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Third Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York, Founder of Geneva College
About John Henry Hobart
In 1824, standing barefoot on freshly hewn oak planks in the unfinished nave of Trinity Church’s new chapel, he drove a chisel into a rafter beam—not as ceremony, but correction—because the joinery was slack. John Henry Hobart believed theology was forged in labor, not just liturgy: he founded Geneva College not with an endowment, but with a sawmill, a blacksmith’s forge, and a rule that every student spend two hours daily shaping wood or stone before opening a Latin primer. His sermons were timed to sunrise; his pastoral visits scheduled around harvest cycles; his opposition to idleness so fierce he once refused communion to a man who admitted he’d spent three days ‘reading novels by lamplight.’ He kept no private study—only a workshop bench cluttered with plane shavings, ink-stained calipers, and a copy of Hooker’s Laws bound in walnut he’d planed himself. This wasn’t metaphor: for him, the Incarnation meant God took flesh—and therefore, tools.
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