Jennie Tuttle Hobart

Jennie Tuttle Hobart
Jennie Tuttle Hobart
Second Lady of the United States
	In role; March 4, 1897 – November 21, 1899
Vice President	Garret Hobart
Preceded by	Letitia Stevenson
Succeeded by	Edith Roosevelt
Personal details
Born	Esther Jane Tuttle; April 30, 1849; Paterson, New Jersey, U.S.
Died	January 8, 1941 (aged 91); Haledon, New Jersey, U.S.
Resting place	Cedar Lawn Cemetery
Spouse	Garret Hobart (1869–1899)
Children	4
Parent(s)	Socrates Tuttle; Jane (Winters) Tuttle

Esther Jane "Jennie" Hobart (née Tuttle; April 30, 1849 – January 8, 1941) was the wife of Vice President Garret Hobart and a philanthropist and community activist in New Jersey.

Biography

Portrait of Hobart

Born and raised in Paterson, New Jersey, Hobart was the daughter of the prominent attorney Socrates Tuttle and his wife, Jane Winters. She married Garret Hobart in Paterson on July 21, 1869, at the start of his career as a lawyer and politician. They had four children, two of whom died in childhood. The other two were Garret Jr. and Fannie, who died in 1895. In 1896 her husband was elected Vice President of the United States and the family moved to Washington, D.C. As the second lady of the United States, Hobart often served as White House hostess because the first lady, Ida Saxton McKinley, suffered from epilepsy. Vice President Hobart died of heart failure on November 21, 1899. After his death, she returned to Paterson and became involved in community affairs. She was a close friend of Mrs. McKinley and rushed to Buffalo, New York, to offer her support when President McKinley was shot in September 1901.

During the American women's suffrage movement, Hobart positioned herself as definitively anti-suffrage. She organized the New Jersey Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage and held regular meetings.[1]

Hobart died of pneumonia on January 8, 1941, in Haledon, New Jersey, where she had been living on her son's farm, and was buried in Cedar Lawn Cemetery in Paterson, New Jersey.[2]

References

Burstyn, Joan. "Past and Promise: Lives of New Jersey Women", Page 153.
Burstyn, Joan N. "Past and Promise: Lives of New Jersey Women", p. 153. Syracuse University Press, 1997. ISBN 0-8156-0418-1. Accessed May 1, 2011. "She maintained a close relationship with her son and in later years, when her health was failing, lived with his family at Ailsa Farms in Haledon. She died there of bronchial pneumonia, at age 91, on January 8, 1941, and was buried at the Cedar Lawn Cemetery in Paterson."

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[1] Burstyn, Joan. "Past and Promise: Lives of New Jersey Women", Page 153.

[2] Burstyn, Joan N. "Past and Promise: Lives of New Jersey Women", p. 153. Syracuse University Press, 1997. ISBN 0-8156-0418-1. Accessed May 1, 2011. "She maintained a close relationship with her son and in later years, when her health was failing, lived with his family at Ailsa Farms in Haledon. She died there of bronchial pneumonia, at age 91, on January 8, 1941, and was buried at the Cedar Lawn Cemetery in Paterson."