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Davis), was also a volunteer on Captain Elliott's ship. Richard Howell, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was governor of the state of New Jersey, for seven consecutive terms. A photograph of the tombstone of one of his ancestors was shown the writer of this sketch; it was taken from the tombstone, still standing in a cemetery on Long Island, and shows it to be in a state. of excellent preservation. It is in memory of Major John Howell, who died November 3, 1696, aged seventy-nine years. The coat-of-arms engraged on this stone is said to be among the first ever found on a tombstone in the United States. After the war Major Howell was appointed deputy collector of the port of Philadelphia, and served in that capacity for twenty-six years, at which time he died. He held his position under different political administrations, but his popularity with the merchants of Philadelphia was.so great that public sentiment kept him in office. Mr. Howell's mother's maiden name was Rebecca Augusta Stockton; her fore- fathers were also prominent during the trying days of the revolution. Her grandfather was the brother of Richard Stockton, one of the signers of the declaration of independence, and her relatives have been honorably identified with the service of the nation and state to a great extent. Admiral John C. Howell, a brother of Andrew Allen Howell, married a daughter of Commodore Stockton, of New Jersey, his cousin.
Dana Hubbard, whose name will ever fill a conspicuous place in the history of the city of Wheeling, was the founder of his family in this region, coming here when the difficulties which confronted him resem- bled those which were encountered by the founder of his family in America nearly 200 years before. The ancester just referred to, was William Hubbard, a native of England, who left his mother country and came to Plymouth, Mass., in 1630. He subsequently settled at Ipswich, Mass., which town he represented in the general court six years, between 1638 and 1646, and from there he afterward removed to Boston. His eldest son, the Rev. William Hubbard, nine years old at the immigration, received from Harvard college, then in its infancy, the degree of A. B. at the age of twenty-one. He became a minister at Ipswich, was the author of a history of the Indian wars, published in 1677, and a "History of New England," published in 1682, the original manuscript of which is now in the archives of the state of Massachusetts. In 1688 he was appointed by Sir Edward Andros to officiate as president of Harvard college, and to conduct the com- mencement exercises of that year. He was married to Margaret Rogers, the great-grand-daughter of Rev. John Rogers, of Smithfield fame, and their son, John Hubbard, was the father of Rev. John Hub- bard, of Meriden, Conn., whose son, another John Hubbard, a major- general of militia of Connecticut, was the father of Dana Hubbard, who was born near New Haven, Conn., August 17, 1789. On October 16, 18II, Dana Hubbard was married to Asenath Dorman, a lady of earnest and devoted character and tender, Christian graces, who was born at Hamden, Conn., December 9, 1789. When their son, Ches- ter, was six months old, Dana Hubbard and wife sought new oppor-
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tunities in what was then the "west." The husband proceeded to Pittsburgh in March, IS15, and his wife followed in May, by ship, and by stage across the mountains, and in April, 1819, they came down the Ohio river on a flat-boat, which was anchored in Wheeling creek and used for a home for the family, while the father built a log cabin. Mr. Hubbard soon became a pioneer in establishing manufacturing industries, and built in 1827 the first saw-mill, also the first grist-mill in Wheeling, and established the first steam saw-mill in western Vir- ginia. He dealt in lumber also and ran a sash . factory in connection with his mill. His last days were passed on a farm in Ohio county, where he died October 16, 1852. His wife survived him over a quar- ter of a century, dying April 23, 1878. In the same year that they came to Wheeling they joined the Methodist Episcopal church, of which they were devoted members. Five children were born to them : Chester D., who was born November 25, 1814; Henry B., born October 23, IS16, died September 17, ISSS; William Dana, born September II, ISIS, died June 12, 1834; John Rogers, born November 8, 1825, died August IS, 1879; Martha R., born November 9, 1829, died August 4, 1832.
Chester Dorman Hubbard, the eldest and only surviver of the family, was born at Hamden, Conn., and was aged four and a half years when his parents came with him to Wheeling. In his childhood he attended the schools at Wheeling until he was thirteen years old, after which he gave all his time to his father, working in the brick yards and mills of the latter until he reached his majority. On his twenty-first birth- day he began preparations for acquiring additional education and subsequently entered the Wesleyan university at Middletown, Conn., where he was graduated in 1840, with the honor of being the valedic- torian of his class. On account of the failing health of his father he at once returned to Wheeling and engaged in business, beginning a career which is one of the most notable in the business history of the city. He was in the lumber business until 1852, when he with D. C. List and others established the bank of Wheeling, of which Mr. Hub- bard was president. He continued in this enterprise until 1865. He is now president of the German bank of Wheeling, to which he has rendered good service. Recognizing the great good to result from the natural adaptation of Wheeling as a manufacturing site, he has rendered efficient aid in the development of her natural resources. In 1859 he was one of the firm of four members, under the title of C. D. Hubbard & Co., who leased the Crescent Iron mills, and engaged in the manufacture of railroad iron for something over a year. He was also one of the organizers of the Wheeling Hinge company, and is still connected with it as a director. In 1871 he became secretary of the then reorganized Wheeling Iron and Nail company, a position he still holds, occupying thereby a leading place among the manufac- turers of the region. As a member of the firm of Logan & Co. for twenty years, Mr. Hubbard was also associated with the commercial interests of the city, and he is now president of the Logan Drug com- pany which recently succeeded the old firm. In 1873 he participated * in railroad enterprises by becoming one of the reorganizers of the
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Pittsburgh, Wheeling & Kentucky railroad, of which he has since become president, having been elected in 1874. With rare adminis- trative ability he has put the road upon a profitable basis. Mr. Hub- bard's business career has been highly honorable and successful, but he has also in public life had occasion to render distinguished service to the state and nation. He was a member of the house of delegates of Virginia in 1852-3, and in 1861 was a member of the Virginia con- vention which passed the ordinance of secession, which he strenuously opposed. Immediately after the passage of the ordinance he returned to his constituents at Wheeling and began agitating in the cause of the Union, and for the organization of military companies for home defense, and succeeded in having a meeting called at the American hall in center Wheeling and another at the Guards' hose house, and on Sunday afternoon, he having returned home Friday evening, he had the satisfaction of seeing two companies sworn in to support "the constitution of the United States and the old flag." Before the week was past, ten companies were organized into a regiment, of which he was elected colonel. This prompt action was of great service to the community and the nation, and prevented any open rupture between the unionists and confederates in this region. Mr. Hubbard was a member of the Wheeling convention of May 13, 1861, and of what is known as the second Wheeling convention of June 11, 1861. both con- ventions being held by the Union people of the state for the purpose of establishing a loyal government of Virginia and looking to the for- mation of the new state of West Virginia. After the organization of the new state, Mr. Hubbard served in the state senate, and subsequently in the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth congresses, be- ing elected as the republican candidate from the First district, and at Washington he was a faithful and distinguished repre- sentative of the important interests of his district. Mr. Hubbard has been an earnest friend of education, and is prominently associated with well known local institutions. He was elected a trustee of the Linsly Institute in 1848, and since 1873, has been the treasurer of the board of trustees. He was active in founding the Wheeling Female seminary in 1848, was one of the trustees, and since the change to the Wheeling Female college in 1865 has been president of the board of trustees. Mr. Hubbard's family life has been a pleasant and happy one. He was married September 29, 1842, to Sarah Pallister, who was born in England in 1820, and came to the United States in 1823. She was a step daughter to John List, one of the notable old citizens. Five children were born to this union: William Pallister, Dana List, Chester Russell, Julia A., wife of W. H. Tyler, of Triadelphia, and Anna G., wife of Joseph C. Brady, secretary of the Wheeling Hinge. company.
Willian P. Hubbard, who has been a successful lawyer at Wheeling for a little more than a quarter century, has achieved honorable dis- tinction both in the fields of jurisprudence and of politics. Mr. Hub- bard was born at Wheeling, December 24, 1843, the son of Hon. Chester D. Hubbard, was reared in his native town, and received here.
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the rudiments of his education. After attending for a period the Linsly institute he entered the Wesleyan university at Middletown; Conn., where he was graduated in 1863. Returning to Wheeling he pursued the study of law, and was admitted to the bar in the follow- ing year, since when he has practiced his profession at this city. Dur- ing the latter part of the war he was engaged in military service, being a member of the Third West Virginia cavalry, U. S. A., in 1865. From 1866 to 1870 he filled the position of clerk of the West Virginia house of delegates, and in 1881-2 represented Ohio county in that body, serving on the committee on revision of the statutes. In 1888 Mr. Hubbard was selected by his party as a delegate to the National- republican convention at Chicago, and in the same year he was the republican candidate for the office of attorney-general of West Virginia.
Myron Hubbard, senior member of the firm of Hubbard & Paull, wholesale grocers of Wheeling, was born in the town of Bolton, Tol- land county, Conn., July 13, 1842. His family resided at that place place until 1850, when they removed to northern Illinois, remaining there fourteen years, after which they returned to Connecticut. In 1865 Mr. Hubbard went to Columbus, Ohio, and took the position of traveling agent for the Columbus Home Insurance company. He was occupied in this capacity for a year and a half in the states of Ohio and West Virginia, and during six months of this period was stationed at Wheeling. In the fall of 1866 he retired from the insur- ance business, and in the following spring he became a clerk in the grocery store of his half-brother, Nathaniel Hubbard, at Wheeling. He was thus engaged for three years, after which he formed a part- nership with his brother George, under the firm name of M. & G. Hubbard, and purchased the old Mutual store, where they carried on business for five years and more. Their next business venture was the purchase of the business of J. W. Boyd & Co., and they then embarked in the wholesale grocery trade under the style of Hubbard & Co., doing business without further change for over five years. Subsequently they removed to 1425 Main street, and in 1880 George Paull became'a partner in the business and the firm of Hubbard, Paull & Co. was formed. George Hubbard retired in 1882, and the subject of this sketch and Mr. Paull have since conducted the business, which is among the most extensive of the city. Mr. Hubbard is also interested in the Commercial bank, of which he is a director. In religious and benevolent matter he is quite active, being a member of the First Presbyterian church, and a deacon of that organization, a director of the Young Men's Christian Association, also of the Children's Home and the Home for the Friendless. Mr. Hubbard was married in April, 1871, to Ella, daughter of Thomas and Sidney List, of Wheeling, and to this union four children have been born, of whom a son and a daughter survive.
Alfred Hughes, M. D., of Baltimore, Md., was born at Wheeling, Va., on September 16, 1824. His great-grandfather, Felix Hughes, was a native of Ireland. He was a devout Catholic, and left the land
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of his birth to find that religious freedom that he was there denied. He came to this country and settled in Loudon county, Va., in 1732. Four sons were born to him, of whom James, the grandfather of our subject, was a great huntsman, and crossing the mountains in quest of game, saw the beautiful region that is now Greene county, Penn., but then a part of Virginia. He determined to settle there and having married a Miss Dunn, of Jefferson county, Va., in 1772 moved to his newly located home, and was among the first white settlers of that section. At his death he owned large tracts of land in Virginia, Ken- tucky and what is now Indiana; he left three sons and five daughters, his oldest child being then only nineteen years of age. His youngest child but one, Thomas, was born and raised in what is now Greene county, Penn., and in early life married Mary, daughter of Charles von Odenbaugh of Winchester, Va. They shortly afterward moved to Wheeling, Va., where seven sons and three daughters were born to them. He served under Gen. Harrison in the war of 1812. At his death in 1849, he had been treasurer of the city of Wheeling, and member of the city council for thirty-two years; president of the Wheeling Savings institution; president of the Wheeling Fire Insu- rance company; president of the Wheeling & Belmont Bridge com- pany, and director in the Northwestern bank. His oldest living son was chosen to fill his place in the city council, and held the position to a year previous to his death, in 1870. His seventh child was our subject. He went through a thorough collegiate course of education, studied medicine and graduated at the Homeopathic Medical college of Philadelphia. On November 1, 1849, he married Mary Kirby Ad- rian, of Wheeling, a descendant of the Sedgwick family of Maryland, who settled in that state in the early part of the seventeeh century. He began the practice of homeopathy at Wheeling in 1851. Of those who had essayed the task of practicing the new school and failed, two practitioners were from Philadelphia and one from Baltimore. Pop- ular prejudice and the bitter opposition of the old school were too much for them, and their defeat rendered victory more difficult for their successor. Dr. Hughes, however, after a hard fight and many newspaper controversies, conquered, vindicating the advantages of the homeopathic practice. When the cholera made its appearance, in 1854, he labored almost constantly night and day, being the only homeopathic physician in the city, and meeting with almost unprece- dented success in his treatment of the fearful scourge, then in epidemic form, homeopathy was then firmly established, he soon built up a large and lucrative practice, and now Wheeling, in place of one, has several new school practitioners. On the outbreak of the war, and when the first gun was fired at Charleston, his sympathies were en- listed in behalf of the south. When Virginia seceded, he engaged in newspaper political controversies, and became correspondent for the Baltimore Exchange. He was arrested for disloyalty in 1861, and was held a prisoner at Camp Chase, near Columbus, Ohio, for nearly eight months, when he was specially exchanged for a brother of Dr. Pan- coast, of Philadelphia, captured at Blounnery Gap, Va., and a pris-
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oner at Salisbury, N. C. On his way to Richmond with his wife and three children, he stayed in Baltimore, reporting to Gen. Schenck, to whom he had letters of introduction. He obtained from the secretary of war, Stanton, a permit to take his wife and children and extra bag- gage to Richmond. On the steamer in which they sailed for Fortress Monroe were several distinguished federal generals, among them Gen. Thomas, who rendered them great service in getting through their extensive baggage, consisting of some thirteen trunks, at a time when scarcely a bundle was permitted to go by a flag of truce boat. Having been landed at City Point, and the formalities of exchange gone through, he proceeded with his family to Richmond. At Pet- ersburg he was arrested on a general suspicion created by the amount of his baggage, and it was not until dispatches were received from two of his friends in Richmond, Judge Brokenbrough and Hon. Charles W. Russell, vouching for his loyalty to the south, that he and his baggage were permitted to proceed. His arrival in Richmond accompanied by the unusual amount of baggage gave rise to a report that he was a commissioner of peace sent by the United States government clothed with power to end the war. He at once settled down into practice, and again had to fight homeopathy's battle against bitter prejudice and stubborn opposition. Once more he succeeded in establishing the system, and secured an excellent practice. After a while he was elected to the legislature of Virginia, and remained a member thereof up to the fall of Richmond. He was a warm advocate of the enlist- ment of slaves in the southern ranks. Among his patients during and since the war was the wife of Gen. Robert E. Lee. On December 18, 1865, he removed from Richmond to Baltimore, where he soon estab- lished himself in a good and lucrative practice, such a one, indeed, as is obtained by few, even after long residence in a city. This he has done in spite of much competition. Thus he has established in his native city, and won respect for it in his own person, in two others. Dr. Hughes was an occasional contributor to the American Homco- pathic Observer. He has had ten children, five sons and three daugh- ters of whom are living. His oldest son a graduate in law of the university of Virginia is a practicing lawyer in Baltimore. Ais oldest daughter in 1869, was married to W. P. Moncure, M. D., son of Judge R. C. L. Moncure, deceased, formerly president of the supreme court of appeals of Virginia. His second daughter in 1877, was married to Frank A. Bond, formerly adjutant-general of the state of Maryland, and an officer in the confederate states army of northern Virginia. His family are widely extended through Virginia, West Virginia and part of Kentucky. He died in Baltimore, Md., February 25, 18So. There is a sketch of his life in Cleave's Biographical Cyclopedia of Home- opathic Physicians and Surgeons, and in the Biographical Cyclopædia of Prominent Men in Maryland and the District of Columbia. His eldest son, Thomas, born August 25, 1850, in Wheeling, was at the close of the war a cadet at the Virginia Military institute at Rich- mond, Va .; graduated in 1871 at the Baltimore City college, first in a class of nineteen students, completing the prescribed course of
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four years in two years; and in the spring of the following year grad- uated in law at the university of Virginia, receiving the degree of B. L. He is a prominent lawyer in large practice in Baltimore; a member of the Bar association of Baltimore City, of the American Bar asso- ciation, of the Maryland Historical society, past master of Concordia lodge, a member of Jerusalem chapter and of Beauseant command- ery of Masons, past grand of Baltimore City lodge, and past chief patriarch of Mt. Araratt encampment of Odd Fellows, and a member of the Calumet, Crescent and Atheneum clubs of Baltimore. In 1875 he married Helen R. Thorburn of Fredericksburg, Va., daughter of Capt. Robert Donaldson Thorburn, formerly of the United States navy.
Archie T. Hupp, one of the most prominent young business men of Wheeling, is the son of John C. Hupp, M. D., an eminent physician of the state, whose sketch and portrait appear in this work. He was born in Wheeling, W. Va., October 1, 1855. Mr. Hupp started life with the advantage of a liberal education, and when sixteen years of age, having determined to make the mercantile business his voca- tion in life, accepted a clerkship in the wholesale grocery house of Jos- eph Speidel & Company, and by dauntless energy and close attention to his duties he became such a valuable auxiliary to the firm that his services were soon appreciated to the extent of an admittance to its membership. His house probably does the largest jobbing trade of groceries in the Ohio valley. Mr. Hupp represented his firm in the territory adjacent to the Wheeling market for several years, and his withdrawal from the road to fill a more responsible position in the management of the firm's extensive business brought many expres- sions of regret from his patrons. This marked success has been at- tained only by great business ability and unbending integrity, which traits of character are possessed by Mr. Hupp in no small degree. Miss Addie, daughter of the late Harry C. Coen, became his wife in March, 1882. They are the parents of four children: Katharene L., Carolene L., John C., and Archie T. Mr. Hupp comes from a very old and influential family, and is possessed of those qualities which make men sought after in society, being a man of culture and refine- ment as well as a successful business man.
John Cox Hupp, a distinguished physician of Wheeling, is a mem- ber of a family which in the days of Indian warfare, were distinguished for heroism and sacrifice. In 1770 Philip Hupp, John Hupp, Frank Hupp, Palsar Hupp and another brother whose name has not been preserved, came to the frontier from the Shenandoah valley, and set- tled on the waters of Buffalo, in what is now Washington county, Penn., but was then a part of Virginia and remained so until after the run- ning of Mason and Dixon's line. Frank was shot by an Indian at Jonathan Link's cabin; twelve miles east of Wheeling, on Middle Wheeling creek, September, 1771; John was killed while defending Miller's block house, on Buffalo creek, from the Indians, on Easter Sunday of 1782; Palsar settled on the banks of the Monongahela, near the village of Millsborough, and Philip, who was at the siege of
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Miller's block house, afterward settled in Duck creek valley. John Hupp left a son of the same name, who was two years old at the time of the siege of the block house within which he was when his father was killed. He was born July 27, 1780, and on January 19, 1813, was married to Ann Cox, by whom he had four children: Isaac, Joseph, Louisa and John C., of whom the latter only survives. The father died March 12, 1864, and the mother, who was born June 7, 1791, died November 6, 1875. John C. Hupp, the subject of this mention, was born in Donegal township, Washington county, Penn., November 24, 1819. He was graduated at Washington college in 1844, and in 1848 received the degree of A. M. He studied medicine under Dr. F. Julius Le Moyne, and at Jefferson Medical college, where he was graduated in 1847. On December 16, of the same year, he began the practice at Wheeling. Since then his life has been nobly devoted to the advancement of his profession, the promotion of general educa- tion, and the welfare of his community, and his old age is now crowned with the grateful remembrances and kind regards of all who have known him. Without entering into the details of his professional work, some salient points of his career may be noted. He was one of the founders of the Medical Society of West Virginia, was appointed in 1875 a delegate of the American Medical association to the European association; and was a member of the executive committee of the Centennial Medical commission to the International Medical congress which met at Philadelphia in 1876. His connection with the Ameri- can association began in 1858, and he has since served several times on the committee on nominations, as secretary of a section, and was for many years chairman of the committee for his state on necrology, He, for ten years, served as treasurer of the State Medical association, and for the same period as treasurer of the Wheeling society. His contributions to the literature of his profession have been many and valuable. He has held various positions connected with his profes- sion, notable among which was the office of state vaccine agent, which he held for nearly fifteen years. In the cause of education, Dr. Hupp made, in 1873, a successful effort before the board of education to ex- tend a free school education to the colored children of the city; in 1873, before the same body, secured the establishment of an evening free school; in 1875, advocated making German a regular branch of study in the public schools; and in 1877, as chairman of the commit- tee on rules and regulations, was successful in securing the adoption of industrial drawing as a regular study in the schools. In 1870 he prepared a memorial to the legislature asking the appointment of a state geologist. Notable among his contributions to literature, aside from those strictly professional are, a memorial of Dr. Joseph Tho- burn, and many other memorials of deceased physicians, a memorial to the legislature on the establishment of a state board of health, his- torical sketches of early life in Washington county, and the quarter- centennial historical sketch of his class at Washington college. Dr. Hupp has served the city and county as a member of the board of health, as president of the county board of supervisors from 1863 to
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