Editing Garret Hobart (section)

===Law practice===
[[File:Socrates Tuttle.jpg|thumb|[[Paterson, New Jersey|Paterson]]-based lawyer [[Socrates Tuttle]] taught Hobart the law and helped advance his political career; in 1869, Hobart married Tuttle's daughter [[Jennie Tuttle Hobart|Jennie]]]]
After graduating from Rutgers, Hobart worked briefly as a teacher to repay loans.{{sfn|Miller Center, "Hobart"}} Although Hobart was young and in good health, he did not serve in the [[Union Army]].{{sfn|Connolly|pp=21–22}} Addison Hobart's childhood friend, lawyer [[Socrates Tuttle]], offered to take Hobart into his office to [[reading law|study law]]. Tuttle was a prominent [[Passaic County, New Jersey|Passaic County]] lawyer who had served in the [[New Jersey General Assembly|New Jersey state legislature]]. Hobart supported himself by working as a bank clerk in [[Paterson, New Jersey|Paterson]]; he later became director of the same bank. Hobart was [[Admission to the bar in the United States|admitted to the bar]] in 1866; he became a counsellor-at-law in 1871 and a master in chancery in 1872.{{sfn|Magie|pp=20–23}}

In addition to learning law from Tuttle, Hobart fell in love with his daughter, [[Jennie Tuttle Hobart]], who later recalled, "When this attractive young law student appeared in our home I, then a young girl in my teens, unexpectedly played a rôle of importance by losing my heart to him".{{sfn|Hobart|p=4}} They were married on July 21, 1869. The Hobarts had long been Democrats; Garret Hobart's marriage into the Republican Tuttle family converted him.{{sfn|Hatfield|pp=289–290}} The Hobarts had four children, two of whom survived infancy. One daughter, Fannie, died in 1895; Hobart's son, Garret Jr. survived him.{{sfn|Magie|p=26}}{{sfn|Connolly|p=2}}{{sfn|''The New York Times'', June 10, 1902}}<!-- Note to reviewers:  yes, it is the same page number. -->

Socrates Tuttle was influential in Paterson, which worked to Hobart's advantage. According to a 2010 article about Hobart, the future vice president "benefited greatly from Tuttle's beneficence".{{sfn|Connolly|p=22}} In 1866, the year he became a lawyer, Hobart was appointed [[grand jury]] clerk for [[Passaic County, New Jersey]]. When Tuttle became mayor of Paterson in 1871, he appointed Hobart as city counsel. A year later, Hobart became counsel for the county [[Board of County Commissioners (New Jersey)|Board of Chosen Freeholders]].{{sfn|Connolly|p=22}}{{sfn|Magie|p=29}}