NORTHWESTERN IOWA ITS HISTORY AND TRADITION VOLUME II 1804-1926 J. W. Hubbard Jesse W. Hubbard, a successful attorney, has continuously followed his profession in Sioux City for thirty-two years and worthily bears a name which has long been synonymous with the highest ideals in Iowa's citizenship. He was born in 1871 and his life has been spent in this city, in which he is esteemed and respected. His father, Asahel Wheeler Hubbard, was born January 18, 1819, in Haddam, Middlesex county, Connecticut, and was a son of Simeon and Esther (Wheeler) Hubbard, both of Puritan stock. At the age of nineteen he went to Indiana and for a time sold books in Rushville, where he afterward taught school. He devoted his leisure hours to the study of law and in January, 1841, was licensed to practice in the district court of Rush county. For sixteen years he was connected with litigated interests of that locality and in 1857 started for the west, establishing his home in Sioux City, Iowa. While in Indiana he represented Rush county in the state senate for three years, from 1847 until 1850, refusing to become a candidate for reelection, and a year after his arrival in Iowa was called to the office of judge of the fourth judicial circuit, which at that time embraced about thirty counties in the northwestern portion of the state. He served for four years and his rulings indicated strong mentality, careful analysis, a comprehensive knowledge of the law and an unbiased judgment. His record won him election to congress in 1862 and for six years he was one of the able, conscientious members of the national legislative body. He was a whig until the party ceased to exist and then became a republican. Judge Hubbard was equally successful as a business man and financier and aided in organizing the First National Bank of Sioux City, of which he was president for a number of years. During his wise administration the institution enjoyed a steady growth and he was also prominently identified with the railroad business. He reached the age of sixty years, passing away September 22, 1879, in Sioux City, and his grave in Floyd cemetery is marked by a massive column of granite, bearing upon it this inscription: "Erected by his fellow-citizens, in memory of a faithful public servant, a self-sacrificing citizen, a true man." The public schools of his native city afforded Jesse W. Hubbard his early educational opportunities and his legal studies were pursued in Yale University, from which he was graduated with the class of 1893. He returned to Sioux City and became associated with the law firm of Wright, Call & Hubbard, with which he was connected for five years. Since 1898 he has practiced under his own name and each year has chronicled a marked increase in his clientele, which now ranks with the largest and most remunerative in the city. He has devoted much time to the study of real estate and probate law and is recognized as an expert in the examination of titles. He is well versed in all branches of jurisprudence and in the preparation of his cases is most thorough and painstaking. Mr. Hubbard is married and has three children: Edward, a boy of fourteen, who is now attending school in Washington, D. C.; and John and Katherine, aged respectively thirteen and seven years. Mr. Hubbard is a member of the Sioux City Bar Association and the Professional Men's Club. Along fraternal lines he is connected with the Masonic order, belonging to Tyrian Lodge, No. 508, F. & A. M., and exemplifies in his life the beneficent teachings of the craft. Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/