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[Identification of item], in the Samuel Huntington Hobbs papers #3909, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Donated by William T. Hobbs through W. S. Powell of the North Carolina Collection. Genealogy given by Elizabeth Deane Haw Hobbs in August 1999 (Acc. 98417).

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• College teachers--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Hobbs family.
• Hobbs, Samuel Huntington, 1895-1969.
• North Carolina--Economic conditions--20th century.
• North Carolina--Rural conditions.
• North Carolina. Rural Electrification Authority.
• Part-time farming--North Carolina.
• Rural electrification--North Carolina.
• Sociologists--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Faculty--History--20th century.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Dept. of Rural Social Economics.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Dept. of Sociology--History.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Faculty--History--20th century.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dept. of Sociology--History.

Samuel Huntington Hobbs, Jr. (1895-1969) was a native of Clinton, N.C. He received an A.B. in 1916 and an A.M. in 1917 from the University of North Carolina and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1928.

Hobbs was a member of the faculty of the University of North Carolina from 1916 until 1968 in Rural Social Economics and the Department of Sociology. He was chair of the Department of Rural Social Economics from 1933 until it merged with the Department of Sociology in 1939. Hobbs was the author of North Carolina: Economic and Social (1930), North Carolina: An Economic and Social Profile (1958), and other studies. See the North Carolina Collection in the Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for books, articles, and UNC Extension Dept. bulletins by S. H. Hobbs, Jr. See also in the North Carolina Collection the NewsLetter edited by Hobbs for 34 years. This NewsLetter was issued by the UNC Bureau of Extension. It was published as a semi-weekly, 1914-1929; as a bi-weekly or semi-monthly, 1930-1956; not published in 1957; and published irregularly after that. The issue of 29 August 1917 states that the NewsLetter was "devoted to the economic, social, and civic problems of everyday life in North Carolina ... studies of North Carolina made in the Dept. of Rural Economics and Sociology."

In 1922, Hobbs married Mary Virginia Thomas. They had three sons: Samuel Huntington III; William T.; and Robert Branson, who married Elizabeth Deane Haw.

Personal and professional correspondence, addresses, articles, surveys, clippings, and other items of Samuel Huntington Hobbs. Much material concerns routine business of the University of North Carolina's Department of Rural and Social Economics. Also included are material relating to Hobbs's World War I service; items concerning the North Carolina Rural Electrification Authority, 1935-1945; a report 1954, on part-time farming; and a genealogy of the Hobbs family.