Second Lieutenant Micah Hobbs, after his discharge from the Union Army, Mr.Hobbs was elected a representative to the Maine Legislature from Hope, Class of 1864. He married in the fall of 1864 to
Miss Elizabeth Hickox of East New York, and was for a time in business with his father-in-law as a stove dealer. He moved to Natick, Massachusetts, and was employed in a shoe factory. While so employed was caught in the machinery, carried over the pulleys and very severely wounded, a primary cause of his death by consumption. He was several years the local correspondent of the Boston Herald at Natick, and of the Natick newspaper.He died in Natick on May 1, 1877, and was buried in Dell Park Cemetery in that town.

(HTY 210 Maine History by David J. Bowman - Used with permission of the author)