Hubner

contrivances which might have market value,
and on May 20, 1902, he obtained patents No.
700,496, No. 700,497, and No, 700,650 for an
electric time alarm, electric battery, and small
electric lamp, respectively. The last two are the
basic patents of the electric flashlight of today.
While Hubert had great difficulty at first in es-
tablishing a market for his new products, suc-
cess eventually crowned his efforts and yielded
him a fortune. As the business grew, he or-
ganized the American Ever Ready Company in
New York and conducted its affairs in the ca-
pacity of president He continued to make and
patent improvements on his "portable electric
light" until 1914, when he sold the entire busi-
ness to the National Carbon Company of Cleve-
land, Ohio. Subsequently, he formed the Yale
Electric Corporation, and at the time of his death
was the chairman of its board of directors. He
was a retiring man and had but few friends. By
his will, however, three-quarters of his entire es-
tate of about $8,000,000 was bequeathed to un-
named organizations that serve the public wel-
fare. By the unanimous decision of Calvin
Coolidge, Alfred E. Smith, and Julius Rosen-
wald, composing the committee of three selected
by Hubert's executors to decide on the distri-
bution of the bequest, thirty-three American in-
stitutions devoted to charitable, religious, medi-
cal, and educational needs shared in the estate.
Hubert married late in life (1914), and was
divorced in 1927. He died in Cannes, France,
and was buried in New York.

tAm. Hebrew, Jan. 3, 1930; Jewish Tribune, Jan. 10,
1930; Literary Digest; Jan. 25, 1930; N. Y. Times,
Jan. 12, 1930, Mar. 18, 1928; N. Y. Herald Tribune,
Mar. 18, 1928; Patent Office records.] C. W.M.

HUBNER, CHARLES WILLIAM (Jan. 16,
i835-Jan. 3, 1929), poet, son of John Adam and
Margaret Semmilroch Hubner, was bora in Bal-
timore, Md., and died in Atlanta, Ga. His par-
ents, both of whom were Bavarians, came to
America shortly after their marriage and settled
in Baltimore. They prospered, and when Charles
was eighteen, his mother took him with her to
Germany. From his childhood he had mani-
fested a bent for anything having to do with the
arts. He had long been writing poetry, and a
Boston periodical had published a composition
of his called "A Threnody on the Death of
Thomas Moore." Germany proved to be some-
what of a paradise to him, and for six years he
studied music and painting before he was ready
to return to America. Home again, he found a
position teaching music at the Tennessee Female
Academy in Fayetteville, Tenn, The Civil War
disintegrated the Hubner family. The mother

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went to her home in Bavaria, never to return;
the father entered the Union army and was killed
at Shiloh. Charles entered the Confederate army
and at length became a major in the telegraph
corps. Soon after the war he settled in Atlanta
and maintained himself by doing free-lance work
at one time or another for all the Atlanta papers
and for the Christian Index. Also he derived
some additional income—extremely little, it is to
be feared—from his post as associate librarian
for the Young Men's Library Association, and
from the books which he began publishing in
1873. In 1877 he married Mary Frances Whit-
ney of Atlanta, and in 1896 he was made assist-
ant librarian at the most important public li-
brary in Atlanta, a position which he held for
twenty years. His published works include sev-
eral volumes of poetry; an adulatory biography,
Historical Souvenirs of Martin Luther (1873) J
one political essay, Modern Communism (1880) ;
one anthology, War Poets of the South (1896) ;
and one critical volume, perhaps his most
valuable work, Representative Southern Poets
(1906). Of his poetry, the earliest volume, Wild
Flowers (1877), contains a blank-verse play,
"The Maid of San Domingo/' adapted from the
German; Cinderella or the Silver Slipper (1879)
is a lyrical drama. What remains is for the most
part conventional—apostrophes to spring and
moonlight and water-falls, to Sidney Lamer and
even to Walt Whitman. His last book, betoken-
ing a serene and worthy life, is entitled: Poems
of Faith and Consolation (1927). In the year
before his death Hubner was honored by having
the Poetry Society of his section formally pro-
claim him poet-laureate of the South.

[Sources include: A. D. CancBer and C, A. Evans,
Georgia (Atlanta, 1906); M. L, Rutherford, The South
m Hist, and Lit. (1907) ; Thornwell Jacobs, The Oglf~
thorfy Book of Ga. Verse (1930); Who's Who in
America, 1926-27; Atlanta Jour., Jan. 3, 1929; At-
lanta Constitution, Jan. 4, 1929.} J.D.W,

HUDDE, ANDRIES (i6o&-Nov. 4, 1663),
surveyor, Dutch commander on the Delaware,
was born at Kampen, in the province of Overys-
sel, Netherlands, but he was doubtless connected
with the Hudde family of Amsterdam. His fa-
ther, Hendrick Hudde, died in the Dutch East
Indies while Andries was still under age; his
mother, Aeltje Schinckels, resided in 1639 at
Amsterdam. In 1629 Andries Hudde emigrated
to New Netherland and in 1632 he hdd the office
of commissary of stores. He was afterward a
member of Wottter van Twiner's council aad
also acted as colonial secretary. In 1636 he aiad
Wolphert Gerritsen van Cotiwenhoven obtained
an Indian deed for a tract of laud of about 3*600
acres on Long Island, and two years later Htrfde

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