284 THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



The following - account of Mr. Hubbard's life is taken 

 from a Middletown daily paper : 



J. M. Hubbard was a native of Middletown and born near to 

 where he died on July 16, 1832. He was 77 years, 5 months and 

 4 days old. He was twice married, surviving both wives. He 

 leaves a son, Robert, by his first wife. He also had three sisters, 

 Mrs. James H. Bunce, of this city, Miss M. Louise Hubbard, 

 who resided with him, and Mrs. J. W. Hubbard, of Greene, Ohio. 



He was a pupil at the famous school of Daniel Chase, about 

 1847-8. In 1865 he went to Kansas and became a very prominent 

 figure in that state. He was unalterably opposed to slavery, and 

 resisted with his best effort the attempt of Missouri to force slav- 

 ery on to Kansas. He was a member of the first Kansas state 

 senate and had he chosen to remain in that state would have be- 

 come one of its leading citizens. The death of his brother at 

 the battle of Antietam and of his father, Josiah M. Hubbard, in- 

 duced him to return to Middletown. While in Kansas the Civil 

 War broke out and Mr. Hubbard enlisted as a private in Com- 

 pany K, 11 Kansas Cavalry, on Sept. 8, 1862, for three years, and 

 was discharged as first lieutenant at Fort Leavenworth on Sept. 

 13, 1865, by reason of expiration of term of service. 



He was disabled at White River, Ark., January, 1863, by 

 typhoid. He was in the hospital at Springfield, Mo., in February, 

 1863, and at Rolla, Mo., in June of the same year. He served 

 as brigade commissary, regimental and brigade cpuarter-master, 

 acting adjutant of Post and Regimental A. A. A. G. on the staff 

 of the commanding general. He was prominent in Grand Army 

 circles and Joined Mansfield Post, on March 30, 1882, and was 

 representative to N. E. in 1887. 



While in Kansas, Mr. Hubbard studied law with the idea of 

 taking that up as a profession, but the death of near relatives 

 changed his plans. He was a ready and forceful speaker, with 

 a remarkable command of language. He was direct and logical 

 in his utterances and no one was heard with greater pleasure at 

 social gatherings or on more important occasions than Mr. Hub- 

 bard. He was the sort of a man calculated to make a success in 

 any walk of life. 



Mr. Hubbard was descended in both the paternal and mater- 

 nal line from George Hubbard, one of the original settlers of 

 Hartford, who came to Middletown in 1650 and founded this 

 town. He had held a number of town offices and at the time of 

 his death was a member of the town school board. He had rep- 



