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Kobbé, captain of the 22d Infantry, U. S. A., Herman Kobbé, ist 
U. S. A., and Eric Kobbé, and one sister, Sarah Kobbé. 
He was prepared in the public schools of San Francisco, Calif., and 
attended the Biltmore Forest School before entering the Yale Forest 
School. 
He was married March 6, 1912, in Pasadena, Calif., to Miss Mary 
Ckatherine Mather of Pasadena, daughter of Thomas Wylie Mather and 
Mary Elizabeth Saxe (Maclay) Mather. 
Kobbé served as district forester under the civil government 
of the Philippine Islands from November, 1904, to December, 
1907. He was transferred in 1908 to the United States Forest 
Service as forest assistant and stationed in Arizona for two 
years. In 1910 he became foreman of the Globe Exploration 
Company, oil producers, and in the same year was made surveyor 
of this company. In 1911 he was appointed superintendent of 
the Rock Oil Company and later in this year received the 
appointment of superintendent of the Globe Exploration Com- 
pany. On September 18, 1912, he accepted the position of 
division superintendent of the General Petroleum Company. 
He writes: “Had charge of the provinces of Batanzas, 
Tayabas, Albay, Sorsogon, Camarines Norte, Camarines Sur 
and the little-known island of Mindoro in the Philippines and 
did considerable exploring and mapping during the three years 
spent there. Saw something of Japan and took the opportunity 
to travel by land from Nagasaki to Kobe. Upon returning to 
the United States spent nearly two years in different parts of 
Arizona, but found government service there distasteful and 
for the most part poorly paid. Have been in the oil business in 
California for nearly three years, starting as a ‘roustabout’ and 
having held about every position up to superintendent. The 
work is interesting, out-of-doors, mostly mechanical and in very 
congenial surroundings.” 
He is a member of the Episcopal church and in politics is a 
Progressive Republican. He is a member of the California 
Academy of Sciences, of the American Ornithologists Union, 
the Cooper Ornithological Club, the Overland Club of Pasadena, 
Calif., and the Yale Alumni Association of Southern California. 
He has written numerous technical articles for the Auk 
(official organ of the Am. Ornith. Union) and the Condor 
(Cooper Ornith. Club of Calif.). 


