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cut, was born April 17, 1745, died April
12, 1812, a son of Andrew Hubbell. He
married Abigail Burton, born in 1758,
died February 20, 1812. Children: Gideon
Summers, of whom further ; Andrew
Read ; David Burton, died November 9,
1825 ; Ruth, married Winton, died Decem-
ber 5, 1812 ; Hannah, married Lyon, died
July 5, 1846.
(V) Gideon Summers Hubbell, of
Easton, Fairfield County, Connecticut,
was born July 3, 1768, died in Bloomfield,
Ohio, January 25, 1842, a son of Matthew
Hubbell. He married (first) Sarah Tread-
well, born May 2, 1762, died October 19,
1805. Children, by the first marriage
Burton, born July 30, 1788, died Novem-
ber 27, 1859; Philena, born February 14,
1790, died in 1873 ; Preston, born May 20,
1792; Nathan, died August 14, 1821
Zalmon, born October 27, 1794; Harvey
(i), of whom further; Eruxton, born May
7, 1800, died October 23, 1800; Washing-
ton, born March 19, 1803 ; Preston, died
August 17, 1829; Malvina, died June 29,
1823. Gideon Summers Hubbell married
(second) Sarah Wheeler, born May 15,
1775, died October 5, 1846. Child by the
second marriage : Sarah, born June 14,
1807.
(VI) Harvey Hubbell (i) of Long
Hill, Fairfield County, Connecticut, born
March 6, 1797, died July 2, 1882, was a
son of Gideon Summers and Sarah (Tread-
well) Hubbell. He married (first) Polly
Sherman, January 5, 1819. He married
(second) Caroline (Pinto) Hadley, October
22, 1855. After he received a common
school education he served four years as
an apprentice in the tailoring trade to his
father at Easton, Connecticut. At the
age of twenty years, in company with
three young men, he started for the then
"far off State of Ohio" to seek his fortune.
They made the journey in thirty-three
days, walking leisurely from place to
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place, until Harvey (i) Hubbell arrived
at Columbus. There he plied his trade of
tailor, and within two years of his arrival
he returned to Connecticut to marry, in
1819, the young woman to whom he already
was engaged, Polly, daughter of
David Sherman of Trumbull, Connecticut.
His father entreated him to abandon the
idea of returning to the West and to remain
in Connecticut for his sake. Like a
dutiful son that he was, he did as his
father desired and settled in Weston and
there worked industriously at his trade.
He was a man of unusual ability and at-
tained prominence and position in the
community. He was made a captain of
militia and was appointed a justice of the
peace. In 1836 he disposed of his tailor-
ing business in Easton and removed to
New York City, where he was given
charge of a large clothing house in the
New Orleans trade, subsequently becoming
a partner, the concern being known
as Taylor, Hubbell & Co. In 1862, sharing
the general losses that resulted from
the Civil War, he removed from New
York City to Long Hill, Connecticut,
where he established a factory for the
manufacture of men's underwear. He
was about twenty-two years of age when
he married Polly Sherman. They had
children: i. Orange Scott Hubbell. 2.
Charles Elliott Hubbell. 3. Harriet Atwood
Hubbell. 4. John Wesley Hubbell.
5. Wilbur Fish Hubbell. By his second
wife he had children : 6. Carrie L., died
February 24, 1857, at the age of five
months, fifteen days. 7. Harvey (2) Hubbell,
of this review. 8. Carrie, died December
I, 1882, at the age of twenty-one
years. Polly (Sherman) Hubbell died
October 27, 1854, at the age of fifty-six
years. Caroline (Pinto-Hadley) Hubbell,
born July 30, 1819, died October 22, 1905,
at the age of eighty-six years.
(VII) Harvey (2) Hubbell, son of