Joseph Virginius Hobson was born on the Hobson Family Estate of "Blenheim" in Powhatan County, Virginia;

Son of Joseph H. Hobson and Mary Thomas Munford Hobson;

Grandson of Caleb Hobson and Phoebe Brackett Hobson and of Thomas Munford and Mary Wilson Munford;

Brother of Thomas Ludwell Hobson, Phoebe Ann Hobson, Mary Munford Hobson, William Hobson, John Caleb Hobson, Marie Willis Hobson, Lavinia Wilson Hobson, Sarah Booker Hobson and Willis Wilson Hobson;

Husband of Sarah Martha Norvell, whom he married on 18 October 1842; Sarah died in 1852;
Father, with Sarah, of Missouri Edley Hobson (Mrs. Robert Templeman Craighill), Caroline M. Hobson, Mary N. Hobson, William Norvell Hobson and Dabney Morris Hobson;

Husband of Mary Elizabeth Bullock, whom he married on 25 Sept 1853 (Mary was the Aunt of first wife Sarah);
Father, with Mary, of Martha Ann "Mattie" Hobson (Wife of Dr. Edward Addison Craighill) and Sarah Norvell Hobson (Wife of Gen. John Holmes Smith).

Joseph received his Medical Degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1832;
In 1880, he was elected the first Officer of the Homeopathic Medicine Organization in Richmond, Virginia.

In 1887-1888 Joseph was a Member of the House of Delegates.

Joseph lived in Lynchburg, also on the family Estate called "Blenheim", in Powhatan County, and in Richmond, returning to Lynchburg for the remainder of his years.

Dr. Joseph Virginius Hobson died in Lynchburg, Virginia on October 10th, 1895.
His funeral took place on the 12th of October, 1895, and the Diuguid Mortuary provided the family with "10 Hacks and 6 pairs of gloves" for the pallbearers. He is buried in Presbyterian Cemetery in Lynchburg.



*Additional Biographical Information, from "History of Homeopathy"

In 1858 Dr. Joseph Virginius Hobson began the practice of homœopathy in Richmond. He was a son of Joseph and Mary Mumford Hobson and was born in Cumberland County, Va., November 11, 1810. His father removed to Powhattan County, purchasing the estate of Blenheim, where Joseph's boyhood was passed. He graduated from Hampden-Sydney College in 1828, and entered as a student of medicine with Dr. Thomas Nelson of Richmond. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1832, and began practice at Cartersville, Va. He spent the years 1839-40 in Paris in study. Returning, he settled at Lynchburg in 1840, and went to Powhattan in 1847, remaining in practice there until 1858. In 1856 his attention was drawn to homœopathy by Henderson's works and by the cure of a case by Dr. John F. Gray, and this led to investigation and adoption of the homœopathic school in his practice. In 1858 he removed to Richmond, but at the outbreak of the war he went to Blenheim, resuming practice in Richmond at the close of the war. In 1890 advancing years caused him to retire from practice and he returned to Lynchburg, where he remained until his death, October 10, 1895.