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E. A. HUBBARD. 



E. A. Hubbard was born in the town of Reading, Schuyler 

 Co., N. Y., Oct. 18, 1816. His father, Ezekiel Hubbard, was 

 a native of Massachusetts. He was a resident of Bridgewater, 

 Oneida Co. ; of Reading, Schuyler Co. ; of the town of Jeru- 

 salem, Yates Co., and about the year 1821 settled in the town 

 of Prattsburgh, about six miles west of the village. While a 

 resident of the town of Bridgewater he was a soldier of the war 

 of 1812-14, and went to Sacket's Harbor to defend the frontier 

 against the invasion of the British. He married Mary M., 

 daughter of Nicholas Rouse, Esq. She was a native also of 

 Massachusetts. Their children were Mrs. Truman Strong, of 

 Prattsburgh (deceased) ; Nicholas R., of Livingston County ; 

 Ezekiel T. (deceased), of Prattsburgh ; Ephraim A. Hubbard, of 

 Prattsburgh ; Albert H., of Gralesbury, Mich. ; and Henry M., 

 of North Cohocton. 



The father spent the remainder of his life, after settling in 

 Prattsburgh, as a farmer, and was connected with many of the 

 pioneer interests of the town. He died at about the age of 

 seventy. The wife survived her husband only some three years, 

 and died also at about the age of seventy. Both Mr. and Mrs. 

 Hubbard were early members of the Baptist Church here, and 

 were connected as such before there was any church edifice. 



Mr. Hubbard had limited opportunities for an education from 

 books. At the age of twenty he purchased the time before 

 reaching his majority of his father, and with his brothers, 

 Nicholas R. and Ezekiel T., purchased two hundred and twenty- 

 eight acres of land. In the year 1838 he married Laura C, 

 daughter of Judge Ezra Chapin, a pioneer in the settlement of 

 the town. She was born in Prattsburgh, April 15, 1819. 



Soon after his marriage he disposed of his interest in the 

 farm to his brothers, and for three years remained somewhat 



unsettled in business, during which time, for two terms, he was 

 a teacher in the common school. 



In 1840 he purchased a farm of eighty-eight acres, made 

 improvements of fine buildings and orchards on it, and occupied 

 it as a farm for sixteen years. In 1856 he disposed of this 

 farm and purchased one contiguous to the one he now owns, a 

 mile and a half west of the village of Prattsburgh. During 

 his career as a farmer he has been known as an intelligent and 

 representative agriculturist. 



His life has been one of activity, industry, and prudence, 

 preferring the quiet of a business life to official notoriety. In 

 December, 1873, he removed from his farm and settled in the 

 village where he now resides. 



Mr. Hubbard has ever been a staunch member of the Demo- 

 cratic party ; was for one term commissioner of schools ; served 

 also as commissioner of highways, and has been interested in all 

 local matters connected with the growth of the town. He and 

 his wife have been members of the Baptist Church, — the former 

 since two years prior to his marriage, the latter from five years 

 after her marriage until her death, which occurred Dec. 12, 

 1878. Mr. Hubbard is a liberal supporter of church and edu- 

 cational interests, and a lover of law and order in society. 



In the capacity of a wife and mother Mrs. Hubbard has well 

 illustrated the noblest sphere of a woman's work. She was 

 careful of her home, and made it the dearest spot on earth for 

 those who were there to be protected, and through its conse- 

 crated influences guided to a better home above. In her private 

 life she was truly a wife and mother — beloved, quiet, patient, 

 and gentle. 



Their children are Frances Gr., Maria M., and Albert A., all 

 deceased. 



