Resigning her position at Wallace,
Mrs. Hobron again taught school in San Joaquin County during the war. After the war Mr. Hobron was again employed
at mining with the American Gold Dredging Company at Wallace and his wife took
up educational work in the Wallace schools.
In 1921 Mr. Hobron accepted a position as shipping clerk with the
California Packing Corporation at Stockton and upon their removal to Stockton
Mrs. Hobron became principal of the Greenwood school. She is a charter member of Geneva Parlor, N.
D. G. W., at Comanche, California, and when she went to Santa Cruz, she joined
the Santa Cruz parlor and in time served as district deputy grand president of
Santa Cruz, Monterey and San Benito counties.
She was a member of the board of education in Calaveras County for two
terms. Mr. Hobron is a member of the B.
P. O. Elks, No. 826, of Santa Cruz, and both are staunch Republicans in
politics.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George H., History of San
Joaquin County, California , Page
1470. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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