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 HUBBARD

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captain in February, 1862, lieutenant-colonel in March, 18C2, and colonel in August, 1863. He w;is wouniled in the battle of Corinth, May 28, 1862, and led his regiment at the second battle of Corinth, Oct. 3-4, 1862, and the 2d brigade, 1st division, in the battle of Jackson, Tenn., Dec. 19, 1862. He was transferred Avith liis regiment to the 15th army corps in the spring of 186."^ and took part in the siege and assault of Vicksburg. Afterward he commanded the 2d V)rigade in the Red River campaign and participated in seven battles in quick suc- cession. His brigade formed the first line of the assaulting column at Nashville, Dec. 16, 1864, and captured artillery colors and many prisoners. Colonel Hubbard was severely wounded, and was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general for " conspicuous gallantry " in that battle. He led the advance in tlio capture of Spanish Fort, Mobile, April 8, 1864. and was mustered out of the service in October, 1865, having participated in thirty-one battles of the war. On returning to Red Wing, Minn., he engaged in milling and as a railroad constructor. He was a state senator, 1873-75, and governor of Minnesota, 1882-87. In 1898 he was commissioned a brigadier-general in the volunteer army and engaged in the war with Spain, commanding the 3d division, 7th army corps, diuiiig his entire term of service.

HUBBARD, Lucius Lee, geologist, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Aug. 7, 1849; son of Lucius Virgilius and Annie Elizabeth (Lee) Hubbard, grandson of Lucius and Anne (Pomeroy) Hub- bard, and a descendant of George Hubbard, of Wetliersfield, Conn., 1636. He was prepared for college at Exetor, N. H., and was graduated at Harvard, A.B., 1.S72; at Boston university, LL.B., 1875, and at the University of Bonn, Germany, A.M. and Ph.D., 1886. He was admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1875, and practised in Bos- ton until 1883, when he turned his attention to geology. In 1891 he removed to Houghton, Mich., and in 1893 was appointed state geologist of Michigan. He is the author of: Hubbard's Guide to Mnosehead Lake and Northern Maine; Wooih and Lakes of Maine, a Trip from Moose- head Lake to Neiv Brnnsimck in a Birch-bark Canoe (1883); On Powellite from a New Locality, with G. A. Koenig (1893); Two New Geological Cross-Sfctionsof Keweenaw Point (1894); Kewee- mtw Point with Particidar Reference to the Felsites and their Associated Rocks, Y<>\. VI., Part II., Mifliigan Geologifal Survey (l.s<)9).

HUBBARD, Oliver Payson, scientist, was born in Pomfret. Conn., March 31, 1809; son of Stephen and Zeruah (Grosvenor) Huljbard; grandson of Col. Benjamin Hubbard, and of Oliver Grosvenor; and a descendant of Jolin Grosvenor, who died at Roxbury, Mass., in 1691.

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He was a student at Hamilton college, 1825-26; and was graduated at Yale, A. B., 1828; A.M., 1831. He taught in Geneva, N.Y., 1828-29; and in Richmond, Va., 1829-31: was assistant- in Yale chemical laboratory, 1831-36; and lecturer on chemistry, mineral- ogy and geology at Wesleyan university, 1835. He was con- nected with Dart- mouth college as pro- fessor of chemistry, mineralogy and geol- ogy, 1836-66; lecturer on the same branches, 1866-69; lecturer on chemistry and phar- macy, 1869-71; pro- fessor of chemistry and pharmacy, 1871- 83; and professor emeritus, 1883-1900.

He was a representative in the state legisla- ture of New Hampshire, 1863-64. He was an overseer of Thayer School of Civil Engineering, Dartmouth college, N.H., 1871-95; travelled in Europe, 1878; was secretary, vice-president and president of the New York Academy of Sciences; member of the Association of American Geolo- gists, of the American Historical association and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; corresponding member of the Acad- emy of Natural Sciences of Philadelpliia, of the Boston Natural History society and the Montreal Natural History society; and honorary member of the Medical Society of the State of New York, and of the New Hampshire Medical society. He was married, May 17, 1837, to Faitli Wadsworth, daughter of Professor Benjamin Silliman. of Yale college, and their son, Grosvenor Silliman Hub- bard, became a prominent lawyer in New York city. Dartmouth gave him the honorary degree of A.M. in 1873; the South Carolina Medical college thatof M.D. in 1837, and Hamilton thatof LL.D. in 1861. He is the author of a number of scientific contributions published in the American Journal of Science and of History of Dartmouth Medical College and Dr. Nathan Smith its Founder (1880). He died in New York city, IVLirch 9, 1900.

HUBBARD, Richard Bennet, governor of Texas and diplomatist, was born in "Walton county, Ga., Nov. 1, 1.S35; .son of Richard B. and Serena (Carter) Hubbard; grandson of Richard B. Hubbard, of North Carolina, and a descendant on his mother's side of the Carters of Virginia. His father was a planter. He was graduated at fiercer university, Georgia, A.B., 1851, A.M., 1854; attended law lectures at the University of Virginia, 1851; was graduated at Harvard, LL.B,