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Hoyt, Thomas Rowell – Hubbard, J. Lorenzo

Hoyt, Thomas Rowell

civil engineer, manufacturer, poet, was born Oct. 21, 1811, in Goffstown, N. H. He is a noted civil engineer and a manufacturer of mathematical instruments in his native city. He has published a volume of poems entitled Hoyt's Harp.

Hoyt, Wayland

clergyman, author, was born Feb. 18, 1838, in Cleveland, Ohio. He has filled pastorates in Cincinnati, Brooklyn, Minneapolis and Philadelphia, and is the author of Hints and Helps for the Christian Life; Present Lessons from Distant Days; Gleams from Paul's Prison; The Brook in the Way; Saturday Afternoon; and Light on Life's Highway.

Hubard, Edmund W

congressman, was born in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1841 to 1847.

Hubbard, Asahel Wheeler

lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born Jan. 18, 1819, in Haddam, Conn.

In 1847 he was elected to the Indiana legislature, and served three years. In 1857 he removed to Iowa, and was chosen judge of the fourth judicial district of that state.

In 1862 he was elected a representative from Iowa to the thirty-eighth congress, and re-elected to the thirty-ninth and fortieth congresses as a republican. He died Sept. 22, 1879, in Sioux City, Iowa.

Hubbard, Avory Duval

lawyer, journalist, author, was born Jan. 19, 1864, in Allen county, Kas. He received his education in the common schools of his county; and attended a course at the academy. He is the editor and owner of The Western Patriot; the author of Between Love and Duty: Stories of the Mexican War; and other works.

Hubbard, Bela

lawyer, geologist, author, was born April 23, 1814, in Hamilton, N. Y. He was a prominent lawyer and geologist of Detroit; and the author of Memorials of a Half Century; and Ancient Garden Beds of Michigan. He died in 1896.

Hubbard, Charles S

legislator, was born Sept. 1, 1829, in Milton, Ind. For four years he was a representative in the Indiana legislature from Henry county.

He has formed over fifteen thousand Bands of Mercy with a total membership of one million.

Hubbard, Chester D

merchant, banker, congressman, was born Nov. 25, 1814, in Hamden, Conn. In 1852-53 he was a member of the Virginia legislature. He served one term in the senate of West Virginia after its organization; and was the commissioner from West Virginia to the Soldiers' National cemetery. He was elected a representative from that state to the thirty-ninth congress and re-elected to the fortieth congress as a republican.

Hubbard, David

congressman, was born in 1806 in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from Alabama from 1839 to 1841, and for a second term from 1849 to 1851.

Hubbard, Demas

JR., lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Jan. 17, 1806, in Winfield, N. Y. He was for many years supervisor of Chenango county, and four years chairman of the board. From 1838 to 1840 he was a member of the state legislature; and in 1864 was elected a representative from New York to the thirty-ninth congress. He died Sept. 2, 1873, in Smyrna, N. Y.

Hubbard, Elbert

journalist, author, was born in 1856 in Illinois. He is a littérateur of East Aurora, N. Y., and editor of The Philistine. He is the author of No Enemy but Himself; Little Journeys; The Legacy, a novel; Forbes of Harvard; and One Day, a Tale of the Prairies.

Hubbard, J. Lorenzo

merchant, was born Nov. 20, 1853, in New Mexico.

In 1885-86 he was sheriff of Apache county, Arizona territory; in 1893 was a member of the territorial council; and in 1896 was alternate to the national republican convention. He is a successful merchant and Indian trader of Ganado, Arizona territory.

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