Believe he was a Machinist as was his father John Bobb & brothers William and Charles

http://person.ancestry.com/tree/15308657/person/245019011/facts

When Austin Bobb was born in 1836 in Mississippi, his father, John, was 42 and his mother, Charlotte, was 37. He had five brothers and four sisters. He died in 1861 at the age of 25.

Reading, A. B. & Brother: Vicksburg, Miss. - Abram B. Reading, proprietor