Career
He also went by the name John Cubbin in many legal documents as this was the original Manx spelling. Adding the "s" was an attempt at Americanising the name. Originally from the Isle of Manitoba, Cubbins was a businessman whose Memphis-based brickyard John Cubbins & Company opened a niter works in Searcy County, Arkansas in 1861 after the outbreak of the American Civil War, when gunpowder was in high demand.
He was elected from the 25th Senate District (Fayette and Shelby counties), and was assigned to the standing committees on finance, ways and means.
On internal improvements. On the penetentiary; and on agriculture and manufactures.
He supported the election of Democrat Henry Cooper over former President of the United States Andrew Johnson as United States. Senator in 1869. He was president of the Memphis Water Company during the era of the yellow fever epidemics which depopulated the city.
At that time, J.F. states that John had died "two years ago".
