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Mr. Alfred M. Hoyt, their son, was born in New York in 1828. He was educated at private schools, entered college and graduated with honors, and afterwards studied law. In 1854, he became a member of the firm of Jesse Hoyt & Co., in partnership with his brothers, Jesse and Samuel N. Hoyt, and Henry W. Smith, the firm succeeding to the business interests of his father. Samuel N. Hoyt soon retired from business, but Mr. Alfred M. Hoyt and his brother Jesse continued together until 1881. The two brothers were largely interested in the development of the great Northwest, where they owned extensive tracts of timber land. Mr. Hoyt was also interested in grain elevators in Chicago, Milwaukee and other cities of the Northwest, as well as in several railroads and other important properties. In conjunction with his brothers and other associates, he was one of the builders and owners of the Flint & Peré Marquette Railroad, the Winona & St. Peter Railroad, now part of the Chicago & North- western system, and the Milwaukee & Northern Railroad, of which he was the president. Of late years he has been engaged in banking.
In 1858, Mr. Hoyt married Rose E. Reese. The city residence of the family is in upper Fifth Avenue, and their summer home is at Montauk, Long Island. Mr. and Mrs. Hoyt have three sons, Henry R., Alfred William and John Sherman, and three daughters, Florence Cecilia, now Mrs. W. K. Otis, Mary E., deceased, and Rosina Sherman Hoyt. Mr. Hoyt belongs to the Metropolitan, Union League, Grolier and Riding clubs, the Century Association, the American Geographical Society, and is a patron of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Academy of Design and the American Museum of Natural History. He is a trustee of the Bank for Savings, a director of the Merchants National Exchange Bank, the Continental Trust Company, and other corporations. His eldest son, Henry R. Hoyt, graduated from Harvard College in 1882, studied law in Columbia Law School and was a student in the office of Elihu Root. Soon after he was admitted to the bar, he formed a partnership with Ex-Chief Justice Charles P. Daly and Alexander T. Mason, under the firm name of Daly, Hoyt & Mason. The second son, Alfred William Hoyt, was graduated from Harvard College in 1885 and is engaged in the banking business with his father; he is a member of the Metropolitan, Calumet, Union, Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht, University and Harvard clubs and the Century Association. Mr. Hoyt's third son, John Sherman Hoyt, was graduated from Columbia College School of Mines, and is a civil engineer.
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COLGATE HOYT
I N the first and second American generations, the ancestors of Mr. Colgate Hoyt were Simon Hoyte, who came to Massachusetts in 1628 and settled in Windsor, Conn., in 1639, and his son, Walter Hoyt, 1618-1698, one of the first settlers of Norwalk. John Hoyt, who stands at the head of that branch of the family to which Mr. Colgate Hoyt belongs, was a son of Walter Hoyt and was born in Windsor in 1644. He was one of the original settlers of Danbury in 1685, and died in that place in 1711. His wife was Mary Lindall. His son, John Hoyt, 1669-1746, married Hannah Drake, daughter of John Drake, of Simsbury, Conn., and their son, Drake Hoyt, of Danbury, 1717-1805, married Hannah Knapp. In the next generation came Noah Hoyt, 1741- 1810, who represented Danbury in the Legislature and was otherwise a leader in town affairs. He was three times married; first to Abigail Curtis, then to Sarah Comstock and lastly to Ellen Purdy. His son, David P. Hoyt, who was born in 1778 and died in 1828, removed from Danbury to Utica, N. Y., and was a successful merchant in the hide and leather business. He was a member of the New York Assembly in 1820. He married Mary Barnum, daughter of Gabriel Barnum, in 1802.
James Madison Hoyt, father of Mr. Colgate Hoyt, was the son of David P. Hoyt. He was born in Utica in 1815 and was graduated from Hamilton College in 1834. Studying law, he removed to Cleveland, O., and engaged in practice there for nearly twenty years, after which he became interested in the real estate business. For twenty-six years he was superintendent of the Sunday School of the First Baptist Church in Cleveland, in 1854 was licensed to preach, for many years was president of the Ohio Baptist State Convention and, 1866-70, was president of the American Baptist Home Missionary Society. His eldest son was the distinguished Reverend Dr. Wayland Hoyt, who was born in Cleveland in 1838, graduated from Brown University in 1860 and was for many years pastor of the Strong Place Church, in Brooklyn.
Mr. Colgate Hoyt was born in Cleveland, O., March 2d, 1849. He was educated in the public schools of Cleveland and then was sent to the celebrated Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., to prepare for college. III health compelled him to forego his plans of study, and he returned to Cleveland to enter upon a business career. He went into his father's law office and finally into the real estate business, and in 1881 removed to New York, becoming a member of the banking and bullion firm of J. B. Colgate & Co. In 1882, he was appointed by President Arthur one of the Government directors of the Union Pacific Railroad Company, and during his entire term of service was chairman of the board. He became a trustee of the Wisconsin Central Railroad in 1884, his co-trustees being Charles L. Colby and Edwin H. Abbott, and through their labors that road was rehabilitated and the Chicago & Northern Pacific terminal in Chicago developed. He was also a director of the Union Pacific Railroad.
Mr. Hoyt was a director of the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company, the Northern Pacific Railroad and the Oregon & Transcontinental Company, and in 1890 reorganized the latter company under the name of the North American Company. His master hand was also seen in work for the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, to meet the urgent needs of which he formed the Northwest Equipment Company and raised $3,000,000. In 1889, he was called to undertake the reorganization of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad, in which work he was associated with Frederic P. Olcott, president of the Central Trust Company. He has been connected with many important business enterprises aside from railroads, among them the Spanish-American Iron Company, a corporation that he organized to develop the Lola iron mines in Cuba. In 1888, he organized the American Steel Barge Company, that built the first whaleback steamship.
In 1873, Mr. Hoyt married Lida W. Sherman, daughter of Judge Charles T. Sherman and niece of General W. T. Sherman. He has a family of four children. He is a popular club- man, among his clubs being the Metropolitan, Union League, Lawyers', Riding, Seawanhaka- Corinthian Yacht, and the Ohio Society. He is a trustee of Brown University. He lives in Park Avenue and his country home is Eastover Farm, Oyster Bay, Long Island.
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GROSVENOR SILLIMAN HUBBARD
J OHN HUBBARD, the ancestor of the family from which this gentleman descends, came over to the Massachusetts Bay Colony from England and settled in Boston before 1670. He was a soldier in King Philip's War in 1675-6. About 1686 he left Massachusetts and went to Connecticut, being one of the proprietors and founders of New Roxbury, afterwards Pomfret. His son, John Hubbard, 1689-1731, and his grandson, Benjamin, who was born in 1714, lived for a time in Newport, R. I., the latter's wife being Susannah Cady. His great-grandson, Benjamin, who was born in 1741, lived in Smithfield, R. l., and Pomfret, Conn., and died in 1790. He was Major in the militia and married Chloe Comstock. Stephen Hubbard, 1776-1853, the son of Major Benjamin Hubbard and the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, married, in 1803, Zeruiah Grosvenor, daughter of Oliver and Zeruiah (Payson) Grosvenor.
The father of Mr. Grosvenor Silliman Hubbard is Professor Oliver Payson Hubbard, who was born in Pomfret, Conn., in 1809. After studying at Hamilton College, he graduated from Yale College in 1828, where he acted for a time as assistant to the elder Professor Benjamin Silliman. In 1836, he became professor of chemistry, mineralogy and geology at Dartmouth College, where he remained for thirty years. In 1883, he was made Professor Emeritus and still maintains that connection. He served two terms as a member of the New Hampshire State Legislature. South Carolina Medical College gave him the degree of M. D. in 1837, and in 1861 he received the degree of LL. D. from Hamilton College. In 1844 he was one of the founders and one of the secretaries of the American Association of Geologists and Naturalists, and at different times was recording secretary, vice-president and president of the New York Academy of Sciences, and was connected with various other prominent scientific bodies and associations.
The mother of Mr. Grosvenor Silliman Hubbard was Faith Wadsworth Silliman, who was born in New Haven in 1812 and died in New York in 1887. She was the daughter of the elder Professor Benjamin Silliman and his wife, Harriet Trumbull, both Mayflower descendants. Through her father she was descended from Judge Ebenezer Silliman, of Connecticut, 1707-75. Judge Silliman graduated at Yale in 1727 and was a deputy and Speaker to the General Assembly, a member of the House of Assistants, and a Major in the militia and Judge of the Superior Court, 1743-66. His son was Gold Selleck Silliman, of Fairfield, Conn., 1732-1790, Yale College, 1752. He was attorney of Fairfield County under the Crown, a Colonel of Cavalry at the outbreak of the Revolution, became Brigadier-General in the Continental Army, and in 1779 was captured by the British, who sent a special body of troops to his home to secure him and held him on parole until he was exchanged for Judge Jones, the well-known Long Island Tory. Professor Benjamin Silliman, his son, 1779-1864, Yale College, 1796, was well called by Edward Everett "the Nestor of American science." For more than sixty years he was connected with Yale College, and also identified with some of the most important scientific investigations and results of the last generation. Professor Silliman's wife, the grandmother of the subject of this sketch, was Harriet Trumbull, daughter of the second Jonathan Trumbull, 1740-1809, and granddaughter of the first Jonathan Trumbull, a graduate of Harvard, and the great Connecticut patriot of the Revolutionary period. The second Jonathan Trumbull was a Harvard graduate, an aide-de-camp to General Washington in 1780, and after the war was a member of Congress, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Second Congress, United States Senator in 1795, and Governor of Connecticut from 1798 until the time of his death. His brother was the well-known painter, John Trumbull.
Mr. Grosvenor Silliman Hubbard was born in Hanover, N. H., October 10th, 1842. He was educated at Dartmouth College, Yale, and Columbia College Law Schools, and has practiced his profession in New York for many years. He is a member of the Metropolitan, Lawyers', University and New York Yacht clubs, the Bar Association, Dartmouth Alumni Association, New England Society and the Sons of the Revolution. His city residence is in West Fifty-fifth Street.
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THOMAS H. HUBBARD
T HE sixteenth Governor of the State of Maine, elected in 1849, and again in 1850, was Dr. John Hubbard. His ancestors were pioneers of the State of New Hampshire, and those from whom he was immediately descended moved into the Colony of Maine, and helped to establish the village of Redfield. His father was a medical practitioner, Dr. John Hubbard, and his mother was Olive Wilson. The father owned large property and was a man of prominence, serving at one time as a representative in the General Court of Massachusetts when Maine was part of Massachusetts. Dr. John Hubbard, Junior, graduated from Dartmouth College in 1816, and was subsequently made an M. D. by the University of Pennsylvania, and became eminent as a physician and surgeon. In 1843, he was elected to the State Senate of Maine, and six years later became Governor of that State. He gave much attention to the cause of education, and it was during his administration that the Maine Liquor Law was first enacted. In 1857 and 1858, Dr. Hubbard was a special agent of the United States Treasury Department to inspect Custom Houses. In 1859, President Buchanan appointed him a commissioner, under the reciprocity treaty between the United States and England, to settle the fisheries disputes. Dr. Hubbard married, in 1825, Sarah H. Barrett, of Dresden, Me., a granddaughter of Oliver Barrett, one of the minute men at Lexington, who was killed at the second battle of Stillwater during the Saratoga campaign of the Revolutionary War.
General Thomas H. Hubbard, the son of Dr. John and Sarah H. Hubbard, was born in Hallowell, Me., December 20th, 1838, and graduated from Bowdoin College in 1857. Taking up the study of law, he was admitted to practice in the courts of the State of Maine in 1860. The following year, he took a further course of study in the Law School of Albany, N. Y., and in May, 1861, was admitted to practice in New York. With the opening of the Civil War, Mr. Hubbard returned to his native State and joined the Twenty-Fifth Maine Regiment, with the commission of First Lieutenant and Adjutant. He served with the regiment during the year for which it had been mustered in, and part of the time was Assistant Adjutant-General of the brigade to which he was attached. When his term of service had expired, he recruited for the Thirtieth Maine Volunteer Infantry, of which he was made Lieutenant-Colonel. The regiment took part in the Red River expedition, and was present at the battles of Sabine Cross Roads, Pleasant Hill, Monett's Bluff and other engagements, and was employed in the engineering work of that campaign. In 1864, Lieutenant-Colonel Hubbard was commissioned Colonel of his regiment, and his command was transferred to the Army of the Potomac. In Virginia, he took part in the Shenandoah Valley campaign of 1864-65, being at times in command of his brigade. He saw further service in 1865 in Georgia, and the same year received the brevet rank of Brigadier-General in recognition of his faithful service and gallantry.
After the termination of his military service, General Hubbard returned to New York City and resumed the practice of law. For a short time he was associated with the late Charles A. Rapallo, afterwards a judge of the Court of Appeals. In 1867, he entered the law firm of Barney, Butler & Parsons, which some years later was succeeded by the firm of Butler, Stillman & Hubbard. For many years General Hubbard has been chiefly engaged in railroad management, and is a vice-president of the Southern Pacific Company, president of the Houston & Texas Central and Mexican International Railroad companies and of several corporations allied to the Southern Pacific Company, and is also a director of the Wabash Railroad Company. -
In 1868, General Hubbard married Sibyl A. Fahnestock, of Harrisburg, Pa. Three children of this marriage survive. The family reside at 16 West Fifty-eighth Street. General Hubbard is a member of the Metropolitan, Union League, City, Lawyers', Riding and Republican clubs, the Downtown Association and the New England Society, as well as of the Bar Association and the New York State Bar Association. His other affiliations include membership in the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural History.
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CHARLES BULKLEY HUBBELL
A CCORDING to well-supported tradition, the Hubbell family is descended from a Danish nobleman, Harold Hubbell, who came to England with King Canute in 1016 and received estates in Northumberland, with the fortress of Haroldstone. He died in 1035; two of his sons fell at the battle of Hastings, and the third, Hugo Hubbell, driven from the North County, settled on the estates of Hunsborg and Horstone, in Rutlandshire. The family lost its estates in the wars of York and Lancaster, and Andrew Hubbell subsequently became a merchant of Plymouth, where he died in 1515. Richard Hubbell, 1627-1699, his descendant, came to New England about 1645. In 1647, he took the oath at New Haven, settled at Guilford, Conn., in 1663, was a freeman of Fairfield in 1669, and a man of substance, his estate being appraised at eight hundred and sixteen pounds. His wife was a daughter of John Meigs, who came to America about 1640 with his father, Vincent Meigs, of Dorsetshire. John Meigs lived in East Guilford, Conn., and was a freeman of that place in 1657.
In the second generation, Mr. Charles Bulkley Hubbell's ancestor, Richard Hubbell, 1654- 1738, of Stratfield, held many public offices and married Rebecca Morehouse. The silver com- munion service now used by the Congregational Church, at Fairfield, Conn., was his gift. His elder brother, John Hubbell, was a Lieutenant in the expedition against the Indians after the Schenectady massacre. The great-great-grandfather of the present Mr. Hubbell was Captain Eleazar Hubbell, 1700-1770, of Stratfield and New Fairfield, his wife, Abigail Burr, being of the same family as Aaron Burr. Next in line of descent were Eleazar Hubbell, 1749-1810, of Jericho, Vt., and his wife, Anna Noble. The family was engaged in the West India trade and Eleazer Hubbell and his brother during the Revolution captured a British brig off the town of Newfield, using one of their own vessels. The present Mr. Hubbell's grandparents were Major Lyman Hubbell, 1768-1859, of Williamstown, Mass., and his wife, Louisa Rossiter, daughter of Nathan and Hannah (Tuttle) Rossiter.
Dr. Charles Lyman Hubbell, 1827-1890, son of Lyman and Louisa (Rossiter) Hubbell, was a well-known physician of Troy, N. Y. In 1852, he married Julia E. Bulkley, daughter of Ger- shom Taintor Bulkley, of Williamstown, Mass. The Bulkley family descends from the Reverend Peter Bulkley, a graduate of St. John's College, Cambridge, the first minister of Concord, Mass., who contributed one-sixth of the volumes that comprised the original library of Harvard College. Gershom Bulkley graduated in one of the first classes at Harvard, married the daughter of Charles Chauncy, its second president, and gave to the college the ground on which Gore Hall now stands. He was the first Surgeon-General of Connecticut.
Mr. Charles Bulkley Hubbell, the eldest son of Dr. Charles Lyman Hubbell, was born in Williamstown, Mass., July 20th, 1853. He was educated at Williams College, from which insti- tution he was graduated in the class of 1874. At college he was a noted athlete, being a member of the University crew, and was the first student of Williams College to win honors in intercollegiate athletic sports. After completing a course of study at law, he was admitted to practice, and has since been an active and prominent member of the bar in New York. His wife, Emily Allen Chandler, was a daughter of the Honorable William A. Chandler, of Connec- ticut, and is a direct descendant of Gurdon Saltonstall, an early Governor of Connecticut. Mr. Hubbell's marriage took place in 1879. Their family consists of three daughters. The country home of the family is at Brookside Farm, Williamstown, Mass., a place that was owned by Captain Absalom Blair, one of Mr. Hubbell's ancestors, in 1764.
Mr. Hubbell has long taken a great interest in educational matters, has been for several years a member of the Board of Education of New York and is now its president. He has served as a trustee of Williams College, and is at present the president of its Alumni Asso- ciation in New York. He is a member of the New England Society, the Bar Association, the Sons of the Revolution, the Society of Colonial Wars and the University Club.
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CHARLES I. HUDSON
A LTHOUGH one of the successful men of affairs in New York of the present day, Mr. Hudson's immediate ancestry was identified with the learned professions and the world of letters. His paternal grandfather was a clergyman in Bradford, England, and his father, Isaac N. Hudson, who was born in England and came to this country in 1830, entered the ranks of American journalism, becoming one of the best known newspaper writers and managers of the period preceding the Civil War. He was connected with leading papers in various parts of the country, including California, whither he went soon after the gold discoveries and the great development of the Pacific Coast. His wife, to whom he was married in 1851, was a New York lady of established family, Cornelia A. Bogert Haight, daughter of John Edward Haight, a well-known New York merchant of that period.
Mr. Charles I. Hudson was their eldest son, and was born in this city August 20th, 1852. He received his early education at schools in this city, but, determining to follow a business career, he went into Wall Street while still a mere lad and began his active life as a junior employee of S. M. Mills & Co., at that time one of the most prominent brokerage houses in the city. The period at which Mr. Hudson thus made his début was one of more active and excited speculation than the country had ever seen before or since. The years succeeding the Civil War produced also some of the largest speculators that ever appeared in Wall Street, and the record of those days is one of gigantic operations, which attracted the attention of the entire country. Mr. Hudson from the outset manifested an aptitude for the profession he had chosen, and not only was his advancement rapid, but he made the acquaintance and secured the friendship of a number of the most prominent financiers and speculative operators. Having also been prudent and successful in his personal affairs, he purchased a seat in the New York Stock Exchange in 1874 and entered the brokerage business on his own account. In 1876, Mr. Hudson established the firm of C. I. Hudson & Co .; his partner at the outset being Henry N. Smith, a gentleman of great prominence in Wall Street, and who at one time was the partner of the famous Jay Gould. While Mr. Hudson has been its head throughout, the composition of the partnership has undergone several changes, but the same style has been retained. The present partners are Mr. Hudson and A. H. DeForrest, also a member of the Exchange.
Mr. Hudson has taken an active place not only in banking and brokerage fields, but in the management of the Stock Exchange. As a candidate on an independent ticket, he was in 1891 chosen one of the governors of that institution for a term of four years and was again elected in 1896. He is noted for his original and far-sighted ideas in business, an instance of which is afforded by the part he took in introducing the securities of large industrial corporations upon the Stock Exchange and making them features of the Wall Street market. Appreciating the possibilities such organizations held forth to the members of the Exchange as vehicles for investment and speculation, he was personally instrumental in having the shares of some of the first companies of this kind admitted to regular quotation and made such securities a specialty with his firm, which for this reason, as well as for the generally wise policy of its head, acquired an enormous business.
Outside of Wall Street, Mr. Hudson has few interests. In 1888, he was an organizer of the Fourteenth Street Bank and one of its directors for some years. His clubs include the Manhattan, Colonial, Democratic, New York Athletic, Riding, Larchmont Yacht and American Jersey Cattle clubs. His country home is The Ledges, a handsome place among the Thousand Islands of the St. Lawrence, and he was one of the organizers and a director of the Thousand Island Club and is a member of the St. Lawrence River Association.
In 1876, Mr. Hudson married Sarah E. Kierstede, of Scranton, Pa., a lady descended from New York Dutch families, the famous Anneke Jans being among her ancestors. Mr. and Mrs. Hudson have four children, Percy Kierstede, Hendrick, Hans Kierstede and Charles Alan Hudson.
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GEORGE HUNTINGTON HULL
I N the early records of the New England Colonies appeared the names of the five brothers of the Hull family, John, George, Richard, Joseph and Robert, natives of Derbyshire, England, who, with their descendants, early attained prominence in the Colonies. Richard Hull, who resided in Dorchester, Mass., in 1634, was the founder of that branch of the family to which the subject of this sketch belongs. Moving to New Haven, in 1639, he became a representative to the General Court of Connecticut, and died in 1662. Dr. John Hull, his son, was born in New Haven in 1640. He resided in Stratford, 1661-68, was one of the original twelve settlers of Pawgassett, now Derby, and afterwards resided in Wallingford, where he died. He was a selectman, 1677- 80-83-87, a member of the General Assembly, and received a grant of seven hundred acres of land in Wallingford for his services as surgeon in King Philip's War. Dr. Benjamin Hull, his son, 1672-1771, was a prominent physician in Wallingford. His son, Dr. John Hull, was born in Wallingford in 1702 and married Sarah Ives in 1727. Dr. Zephaniah Hull, their son, 1728-1760, married Hannah Doolittle in 1749. He practiced medicine in Bethlehem, where he attained to a great influence. Dr. Titus Hull, their son, was born at Bethlehem in 1751. He married, second, Olive (Lewis) Parmelee in 1778. He was a surgeon in the War of the Revolution and moved to New York State in 1807. The Reverend Leverett Hull, son of the last named, was born in Beth- lehem, Conn., in 1796, graduated from Hamilton College in 1824, and from Auburn Theological Seminary. He spent his life in the ministry in New York State and in Ohio, whither he moved in 1844, dying there in 1852. He married, in 1830, for his second wife, Sarah Lord, of Rome, N. Y. Mr. George Huntington Hull, son of the Reverend Leverett Hull and Sarah Lord, was born in Dansville, N. Y., in 1840, and was taken to Ohio with his parents in 1844. He was educated in Oakfield and Alexandria, N. Y., and then went into mercantile life in Cincinnati. At the beginning of the Civil War, he was a member of the Cincinnati Zouaves, the first company to leave for the war on President Lincoln's call for troops, and afterwards was in the United States Quartermaster's office in Cincinnati. Returning to civil life, he joined a mercantile firm in Cincin- nati. In 1871, he established an iron business in Louisville, Ky., and in 1890, removing to New York, founded the American Pig Iron Storage Warrant Company, and has since been its president.
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