William August Kobbé

William Augustus Kobbé (May 10, 1840 – November 1, 1931) was a United States Army officer.

Biography Kobbé was born in New York City on May 10, 1840. His father, Carl Wilhelm Ludwig August Kobbé (1802–1881), was a German emigrant and part of the prominent Kobbe family (alternately Kobbeus or Kobbé), was a native of the United States descended from a Spanish sea captain whose vessel was lost off New London in the early 1700s.

Kobbé was educated in New York City and, from 1854 to 1857, in Wiesbaden, Germany. He studied mining engineering in Freiberg and Clausthal until 1862, Gustav Kobbé, a New York music critic, was his brother.