Hobart M. Cable

Biography

Hobart M. Cable started his career as a school teacher, later becoming School Commissioner for Delaware County, N.Y. He then settled in Boston and served three successive terms in the Massachusetts legislature. After assisting his brother, H. D. Cable, in managing the Chicago Cottage Organ Company, he organized the Hobart M. Cable Company in December 1900. Described as a man of positive character with boundless faith in his own ability, he built a large business quickly, but overwork undermined his health and he died in December 1909. His son, Hobart M. Cable, Jr., succeeded him as company president. Cable was one of the brothers whom H. Cable called to his aid as his piano and organ business assumed larger proportions, joining alongside brother Fayette S. Cable. No further biographical detail is given about him in this passage beyond his role assisting in the growing enterprise.

Highlights

• One of H.D. Cable's brothers, called into the business as it grew to larger proportions
• Began as a school teacher and later School Commissioner for Delaware County, N.Y., then served three terms in the Massachusetts legislature.
• Helped manage the Chicago Cottage Organ Company for his brother H. D. Cable before founding the Hobart M. Cable Company in December 1900.
• Died in December 1909, reportedly from overwork, and was succeeded as company president by his son, Hobart M. Cable, Jr.

Source

Alfred Dolge, Pianos and Their Makers, Vol. I (1911); Vol. II (1913), p. 65.

Public domain.