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Mr. Clarke married, in 1867, Mary Sul- livan, and their children are: Jesse W., born October 7, 1868; Percy, June, 1872, died in infancy; Teressa C., April 26, 1874; Agnes, December 14, 1878; Frank D., June 28, 1882.
HUBBARD, William A., Jr., Manufacturer, Financier.
For sixty-five years the name of Hub- bard has been identified with the business interests of the city of Rochester, Wil- liam A. Hubbard, Sr., there locating in 1851, passing to the reward of a long and well spent life in 1914, aged eighty-seven years, his son, William A. Hubbard, Jr., president of Hubbard, Eldredge & Miller, being the present representative of the family. The business career of William A. Hubbard, Sr., began at the age of fifteen years with a dry goods firm in New York City and terminated in Roches- ter with his retirement in 1887. He was a pillar of strength to Washington Street, now Central Presbyterian Church, where for fifty-six years he led the prayer meet- ing singing and was a member of the choir for many years, his wife its leading soprano for twenty years, and both de- " voted in their interest in all departments of church work. Two strong Presby- terian churches of the city owe their in- ception to his conscientious work as a home missionary, and a record of his life reveals constant work in behalf of the Master he so truly served.
William A. Hubbard was born at Ossinning, New York, October 5. 1826, died in Rochester, February 8, 1914. His
school years terminated in 1841, and for the succeeding ten years he was in the employ of a dry goods jobbing house in New York City, rising from a lowly posi- tion to that of confidential clerk. In I851, a young man of twenty-five years, he located in Rochester, becoming a member of the dry goods firm of Bar- tholomew & Hubbard, later, after Mr. Bartholomew's death, trading as Hub- bard & Torrance, still later as Hubbard & Northrop. In 1871, after a continuous connection of over twenty years, Mr. Hubbard retired from the dry goods busi- ness, but only to assume new duties. He formed an association with the Rochester Paper Company, continuing with that company until his retirement from all business activities in 1887. He was for many years a trustee of the East Side Savings Bank, and a member of the origi- nal board of directors of the Homoeo- pathic Hospital. He was a man of fine personal appearance, gifted in mind, pos- sessed keen powers of observation, was sympathetic and kindly by nature, benev- olent, upright and honorable. He was an ardent Abolitionist, an active temper- ance worker, and although deeply in- terested in public affairs and anxious for the success of the Republican party, which he supported for a lifetime, he never accepted office for himself. He be- longed to the Masonic order and was a loyal Presbyterian. In 1851 both he and his wife joined Washington Street Pres- byterian Church and both became mem- bers of the choir, and active workers in the Sunday school. Mr. Hubbard was also musical director of the Sunday school and prayer meeting service, his musical connection with the church cover- ing a period of over half a century. He was a trustee and elder for many years, giving to Central (as Washington Street Church was renamed) his best energy and endeavor. He was one of the or-
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ganizers of West Avenue Mission Sun- day School, from which later sprang Westminster Presbyterian Church. In 1869, in association with Albert M. Hast- ings and William S. Alling, he founded North Mission Sunday School, now North Presbyterian Church.
Mr. Hubbard married, in 1847, Sarah L. Peck. For sixty-three years they walked life's path hand in hand, celebrat- ing their golden wedding in 1897, their sixtieth anniversary in 1907, and three years of the seventh decade had passed when, in August, 1910, the bonds of love that had so long bound them were sun- dered by the death of Mrs. Hubbard at the age of eighty-three years. Four years later Mr. Hubbard joined her in that fairer land, the inheritance of those who "keep the faith" as they had kept it throughout their long and useful lives. Children : Elizabeth R., married Preston H. Allen, then of Omaha, Nebraska, now of Webster Grove, Missouri; William A., Jr., of further mention ; Mary L., married Edmund R. Huddleston, of Rochester, New York; Helen C., married Charles B. Peck, of Rochester.
William A. Hubbard, Jr., only son of William A. and Sarah L. (Peck) Hub- bard, was born in New York City, No- vember 6, 1850. In 1851 his parents moved to Rochester, where he has since resided continuously. After preparation in public and private schools he com- pleted his studies at Hamilton College, beginning active business life with his father in 1871. Father and son continued in association as manufacturers of under- wear for several years, then the younger man entered the employ of James Mc- Donell & Company, remaining until the year 1884. In that year he became identi- fied with the manufacture of chairs, a line of activity with which he has been connected from that date. His business, established in Rochester in 1870 by I. H.
Dewey, was incorporated as the I. H. Dewey Furniture Company in 1884, and at that time Mr. Hubbard became associ- ated therewith. In 1898 the business was reorganized as the Hubbard & Eldredge Company, and again in 1906 as the Hub- bard, Eldredge & Miller Company, Wil- liam A. Hubbard, Jr., president. The company is one of Rochester's largest in- dustrial plants, using one hundred and twenty thousand square feet of factory space in addition to large lumber yards at Lyell and Dewey streets. Four hun- dred hands are employed in the manu- facture of fancy chairs and upholstered furniture, the output being marketed all over the United States and Canada.
A Republican in politics, Mr. Hubbard takes more than a passive interest in public affairs and manifests the concern of a good citizen in promoting good gov- ernment. His aid can always be de- pended upon in any movement tending to promote the public good, and in all things he measures up to the full stature of a man. He has other large business in- terests, is a director of the Curtice Brothers Company, director of the Rochester Trust and Safe Deposit Com- pany, and trustee of the Monroe County Savings Bank. His clubs are the Roches- ter Country and the University. He is an elder of Central Presbyterian Church and in all the activities of that church is deeply interested. Since 1873 he has taught a men's Bible class in the Sunday school, his class now numbering about two hundred members. For forty-two years he has led this class in Bible study, has been constant in attendance, and to this unselfish form of Christian work has given of his best. The class is a power for good in church and city, many mem- bers having gone out from it to become useful workers in other fields. Fathers and sons have sat under his teaching and in the spiritual strength he has given to
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others his own strength has been re- newed. Mr. Hubbard served the local Young Men's Christian Association as director and president of the board for many years, and is now a member of the advisory board. Loyal in his devotion to truth and right living, generous in his giving, and strong in his integrity, he has won the highest esteem of his fellow men, with whom he has lived in close associ- ation during his entire life.
Mr. Hubbard maried, in 1885, Helen C., daughter of Dr. Hiram D. Vosburgh, of Lyons, New York. Children: Evelyn; Elizabeth, wife of Andrew R. Sutherland, of Rochester, New York; Ruth Porter, wife of Gideon C. Wolfe, of Scranton, Pennsylvania.
KELLOGG, Luther Laflin, Contract Law Expert.
Luther Laflin Kellogg descends from a very ancient family, and inherits qualities which have brought him to a prominent position at the New York bar. The earliest record of the family in England is in Debden, County Essex, where Nicho- las Kellogg was taxed in 1525. The name appears with a variety of spellings, including Kelhogge, Kellogue, Kellock, Calaug, and many others. The name is supposed to have been formed from two Gaelic words, meaning lake and cemetery, making it a place name.
Nicholas Kellogg was born about 1488, and was buried at Debden, May 17, 1558. His son, Thomas Kellogg, who resided in Debden, was probably the father of Philip Kellogg, who was living in Bock- ing, County Essex, in 1583. He was the father of Martin Kellogg, baptized No- vember 25, 1595, in Great Leigh, and re- sided there and at Braintree. He mar- ried, at St. Michaels, in Hertford, 1621, Prudence Bird, whom he survived. Their fourth son, Daniel Kellogg, was baptized
February 6, 1630, at Great Leigh, and was an early settler at Norwalk, Connec- ticut. He is said to have been the largest man in the province, seven feet tall, and of proportionate figure. For many years he represented Norwalk in the General Assembly. His second wife, Bridget, was a daughter of John and Alice Bouton, and their second son, Samuel Kellogg, born February 19, 1673, was a prominent citi- zen of Norwalk. He married Sarah Platt, daughter of Deacon John and Hannah (Carr) Platt, of Norwalk, and their youn- gest child, Epenetus Kellogg, lived for a time on Long Island, but returned to Norwalk, and lived at "White Oak Shade." He was born June 26, 1719, died June 19, 1774, in Norwalk. He mar- ried, in 1740, Jemima Rogers, of Hunt- ington, New York, who died June 9, 1789. Their third son, Stephen Kellogg, was born July I, 1757, in Norwalk, and re- moved to Troy, New York, where he died July 30, 1842. He was a farmer, and a member of St. Paul's Church. He mar- ried, November 24, 1778, Lydia Bouton, born January 21, 1758, in Norwalk, died in Troy, June 28, 1845, daughter of Na- thaniel and Lydia (Penoyer) Bouton. Their fifth son, Stephen (2) Kellogg, born April 26, 1797, in Norwalk, died No- vember 12, 1845, in Malden, New York, where he was a merchant from 1822 to 1833. He removed to Troy, where he was in the mercantile business about three years, then returned to Malden. He married, January 1, 1823, Susan Emeline Bigelow, born December 5, 1805, in Cole- brook, Connecticut, daughter of Asa and Lucy (Isham) Bigelow, died February 13, 1884, in New York City. Their eldest son, Nathan Kellogg, was born February 18, 1825, in Malden, and graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy, March 16, 1841. He was a Presbyterian, served as supervisor in Ulster county, and affiliated with the Democratic party in
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politics. He married, June 12, 1847, in Saugerties, New York, Helen Maria Laf- lin, born April 6, 1826, in Blanford, Mas- sachusetts, daughter of Luther and Al- mira (Sylvester) Laflin.
Luther Laflin Kellogg, eldest child of Nathan and Helen Maria (Laflin) Kel- logg, was born July 1, 1849, in Malden, New York. He there grew to maturity, and received his primary education in the private schools, entering Rutgers College at New Brunswick, New Jersey, from which he graduated in 1870 with the de- gree of Bachelor of Arts and three years later received the degree of Master of Arts. In 1901 Rutgers conferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. Having determined upon the pro- fession of law, Mr. Kellogg entered Col- umbia Law School, of New York, from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1872. In the same year he was admitted to the bar, and began prac- tice in New York City in 1872, and at the present time (1916) is the head of the law firm of Kellogg & Rose. Mr. Kellogg is particularly known and distinguished at the bar as a trial lawyer. His specialty is contract law covering state, municipal and private contracts. His opinion is generally received as authority on all questions relating to this branch of the law. An examination of the Reports of the State will show that he has been con- nected with nearly every noted case of this nature. He has also been engaged in arguing before the highest courts of this State and the United States many ques- tions involving Constitutional Law.
Mr. Kellogg resides in the City of New York, where he is a vestryman of All Angels (Protestant Episcopal) Church, and is associated with numerous clubs, including the Manhattan, Players, Lotos, Church and Fort Orange ; was for several years president of the Colonial Club ; is
a member of the Lawyers' Club and the Delta Phi college fraternity. He is a member of the American Bar Associ- ation, the New York State Bar Associ- ation, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the New York County Lawyers' Association, and is a life trustee of Rutgers College. He is at present one of the members of the Court House Board, charged with the duty of erecting the new Court House for New York City. He is a director of the Colonial Insurance Company of New York. Politically he acts with the Democratic party.
Mr. Kellogg married, in New Bruns- wick, New Jersey, June 10, 1874, Eliza Stout McIntosh, born July 12, 1851, in Buffalo, New York, daughter of General John B. and Amelia (Stout) McIntosh, who died October 5, 1912. Children : McIntosh, born May 21, 1875 ; Helen Laf- lin, January 4, 1877, died 1884; Luther Laflin, October 6, 1878, died 1905; Lee Stout, July 19, 1881; Elsie McIntosh, May 13, 1883; Laura Runyon, February 9, died February 22, 1886.
HANCOCK, Theodore E., Lawyer, Public Official.
The Hon. Theodore E. Hancock had a fixed rule in the practice of law, and that was never to waste energy upon points which did not count. He made that move which was necessary to win, and saved the others for a possible failure. All through his life, which has brought him one of the highest honors in the gift of the people of his State, that of Attorney- General, Mr. Hancock has made it his rule to go directly to the root of matters and never waste energy. This trait was directly the cause of his being the choice in many important cases, it made him the counsel who was sought after, and when it came to the administration of the affairs
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of his high office, he was the man who could not be swerved from his fixed pur- pose to serve the people all the time.
Mr. Hancock was born in the town of Granby, Oswego county, New York, May 30, 1847. His ancestors were Martha Vineyard stock, several generations of sturdy sailors who faced the rigors of long whaling voyages, and women who had learned the patience that comes of watching and waiting. Mr. Hancock re- ceived his early education at Falley Semi- nary, Fulton, New York, from which he went to the Wesleyan University, and was graduated from this institution in the class of 1871. He next became a student at Columbia Law School, New York City, from which he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1873, and in September of the same year, having been duly admitted to the bar, com- menced his legal practice in Syracuse. He formed a law partnership with Wil- liam Gilbert, under the firm name of Gil- bert & Hancock, which was continued for some time. Subsequently he took as a partner Page Monroe, the firm being Hancock & Monroe, and in 1888 the famous firm was organized which was known as Hancock, Beach, Peck & De- vine. In 1889 Mr. Hancock was elected district attorney of Onondaga county, an office which he administered with signal ability. November 7, 1893, he was elected Attorney-General, succeeding himself at the next election for this office, and serv- ing until January 1, 1899. William A. Beach, one of the members of the firm, retiring from it, John W. Hogan, who had served long and well in the Attorney- General's office in Albany, came to Syra- cuse from Watertown, and the firm of Hancock, Hogan & Devine was formed. Some time after the death of Mr. Devine, in 1907, Stewart F. Hancock, a son of the Hon. Theodore E. Hancock, was admit- ted to the firm, and it became known
under the name of Hancock, Hogan & Hancock. Upon the election of John W. Hogan as Judge of the Court of Appeals in 1912, the firm became Hancock, Spriggs & Hancock, the present mem- bers being: Theodore E. Hancock, Stew- art F. Hancock, Clarence Z. Spriggs, Clarence E. Hancock, Myran S. Melvin.
Of the many matters to the credit of Mr. Hancock while serving as Attorney General, none has received wider pub- licity and greater attention from the peo- ple at large than the inauguration and continuance of the fight to preserve the great forests of the State for the people. Only those who were conversant with the situation will ever know the influences which were brought to bear to get these forests away from the State. In both civil and criminal practice Mr. Hancock has shown his legal acumen, and this has placed his name among the great lawyers of Onondaga. As an orator he is of the direct and forcible kind, yet possessed of a power of descriptive effort which has made quotations from his speeches to juries and upon the political forum mat- ters of record. It was Mr. Hancock's speech at a reunion of veterans, at which time he called attention to the power of a county to issue bonds for the purpose of erecting a soldiers' monument, that re- vived the interest in a soldiers' memorial, and started the movement which resulted in the acquirement of the monument now built on Clinton Square. In pursuance of his idea of thorough investigation and progress in public affairs, Mr. Hancock has been chosen to, and served in, the directorates of many charitable and other public institutions. In 1897 Wesleyan University conferred the degree of Doc- tor of Laws, of which institution he is still a trustee. He was president of the Onondaga County Bar Association from 1900 to 1907.
Mr. Hancock married, in 1882, Martha
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Connelly, of Wheeling, West Virginia, and three children were born to them: I. Stewart F., born in Syracuse, April 4, 1883; received his elementary education in the public schools of Syracuse, was graduated from Wesleyan University in the class of 1905, from the Law School of Syracuse in 1907, in which year he was admitted to the bar; he at once com- menced the practice of law in the same year in Syracuse, as a member of the firm of Hancock, Hogan & Hancock ; he served as assistant corporation counsel of the city of Syracuse from January 1, 1908, to January 1, 1914; his religious member- ship is with the Park Presbyterian Church, and his fraternal with the follow- ing organizations : University Club, City Club, Citizens' Club, and Central City Lodge, and Westminster Lodge, Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows; Mr. Han- cock married Marion, a daughter of the late Justice Peter B. McLennan; two children were born of this union. 2. Clar- ence E., born in Syracuse, February 13, 1885; was graduated from the public schools there, from Wesleyan University in 1906, and from the New York Law School in 1908; admitted to the bar in the same year, he is now a member of the firm of Hancock, Spriggs & Hancock ; he is a member of the Alpha Delta Phi, Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Delta Phi Club of New York, Onondaga Golf and Country Club, Sedgwick Farm Club, University Club, City Club and Troop D, National Guard of New York. 3. Martha, educated at Syracuse University and at Wellesly Col- lege ; resides at home.
HAZARD, Frederick Rowland,
Manufacturer, Public-spirited Citizen.
Frederick Rowland Hazard, of Syra- cuse, inherits from early New England families the qualities which have ever stood for moral, social and material prog-
ress, and exemplifies in his person and career the character which has ever stood preeminent in the United States. The family occupies a prominent position in the civil, commercial, judicial and mili- tary history of Rhode Island, and is de- scended from Thomas Hazard, born 1610, in England. He first appears of record in America in 1635, at Boston, where he was admitted a freeman in 1638, and was two years later a resident of Portsmouth, Rhode Island. He was among the found- ers and first town officers of Newport, Rhode Island, associated with Codding- ton, Easton, Coggeshall, Brenton, the Clarks, Bull and Dyer. He was made a freeman of Newport in 1639, and in 1640 was appointed a member of the General Court of Elections. His first wife, Mar- tha, died in 1669, and he married (second) Martha, widow of Thomas Sheriff.
His eldest child was Robert Hazard, born in 1635, admitted a freeman of Ports- mouth in 1665, and prominent in Colonial affairs until 1698. In 1671 he purchased five hundred acres of land in Kings Town, and soon after 1687 built there his house, which was still standing in the early part of the nineteenth century. He died in 1710. He married Mary, daughter of Thomas and Anne Brownell, who lived to be one hundred years old, and died January 28, 1739. Her obituary states that she was accounted a very useful gentlewoman.
Her eldest child was Thomas Hazard, born 1660, died 1746. He was a freeman of Portsmouth in 1684, and of Kings Town in 1717. He was a large purchaser of lands, paying £700 for nine hundred acres in 1698, and £500 for three hundred acres in 1710. His aggregate possessions reached nearly four thousand acres. He gave land to each of his sons on attaining majority, and the inventory of his estate amounted to £3,785. He married Susanna Nichols, whom he survived.
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Their eldest son was Robert (2) Haz- ard, born May 23, 1689, died May 20, 1762. He inherited six hundred and fifty acres of land from his father, also acquired lands by purchase, was residuary legatee in his father's will, which brought him other lands. In his own will he be- queathed negro slaves to his children. He married Sarah, daughter of Richard and Innocent Borden, born July 31, 1694.
Their second son was Thomas (3) Haz- ard, born September 15, 1720, called "Col- lege Tom," died 1798. He was a freeman of South Kingstown in 1742, and in 1748 was clerk of the council. He entered Yale College, but did not complete the course, because of his sentiment as a member of the Society of Friends that college honors were not desirable. For forty years he was a preacher in the Society of Friends and the first among them to advocate the emancipation of slaves. In 1764, with some fifty others, he petitioned for the privilege of found- ing and endowing a college or university. This petition was granted, and he was one of the eleven fellows designated to establish what was then called Rhode Island College, now Brown University. His home was on Tower Hill. He mar- ried, March 27, 1742, Elizabeth, daughter of Governor William and Martha (Pot- ter) Robinson, born June 16, 1724, died February 5, 1804, a great-granddaughter of Thomas (1) Hazard, founder of the family in America.
They were the parents of Rowland Hazard, born June 4, 1763, who early en- gaged in manufacturing at what is now Peacedale, Rhode Island, where was set up the first carding machine in South Kingstown. He was also interested in shipping, first at Charleston, South Caro- lina, and later at Narragansett. Late in life he removed to Pleasant Valley, New York, where he died July 1, 1835. He
married, in 1793, Mary Peace, for whom the town of Peacedale was named, daugh- ter of Isaac Peace. She died June 28, 1852.
Their third son, Rowland Gibson Haz- ard, was born October 9, 1801, in Kings- town, on the homestead of his grand- father, on Tower Hill. In early child- hood he went to Bristol, Pennsylvania, where he lived in the home of his grand- father, Isaac Peace. He attended school in Burlington, New Jersey, and in Bris- tol, and from 1813 to 1818 was a student of the West Town School. He had an especial faculty for mathematics, and dis- covered new modes of demonstration in conic sections, and was also an eager reader of classic history. In 1819 he re- turned to Rhode Island, and in 1833 set- tled at Peacedale, where, in association with his brother, Isaac Peace Hazard, he took charge of the manufacturing busi- ness established by his father. The busi- ness grew under their management, and Rowland G. Hazard made many trips in promoting its interests. From 1833 to 1843 he made many visits to the South, where he observed the working of the slave system, which excited in him, great horror. He made many speeches in favor of the abolition of slavery, and was also widely known as a writer. He married, September 25, 1828, Caroline, daughter of John Newbold, of Bucks county, Penn- sylvania, and they were the parents of two sons.
The eldest, Rowland Hazard, was born August 16, 1829, in Newport, Rhode Island, and grew up at Peacedale. For several years he was a student at the Friends' College, Haverford, Pennsyl- vania, and graduated from Brown Uni- versity at the age of twenty years, in 1849. During his first three years he gained first prize in mathematics, and the second prize in his fourth year. Active:
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in town and village affairs at Peacedale, in 1854 he organized a Sunday school, which met in the school house, and was among the founders of the Second Con- gregational Church of South Kingstown, which was organized in a meeting held at his house, February 13, 1857. In 1872 he built the stone church occupied by this society, from his own plans, and in the same year constructed from his plans the large worsted mill at Peacedale. The picturesque stone bridges in and about that village are also his work. He insti- tuted the Narragansett Literary and High School, which was built on lands donated by him. The system of profit-sharing adopted by the Peacedale Mills was of his institution. He was interested in agriculture, and was president of the Washington County Agricultural Soci- ety. In 1875, as independent candidate for Governor of the State, he received a plurality of votes, but according to the State Constitution, the election was car- ried to the Legislature, in which he was defeated. Among his many activities was the promotion of lead mining in Missouri, and he became interested in the manufac- ture of soda ash in America, after investi- gation of the processes used in that indus- try in Europe, whence most of the Amer- ican supply had been previously derived. He organized the Solvay Process Com- pany, of Syracuse, New York, of which he was the first president, and this estab- lishment is now very extensively engaged in supplying the American demand for soda ash. He married, March 29, 1854, Margaret Anne, daughter of Rev. Anson Rood, of Philadelphia, died in August, 1895.
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