Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - An haife shi kuma ya girma a Paterson, New Jersey, Hobart ita ce 'yar fitaccen lauya Socrates Tuttle da matarsa, Jane Winters. Ta auri Garret Hobart a Paterson a ranar 21 ga Yuli, 1869, a farkon aikinsa a matsayin lauya da kuma dan siyasa. Suna da 'ya'ya hudu, biyu daga cikinsu sun mutu a lokacin ƙuruciya. Sauran biyun sune Garret Jr. da Fannie, wanda ya mutu a 1895. A shekara ta 1896 an zabi mijinta Mataimakin Shugaban Amurka kuma iyalin suka koma Washington, DC. A matsayinta na Uwargidan Amurka ta biyu, Hobart sau da yawa tana aiki a matsayin mai masaukin baki na Fadar White House saboda Uwargidan Shugaban Kasa, Ida Saxton McKinley, tana fama da cutar farfadiya. Mataimakin Shugaba Hobart ya mutu ne sakamakon bugun zuciya a ranar 21 ga Nuwamba, 1899. Bayan mutuwarsa, ta koma Paterson kuma ta shiga cikin al'amuran al'umma. Ta kasance abokiyar kusa da Mrs. McKinley kuma ta gaggauta zuwa Buffalo, New York, don bayar da goyon bayanta lokacin da aka harbe Shugaba McKinley
a cikin Satumba 1901.