Hubbard

On Apr. 27, 1848, he married Sarah E. L.
Handy, of Washington. Ill health and pecuniary
difficulties overshadowed the home. Their only
child died in 1856, and Mrs. Hubbard four years
later. Hubbard was intensely religious, an elder
in the Presbyterian church, and city superin-
tendent of the Presbyterian Sunday schools in
Washington. There are indications that during
his later years he considered renouncing his sci-
entific labors for the ministry. After the begin-
ning of the Civil War his charity sent him to
hospitals, where he devoted whole afternoons to
the writing of letters for wounded soldiers. He
died in New Haven, whither he had gone to at-
tend a class reunion.

[Very few biographies are as sensitively and eom-
prehendingly written as that of Hubbard by B. A.
Gould, in Nat. Acad. Sci. Biog. Memoirs, vol. I (1877),
from which this account is largely taken. The family
genealogy is given in E. W. Day, One Thousand Years
of Hubbard History (1895). Obituaries appeared in
OUt. Record Grads. Yale Coll. (1864) ; Am. Jour. Sci.f
Sept 1863; Morning Jour, and Courier (New Haven),
Aug. 17, 1863.] R.S.D.

HUBBARD, KIN [See HUBBARD, FRANK Mo

KlNNEY, 1868-1930].

HUBBARD, LUCIUS FREDERICK (Jan.
26, i836-Feb. 5, 1913), soldier, governor of
Minnesota, was born in Troy, N. Y., the son of
Charles Frederick and Margaret Ann Van Val-
kenburg Hubbard, combining in his ancestry
New England and Dutch stock. In 1840, at the
death of his father, he was sent to live with an
aunt at Chester, Vt, and he attended the acad-
emy there and one at Granville, N. Y., until he
was fifteen. Thereafter he was a tinner's appren-
tice at Poultney, Vt., and Salem, N. Y., until, in
1854, he went to Chicago to practise his trade.
In 1857, as he expressed it, he "drifted into the
current of immigration that was strongly Sow-
ing westward"—& current that carried him to
Red Wing, Minn. He had brought with him
political enthusiasm, journalistic ambitions, and
an old hand printing-press with type; and he
proceeded to use all of these in launching the
Red Wing Republican on Sept. 4, 1857. Minne-
sota was in the process of becoming a state at
this time, and the newly organized but rapidly
growing Republican party was struggling to
wrest control from the entrenched Democracy*
Hubbard espoused the Republican cause in his
paper and was perhaps influential in bringing
about the victory of the party in the second state
dection in 1859. From ^58 to 1860 he was
register of deeds of Goodhue County and was
beeofmng politically known.

On Dec. 19, 1861, the yotmg newspaper editor
enlisted as a private in Company A, $th Minne-

Hubbard

sota Infantry. His rise during the next year was
rapid; he was commissioned captain of his com-
pany on Feb. 4, lieutenant-colonel on Mar. 24,
and colonel on Aug. 30. In 1863 he was given
command of a brigade, and on Dec. 16, 1864, he
was made brigadier-general by brevet for con-
spicuous gallantry in the battle of Nashville.
Among other important engagements in which
he and his command participated were the bat-
tle of Corinth, the assault and siege of Vicks-
burg, the Red River campaign, and the taking of
Mobile. At the end of the war, he returned to
Red Wing and entered the grain business, later
adding flour milling to his interests. From 1872
to 1876 he was a member of the state Senate after
which he engaged in the building and manage-
ment of local railroads. He continued to take an
active part in political campaigns, however, and
in 1881 was rewarded for his services to the
party with the Republican nomination for gov-
ernor. The party was so strong that his election
was a foregone conclusion, and he was re-
elected in 1883. Because of a constitutional
amendment changing the state elections to coin-
cide with national elections, his second term was
extended to three years.

As governor Hubbard exhibited ordinary tal-
ents and extraordinary common sense. Genuine-
ly interested in agriculture, and perhaps not un-
impressed by the current agrarian revolt, he
recommended and obtained legislation to enlarge
the powers and duties of the state railroad and
warehouse commission, to the end that discrimi-
natory freight rates and unfair grading of wheat
might be prevented. He was also instrumental
in reorganizing the State Agricultural Society
and in obtaining for it a substantial appropriation
from the legislature. At the close of his term he
retired to private life in Red Wing. His period
of public service was not, however, completed; in
1898 he was appointed brigadier-general of
United States Volunteers and given command
of the 3rd Division of the VII Army Corps at
Jacksonville, Fla., where he remained until the
muster-out of the volunteer army the following
year. From 1901 to 1911 he lived in St Paul
and thereafter in Minneapolis, where he died.
He had married, on May 17,1868, Amelia Thom-
as, the daughter of Charles Thomas of Red Wing.
Throughout his life Hubbard gave much time to
miscellaneous public service. He was a member
of the Minnesota Historical Society and a con-
tributor to its publications, and author of parts
of Minnesota in the Civil and Indian Wars (2
vols., 1890-93) and Minnesota in Three Cen-
turies (4 vok, 1908). Hubbard County, Minn.,
established in 1883, bears his name.

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