WALTER HUBBARD
Arizona-The Youngest State, pg 590

One of the worthy representatives of the commercial interests 
of Bisbee is Walter G. Hubbard, who, with J.J. Bowen is 
engaged in the livery and undertaking business and they are 
also owners of the Bisbee Automobile Company.  He was born 
in Allen County, Kansas, in 1873 and is a son of John C. and 
Olive Hubbard, natives of Indiana.  The parents made their 
home in the latter state until shortly after their marriage, 
when they removed to Allen County, Kansas, where the father 
bought land and engaged in agricultural pursuits.  He 
subsequently located in Cherokee County, Kansas where is 
served as recorder of deeds and he takes an active interest 
in the success of the democratic party. He is now living 
retired in Galena, where the mother passed away in 1888.  
Our subject is the third in order of birth in a family of 
seven children, six of whom are still living.

Reared in the paternal home, the education of Walter G. 
Hubbard was acquired in the public schools of his native 
state, where he subsequently learned the undertaking 
business. He resided in Kansas until he was twenty six 
years of age, when he came to Bisbee.  During the first 
eight months of his residence here he worked in the Copper 
Queen Mines but at the expiration of that time took over 
the management of the B.F. Graham Undertaking Company. He 
remained in their employ for a year and then bought an 
interest in the business, which he disposed of at the end 
of another year.  Next he bought a half interest in the 
livery business of J.J. Bowen and at the same time they 
also established an undertaking parlor.  Success attended 
their efforts in the development of both enterprises and 
in 1909 they further extended the scope of their activities 
by founding the Bisbee Automobile Company.  They have the 
agency for Cochise County for the Studebaker and Velie 
trucks and pleasure cars, in connection with which they 
maintain a repair department, carrying a full stock of 
automobile accessories.  Their business in this line, 
like in the undertaking department, is among the leading 
ones of the state.  The latter includes a well appointed 
chapel and auto hearse and also an auto ambulance and a 
complete modern and up to date equipment in accordance 
with the latest scientific conduct of the undertaking 
business.

The firm own practically all the substantial and strongly 
organized commercial concern of the city.  Mr. Hubbard owns 
his residence in Bisbee, also a tract of land in Dade County, 
Florida and is the proprietor of the Pawnee Mill and Elevator 
Company, located at Pawnee, Oklahoma, where he likewise owns 
a farm of two hundred and sixty acres in the vicinity of the 
Cleveland oil district, Pawnee County and he is a stockholder 
in the Hubbard Mining and Milling Company, twelve miles from 
Joplin, Missouri.  Included in Mr. Hubbard's business 
interests, aside from those already mentioned, is his 
connection with many Arizona projects. In 1915 he was 
one of the incorporators of the Bisbee Copper Development 
& Mining Company, of which he is now treasurer and he was 
also one of the incorporators of the Gila Land and Water 
Company of which he is both secretary and treasurer.

In June 1903 Mr. Hubbard was married to Miss Katheryne M. 
Hanley, whose birth occurred in Tombstone in 1884.  She was 
a daughter of Daniel and Annie Hanley, the father a native 
of Massachusetts and the mother of Wales.  They were married 
at Fall River, Mass. where they made their home until 1877 
when they removed to California. In 1881 they came to 
Arizona and have since been residents of this state, the 
father now living retired in Bisbee.  Mrs. Hubbard, who 
passed way on the 28th of January, 1907, was the second 
in order of birth in a family of seven children, five of 
whom are still living.  She was the mother of one son, 
John Clabourne, who was born on the 9th of January 1907. 
On the 17th of October 1908, Mr. Hubbard married Miss 
Elora Harper, a native of Logan Kansas, in which state 
she was reared and educated, being graduated from the 
Galena high school.  She is the eldest of three children 
born to Mr. and Mrs. David L. Harper, who now reside at 
Pawnee Oklahoma, where the father has the management of 
Mr. Hubbard's mill. He was born in Iowa but his wife is 
a native of Sweden. To Mr. Hubbard and his second wife 
has been born one son, George whose natal day was the 
29th of November 1909.

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