Hubbert & Vernon

HUBBERT, VERNON

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 2/18/2013 at 07:47:23

The History of Poweshiek County, Iowa
Des Moines: Union Hist. Co., 1880.

HUBBERT & VERNON—Malcom Twp—pg 864-5. Lumber and grain dealers, Malcom. This firm is composed of F.P. Hubbert and W.A. Vernon, and is one of the best known firms to do business with on the entire line of the C., R.I.&P.R.R. These gentleman are both highly respected citizens of the community. Mr. Vernon was the first mayor elected in the city and Mr. Hubbert is the present incumbent of that office. W.A. Vernon is one of the early settlers of the village, having engaged in hotel keeping on the west side of Main Street in a very early day and was afterward engaged in the same business in which he is now engaged with J.B. Buttles, of Iowa City, as a partner, after which he sold out and removed to Richmond, Virginia, and engaged for a time in the practice of medicine, but owing to his strong Northern sentiments he was not congenial society for the Richmond element and chose to return to Iowa. Mr. Vernon was born in the State of Ohio, where he was brought up and educated and where he continued to live until the breaking out of the Rebellion, in 1861, when he entered the army, enlisting in the Seventh-eighth Ohio volunteer infantry, in which he served for three years and was engaged in some of the most severely fought battles of the war, among which were Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Siege of Corinth, march on Holly Springs, Mississippi, and many other, besides the ever memorable campaign of Sherman in Georgia and the march to the sea. Mr. Hubbert is a German by birth and education, is a fine accountant and business man, and is regarded by his neighbors as one of the best men in the county. He was formerly engaged in the mercantile business in Wilton Junction, Iowa, where he had secured for himself and family a comfortable home and a nice business, as well as many friends. But like many others, he was unfortunate, and at the time of the great fire in that city lost heavily. Mr. Hubbert is a member of the M.E. Church and is regarded as a true Christian man. He is also a member of the Masonic fraternity, having often been called to officiate in important official positions.