Democratic Nominee for Sheriff - Hobart A. Matteson
Utica Saturday Globe, October 1915
Hobart J. Matteson
New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY]: Hobart A. Matteson, the Democratic candidate for sheriff of Chenango county [NY], is one of the foremost citizens of New Berlin. Usually a Democratic nomination in this county does not offer much hope for election, yet if Mr. Matteson were as well and favorably known throughout the county as he is in his home town there would be little question of his election. As it is he will give a good account of himself at the polls.
Mr. Matteson is a native of the town of Pittsfield, Otsego county, where he was born in 1871. When 11 years of age, with his parents, he came to New Berlin, which has since been his home. For the past 11 years he has been in the laundry business and for most of the time its active manager. He is at present chief of the Fire Department. He has not been an office seeker, but has always taken as active interest in the fortunes of the Democratic party.
Mr. Matteson is married and has two children, Mrs. Arnold McCormack, and one son Lee Matteson. He is a member of Phoebus Lodge, No. 83, F.&A.M., and Ehrenbreitstein lodge, No. 152, I.O.O.F. He has also passed through the chairs of the Order of Red Men. He has been president of the local legion of the N.P.L. since 1901.
No party ever had a more representative man for its candidate and with the feeling that New Berlin and the Unadilla valley towns are not very well treated in distributing offices in the county, he will command a large Republican vote in his own town.
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