Hobbs, S. H., Jr. (Samuel Huntington), 1895-1969

Samuel Huntington Hobbs (1895-1969), rural sociologist, was a member of the faculty of the University of North Carolina, 1916-1968. He was chair of the University's 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.

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.