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He was a favorite pupil with Dr. Ives, and re- ceived from him many evidences of esteem in un- usual facilities for seeing practice, and for treating by himself considerable numbers of patients. He enjoyed, also, the advantage of didactic lectures and office instruction from the late Dr. Eli Ives, at that time the professor of practical medicine at Yale. Those who knew personally, or by reputation, those gentlemen, father and son, will not be surprised to learn that, while Tyler became, under instructors, ; thoroughly trained in all the elements of medical science then taught, he became also an expert and enthusiastic botanist, and acquired an intimate familiarity with our indigenous materia medica; or that he used this class of remedies, as well as all others, in after years, with remarkable skill and suc- cess. On receiving, in 1844, the degree of the doctor- ate, he read as his inaugural thesis, a "Dissertation on the Helianthemum Canadense et Corymbosum" (Frost weed, or Rock rose), which received from the profession unexpected attention.
The botanical description of these plants corre- sponded of course, with that given by the accepted authorities, but in describing at length the medic- inal properties and therapeutic value of these two ! helianthems ( speaking of them as one), he brought out; for the first time almost, an array of facts until then not generally known. Practically, he re-intro- duced the plant to the profession, not as a substitute for any other remedy, but as entitled to a distinct place by itself, as a deobstruent of great power in scrofula, in all its various manifestations as well as in secondary and tertiary syphilis. He supported its claims to pre-eminence as a remedy in these classes of disease, by full and detailed reports of cases treated with it by himself and others. He sent a quantity of the plants to Dr. Isaac Parrish, of Philadelphia, who used them among his patients. in Wills' Hospital with very satisfactory results. The first public notice of the frost weed is to be found in "United States Dispensatory," edition of 1849, in which Dr. Parrish gives concurrent testi- mony in its favor, and quotes from the dissertation, which by the advice of medical friends, was pub- lished in the same year.
Immediately after his graduation, Dr. Tyler be- gan practice in this city, where he continued to re- side until compelled by protracted illness to with- draw himself from active business. He suffered on many occasions from pulmonary hemorrhage, but - continued faithfully to attend upon his patients į year after year, under a load of painful and de- I pressing disabilities such as I have seldom witnessed.
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Ilis love for botanical science kept him much in the open air, and to this he attributed his prolonged life and the small modicum of health he enjoyed. There have been within the writer's knowledge sev- cral instances of persons who consulted him for the relief of symptoms of incipient tuberculosis, and whom he induced to begin the practical study of botany, himself giving them their first lessons in the field. The result in each case was a restoration to a comfortable degree of health while field work was continued; and in one case of pronounced tit- berculosis the gentleman lived for many years, and attained a degree of eminence as a botanist, whose name was known abroad.
Dr. Tyler possessed a happy, cheerful tempera- ment. He was endowed with power of perception, discrimination and analysis of a high order, and the intuitive sagacity with which his mind detected and drew forth for critical examination the controlling facts and symptoms of a complicated case was re- markable ; and as might have been predicted of hin, he developed early in life as a peculiarly successful general practitioner. If lie made especial study of anything, it was of diseases of the lungs, the kidneys and the skin. He was a man of profound religious convictions, and as such in his social and profes- sional life, he squared his actions by the principles of the "Golden Rule," and thus it was that, while his feeble healtlı and modest estimate of himself kept him from such prominence as his great quali- ties would otherwise have forced upon him, he was universally esteemed as one of the most able, upright and honorable men in the profession.
A wide and varied intelligence, combined with a gentle, assuring manner and exquisite tact, ren- dered him a welcome visitor in every sick room, and gained for him the confidence and love of all with whom he. was brought in contact. He died March 27, 1885.
AUGUST YOST, whose name is familiar to those acquainted with the business personnel of the city of Meriden as one of the thoroughly success- ful and representative business men of his national- ity, was born in Nieder Eschbach, near Frankfurt- am-Main, Germany, April 7, 1844.
Frederick Yost, his father, was a native of the same village, where he followed the baker's trade and where he married Katherine Wehrheim. They became the parents of ten children, and feeling the need of a better field for the rearing of such a fam- ily, they came to the United States, making the voy- age in 1855 on the sailing vessel "Julia." They were forty-two days on the ocean. On reaching New York they made their way to Hartford county, Conn., where the family spent some months at Ware- house Point, and in 1856 removed to Rockville, where the father obtained employment in a woolen mill. There he worked three years and was then able to buy a farm in the town of Vernon, devoting himself to its cultivation very successfully for a
number of years. The last years of this honorable and worthy man were spent in retirement from ac- tive labor in the liome of his son, August, who cared for him with a loyal devotion. He died at the ripe old age of eighty-six years, and was buried at Rock- ville. In politics he was a Republican. He was a very unassuming, genuine man, of good character and sound principles. The following children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Yost: Katherine, who is the widow of Abram Laubscher, of Rockville; Mary, who married John Bitzer, and died in Cali- fornia ; Rosa, who married Daniel Sauer and after his death became the wife of Frederick Hoy; Eliz- abeth, wife of George Fuchs; Martin; Margaret, who married John Bonnet, and is deceased ; August ; Lizzie, who married Louis Schreier : Frederick, de- ceased; and Henry, who is a traveling man from New York.
August Yost was only eleven years of age when he was brought to this country by his parents. In his German home he had good schooling, but lie only attended at Warehouse Point a short time when the family removed to Rockville, where he entered the woolen mills at the age of thirteen years. He had a chance to attend school in the early mornings and late afternoons. For seventeen years he was working in the mills, after which he began business for himself as a baker in New Britain in company with William Lang, the firm being Lang & Yost. Not long afterward Mr. Yost sold out and in 1872 came to Meriden, where he again entered into a baking business with William Albrecht. Mr. Yost soon took the business on his own account and continued in Liberty street until 1875 when he re- moved to a better location in West Main street. Here he carried on a good business for more than twenty years. In 1893 he built a good brick block, with a brick bakery in the rear, the finest in Meri- den, costing over $50,000. He owns a good house in Lindsley avenue, and has become one of the most substantial and reliable men of the city. In 1895 he retired from active business, and his bakery in- terests and other enterprises have passed into the management of his son, though our subject still gives attention to his extensive real estate interests in Meriden.
During his business career Mr. Yost consist- ently declined to take any political office, but on his retirement from business he took a more active in- terest in local affairs ; served five terms on the board of relief, and is now filling his third terin as as- sessor. In religious matters he is a believer in the Golden Rule, and in politics is a Republican. Mr. Yost belongs to the K. of P., being a member of J. S. Stokes Division, No. 12, Uniformed Rank, and is also a member of the Cosmopolitan Club of Meri- den. He is a member of the German School Asso- ciation and belongs to the German Aid Society at Rockville.
Mr. Yost was married in 1865, in Rockville, to Agnes Neadle, a native of Moessingen, Wurtem-
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berg, Germany, and a daughter of George and Ag- nes Neadle. Mrs. Yost is a lady of much culture and intelligence and fine spirit; and has been a great strength to her husband in his trials and strug- gles. To this union were born: Frederick G., who now has charge of the baking business, married Mary Miller, and they have had two children, Stan- ley and one that died in infancy ; Lizzie is at home ; Agnes married W. C. Miller, a lawyer of Meriden ; Bertha and August died young ; Emma obtained her education at the local schools and the Meriden high school, was graduated from the State Normal School in New Britain, Conn., and is now a school teacher at Bristol ; one child died in early infancy.
HON. LEVERETT MARSDEN HUBBARD. Many of the Connecticut Hubbards of this locality descended from George Hubbard, born in 1601, and probably in Southeastern England. His name ap- peared first in America in 1639 in a list of early set- tlers of Hartford. These settlers came overland from the vicinity of Boston during the years 1635 and 1636, and located in the towns of Windsor, Hartford and Wethersfield, Conn., also Springfield, Mass. George Hubbard married, in 1640, Eliza- beth Watts, daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Watts. He appears to have removed with about fifteen other families to Mattabessett, so-called un- til 1653, when it became Middletown. George Hub- bard and his wife were buried in the Middletown Riverside cemetery. Among the descendants of this emigrant ancestor may be mentioned the Hon. Samuel Dickinson Hubbard, of Middletown, United States Postmaster General under President Fill- more; Paymaster-General Nehemiah Hubbard, of the Revolutionary war, and of Middletown ; and the late Gov. Richard D. Hubbard, of Hartford.
The record of the lives of successful men who influence and mold the events of life by subduing adversity, and shaping toward their personal goal each condition as it confronts them, is always in- teresting and instructive; but it becomes more so when such lives present in combined view the ele- ments of material success blended with the com- pleteness of moral attributes and the attractions of an unblemished reputation. Such characters stand out as the proofs of human progress, as illustrations of human dignity and worth, and as beacon lights to the generations which follow. The success of such men is not, as some would consider, fortuitous ; it is not the result of a chain of fortunate accidents ; it is the logical result arising from the steady ap- plication of a nature into which are infused the characteristics of a strong will, keen perception and indomitable energy, which, properly utilized, have made their possessor a successful man.
Leverett Marsden Hubbard was born April 23, 1849, in Durham, Conn., a son of Rev. Eli and Georgiana (Leach) Hubbard, the latter being the only daughter of L. W. Leach ( for many years a
leading merchant of Durham), and a sister of Hon. L. M. Leach and Hon. Oscar Leach, of Middlesex county, Conn., both now deceased.
Eber Hubbard, grandfather of Leverett M., was born in Massachusetts, Aug. 10, 1785. When a young man, and before marriage, he moved to Martinsburgh, Lewis Co., N. Y., then a frontier region, where he remained for many years carrying on a considerable sawmill business. Late in life he bought a farm near Alexandria Bay, N. Y., in what was known as Flat Rock, to which he removed, and on which he passed the remainder of his days, dying Sept. 22, 1841. He was married Feb. 3, 1808, to Abigail Rumble, who was born April 28, 1789, and died June 23, 1843. Their children were: (1) Eliza, born Feb. 14, 1809, died in 1891. (2) George, born July 6, 1811. (3) Eli, born Aug. 18, 1813, is mentioned below. (4) Diana, born Sept. 14, 1815. (5) Betsey, born Oct. 12, 1817. (6) Itha- more, born Dec. 21, 1820. (7) Anna W., born Feb. 25, 1822, died Sept. 24, 1823. (8) Anna W., born March 20, 1824, died June 19, 1843. (9) Hes- ter A., born June 24, 1826. ( 10) Phebe, born July 9. 1828. (II) Mary, born May 13, 1831. (12) Eber, born Oct. 11, 1833, married June 27, 1858, Desire G. Cole, born May 6, 1840, and they had children, as follows: Walter W., born July 2, 1859; Marshall E. born Dec. 22, 1860; Charles F., born Aug. 27, 1874; Eber J., born Aug. 13, 1876; Edna M., born in the year 1879, died Oct. 10, 1879; Glen C., born Aug. 16, 1881 ; and Allen MI., born Dec. 3, 1887.
Rev. Eli Hubbard, father of Leverett M., was born in Martinsburgh, N. Y., and died in 1868, in Macon, Miss. He graduated from Wesleyan Uni- versity, Middletown, Conn .. and as an educator and minister of the Gospel had a long and noteworthy career in the States of Alabama and Mississippi, being especially distinguished for his eloquence and power as a preacher. By his first wife, Georgi- ana (born Sept. 25, 1825, and died Jan. 27, 1852), he had two children: Edward Melville, born Jan. 12, 1847; and Leverett Marsden, the subject of this sketch. For his second wife Rev. Hubbard mar- ried, Aug. 19, 1859, Cornelia M. Aldrich, of Ful- ton, N. Y., and to this union was born a daughter, Zuilee, March 26, 1865, now the wife of Dr. J. T. Barker, of Wallingford.
Leverett M. Hubbard, the subject proper of this biographical sketch, was three years old when his mother died, and from that time his home was made with his maternal grandfather, Leverett W. Leach, already spoken of, in Durham, Conn., in the schools of which village he received his earlier education. He then entered Wesleyan Academy, at Wilbra- ham, Mass., later attending Wesleyan University, at Middletown, Conn., receiving from the latter the degree of M. A., and among whose sons he holds a distinguished place. His legal studies were pur- sued at the Albany Law School, Albany, N. Y., from
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which he graduated in 1870; and he also pursued his law studies under Hon. Charles Ives, of New Ha- ven, since deceased.
In August, 1870, he took up his residence in Wallingford, Conn., and commenced the practice of his chosen profession, soon establishing a reputa- tion at the Bar of New Haven county, and through- ont the State, of being a young man of fine spirit and rare intellectual endowments. From the be- ginning of his practice he gradually grew in the confidence and esteem of the public, and for many years has ranked among the most highly respected and successful followers of Blackstone, Coke and Littleton in his county and State. He has been frequently identified with leading cases, some of which secured for him special distinction, notably the Hayden-Stanard (or Stannard) murder trial, and the trial of Anderson, who was indicted for the killing of Horatio G. Hall. From 1874 to 1877 he was a law partner of Morris F. Tyler, now treas- urer of Yale University, and afterward, success- ively, the partner of John W. Alling and E. P. Ar- vine, Esqrs., both ranking among the most eminent members of their profession.
In 1872 Mr. Hubbard was appointed by Presi- dent Grant postmaster at Wallingford, which office he held by successive re-appointments until the in- auguration of President Cleveland in 1885, when he resigned with an unexpired commission for three years. He tendered his resignation as postmaster in order that he might devote his entire attention to his profession, whose increasing demands had for a number of years made this step an actual ne- cessity. It is almost superfluous to add that he ad- ministered the duties of that office with his cus- tomary intelligence and fidelity, and to the universal acceptance of its patrons, who, without respect of party, tendered him upon his retirement, a compli- mentary banquet, remarkable for its elaborateness and the enthusiasm which accompanied it. The Hon. Charles D. Yale, well known throughout the State as one of the most prominent and zealous of Democrats presided at the banquet, and, at the con- clusion of a highly complimentary address, used these words: "The company has assembled that it may go on record, in an unmistakable manner, that Mr. Hubbard is beloved and respected by every man in Wallingford whose good wishes are worth hav- ing." The Hon. George H. Watrous, of New Ha- ven, president of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company, in writing his regrets that he would be unable to attend the banquet, said : "I share with you, sincerely, the desire to honor our esteemed friend. I have known him nearly as long as you have, I presume. I early learned to believe in him as a man not only of superior intelligence. but of great integrity and trustworthiness. My knowledge of him has increased my faith in him. Mr. Hubbard has not only been a successful post- master, but he has been in every respect a very suc- cessful and highly useful member of your commun-
ity. He has already carved his way to the front rank of his profession."
Notwithstanding his extensive law practice, and the great demands it makes on his time and atten- tion, Mr. Hubbard yet manages to devote many hours to public matters. He was one of the projec- tors of the First National Bank of Wallingford, has been one of its directors since its organization in 1881, and for many years its vice-president, has also been a director in the Dime Savings Bank of Wallingford since 1884, and its vice-president from 1890 to 1894, when he was elected the president, to succeed Samuel Simpson, deceased, and he is still holding that office. Mr. Hubbard was one of the incorporators (1881) of the Wallingford Gas Light Co., and was a director of that company from the time of its organization up to 1899, when he withdrew from the company.
In politics Mr. Hubbard is an uncompromising Republican, and has filled many public offices in the gift of his party with characteristic ability and judg- ment. In local affairs he has been a member of the board of school visitors since 1874; was a justice of the peace from 1878 to 1881 ; has been borough at- torney, also counsel for the town almost uninter- ruptedly since 1870. . On the establishment .of a borough court for Wallingford by the General As- sembly of the State in 1886, at the earnest solicita- tion of friends in both political parties, and at some disadvantage to his business, Mr. Hubbard accepted the position of its first judge, having been elected by the unanimous vote of the Legislature. In a similar manner was he re-elected for each successive term, until 1897, when he retired, having been elected by the General Assembly as judge of the court of com- mon pleas for New Haven county, which office he now administers, having been re-elected thereto by the General Assembly at its last session.
In 1886 Mr. Hubbard was unanimously nomi- nated for Secretary of State of Connecticut by the Republican party at a convention of over 500 dele- gates held at Hartford, and was elected by a larger popular vote than any other candidate on the State ticket. It is not too much to say that in dignity, ability and enterprise, Mr. Hubbard's administration as sec- retary during his two years' term has rarely been equalled, and never excelled in the history of the State. Among his many noteworthy special services during that incumbency may be mentioned his prep- aration and publication of the first comprehensive and elaborate "Register and Manual for the State of Connecticut" ever issued, a model upon which all subsequent editions have been fashioned. one that is highly valued for the great variety and accuracy of its information, and easily ranking among the most complete publications of its kind ever com- piled. He brought the workings of the office to such a precise system that, although public acts and special acts of the Legislature had rarely been printed and in circulation earlier than thirty and sixty days, respectively, after the final adjournment,
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he caused it to be done in seven and fourteen days, respectively.
In. 1881 Mr. Hubbard was elected a trustee of the Wesleyan Academy, at Wilbraham, Mass., an office he has held to the present time, and to the dis- charge of the duties of which he has brought the same devotion, energy and capacity which have marked his career in all the various positions of re- sponsible trust which he has occupied.
Mr. Hubbard has long enjoyed a wide reputa- tion as a speaker of unusual force and eloquence, and has been much in demand as an orator, espe- cially on patriotic, commemorative and political oc- casions. He has stumped the State in every national campaign since the Hayes campaign in 1876, and his services have always been offered gratuitously to the committees of his party. From the com- mencement of his career he has been actively inter- ested in politics and is a recognized leader in his town, county and State. Among the honors con- ferred upon him, and not previously referred to, may be mentioned that of delegate-at-large to the National Convention of his party at Chicago, in 1888, which nominated Benjamin Harrison for
President. Mr. Hubbard was prominently named throughout the Second Congressional District as a candidate for Congress in the same year, but de- clined the honor, preferring to remain in the active practice of his profession.
In the matter of religion Mr. Hubbard is a mem- ber of the First Congregational Church of Walling- ford, of which he has been for many years a liberal supporter, and in the management of whose affairs he has been prominently identified.
On May 21, 1873, Hon. Leverett M. Hubbard was married to Miss Florence Gazelle Ives, who was born June 6, 1851, a daughter of Wooster and Eliza B. Ives, of Wallingford. On her maternal side she is lineally descended from Roger Wol- cott, one of the Colonial Governors of Con- necticut ; also from the Rev. John Davenport, one of the settlers of the New Haven Colony, and who was its first minister. Four children, all yet living, have been born of this marriage, as follows: (1) Georgiana, born March 9, 1874, mar- ried to Dr. Frank Bacon Hancock. who was a sur- geon assigned to the Monitor "Puritan" during the recent war with Spain, and now a prac- ticing physician in Philadelphia, his native city. By this marriage there is one daughter, Florence, born Oct. 9, 1900. (2) Samuel Wolcott, born March 30, 1876, holds a responsible business position with the New York, New Haven & Hartford Rail- road Company. (3) Leverett Marsden, Jr., born Feb. 15, 1882, has recently graduated from Wes- leyan Academy at Wilbraham, Mass., and is about to enter the freshman class of Princeton Uni- versity. (4) Kenneth Davenport, born Jan. 5. 1885. Mr. Hubbard is esteemed throughout the commun- ity as an honorable and upright citizen. enjoying the utmost popularity among all classes. His pleas-
ant, genial disposition has won for him hosts of friends, and probably there is not in the State of Connecticut any one who enjoys the acquaintance of more men of national prominence than does Judge Hubbard.
GEORGE H. MUNGER, a well known and highly respected citizen of North Branford, was born in Madison, Conn., May 26, 1827, a son of Gaylord and Dency (Stevens) Munger. The Munger an- cestry is traced from Nicholas Munger who, when sixteen years old, came in 1639 to America with William Chittenden. He settled in Guilford, now known as Madison, as early as 1651, and died Oct. 17, 1668. Of his two sons, John and Samuel, John was born April 26, 1660, and became the father of a son Josiah, who was born July 20, 1704. Tim- othy, son of Josiah, was born Sept. 5, 1735, and his son Josialı became the grandfather of George H. Munger.
Josiah Munger was born Oct. 2, 1760, and died Dec. 27, 1822. He married Hannah Munger, who was born Dec. 9, 1765, and died in 1833.
Gaylord Munger, son of Josiah, was born in the town of Madison, New Haven county, Sept. 25, 1797, and died June 15, 1871. Enterprising and public-spirited, he was identified with the best in- terests of the church and State. He married Dency Stevens, who was born June 1. 1802, a daughter of Roswell and Submit. ( Field) Stevens, and died May 7, 1866. In their family were eight children, namely : Jane S., who was born Jan. 25, 1825, and married Washington Dudley, of North Branford; George H., our subject; Selden D., who was born May 29, 1831 ; Lucy A., who was born Oct. 13, 1834, and is now deceased; Eliza E., who was born Jan. 23, 1838; Judson, who was born Dec. 26, 1840, and is a deacon in the Congregational Church at North Madison ; Emily R., who was born June 11, 1843; and Martha A., who was born Sept. 11, 1833, and died young. Mrs. Submit ( Field) Stevens was de- scended from Zachariah Field, who, with his son Ebenezer, settled in Madison in 1720. From these are also descended the celebrated divine, Rev. David Dudley Field, and his son, David Dudley Field, the prominent New York lawyer.
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