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Hubbell, Levi

lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was born April 15, 1808, in Ballston, N. Y. He was elected judge of the second judicial circuit of Wisconsin, and served as chief justice of the supreme court for one year. He was elected to the assembly in 1864 as a war democrat, and held the office of United States district attorney from 1871 till 1875. He died Dec. 8, 1876, in Milwaukee, Wis.

HUBBELL, MRS. MARTHA [STONE], author, was born in 1814, in Oxford, Conn.

She was a writer of religious juveniles, and of The Shady Side, or Life in a Country Parsonage, which for a time enjoyed an extraordinary popularity. She died in 1856, in North Stonington, Conn.

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