Samuel Huntington Hobbs Papers, ; 1916-1965 1999

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Samuel Huntington Hobbs Papers, ;, 1916-1965, 1999

Samuel Huntington Hobbs Papers, ; 1916-1965 1999

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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. Papers of Samuel Huntington Hobbs (1895-1969) include correspondence, writings, materials about part-time farming, and materials about the North Carolina Rural Electrification Project. Correspondence includes Hobbs's professional and personal correspondence with colleagues, people with an interest in agriculture, students, and friends. Writings consist chiefly of lectures and speeches. The collection also contains material pertaining to Hobbs's study of part-time farming in North Carolina and documents relating to Hobbs's work with the North Carolina Rural Electrification Project, and a genealogy of the Hobbs family.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection