Capt. C. B. Hubbard Biography


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CAPTAIN C. B. HUBBARD. The agricultural and stock dealing interests of 
Raymond township, Clark county, find an excellent representative in the 
gentleman above named. His fine estate consists of one hundred and 
sixty acres, is well improved and is situated admirably for the general 
farming in which he is engaged. His home is on section 10, and here he 
is passing his maturer years enjoying the comforts of well-merited 
success. As a public spirited citizen he has the respect of his fellow 
men, and is one of the pioneer settlers of that region whose influence 
for the upbuilding of his community has been wielded with a zeal worthy 
more than passing mention. 

Captain Hubbard is a native of Monroe county, New York, and was born 
July 4, 1827, and was the oldest in a family of eight children born to 
Solomon and Serepta (Stone) Hubbard. His parents were of English 
ancestry, and his great-grandfather was killed at Quebec during the 
Revolutionary war. The father of our subject lived to the age of 
eighty-four years, and the mother passed away at the age of ninety two 
years. 

Our subject settled near Cleveland, Ohio, with his parents when a 
child, and afterward, at the age of eleven years, moved with them as 
pioneer settlers of Whiteside county, Illinois. Here he grew to manhood 
and engaged in farming, and in 1850 went to California, where he 
followed mining for twelve years. He returned to Illinois in 1862 and 
at once enlisted as sergeant of Company B, Seventy-filth Illinois 
Volunteer Infantry. He was engaged at Perryville, where he was slightly 
wounded in the thigh. Later, at Stone river, his superior officer was 
disabled and our subject had charge of his company during the last part 
of the fight and was wounded severely in the neck, and confined to the 
hospital at Nashville. He was discharged and sent home and upon his 
arrival found himself promoted to the rank of captain. Recovering from 
his wound he raised Company G, One Hundred and Fifty-sixth Volunteer 
Infantry, which he commanded, serving about six months, when the 
company was discharged, September 20, 1865. He returned to Whiteside 
county, Illinois, and in March, 1882, went to Dakota, and in May of 
that year located on his present farm. 

Our subject was married in 1864 to Hannah E. Morris. Captain and Mrs. 
Hubbard have been the parents of three children : Orson D.; Nellie V., 
now Mrs. N. V. Humphrey, and is the mother of a son, Adon H.; and Earl. 

Captain Hubbard is a member of the G. A. R. and the Presbyterian 
church. He has served in several important commissions, including the 
territorial commission. As a delegate from the Farmers' Alliance at 
Huron he assisted in the organization of the Populist party, since 
which time he has been an advocate of the principles of reform.. He is 
a prohibitionist and favors equal suffrage. He was elected to a seat in 
the territorial legislature in 1886 at Bismarck, and did faithful 
service for his locality and the welfare of the people. He is a man of 
whom Clark county may well be proud, and he well merits his success. A 
portrait of Captain Hubbard appears on another page of this volume.