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Hubbard, Thomas H – Hudder, Clinton L

Hubbard, Thomas H

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in 1780, in New Haven, Conn. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1817 to 1819, and from 1821 to 1823. He was presidential elector in 1812, 1844, and 1852. He died May 22, 1857, in Utica, N. Y.

Hubbell, Edwin N

congressman, was born Aug. 13, 1815, in Coxsackie, N.

Y. In 1864 he was elected a representative from New York to the thirty-ninth congress.

Hubbell, Frederick M

railroad president, was born Jan. 17, 1839, in Huntington, Conn. He is president of the Des Moines Union railway; and also of the Des Moines Northern and Western railway.

Hubbell, James R

lawyer, congressman, was born in 1824, in Delaware county, Ohio. He served four times in the state legislature, twice as speaker of the house; and was a presidential elector in 1856. In 1864 he was elected a representative from Ohio to the thirty-ninth congress.

Hubbell, Jay A

lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 15, 1829, in Avon, Mich. He was elected district attorney of the upper peninsula in 1857 and 1859.

He removed to Houghton, Mich., in 1860; and was elected prosecuting attorney in 1861, 1863, and 1865. He was elected to the forty-third congress, and re-elected to the forty-fourth, forty-fifth, forty-sixth, and forty-seventh congresses as a republican.

Hubbell, Sidney A

lawyer, jurist, was born in Connecticut. He moved to New Mexico; and was appointed an associate justice of the United States court for that territory, residing at Santa Fe.

Hubbell, William S

congressman, was born in New York. He was a member of the assembly of that state in 1841; and was a representative in congress from 1843 to 1845.

Hubbs, Orlando

congressman, was born Feb. 18, 1840, in New York. He settled at New Berne, N. C.; and was elected a representative from North Carolina to the forty-seventh congress as a republican.

Hubley, Adam

soldier, state senator, author, was born Jan. 9, 1740, in Lancaster county, Pa. He was commissioned as major of the tenth Pennsylvania regiment in 1776; commanded the eleventh regiment, with the rank of lieutenantcolonel from 1779, and retired in 1781. From 1783 till 1789 he was a member of the assembly, and in 1790 a state senator.

His Journal of Events in 1779 was published in the Pennsylvania Archives. He died in May, 1798, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Hubley, Edward B

congressman.

He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1835 to 1839. He died Feb. 23, 1856, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Hubner, Charles William

soldier, journalist, author, poet, was born Jan. 16, 1835, in Baltimore, Md. He is a journalist of Atlanta; and the author of Souvenirs of Luther; Poems and Essays; Modern Communism; Wild Flowers, a book of verse; and Cinderella, and Prince and Fairy, two lyrical dramas.

Hudder, Clinton L

journalist, was born Oct. 23, 1866, in Tiffin, Ohio. He is the editor and owner of The Times of North Baltimore, Ohio.

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