Biography

George was born in 1894 to Robert Stebbins and Edith Chase. ^[1] He married Edna Harnden in 1918. ^[2] George passed away in 1991. ^[3]

Longtime manager and then owner at Lake Union Dry Dock Company in Seattle.

"In 1941 LUDD partnered with Puget Sound Bridge and Dredge, and under the temporary name Associated Shipbuilders produced 16 wooden mine-sweepers for the U.S. Navy at the Lake Union facility, employing as many as 1,000 workers. At war's end the company was reorganized, again as Lake Union Dry Dock, now owned by original partner Harry Jones and George Hobart Stebbins (1894-1991), who had managed the yard during the war. Building and repairing large commercial and government vessels has been its bread and butter, including, in 2002, major repairs and renovations to Virginia V, the last operating steamer of Puget Sound's Mosquito Fleet. But Lake Union Dry Dock, nearing its centennial, still welcomed the opportunity to work on the classic wooden pleasure boats of an earlier era, many of which it built." ^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:DC5P-JPPZ
2. ↑ Massachusetts State Vital Records, 1841-1920: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q28J-LY7K
3. ↑ Washington Death Index, 1965-2014: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QLWM-T144
4. ↑ https://www.historylink.org/file/20366

• United States Census, 1900: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M95L-GH4
• United States Census, 1910: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M2NT-C2H
• United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KZN7-MT2
• United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVJT-537Z
• United States Census, 1950: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6X1W-W4S9
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/145538497/g-hobart-stebbins

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