Posted on: Fairfield County Obituaries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ct/FairfieldObits/10456 Surname: HUBBARD ------------------------- This was found in a journal dated 1889. I'm not sure of the day or paper it was published in, but thought it might be of interest. LUTHER PRESCOTT HUBBARD Luther Prescott Hubbard, for thirty-four years secretary of the New England Society in the city of New York, died at his homein Greenwich, Conn., Sept 18, after a few days' illness from bronchial pneumonia. Mr. Hubbard was born at Hollis, NH., June 30, 1808. He attended the district school and Pinkerton Academy in Derry, and but for lack of health would have taken the college education which he ardently desired. In 1824, at Hashua, NH, he had a hand in the building of the first cotton mill in the country, when Lowell, "the city of spinkels." could boast only one small frame factory. In 1825 Mr. Hubbard was, with his father, shaping stones for the Bunker Hill monument. two years later he came to New ork and filled with much satisfaction the place of confidential clerk to Ira Morris & Co. , dealers in granite. In early life Mr. Hubbard had been to a certain extent identified with a set of freethinkers in Boston. Later a great change came over him; in 1833 he became actively interested in the promotion of Christianity among the sailors of this port. The New York Marine Bible Society chose him as its first agent to distribute Bibles among seamen. In 1863 Mr. Hubbard was chosen financial agent of the American Seamen's Friend Society, and for many years had the somewhat unenviable task of soliciting funds. this duty he discharged with rare tact. Thirty six years ago Mr. Hubbard removed to Greenwich, Conn., and built himself a house, which has been among the landmarks of that region. Mr. Hubbard was the author of a "History of the Hubbard FAmily," the descendants of George H. Hubbard, who came from England in 1600; a member of the New Hampshire Antiquarian Society, and for four years warden of the borough of Greenwich, Conn. Mr. Hubbard leaves a widow and four children. One son, L.P. Hubbard of Minneapolis, is at the head of the financial department of the Pillsbury Washburn Flour Mills; another, Frederick A. Hubbard, is a lawyer at Greenwich, Conn. and another is W. N. Hubbard, a physician of this city.