Jennie Tuttle Hobart

Esther T. Hobart
Esther T. Hobart
Second Lady of the United States
	In role; March 4, 1897 – November 21, 1899
Vice President	Garret Hobart
Preceded by	Letitia Stevenson
Succeeded by	Edith Roosevelt (1901)
Personal details
Born	April 30, 1849; Paterson, New Jersey, U.S.
Died	January 8, 1941 (aged 91); Haledon, New Jersey, U.S.
Resting place	Cedar Lawn Cemetery
Spouse(s)	Garret Hobart (1869–1899)
Children	4
Parents	Socrates Tuttle; Jane Winters

Esther Jane "Jennie" Tuttle Hobart (April 30, 1849 – January 8, 1941) was the wife of Vice President Garret Hobart and a philanthropist and community activist in New Jersey.

Biography

Jennie Tuttle Hobart

Born and raised in Paterson, New Jersey, she was the daughter of the prominent attorney Socrates Tuttle and his wife, Jane Winters. She married Garret Hobart in Paterson on July 21, 1869, at the start of his career as a lawyer and politician. They had four children, two of whom died in childhood. The other two were Garret Jr. and Fannie, who died in 1895. In 1896 her husband was elected Vice President of the United States and the family moved to Washington, D.C.. As Second Lady of the United States, Hobart often served as White House hostess because the First Lady, Ida Saxton McKinley, suffered from epilepsy. Vice President Hobart died of heart failure on November 21, 1899. After his death, she returned to Paterson and became involved in community affairs. She was a close friend of Mrs. McKinley and rushed to Buffalo, New York, to offer her support when President McKinley was shot in September 1901.

During the American women's suffrage movement, Hobart positioned herself as definitively anti-suffrage. She organized the New Jersey Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage and held regular meetings.[1]

She died of pneumonia on January 8, 1941, in Haledon, New Jersey, where she had been living on her son's farm, and was buried in Cedar Lawn Cemetery in Paterson, New Jersey.[2]

References

Burstyn, Joan. "Past and Promise: Lives of New Jersey Women", Page 153.
Burstyn, Joan N. "Past and Promise: Lives of New Jersey Women", p. 153. Syracuse University Press, 1997. ISBN 0-8156-0418-1. Accessed May 1, 2011. "She maintained a close relationship with her son and in later years, when her health was failing, lived with his family at Ailsa Farms in Haledon. She died there of bronchial pneumonia, at age 91, on January 8, 1941, and was buried at the Cedar Lawn Cemetery in Paterson."

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Honorary titles
Preceded by Letitia Stevenson	Second Lady of the United States 1897–1899	Vacant Title next held by Edith Roosevelt

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[1] Burstyn, Joan. "Past and Promise: Lives of New Jersey Women", Page 153.

[2] Burstyn, Joan N. "Past and Promise: Lives of New Jersey Women", p. 153. Syracuse University Press, 1997. ISBN 0-8156-0418-1. Accessed May 1, 2011. "She maintained a close relationship with her son and in later years, when her health was failing, lived with his family at Ailsa Farms in Haledon. She died there of bronchial pneumonia, at age 91, on January 8, 1941, and was buried at the Cedar Lawn Cemetery in Paterson."