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HUBBARD 74 HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY HUBBARD, ELBERT, an American novelist; born in Bloomington, 111., in 1859. His home was in East Aurora, N. Y., where he was proprietor of the famous Roycroft shop, devoted to mak- ing de luxe editions of the classics. He was editor of the "Philistine" and wrote "No Enemy but Himself"; "Little Jour- neys to the Homes of Good Men and Great"; "Forbes of Harvard"; "One Day"; "Little Journeys to the Homes of Famous Women" (1897) ; "A Message to Garcia" (1898) ; "The Man of Sor- rows" (1904); "Hollyhocks and Golden Glow" (1912). He died on the "Lusi- tania," May 7, 1915. HUBBELL, GEORGE ALLEN, an American educator; born in Springfield, Ohio, in 1862. He graduated from An- tioch College in 1890. After teaching in the public schools of Ohio for several years, he became professor and princi- pal of the Normal Department of An- tioch College. He remained here until 1898 when he became teacher of English at Erasmus Hall School, in Brooklyn. From 1904 to 1906 he was vice-president and dean of Berea College. After oc- cupying chairs in other colleges he was appointed president of the Lincoln Me- morial University at Tennessee, in 1910. He was a member of many scientific and economic societies. He wrote "Guide in the Study of Geography" (1896); "The Child and the Bible" (1900); "Men of the Bible" (1903); "Horace Mann" (1910). HUBERTSBURG (ho'berts-borg) , for- merly a royal hunting-seat of Saxony, 25 miles E. by S. from Leipsic, built in 1721 by Prince Frederick Augustus, af- terward King Augustus IIL of Poland. It was much injured during the Seven Years' War; and there Feb. 15, 1763, was signed the treaty by which that war was ended. HUBLI (ho'bli), a tovvTi of Dharwar in the presidency of Bombay, British India, on a road leading to Karwar on the Mal- abar coast, 102 miles S. W. It is one of the principal cotton marts in that sec- tion of India. Pop. about 70,000. HUCKLEBERRY, an American name for the whortleberry. HUDDERSFIELD, a town of England, in Yorkshire, on the Colne, 15 miles S. W. of Leeds. Manufactures narrow and broad cloths, serges, kerseymeres and various fancy goods. Near it are medic- inal springs. A U. S. Consulate is lo- cated here. Pop. (1917) 105,818. HUDSON, a city and county-seat of Columbia co., N. Y., on the Hudson river, and on the New York Central and Hudson River, the Boston and Albany, and the Albany Southern railroads; 29 miles S. of Albany. It is the trade cen- ter of an extensive farming and manu- facturing region and has steamship com- munications with all Hudson river points. Its manufactures include iron ware, woolen goods, cement, bricks, and machinery. It is the seat of the State Home of Refuge for Women, and has electric lights and street railways, pub- lic high school, daily and weekly news- papers, and National banks. Pop. (1910) 11,417; (1920) 11,745. HUDSON, HENRY, an English navi- gator; born in England. He entered the service of Holland. After making three voyages to find a N. E. or N. W. pas- sage to China, in the second of which he discovered the Hudson river, he set sail a fourth time, April 17, 1610, in a bark named the "Discovery," and pro- ceeding W., reached in lat. 60" N. the strait bearing his name. Through this he advanced along the coast of Labrador, till it issued into the vast bay which is also called after him. Here, vidth his son and seven infirm sailors, he was turned adrift by a mutinous crew, and was no more heard of. HUDSON BAY, an inland sea of Brit- ish North America, between lat. 51° and 64° N., and Ion. 77° and 95° W. Corin- thian Gulf, Gulf of Boothia, and Fox Channel connect it with the Arctic Ocean on the N., and Hudson's Strait connects it with Davis Strait on the E. It covers an area of about 510,000 square miles, the S. part of which, embracing about one-fourth of the bay, is called James Bay. Hudson Bay is only navigable during a few months in the year. It was discovered by Henry Hudson. HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY, an Eng- lish company, established for carrying- on the fur-trade, to which Charles II. in 1670 granted a charter, empowering it to trade exclusively with the aborigines in and about Hudson Bay. Prince Ru- pert was at the head of the Hudson's Bay Company, and as the fur-trade was then very lucrative, the association soon rose to prosperity. In the winter of 1783, a new company, calling itself the North- west Fur Company, was established at Montreal, and actively opposed the Hud- son's Bay Company. The Earl of Sel- kirk was then at the head of the old company, and conceived the plan of es- tablishing a colony on the Red river of Lake Winnipeg. The Northwest Ccan- pany was jealous of this movement; and a war broke out between the servants of the two companies. The companies