Sacramento County
Biographies
MAJOR CYRUS
HAYDEN HUBBARD
MAJOR C. H. HUBBARD, manager for the well-known firm of Baker & Hamilton, established in Sacramento in the year 1853, was born in Mahoning County, Ohio, February 22, 1841. His father, Henry Hubbard, was a native of Berlin, Connecticut, and moved to Ohio in 1830, and was engaged in the business of hardware, manufacturer of tin-ware, stoves; etc. Colonel Hubbard’s mother, Eliza Ann Robinson, was also a native of Connecticut and belonged to one of the old Connecticut families. The subject of this sketch was reared in Ohio and went into business with his father, until the inauguration of the civil war, which aroused the patriotism of all the young men in that section of country, when he enlisted with a company organized in Mahoning County. The company reported at Camp Chase and was assigned to the Twenty-third Regiment, under the command of Colonel W. S. Rosecrans, afterward commanded by Colonel E. P. Scammon and R. B. Hayes; the regiment was immediately ordered to the front in the mountains of West Virginia. Their first engagement was at Carnifex Ferry, being then a part of Rosecran’s command, who fought General Floyd at that point and caused him to retreat across the Gauley River. He served in the battle of South Mountain, Anietam, Floyd Mountain, Lynchburgh and the two battles of Winchester; in one battle he was captured while on the skirmish line, and was held as a prisoner of war some thirty days, when he with two others escaped, took to the mountains, and after eight days’ struggling over mountain paths with only berries to eat regained our lines on the upper Potomac; he was also in the battle of Fisher Hill and Cedar Creek. After four years and three months of active service he was mustered out in August, 1865. During his term of service he was promoted several times; going into the ranks as a private he was made Sergeant, Orderly Sergeant, Second and First Lieutenant, and at one time was on the staff of General I. H. Duvall, and when the regiment was discharged was Quartermaster. Immediately after the close of the war Colonel Hubbard came to California by way of Panama, and having relatives in Sacramento located there, where he was first employed by Holbrook, Merrill & Stetson for about a year; since that time he has been with the well-known firm of Baker & Hamilton, most of the time as general manager of their extensive business in Sacramento. The business extends throughout the entire coast and Territories, it is prosperous and growing all the time, and Mr. Hubbard has capacity and business experience sufficient to keep abreast with it. He is a gentleman of easy manner and noble nature whose influence and co-operation are desired by all parties. He is a member of the Masonic order, Tehama Lodge, and the R. A. M., of this city, also of the G. A. R., Sumner Post, and was representative at the National Encampment at St. Louis and Columbus during the past two years. For the past eight years he has been connected with the National Guard of California, and at the present time is Adjutant on the staff of General T. W. Sheehan, commanding the Fourth Brigade, previous to that time he served as staff officer to General Sheehan, Tozer and Carey, commanding the same brigade.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Davis, Hon. Win. J., An Illustrated History of
Sacramento County, California. Page 684. Lewis
Publishing Company. 1890.
© 2007 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.