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Charles Hubbard, 

 Chicken Breeder, 

 Dies in Cos Cob 



Well-known Poultry Fancier 



Found Dead in Yard, Victim 



of Cerebral Hemorrhage. 



Charles Henry Hubbard, inter- 

 nationally known as > a chicken 

 breeder and fancier, was foun( 

 dead last night in his chickei 

 yard near his home on Glendali 

 St., in Cos Cob. Dr. John A 

 Clarke, Greenwich medical exam 

 , iner, declared that death was dju 

 -J to a cerebral hemorrhage eigh 

 ^ to 10 hours before. 



Mr. Hubbard, who worked as i 

 ', lobby man in the Citizens Sav 

 ings Bank in Stamford, was th( 

 I ongmator of two breeds of do 

 Jt mestic poultry, the Foxhurst Rain 

 - bow and the Connecticut Peerless 

 He worked for 35 years to de r 

 -he Rainhow and naa won manj 

 trophies in this country aiK 

 abroad. The Peeiiess, a more re- 

 cent development, has been shown 

 only for the last several years, 

 Found in Snow. 

 When he failed to come home 

 for dinner last ni^ht, Mrs. Hub- 

 bard called her daughter, Mrsj 

 Harry T. Smith, at her home on 

 Whitaker St., Stamford. Mr 

 Smith found him at about 9:30, 

 lying in the snow in the chicken 

 yard about 300 feet from his 

 home. 



A native of Glastonbury, the 

 son of the late Annie Cbapman 

 and the late Henry Hubbard, Mr. 

 Hubbard passed his youth in 

 Glastonbury and Limestone. Al- 

 ready well-known for his work 

 with chickens, he came to Cos 

 Cob 22 years ago to work for A. 

 C. Robertson. 



Worked in Bank. 

 On Mr. Robertson's death, he 

 started to work with Clayton S. 

 Purdy, president of the Citizens 

 Pavmgs Bank, on Mr. Purdy's 

 Black Orpingtons. Through him, 



I^e became associated with the 

 ■bank, where he worked until yes- 

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He was a m.ember of 

 me Jtteamen in Limerock. 



Surviving him are his widow, 

 Margaret A. Hubbard; two daugh- 

 ters, Mrs. Smith of Stamford and 

 Mrs. Robert McGould of Cos Cob; 

 four grandchildren. A son, 

 Charles, jr., died in 1921. Two 

 brothers, George R. Hubbard of 

 Meriden and Watson Hubbard of 

 Stamford and two sisters, Mrs. 

 Jqseph Thomas of Meriden and 

 Mrs. Charles Strit of Bridgeport, 

 also survive. 



Funeral service wUl be held 

 from the late home, Monday 

 mormng, at 8:30, followed bv n 

 requiem Mass at St. Catherine's 

 Church at 9. Burial will be in 

 j Falls Village, Conn. 



Date Due 



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