Editing Hobart, New York (section)

==Notable people==
*[[James Hamilton Ballagh]], missionary who played a prominent role in introducing Protestant Christianity to Japan.<ref name="rut">{{cite web |last1=Hu |first1=Stephen J. |title=James Ballagh |url=https://sites.rutgers.edu/rutgers-meets-japan/james-ballagh/ |website=Rutgers.edu |publisher=Rutgers University}}</ref>
*[[Cheryl Clarke]], American lesbian poet, essayist, educator and Black feminist community activist<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/clarke-cheryl-1947|title=Clarke, Cheryl 1947– {{!}} Encyclopedia.com|website=www.encyclopedia.com|access-date=January 7, 2020}}</ref>
*[[Hector Cowan]], American college football player and coach, member of first [[College Football All-America Team]] in 1889<ref>Meagley (2014) p.325</ref>
*[[James R. Cowan]], farmer, banker, and member of [[New York State Assembly]]<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|date=July 21, 1911|title=Death of Hon. James R. Cowan|volume=XVII|page=1|work=Catskill Mountain News|issue=21|location=Margaretville, N. Y.|url=https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn83031247/1911-07-21/ed-1/seq-1/}}</ref>
*[[Jay Gould]], railroad magnate, attended school in Hobart during the 1850s.<ref>Meagley (2014) p. 33</ref>
*Scott Jensen, [[Silver Reuben Award]] winning [[cartoonist]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Klukkert |first1=Vicky |title=Hobart cartoonist wins national award |url=https://www.thedailystar.com/news/hobart-cartoonist-wins-national-award/article_40d03ebc-3b4c-11ed-beca-d33f4427e265.html |publisher=The Daily Star (Oneonta, NY) |date=Sep 23, 2022}}</ref>
*[[Edwyn E. Mason]], member of New York State Assembly from 1952 to 1972 and [[New York State Senate]] from 1972 to 1978<ref>Meagley (2014) p.325</ref>
*Olive B. O'Connor, founder of the [[A. Lindsay and Olive B. O'Connor Foundation]].<ref>Meagley (2014) p. 347</ref>
*[[Orrin Peck]], American painter.<ref name="The San Francisco Call and Post-1899">{{Cite news |date=December 6, 1899 |title=Has Won Fame Abroad |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-san-francisco-call-and-post-has-won/161056315/ |access-date=2024-12-17 |work=[[The San Francisco Call and Post]] |pages=9 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>
*[[Helen P. Sanborn]], [[Women's suffrage in the United States|suffragist]], educator, civic worker, and clubwoman.<ref name="More1893">{{cite book |last1=More |first1=David Fellows |title=History of the More Family: And an Account of Their Reunion in 1890 |date=1893 |publisher=S.P. More |page=318 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-U46AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA318 |access-date=13 January 2025 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[Frank Sandford]], early 20th century cult leader convicted of manslaughter.<ref>Frank S. Murray, ''The Sublimity of Faith'' (Amherst, NH: The Kingdom Press, 1981), 651-909; Nelson, 417; [http://www.fwselijah.com/timeline.htm#3-%204-1948 fwselijah.com].</ref>
*[[Eleanor Clarke Slagle]], social worker considered to be "the mother of [[occupational therapy]]"<ref name=james1974>{{cite book |author1=James, Edward T. |author2=James, Janet Wilson | year=1974 | page=296 | title=Notable American Women 1607–1950: A Biographical Dictionary| series=Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium Series in the History of Landscape Architecture | publisher=Harvard University Press | isbn=978-0-674-62734-5 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rVLOhGt1BX0C&pg=RA2-PA296 }}</ref>