THE 



National Geographic Magazine 



Vol. IX FEBRUARY, 1898 No. 2 



GARDINER GREENE HUBBARD 



An Address delivered at the Memorial Services held at the Church 

 of the Covenant, Washington, D. C, December 13, 1897, 



By Rev. Teunis S. Hamlin, D. D. 



Our Capital city has lost its first citizen in civil life. The 

 country and the world have lost a benefactor. Science, art, in- 

 vention, discovery, the legal profession, philanthropy, broad- 

 minded and generous culture, intelligent and refined hospitality 

 are distinctly impoverished. Friendship of a pure, unselfish, 

 persistent sort will miss a noble exemplar. Family life of the 

 ideal type will have one less illustration among us. We are all 

 personally bereaved today, and feel it our right to mingle our 

 sorrows even with the more intimate grief of kindred, as we 

 gather here to pay our last tribute of respect, reverence, and love. 



Gardiner Greene Hubbard was descended from an educated 

 and gentle ancestry on both sides for many generations. Phys- 

 ically, mentally, and morally his heredity, and so his personal 

 nature, were of the best. He was born in Boston August 25, 1822. 

 His father, Samuel, an alumnus of Yale and a doctor of laws 

 from Yale, Dartmouth, and Harvard, was an accomplished law- 

 yer, and during his last years a member of the Supreme Court 

 of Massachusetts. His grandfather, William, was a successful 

 merchant. Back of this the family is English, its first repre- 

 sentative in America being William Hubbard, a graduate of 

 Harvard in 1642; pastor for 38 years at Ipswich, Mass., and 

 historian of New England. His mother, Mary, was the daughter 

 of Gardiner Greene, of Boston, one of the most prosperous and 

 eminent men of his day. 



After careful preparation at the then, as now, excellent Boston 

 schools, Mr Hubbard took a full course at Dartmouth in the class 

 of 1841 , and at once entered upon the study of law at Cambridge. 



