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Hubbard was born in Hallowell, Maine, December 20, 1838. He was the son of John Hubbard, later governor of Maine, and Sarah Hodge (Barrett) Hubbard.
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Businessman lawyer military philanthropist
Hubbard was born in Hallowell, Maine, December 20, 1838. He was the son of John Hubbard, later governor of Maine, and Sarah Hodge (Barrett) Hubbard.
He prepared for college at Hallowell Academy, and then attended Bowdoin, graduating in 1857. After a trip with his father to survey the fishing boundaries of the northeast coast, he studied law in an office in Hallowell. He graduated from the Albany Law School.
He taught in the Hallowell Academy. In 1860 he was admitted to the Maine bar and then to the New York bar in 1861, whereupon he entered the employ of the firm of Barney, Butler & Parsons.
On the outbreak of the Civil War he desired to enlist, but family pressure held him back until September 1862, when he joined the 25th Maine Infantry and became first lieutenant. In 1863 he became lieutenant-colonel of the 30th Maine Infantry. In the Red River campaign he was among those cited for distinguished service under Joseph Bailey in building the dams at Alexandria (War of the Rebellion: Official Records, Army, 1 ser. , XXXIV, pt. 1, p. 221). In May 1864 he was made colonel, and in the fall of that year was transferred to the Army of the Shenandoah, under Sheridan. At the end of the war he was given the brevet rank of brigadier-general of volunteers.
Resuming the practice of law in New York City, he again (1867) entered the firm of Barney, Butler & Parsons, which changed its name in 1874 to Butler, Stillman & Hubbard. In 1888 he began gradually to withdraw from practice to manage, with his partner Thomas E. Stillman, the property Mrs. E. F. Searles had inherited from her first husband, Mark Hopkins, one of the associates of C. P. Huntington. Since this property included a considerable interest in the Southern Pacific railroad system and other related concerns, Hubbard became identified with a variety of enterprises, although his chief interest was in railroads. He had already participated in the reorganization of the Wabash Railroad, of which he was a director from 1889 until his death.
He was president of the Houston & Texas Central Railroad in 1894, a vice-president of the Southern Pacific in 1896, and president of the Mexican International in 1897. In 1899 and 1900 he disposed of his interest in these properties and increased it in others, including the Pacific Improvement Company, which owned the Guatemala Central Railroad. Hubbard extended this road and in 1912 sold it to the International Railways of Central America. From 1902 to 1904 he was chairman, and after 1904, president, of the International Banking Corporation, operating chiefly in the Far East, which was fiscal agent for the United States in the collection of the Boxer indemnity and was a part of a syndicate which through the Philippine Railway Company built railroads, under a concession, on the islands of Panay and Cebu.
Aside from professional and business activities, he was chiefly interested in Bowdoin College, to which in 1900 he gave a library building. He was one of its overseers, 1874-89, and a trustee from 1889 until his death. He was a trustee of the Albany Law School, where in 1902 he endowed a lecture course in legal ethics. This was a subject in which he took great interest, being particularly active through the New York State Bar Association and the American Bar Association in bringing about the adoption of a code of ethics. At the time of his death he was commander in chief of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion.
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From 1907 till he died he was president of the Peary Arctic Club, which helped finance and advertise Peary's expeditions. In this connection, with H. C. Mitchell and C. P. Duvall he published a pamphlet, To Students of Arctic Exploration.
He was married, January 28, 1868, to Sibyl A. Fahnestock of Harrisburg, Pa. , who, with three of their five children, survived him.