JEFFERSON S. COMBS, vice-president of the Hobart Electric Manufacturing Company, and a highly esteemed business man of Troy, Ohio, has been a resident of this city several years. He was born at Leonardtown, St. Mary's County, Maryland, in 1870, and received his educational training in the public schools.

At the age of twenty years, Mr. Combs moved to Washington, D.C., where he was engaged in the dry goods business some eight years, and at the end of that time moved west to Dayton, Ohio. He was identified with the Hayner Distilling Company for five year s, and then for three years represented the Burroughs Adding Machine Company in New York City. At the solicitation of several friends, he came to Troy, Ohio, and began his connection with the Hobart Electric Company as secretary. At the. election of officers for this company in September, 1908, Mr. Combs was made vice-president, which office he now fills. He is a stockholder and director of the First National Bank of Troy, and was a member of the building committee when that institution erected one of the finest bank buildings in the state of Ohio. He also is a stockholder and director in the Troy Carriage Sunshade Company.

November 22, 1905, Jefferson S. Combs was intermarried with Miss Sybil Harter Coleman, who comes of one of the oldest and most respected families. Her maternal grandfather, S. K. Harter, was one of the most prominent and influential men of Miami County, and resided in Troy. Mr Combs is a member of the order of Elks and the Troy Club.