If a house could wish for a way to spend its declining years it would surely want to be the Bradley-HUBBELL House in Easton, Connecticut. Once the place of families and bustling activity as early as the 1800s, it wouldn’t be surprising to see the house unoccupied and crumbling, or razed for a more modern structure. […]

On July 14, 2011 the HUBBELL Center received a donation of family photographs, letters and artifacts from Susan Libby and John Thompson.  Susan is the granddaughter of Helen Eliza HUBBELL Seaton (4791), great-granddaughter of Herbert Porter HUBBELL (2607) and great-great-granddaughter of Philo Patterson HUBBELL (1182). We will be posting with descriptions of the collection – […]

The U.S. HUBs aren’t the only ones who have reunions, and this recent article was the announcement for the Canadian HUBs that was held yesterday, July 17, 2011 in Havelock, Ontario. The article is dated July 14 but I didn’t come across it till today – thank you Dorcas! We probably couldn’t have made it […]

J. B. HUBBELL who was the first sheriff of Dodge County, Minnesota was also the man who built HUBBELL House in Mantorville where THFHS members have gathered in the past to acknowledge his efforts.  An online article  in the Post Bulletin describes the Dodge County Fair exhibit on the history of law enforcement “created by Dodge County Historical Society director Cheryl Finnegan, […]

For those of you who were fortunate enough to attend the Albequerque, New Mexico reunion and visit the Hubbell Trading Post in Ganado, Arizona you will find the information on Linda Rubi Crumm’s Rubi-Lopez Family GenealogyPage interesting reading. Linda has included a page explaining the Hubbell-Rubi connection and she refers to the book about John “Juan” Lorenzo Hubbell by […]

Genealogist Hilbert Hubble has identified nineteen Hubbell/Hubbles who were born on the Fourth of July as far back as 1804 and as recently as 1987. Consider how that particular fact of history affected their lives, and in recent times how they celebrated their joint events.  Were these Hubbells more aware than others of the history their […]

California Highway Patrol Officer Paul Benton recently contacted us through this site requesting our assistance.  He is doing research to “locate family members of Jarvis S. “Ted” DAVIS b 1895.  Davis was a CHP Officer who died in the line of duty on March 11, 1933, in a traffic accident while responding to assist the victims of the 1933 Long […]

If you have researched gravestones in Connecticut to find your Hubbell ancestors, you know what a help the Charles Hale Collection can be for locating older graves.  That is particularly true now as so many stones have eroded over time and become more difficult to read every day. Unfortunately, that work ended in 1934. To the […]