We see that there was an event in Springfield, Missouri on June 2, 2011 that celebrated the life of Marshfield native Edwin Powell Hubble. This Hubble cousin is likely the most recognizable one of all of us, and unfortunately we did not know in advance that the event was planned. It was described as a […]

Our World War II veterans are fewer in number each day, and are being honored in many ways including that of Honor Flight Chicago. On April 27, 2011 Honor Flight flew former THFHS president Clifton Hubbell and fellow Downers Grove veterans to Washington DC to recognize their service during the war. Read more about it here: http://www.mysuburbanlife.com/woodridge/features/x401385474/In-honor-of-their-service  […]

The Bradley-Hubbell House in Easton, Connecticut is in the news again. It must be the spring cleaning urge that has reached New England again as they are planning a cleanup day this Saturday, May 14 from 9:00 till 12:00. Read more about it here: http://www.thedailyeaston.com/bradley-hubbell-house/eastonites-needed-clean-bradley-hubbell-house . They plan to have open houses every other Sunday through the […]

There is a timely article featuring some Hubbell graves in the Oxford, Connecticut cemetery. http://oxford-ct.patch.com/articles/volunteers-needed-for-historic-cemetery-clean-up  It is entitled “Volunteers Needed for Historic Cemetery Clean Up” and it is seeking people in the area to come to the cemetery on April 30 to help clean up the cemetery before the Memorial Day weekend, particularly in preparation […]

“Urban Remains: antique American architectural artifacts” is a web site featuring antique that are rare and unusual. I see that today there is an item featuring an electrical product display case of Harvey Hubbells switches and other items. It is beautiful and worth looking at.  http://www.urbanremainschicago.com/index.php/c-1930-s-remarkably-rare-and-original-harvey-hubbell-electrical-product-display-case.html

For the first time, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has seen distinctly the “tenth planet,” currently nicknamed “Xena,” and found that it’s only slightly larger than Pluto. Though previous ground-based observations suggested that Xena’s diameter was about 30 percent greater than Pluto, Hubble observations taken Dec. 9 and 10, 2005, showed Xena’s diameter as 1,490 miles (with an uncertainty of 60 miles). Pluto’s diameter, as measured by Hubble, is 1,422 miles.

By Carol Hubbell Boggs In September 2005, I retrieved a message from the answering machine that was to lead me to a Hubbell connection far away in Indiana. The caller, Linda Browner, lived in nearby Carrboro, NC, but didn’t know me, but when she decided to try once more to find the origin of a […]

By Barbara Kruse Other than the heat in Thailand, it was a wonderful trip, led by Lutheran minister John Krahn, that 29 of us took to Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand. We didn’t come across any Hubbell cousins, but one of our colleagues was John Eichelberger of Ohio who had been in the 2nd battallion, 1st […]

By Carol Hubbell Boggs The Hubbell Family Historical Society is proud to announce that the book Hubbell By Choice: The Ancestry of Some Early Connecticut Women, (2008) co-authored by Mary Ann Hubbell and Marjorie Hubbell Gibson has won the prestigious Connecticut Society of Genealogists’ Literary Award “Grand Prize for Genealogy” for 2009. The prize will […]