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 HUBBARD

HUBBARD

ican Pliilological association in 1896. He was married, Sept. 13, 1888, to Louise Parke Rowe. The degree of Ph.D. was conferred ou him by Johns Hopkins university in 1887.

HUBBARD, Gardiner Greene, lawjer, was born in Boston. Mass.. Aug. 25. 1822; son of Judge Samuel and Mary (Greene) Hubbard; grandson of Gardiner Greene, and a direct de- scendant of the Rev. "William Hubbard, Harvard, 1612. He was graduated at Dartmouth in 1841, and practised law in Boston, 1843-73, and in "Washington, D.C., 1873-87. He was a projector of, and director in, the American Bell Telephone company; organized the international, the ori- ental and other foreign corporations under the Bell patents, and perfected the telephone service of Russia. In 187G he was appointed by Piesident Grant a special commissioner to investigate the subject of railway mail transportation. He was a member of the board of education of ]\Iassa- chusetts; regent of the Smithsonian Institution; "vice-president of the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf, and of the American Association of Inventors and Manufacturers; a member of the Anthro- pological, the Geological and the National Geo- graphic societies of "Washington, D.C.; president of the joint commission of the scientific societies of "Washington; governor of the Society of Col- onial "Wars; a trustee of the Columbian university, D.C, 1883-97; of the Clarke Institution for Deaf flutes. 1867-97, and of tiie Washington free public library. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Columbian university in 1888, and from Dartmouth in 1894. His daughter Mabel became the wife of Alexander Graham Bell (q.v.). In 1898 Mr. Hubbard's widow presented to the U.S. government the large collection of etchings and engravings which he had gathered, together with .$20,000 for its annual increase. He died in Washington. D.C. Dec. 11, 1897.

HUBBARD, George Warner, philanthropist, was born in Pliiladeli)hia, Pa., Feb. 26, 1818; son of Henry and Mercy (Warner) Hubbard, and a descendant from John Hubbard, of Hatfield, Mass., who removed to Hadley, Mass. , in 1660 from Weathersfield, Conn. He was educated at Hop- kins academy and at the academies at Lester and Shelburne Falls, ^lass., and was a state sen- ator, 1853-55. In 1871 he became president of the "Smith Charities," founded by Oliver Smith, of Hatfield, a system by which the interest of $1,000,000 was distributed as marriage portions among poor and deserving young couples. He was trejisurer of Smith college, Northampton, Ma-ss., 1873-88, and ]>equeathed to that institu- tion the bulk of his estate, amounting to about $64.fM)0. He married, in 1843. Pliilura P. Dickin- son. He died in Hatfield, Mass., April 28, 1888.

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HUBBARD, Gurdon Saltonstall, pioneer, was born in Windsor, Vt., Aug. 22. 1NU2; eldest son of Elizur and Abigail (Sage) Ilubbai'd. natives of Connecticut. His father, a lawyer, hail become poor b}"- unfortunate speculations, and Gurdon obtained little more than acommon school education. He was employed by the American Fur com- pany, and was sent to Mackinaw as an In- dian trader. The larger part of his s;i'- ary he contributed ' the support of lii.-. family. He visited Fort Dearborn (the site of Chicago) in November, 1818, and established trading posts in Illinois and Michigan, by way of Chicago, to Mackinaw, making twenty-six trips, 1819-26. In 1827 he engaged in the trading business on his own ac- count, and when the business became unprofit- able he removed to Chicago. He served as a volunteer against unfriendly Indians, and repre- sented his district in the state legislature in 1832. He erected the first large warehouse built of brick, in Chicago, and in 1836 he .sold out liis mercantile establishment and embarked in the commission business. He formed the Eagle line between Buffalo and the upper lakes. He was appointed by Governor Joseph Duncan one of the commissioners of the Illinois and Michigan canal in 1835. In 1836, as agent of the ^tna Fire Insurance company, of Hartford, Conn., he wrote the first fire insurance jjolicy ever issued in Chicago. He was a director of the State Bank of Illinois, and in 1841 aided in the organization of the board of trade. Previous to liis removal to Ciiicago he had brought a large drove of hogs into the village, and had .slaughtered them for the garrison, and soon after his removal he en- gaged in the packing of beef and pork, which he continued on a large scale until the destruction of his packing house by fire in 1863, after which he engaged in the indirect importation of tea from China. He retired from active business in 1871. He was an organizer of St. James's Epis- copal church, the first Episcopal chui'ch in Chi- cago; builder and owner of the first large hotel, and was a director in the first company to sup- ply the village with water, in 1836. He was twice married: first, in 1831, to Eleanor Berry, of Ohio, who died in 1838; and secondly, to ^lary Ann Hubbard, of Chicago. In 188.") he became totally blind. He died in Chicago, III., Sept. 14, 1886.