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William Hiibbaril. Harvard. 1642. He wasgrad- uati'd at Yale, A.B.. isoi ; A.M.. 180.5 ; studied law with Ciiarles Jackson in Boston and practised in Biddeford, Maine, 1804-10, and in Boston, Mass., as a partner with Judge Jackson, 1810-47. He was married to Mary, daughter of Gardiner Greene, at the time the wealtliiest citizen of Bos- ton, and, with tlie exception of John Jacob Astor and Stephen Girard. in the United States. He was judge of the supreme court of Massachusetts. 184--47. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Yale in 18'27, and from Harvard in 1842. He died in Boston. Mass.. Dec. 24, 1847.

HUBBARD, Samuel Dickinson, cabinet officer, W£is born in Middlelown. Conn., Aug. 10,1799; son of Elijah and Abigail (Dickinson) Hubbard ; grandson of Robert and Eliza(Sill) Hubbard, and a descendant of George Hubbard, wlio was born

in England in l.iOl.and liedin^Iid- ' U e t o w n.

college,A.B. PosTOFHCE DEPAR.Mt^T in 1819, and

studied law. but later devoted himself to the manufacturing business. As a Whig he rep- resented his district in the 29th and 30th con- gresses, 184.J-49. On the resignation of Nathan K. Hall, postmaster-general in the cabinet of President Fillmore in 1852, :Mr. Hubbard was ap- pointed as his successor, and he served till the close of President Fillmore's administration. He was president of the Middletown Bible society, a trastee of Wesleyan university, 1831-55, and established the Middletown high school. He re- ceived the degree of LL.D. from We.sleyan in 1851. He difl in :^Ii.l.ll.>town. Conn., Oct. 8, 1855. HUBBARD, Thomas Hill, representative, was born in New Haven, Conn., Dec. 8, 1781 ; son of the Rev. Bela (1739-1812) and Grace Dunbar (Hill) Hn)»bard ; grandson of Daniel and Diana (Wanl) Hubbard, and a descendant of George Hubbard, of Guilford, Conn. His father (Yale, A.B.. 17.58; D.D., 1M04) was a celebrated clergy- man of the est.iblished church and of the P.E. churcli in America. Thomas Hill Hubbard was graduated at Yale. A.B., 1799, A.:M., 1807 ; stud- ied law with Judge John Woodworth ; was ad- mitted to the bar in 1801, and removed to Hamil- ton, Madison county, N.Y., where he practised law. He w.os married in 1812 t<> Phebe, daughter of Micah and Content (Guernsey) Hubbard, of Middletown, Conn. He was surrogate of the cotmty. I'^W-IG; a presidential elector in 1812, voting for Ma<lison and Gerry ; was appointed

district attorney in 1817, but resigned when elected to congress, and was a representative in the 15th and 17th congresses, 1817-19 and 1821-23. In 1824 he was appointed clerk of the supreme court of the state of New York and removed to Utica. He was a Presidential elector in 1844 and 1852, voting for Polk and Dallas, and Pierce and King. He died in Utica, N.Y., May 21, 18.57.

HUBBARD, William, author, was l)orn in Eng- land ill 1(121. and was brouglit to America by his parents in 1G:>0. He was one of the first students of Harvard college and was graduatetl fourth in the first class of 1642, receiving his master's de- gree in 1645. He was ordained to the Congrega- tional ministry in 1665, and began his work as assistant of the church in Ipswich, of which he subsequently became pastor, serving the congre- gation, 1665-1703. He prepared a history of Massachusetts Bay colony, for which the gen- eral court paid him £50. This MS. was in the liouse of Chief-Justice Thomas Hutchinson when its contents were destroyed by the mob, Aug. 26, 1765. The Rev. Andrew Eliot saved the MS. from a bonfire and it became the property of the Massachusetts Historical societj' and was printed in 1815. He is the author of : A Narra- tion of Troubles icith the Indians (1677); Ser- mons (1684); Testimony of the Order of the Gos- pel in Churches (1701); History of Massachusetts Bay Colony (1815). He died in Ipswich, Mass., Sept. 14. 1704.

HUBBELL, Jay Abel, representative, was born in Avon. Mich.. Sept. 15, 1829. He was graduat- ed at the University of Michigan in 1853 ; was admitted to the bar in 1855, and practised in On- tonagon. Mich., where he was district-attorney of the upper peninsula in 1857 and 1859. In I860 he removed to Houghton, Mich. ; was prosecuting attorney of the county, 1862-66 : representative in the 43d— 47th congresses, inclusive, 1873-83 ; chairman of the national congressional commit- tee of the Republican party in the Garfield cam- paign, 1880 : state senator, 1885 and 1887 ; presi- dential elector at large for the western district, 1892, and judge of the circuit court. 1894-1900. He was active in founding the Michigan ^Mining school, a .state institution located at Houghton, and was a member of the board of control and president of the board. He died at Houghton, Midi.. Oct. 13. 1900.

HUBBELL, Levi, juri>t. w.is ijorn in Balls- ton. N.Y"., April 15, isos. He was graduated at Union in 1827, and was admitted to the bar in 1829. He practised law in Ballston, and was adjutant-general of the state, 1833-36, and mem- ber of the state assembly, 1841. He removed to Wisconsin Territory in 1844. and settled in 3Iil- waukee. where he practised law. He was asso- ciate justice of the 2d circuit and e.r officio of the