C. W. Hubbard Biography

	This biography appears on page 573 in "History of Minnehaha 
	County, South Dakota" by Dana R. Bailey and was scanned, OCRed 
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HUBBARD, C. W., was born at Vernon, Windham county, Vermont, February 22, 1849.  
He received a good education, and when he was twenty-one years of age commenced 
business for himself the vicinity of his birth-place.  In 1875 he located in St. 
Paul, a became secretary for J. H. Drake, then connected with the land 
department of the Omaha railroad company. In 1880 he came to Sioux Falls, and 
was secretary of the Queen Bee Mill company while the building was in the 
process of construction, and when complete was its superintendent for a few 
months.  He next engaged in an extensive stone business, getting out paving 
blocks and stone for building purposes, and he also built several large public 
buildings by contract.  In 1890 he was elected to the lower house of the 
legislature of South Dakota, and in 1894 was elected sheriff of Minnehaha 
county; was again nominated by the Republican party in 1896, but the whole 
ticket was defeated.  In January, 1897, he removed to Chicago, Illinois.  He is 
a genial, kind hearted man, an enterprising citizen, and has a host of friends.