Theodore Sedgwick Hubbard

Theodore Sedgwick Hubbard

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Theodore Sedgwick Hubbard, the sixth of nine children, was born in 1843, at Cameron, Steuben County, NY. He's a descendant of an English family which settled in this country about 1635-6. His great grandfather, Zadoc Hubbard, lived at Lanesborough and Pittsfield, Massachusetts and moved to Lenox, Massachusetts in 1797. His grandfather was Nathan Hubbard, born at Lanesborough, Massachusetts in about 1773.

His father Chauncey Pomeroy Hubbard, was born at Pittsfield, Massachusetts in 1803. In 1831 he married Mary Wells of a New England family, of that name whose ancestry is traced back through the English branch of the family to France, where they were highly connected. He settled in Steuben County, NY, in 1831, where he engaged in the lumber business and farming.

Theodore Sedgwick Hubbard was brought up on the farm, receiving such educational advantage as were furnished by the common schools of New York State to those from four to fourteen years of age, helping on the farm summers when old enough. At the age of fourteen he entered the academy at Alfred, New York, studying winters and working the farm summers until he was nineteen, when he engaged in teaching in the public schools of the neighborhood for two terms. In 1864-5 he took a course in the Commercial College at Poughkeepsie, New York. He managed the home farm in the summer of 1865 and taught school the following winter.

In the spring of 1866 he formed a partnership with three gentlemen of Steuben County under the title of T.S. Hubbard & Company, who purchased one hundred acres of land on Prospect Hill, near Fredonia, New York, and planted a vineyard of twenty-five acres, which was successfully managed by Mr. Hubbard for seven years. In 1873, to enable him to devote his time more exclusively to the nursery business, he sold out his interest in the vineyard and moved into the village of Fredonia, where has since resided, giving his principal attention to the propagation of grapes.

Commencing without capital, inexperienced and single-handed, by his energetic and wise management he has developed a business which is by far the largest in its specialty of any of the United States. It is now principally a wholesale business, extending throughout this county, and he has also filled large orders for vines from France, Germany, Italy and South America. He was actively interested in organizing the American Nurserymen’s Association, of which he has filled the office of vice-president and president.

Mr. Hubbard joined the Presbyterian Church in Fredonia, soon after entering his new field of labor, and gave to the performance of religious duty the same energy and zeal which characterized his business. His influence is felt in every department of Christian work. In politics he is an active, zealous Republican from principle. He was married in July, 1873, to Caroline Mills Gilbert, youngest daughter of Dr. John Gilbert, of Fredonia. They have three children, Florence Mildred, Theodore Gilbert and Pomeroy Benton, born respectively in 1875, 76, and 1878.

From the 1881 Atlas of Chautauqua County

Theodore Sedgwick Hubbard (born 1843, son of Chauncey Pomeroy Hubbard and Mary Wells Hubbard). Theodore was a prominent nurseryman from Fredonia, New York. He's especially known for propagating grapes. He also served as the president of the American National Horticultural Society. Later he sold his business and moved to Geneva, New York, where he died 5 July 1906.

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