[1] Harriet A. Duncan, born in the north of Ireland in 1825, immigrated to the United States and arrived in New York City in 1843.
[1] In April 1868, Duncan moved to Red Wing, Minnesota, to marry a recently widowed Methodist Episcopal churchman, Chauncey Hobart.
[1] She took an active role in the 1874 Minnesota Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) convention in Red Wing.
[5] Hobart's 1891 speech before the Minnesota WCTU's Fifteenth Convention argued for women's rights broadly.
Hobart, like many of her WCTU sisters, believed that getting the vote would empower women and eventually bring about equal rights.
She told members to share their views about regulation of the liquor traffic with every man they dealt with-husbands, brothers, sons, friends, merchants, and workmen.