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.
