California Biographies

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm

Source:
History of the state of California and biographical record of the San Joaquin 
Valley, California. An historical story of the state's marvelous growth from 
its earliest settlement to the present time.
Prof. James Miller Guinn , A. M.
The Chapman Publishing Co., Chicago 1905
Notes: Missing Page: 865-866,983-984,1175-1176


FRANK ALBERT GOBIN. The thriving city of Tulare has a full quota of live, energetic 
and progressive business men, prominent among whom is Frank Albert Gobin, who, as a buyer 
and shipper of green and dried fruits of all kinds, is carrying on a large and substantial 
trade. A man of ability, tact and keen foresight, he is intimately associated with the in- 
dustrial and commercial prosperity of Tulare county, and in the advancement of its welfare 
lends material assistance. A native of Indiana, and the descendant of a pioneer family of in- 
fluence, he was born June 17, 1868. in Carlisle, Sullivan county, which was also the birthplace 
of both his father, John Lindsay Gobin, and of his grandfather, James Gobin. The latter, a 
farmer by occupation, served in the Civil war, belonging to an Indiana regiment. 

After leaving the ancestral farm. John Lindsay Gobin engaged in mercantile pursuits, and 
for many years was one of the leading druggists of Carlisle, Ind. By good management and 
wise judgment he accumulated considerable property, and is now living in that city, retired 
from the activities of business. He married Margaret Hall, who was born in Carlisle. Ind., 
the daughter of Thomas Hall, a pioneer farmer of that place, who is now living at Hall's Cor- 
ner, Erie county, N. Y., enjoying the large wealth which he has accumulated by means' of 
industry and thrift. Of the six children born of the union of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Gobin, 
four are living, namely: R. D., of Fort Scott. Kans., a railroad man; Tames M., of Fresno, 
Cal.; Pauline I., wife of Dr. J. R. Whalen of Carlisle, Ind.; and Frank Albert. The mother 
passed to the higher life in 1874. 

Frank A. Gobin was brought up and educated in Carlisle, Ind. After his graduation from the 
high school he learned the carpenter's trade, which he followed for a few years in his native 
state. With a desire to broaden his field of action, he came to the Pacific coast in 1891, and 
for a year resided in Los Angeles. Taking unto himself a wife in 1892, Mr. Gobin settled in 
Tulare, and at once embarked in the fruit business. He buys green and dried fruits of every 
variety, and these he sells at local points and ships to New York City, where he has estab- 
lished a market. He also carries on an excellent business as a commission merchant, and is 
agent for the California Wine Association, for which he buys the grapes. In 1902 Mr. Gobin 
shipped from Tulare forty-four hundred tons of wine grapes, an immense quantity to send from 
one place. He also represents, in the trade of green fruits, Simpson Hack of Los Angeles. 

February 6, 1892, in Pasadena. Cal., Mr. Gobin married Hattie Carpenter, who was born 
in Petaluma. Her father. William Carpenter, was a wheelwright and a pioneer settler of 
Tulare. Mr. and Mrs. Gobin have one child, Ramona Tressa. Politically Mr. Gobin is a 
stanch Republican. Fraternally he has served three terms as chief ranger of Court Mount 
Whitney No. 211, F. of A., and also belongs to the Modern Woodmen of America, of which he 
is one of the board of managers.