Elijah Kent Hubbard, Jr

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(IX) Elijah Kent (3) Hubbard, eldest child of Elijah K. (2) and Anna J. (Dyer) Hubbard, was born February 5, 1869, in Chicago, Illinois, and was reared amid congenial and cultivated surroundings. His preparatory education was received at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, and he graduated at Trinity College, Bachelor of Science, Hartford, Connecticut, in 1892. In the same year he began his business career in the office of the Russell Manufacturing Company, Middletown, where he continued twenty years. In 1912 he was elected treasurer of the company, but resigned next year to take the presidency of the Maxim Silencer Company of Hartford. The ability which led to his success as a manufacturer at- tracted the notice of his contemporaries and, in 1917, he was elected president of the Manufacturers' Association, of Con- necticut, Inc., in which relation he has continued since.

Mr. Hubbard is active in many agencies for promoting the general welfare, being a director and president of the Russell Library Corporation ; director of the Young Men's Christian Association, and a trustee of the Connecticut Agricultural College. He is a member of the State Board of Finance, director of the Middle- town National Bank, trustee of Trinity College, treasurer of the Connecticut State Reformatory, and president of the Middlesex Hospital Corporation. For twelve years he was captain of the First Company, Governor's Foot Guard, and was one of the organizers of the Middle- town Community Service. Mr. Hubbard is a communicant of the Church of the Holy Trinity of Middletown, and sup- ports all its agencies for uplift. In 1903 he was Democratic candidate for lieutenant- governor, and in 1910 declined to be a can- didate for State treasurer. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, and a Knight Templar ; a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, Society of the Cin- cinnati, and the American Society of For- eign Wars. The principal clubs in which he holds membership are: Conversa- tional, Twentieth Century, and Boosters, of Middletown; Metropolitan, University and Automobile, of New York; Highland Country, of Hartford ; Army and Navy, of Washington ; and Graduates, of New Haven.

Mr. Hubbard married, January 15, 1901, Helen Keep Otis, who was born October i, 1874, in Chicago, daughter of George Livingston and Mary W. (Keep) Otis, of that city, the last-named a daugh-

ter of Henry Keep, one of the prominent and wealthy citizens of Chicago, early identified with its mercantile interests (see Keep VI). Mr. and Mrs. Hubbard are the parents of: Otis Livingston, born December 16, 1902 ; Chauncey Keep, born August 2, 1906; Helen Kent, born October 7, 1909; and Mildred DeKoven, born October 8, 1917. Mrs. Mary W. (Keep) Otis, mother of Mrs. Helen Keep (Otis) Hubbard, was born September 23, 1851, in Chicago; she bestowed many most valuable benefactions upon the city of Middletown, among which may be mentioned : The Otis Playground, the athletic field, and "Kent Hubbard Cot- tage," the children's ward of the Middle- sex Hospital. She has also been a liberal contributor to the District Nurses' Asso- ciation, and is one of four persons who paid off a mortgage on the Young Men's Christian Association buildings and made them free of incumbrance. She is a de- scendant of John Keep (see Keep line).

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