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and Sereta (Edwards) Edwards of Port
Jefferson, New York. They have one
son, Harvey (3) Hubbell, Jr., born May
23, 1901, in Bridgeport; educated in pri-
vate schools and graduated from the
Choate School of Wallingford, Connecti-
cut ; associated with his father in the
Hubbell organization at Bridgeport ; a
member of the Brooklawn Club.
The House of Hubbell has its official
headquarters and plant at State Street
and Bostwick Avenue, and the Hubbell
family residence is No. 262 Park Avenue,
Bridgeport.
LOCKHART, Dr. Reuben A.,
Pbysician.
Beloved in a wide circle of permanent
friendships and highly esteemed for his
real worth as a member of the medical
profession, whose life and labors among
the people of Bridgeport and its vicinity
had embraced a period of nearly thirty-
five years, during which time he had en-
deared himself to thousands to whom he
had ministered. Dr. Reuben A. Lockhart
laid aside the mantle of service he had
worn so becomingly, November 6, 1924,
at the age of fifty-four years, when seem-
ingly he was in the prime of life and at
the height of his powers, both as a unit of
the medical profession and as a citizen
who could ill be spared from a community,
many of whose people felt a personal loss
when he was removed from their midst.
The public's sense of affliction caused by
the death of Dr. Lockhart is expressed in
the tribute voiced by another
On all sides .... when the news of Dr. Lockhart's
death became generally known there were
many sincere expressions of sympathy. As an
examiner for one of the insurance companies
which caters particularly to the working classes,
he had been a welcome visitor in hundreds of
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homes, where his sympathetic attitude made and
retained for him innumerable warm friendships.
He was a prodigious worker and intensely
devoted to the highest ideals of his profession. His
personality was of the wholesome and friendly
type, and in all circles which he frequented he was
an ornament
In his passing the medical profession loses one
of its most valuable members and the city a citizen
who always strove for the best.
Reuben A. Lockhart was a fine example
of the initiative, force of character and
energy of the Canadian born youth who
have in such great numbers become
grafted into the body politic of the United
States. He was born in Halifax, Nova
Scotia, September 18, 1870, being one of
three children of his parents, who when
he was five years of age removed with
their family from Halifax to Bridgeport.
In the city of Bridgeport, after the family
had settled in their new home, the senior
Lockhart engaged in the retail grocery
business. His son Reuben attended the
public schools of the city and was gradu-
ated from the Bridgeport high school in
the class of 1888. In the autumn of 1888
he matriculated at Yale, and after he had
completed his medical course, he was
graduated in 1891 with the degree of
Doctor of Medicine. In his high school
days and while a student of Yale, Dr.
Lockhart was something of a celebrity
because of his athletic prowess. At the
high school he was captain of the football
team and at Yale he was catcher on
the varsity baseball team. He was recog-
nized not only as an able student but also
as possessing strength and skill which
added to the prestige of his alma mater's
athletic department.
Dr. Lockhart took up the practice of his
profession immediately upon his gradua-
tion from the Yale department of medi-
cine. He made the city of Bridgeport, his
by right of adoption, the scene of his pro-