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HOYT
HUBBARD

Stamford : to Wesleyan university to which he gave .ii-25.0110 : and to Wesley Memorial church, Savanuali. (ra., to whicli lie gave $2000, and he bequeathed over $100,000 to other charitable and religious institutions. He founded Tlie Methodist and in 1881 was a delegate to the International Assem- bly of Methodists in London. He was a presidential elector in 1872. He was a per- sonal friend of Gen- eral Grant and helped to raise the fund of §250,000 for the gen- eral among his friends after the war, and was one of the pall- bearers at Grant's fu- neral. He was a trustee of Wesleyan univer- sity. 1862-87, was president of the board of trustees. 1877-82, and president of the board of trustees of the Ferguson library at Stam- ford, Conn. He was married, Oct. 19, 18o2. to Maria, daughter of John Barney Corse, of New York. He ilied in Stamford, Conn., May 5, 1887.

HOYT, Wayland, clergyman, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, Feb. 18, 1838 ; son of the Hon. James Madison and Mary Ella (Bisbee) Hoyt, and grandson of the Hon. David Hoyt and of Alexander M. Bisbee, botii of Utica, N.Y^. "Wayland Hoyt was graduated from Brown uni- versity in 1860, and from Rochester Theological seminary in 1863. He was ordained as pastor over the Baptist church of Pittsfield, Mass., serv- ing 1863-64 : was pastor of the Ninth Street cliurch, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1864-67 ; the Strong Place church. Brooklyn, N.Y., 1867-73, 1876-82; the Tabernacle church, New York city, 1873-74 ; Shawmut Avenue church, Boston, Mass., 1874-76 ; again past<jr at Strong Place, 1876-81 ; of the Memorial churcli, Philadelphia, Pa., 1882-89 ; the First church, Minneapolis, Minn., 1890-96, and Epiphany church, Philadelphia, 1896-99. In 1864 he was married to Maude, daughter of Daniel Hopkins MansfiehL, of Salem, Mass. He received the degree of D.D. from the University of Roch- ester in 1877. He is the author of : Hints and Helps for the CJiristian Life (1880) ; Present Les- sons from Distant Days (1881) ; Gleams from PanVs Prison (1882) ; Along the Pilgrimage (1884) ; The Brook in the Way (1886) ; Saturday Afternoon (1890) ; Light on Life's Highway (1890) ; At His Feet (1891) ; 7u His Steps (1892) ; For Shine and Shades (1899) ; Helps Ujmxtrd (1S99) ; Wnlhs and Talks inth Mr. Spnrgeon (1900), and articles in journals and review.s.


HUBBARD, Asahel W., representative, was born in lladdam, Conn., Jan. 18, 1819. He was educated in tiie district school and removed to Indiana in 1838, where he was a school teacher and law student. He was admitted to the bar in 1841 and practised in the state, 1841-57. He was a representative in the state legislature, 1847-50, and in 1857 removed to Sioux City, Iowa, where he was judge of the fourth judicial district of the state. He was a representative from Iowa in the 38th, 39th and 40th congresses, 1863-69. He died in Sioux City, Iowa, Sept. 22, 1879.

HUBBARD, Bela, geologist, was born in Hamil- ton, N.\\, April 2:}, 1814 ; son of Thomas Hill and Phebe (Hubbard) Hubbard, and grandson of the Rev. Bela and Grace Dunbar (Hill) Hubbard. He was graduated from Hamilton college in 1834, removed to Michigan in 1837, and was assistant state geologist, 1838-41. He was admitted to the bar in Detroit in 1842 and engaged in surveying and in the real estate business in that city. In 1845 and 1846, in company with W. A. Burt, another land surveyor, acting under instructions from the general land office, he gathered informa- tion in regard to the rocks of the country trav- ersed by the township lines of linear surveys in Michigan. He was married in 1846 to Sarah, daughter of the Rev. John A. and Sarah (Har- vey) Baughman, of Detroit. He was a char- ter member of the Association of American Geo- logists and Naturalists ; the first president of the Michigan State Agricultural society ; a trus- tee of the state asylums for the insane and deaf and dumb, and an original member of the Wayne county Pioneer society. Hamilton college con- ferred upon him the honorary degree of LL.D. in 1892. He contributed scientific papers to various periodicals, and in 1842 was editor of tiie Western Farmer, Detroit. His chief technical papers and pamphlets were collected and republished as Memorials of Half a Century (1887). He died in Detroit. Mich., June 13, 1896.

HUBBARD, Chester Dorman, representative, was born in Hamden, Conn., Nov. 25, 1814; son of Dana and Asenath (Dorman) Hubbard ; grand- son of John and Martha (Bradley) Hubbard, and a descendant of William Hubl):ird of Ipswich, Mass., who was born at Ipswicii, England, in 1594, and landed at Boston, Mass., Oct. 6, 1635. His parents made their home in Wheeling, Va., in 1819, wiiere he received his preparatory edu- cation. He was graduated at AVesleyan univer- sity in 1840; was a lumber merchant in Wheel- ing. 1840-53 ; a member of the house of delegates of Virginia, 1851-52 ; president of the Bank of Wheeling, 1853-58 ; president of the Crescent iron works, 1858-61 ; a delegate to the state seces- sion convention of 1861, and voted against the ordinance of secession ; a member of the Wheel-