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daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (King)
Rice, of Sudbury and Marlboro, Massa-
chusetts.
(IV) Thomas Hubbard, son of Jonathan
and Hannah (Rice) Hubbard, was
born August 27, 1696, in Concord, Massa-
chusetts. He married Mary Fletcher, of
that town.
(V) Nathan Hubbard, son of Thomas
and Mary (Fletcher) Hubbard, was born
January 23, 1723, in Concord, Massachu-
setts. Subsequently, he lived in Groton,
Massachusetts. He married, April 2,
1745, Mary Patterson.
(VI) Thomas (2) Hubbard, son of
Nathan and Mary (Patterson) Hubbard,
was born December 28, 1745, and died
May 25, 1807. His second wife was Lois
White, who was born April 30, 1747, and
died March 26, 1834, of Lancaster, Massachusetts.
They were married October
I. 1777-
(VII) Luther Hubbard, son of Thomas
(2) and Lois (White) Hubbard, was born
August 13, 1782, and died March 2, 1857,
in Manchester, New Hampshire. He was
a stone cutter and maker of tomb stones
for surrounding counties. He was known
as Major Hubbard, but there is no record
of his having performed military service.
Luther Hubbard married, December 18,
1806, Hannah Russell, born July 9, 1781,
in Westford, Massachusetts, died in Man-
chester, New Hampshire, December 12,
1870.
(VIII) Luther Prescott Hubbard, son
of Luther and Hannah (Russell) Hub-
bard, was born June 30, 1808, in Hollis,
New Hampshire, and died in Greenwich,
Connecticut, September 18, 1894. The
public schools of his native town afforded
his early education, and these courses
were supplemented by a term in the Pinkerton
Academy in Derry, New Hamp-
shire. In 1824 Mr. Hubbard learned the
trade of stone cutter, which his father had
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long followed. In Quincy, Massachu-
setts, Mr. Hubbard worked at his trade
and was one of the men employed in shaping
the stones of the Bunker Hill Monument.
In 1827 he came to New York,
where he had charge of much important
work. Subsequently he accepted a posi-
tion as confidential clerk in the office of
Ira Morris & Company, granite dealers
of New York City.
Mr. Hubbard was always interested in
his fellowmen, and it was this desire to
be of assistance which led to his later employment
as secretary of the American
Seamen's Friend Society. He was one
of the first to distribute Bibles in New
York for the Marine Bible Society in 1833.
In 1863 he became financial agent of the
former society. Mr. Hubbard removed
with his family to Greenwich, Connecti-
cut, in 1859, ^nd there was warden of the
borough. Mr. Hubbard published a small
genealogy bearing on his family history
in 1872. He was secretary of the New
England Society in the City of New York
for forty consecutive years.
Mr. Hubbard married (first) November
28, 1832, Sarah Ogden Johnson, and for
his second wife, Mary Cummings Ten-
ney, who was born November 19, 1819,
in Hollis, daughter of Hon. Ralph E. and
Phebe Colburn (Smith) Tenney. Their
children
mention ;
were : Frederick A., of further
Mary Tenney, born October 12,
1855 ; John Theodore, born October 2,
1857, died February 2, 1882; William
Norris, born November 2, 1865, a physi-
cian in New York City ; Benjamin Farley,
deceased.
(IX) Frederick Augustus Hubbard,
eldest son of Luther Prescott and Mary
Cummings (Tenney) Hubbard, was born
November 17, 1851, in Hollis, New Hampshire,
and was seven years old when
brought by his parents to Greenwich,
Connecticut. There he attended school