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of the Brooklyn art association, and has travelled and studied extensively in France and England. Among his earlier works are "Mansfield Mountain at Sunset," "Showery Day at Lake George," " Meadows near Utica," "Twilight," " High Peak, North Conway," and "Vermont Hills." He ex- hibited at the Centennial of 1876 " The Coming Storm," " Early Autumn," and " Glimpse of the Adirondacks " ; and at the National academy " Hartford, Conn." (1882) ; " Afternoon in Summer (1884) ; " Down on the Meadows " and " The Wa- tering-Place"' (1885); "Lake Cazenovia," "The Old Mill at Coxsackie," and "The Head of the Dam, Mount Moore, N. Y." (1886).


HUBBARD, Samuel, jurist, b. in Boston, Mass., 2 June, 1785 ; d. there, 24 Dec, 1847. He was graduated at Yale in 1802, studied law, and settled in Biddeford, Me. In 1810 he returned to Boston, and became a partner of his former law tutor, Judge Charles Jackson. His ability and character won him the foremost place at the bar. From 1842 until his death he was a judge of the supreme court of Massachusetts. Harvard con- ferred on him the degree of LL. D. in 1842.


HUBBARD, Samuel Dickinson, congressman, b. in Middletown, Conn., 10 Aug., 1799 ; d. there, 8 Oct., 1855. He was graduated at Yale in 1819, and studied law, but, on inheriting a large property, engaged in manufacturing. In 1845-'9 he served in congress as a Whig, and in 1852-'3 was post- master-general. For many years he was president of the Middletown Bible society, and was a gener- ous contributor to benevolent and educational en- terprises. Wesleyan university conferred upon him the degree of LL. D. in 1854.


HUBBARD, Thomas, physician, b. in Smith- field, R. I., in 1776; d. in New Haven, Conn., 16 June, 1838. He received his medical instruction from Dr. Albigense Waldo, a surgeon in the IT. S. army, and was for thirty-four years a physician in Pomfret, Conn., his practice extending into the bordering towns of Rhode Island and Massachu- setts. He was several times in the legislature, and once in the state senate, was president of the Con- necticut medical society, active in the establish- ment of deaf, dumb, blind, and insane asylums, and, during the last year of his life, was engaged, by authority of the legislature, in establishing a hospital for the insane poor. In 1829 he removed to New Haven, and occupied the chair of surgery at Yale until his death.


HUBBARD, William, clergyman, b. in Eng- land in 1621 ; d. in Ipswich, Mass., 14 Sept., 1704. He emigrated with his parents to this country in 1630, and was graduated at Harvard in 1642. In 1665 he was ordained, and became first assistant and then pastor of the Congregational church in Ipswich, Mass., continuing in this charge till 1703, when age compelled his resignation. He is repre- sented to have been " hospitable, amiable, equal to any of his contemporaries in learning and candor, and superior to all as a writer." His " History of New England," for which the state of Massachu- setts paid him £50, was saved from the flames by Dr. Andrew Eliot, in the attack on Gov. Thomas Hutchinson's house by the mob in August, 1765, and presented by Dr. Eliot's son to the Massa- chusetts historical society, by whom it was printed in 1815. Mr. Hubbard's other works are " A Narra- tive of Troubles with the Indians " (Boston, 1677) ; " Sermons " (1684) ; and " Testimony of the Order of the Gospel in Churches " (1701).


HUBBELL, Jay Abel, lawyer, b. in Avon, Mich., 15 Sept., 1820. He was graduated at the University of Michigan in 1853, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1855, when he re- moved to Ontonagon, Mich. He was elected dis- trict attorney of the upper peninsular in 1857, and again in 1859. He removed to Houghton, Mich., in 1860, and was elected prosecuting attorney of Houghton county in 1861, 1863, and 1865. He practised law till 1870. He was elected to congress as a Republican, and re-elected four times, serving from 1873 till 1883, and being a member of the committees on banking and currency, and on com- merce, appropriations, and ways and means, lie declined a renomination, but served in the Michi- gan senate in 1885 and 1887. He has been largely identified with mineral interests in northern Michi- gan, and was active in establishing the Michigan mining-school, a state institution, in Houghton.


HUBBELL, Levi, jurist, b. in Ballston, N. Y., 15 April, 1808 ; d. in Milwaukee, Wis., 8 Dec, 1876. He was graduated at Union in 1827, after which he studied law. He was adjutant-general of the state from 1833 till 1836, and in 1841 was a mem- ber of the assembly. In 1844 he removed to Wis- consin, and became a Democratic politician. He was elected judge of the 2d judicial circuit, and served as chief justice of the supreme court for one year. Impeachment proceedings were instituted against him in 1853, but the trial resulted in his acquittal. In 1856 he resigned his judgeship. He was elected to the assembly in 1864 as a war Demo- crat, and held the office of U. S. district attorney from 1871 till 1875.


HUBBELL, Martha Stone, author, b. in Ox- ford, Conn., in 1814 ; d. in North Stonington, Conn., in 1856. She was the daughter of Dr. Noah Stone, and married Rev. Stephen Hubbell in 1832. She wrote children's stories for the American and Massachusetts Sunday-school Union, and " The Shady Side, or Life in a Country Parsonage, by a Pastor's Wife " (Boston, 1853). This was intended as a counterpart to Mrs. Phelps's " Sunny Side," and 40,000 copies were sold in a year.


HUBBELL, William, pioneer, b. in Vermont about 1750 ; d. in Scott county,' Ky., about 1835. He served five years and a half in the Revolution- ary army as private, sergeant, and lieutenant, -taking part in the capture of St. John and Montreal and in several skirmishes. After the close of the war he removed to Kentucky and settled in Scott county, where he resided until his death at an un- usually advanced age. He is chiefly noted for his contest with a band of Indians as he was returning to Kentucky from the east. His party numbered twenty. After passing Pittsburg he thought he saw traces of Indians along the banks of the Ohio, which suspicion was confirmed by information at Gallipolis. Having been appointed regular com- mander of the flat-bottomed boat in which they voyaged, Capt. Hubbell divided the nine men into three night-watches. Early in the night an Indian canoe was seen, and more evidence of the approach of hostile savages. On the following morning, 24 March, 1791, they were attacked by Indians in large canoes. Each man took his position, having been ordered not to fire till the savages were so near that " the flash from the guns might singe their eyebrows." After a bloody conflict, only two of the nine men .escaping unhurt, they reached Limestone. The fleet, which they had passed the night before the battle, arrived the next day, the Indians having suffered it to sail unmolested. It is believed that after Hubbell's encounter no boat on the Ohio was ever attacked by Indians.


HUBLEY, Adam, soldier, b. in Lancaster county, Pa., 9 Jan., 1740 ; d. in Philadelphia in May, 1798. He was commissioned as major of the