Whiteside County IL Archives Biographies.....Hubbard, Solomon 
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Author: Portrait/Bio Album, Whiteside County IL 1885

Solomon Hubbard, lumber  merchant at Rock Falls, was born in Thetford, Orange 
Co., Vt., Oct. 28, 1817, being the sixth in a family of 12 children. His 
parents were Josiah and Cynthia (Cummings) Hubbard, of Connecticut, and 
followers of farming pursuits. He received a fine education in the academies 
of his native town, and assisted his father on the farm until 18 years of age, 
when for three years he was a clerk in a store. He then opened a general stock 
of goods in Strafford, Vt., continuing in mercantile business there about two 
years; likewise in Thetford two years. Selling out, he came to Dover, Bureau 
Co., Ill., in 1848, where he was a merchant 15 years. He sold his stock there 
and followed the same business in Rockford, Ill., for eight months. Next, he 
was a resident of Dover again, four years, dealing in real estate; and 
finally, in 1869, he moved to Sterling, where for the first five years he was 
engaged in the sale of dry goods. He sold out, and for four years afterward he 
purchased a stock of groceries and was a dealer in that line one year; then 
dealt in real estate until 1882, when he purchased the lumber yard and stock 
of Wheeler & Brown, of Rock Falls, in the management of which he and his two 
sons, Harry F. and Arthur G., are now engaged, employing two other men as 
assistants. Their sales aggregate $50,000 or more per year. His first 
residence, consisting of a house and two lots on Second Street, he sold, and 
in 1883 bought another house and two lots, on the same street, for $6,000, 
where he now resides. Mr. Hubbard was married Sept. 23, 1845, at Randolph, 
Mass., to Miss Amanda N. Belcher, a native of Vermont. They have had seven 
children, four of whom are living,—Harry F., Frederick B., Arthur G. and Emma 
A. Frederick B. married Lulu Brown, of St. Joseph, Mo., and they reside in 
Sterling, where Mr. H. is engaged in the furniture business of Dill & Co. In 
his political views, Mr. Hubbard, the subject of the foregoing-sketch, is a 
Republican.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Whiteside County, Illinois, Containing Full-
page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens of the County. Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1885.

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