HUBBARD, E. P.

HUBBARD, WICK, HALL, GREEN

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Date: 12/9/2001 at 09:05:50

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF De Witt TWP.
From the book "The History of Clinton County Iowa" by L. P. Allen (1879) pgs 736-751

E. P. HUBBARD, lumber and coal dealer, De Witt; born in Halifax Co., Va., in 1818 his parents, Clark and Lucy Hubbard, removed to Tennessee when he was 2 years of age; he married, in 1843, Susan Donelson, a native of Kentucky; he removed to Kentucky in 1844. Mrs. Hubbard died in 1849; have three children by first marriage-Ann, who married Mr. J. E. Wick; Mary, now Mrs. E. Hall, and Lewis. The daughters are residents of Kansas; Lewis, of Illinois. In 1854, Mr. Hubbard married Martha Green, a native of Kentucky; have two children by second marriage-George N. and Henry C. Mr. Hubbard engaged in the grocery trade when he came to De Witt, afterward in the livestock and grain business; he went to California in 1850, and engaged in mining; returned in 1852; he went to California again, in 1875, for the benefit of his health; returned with health improved.