Hobby, William Pettus, Jr. "Bill"
Dates
- Existence: 1932-
biographical statement
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From the Hobby Family Foundation records (MS 527)Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Hobby Family Foundation Records
The Hobby Family Foundation is a non-profit organization organized in 1940 and located in Houston, Texas. The Hobby Foundation Records include information covering legal correspondences between the Hobby family, the Hobby Foundation, and the Houston Post Company, foundation corporate minute books (which comprise most of the collection), and financial records.
William P. Hobby Jr. & Diana Poteat Hobby Family Collection
The collection includes Diana P. Hobby's writing and research notes, from the early 1950s to 2014, focused on her study of William Butler Yeats. The bulk of the collection consists of family photographs and slides from the Hobby family's worldwide travels and their frequent visits to Ireland, and to Diana Hobby's family farm in North Carolina, Forest Home, along with their equestiran endeavors and competitions, and their lives and friends in Houston, TX.
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