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ALBERT ALLEN HUBBARD
HUBBARD, ALBERT ALLEN, President of the Board of Public Works of Los Angeles, Cal., was born at Charleston, N. H., November 17, 1846. He is the son of Horace Hubbard and Marcia W. (Putman) Hubbard. He married Olivia Ferrier, October 8, 1878, at Atlantic, Iowa. To them there have been born two sons, Horace Clarence and Albert F. Hubbard.
Mr. Hubbard was educated at the Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N. H. His first venture was made at Atlantic, Iowa, whither he went when he was about 22 years of age and engaged in the retail lumber business. He remained there for about fifteen years, when he sold out and went to Los Angeles. There he, in December, 1883, with Thomas Goss and Edward Simons, organized the City Brick Company, and was elected secretary-treasurer of that concern. Upon the purchase of the holdings of the company, in 1899, by the Los Angeles Brick Company, he retired from business. In 1906 he was selected by a committee from the Chamber of Commerce to be a member of the Board of Public Works, and was re-elected in 1910, and is now serving his second term.
He is a Knight Templar, a Mystic Shriner and a member of the California Club.
Transcribed 7-24-09
Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 321,
International News Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles,
Boston, Atlanta. 1913.
© 2009 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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