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William Hubbard (other)
Will(iam) Hubbard may refer to: :''Ordered chronologically'' * William Hubbard (clergyman) (1621–1704), English minister and historical writer in colonial America * William Hubbard (New Brunswick politician) (1751–1813), lawyer, judge and politician in New Brunswick, Canada *William Blackstone Hubbard (1795–1866), American politician and Freemason * William Peyton Hubbard (1842–1935), Canadian politician *William Pallister Hubbard (1843–1921), American legislator * William Henry Hubbard (1886–1960), Canadian aviator *Will Hubbard (1895–1969), English aviator *William DeHart Hubbard (1903–1976), first African-American to win an Olympic gold medal in an individual event * William C. Hubbard, American lawyer and law school dean *William Hubbard, British soldier commemorated in " The Ballad of Bill Hubbard" by Roger Waters See also *Hubbard (surname) Hubbard is an English surname. The name is a variant of the surnames Hobart, Hubbert, and Hubert. These surnames are der ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Hubbard (clergyman)
William Hubbard (1621 – September 24, 1704) was a New England clergyman and historian, born in Ipswich, England. As a child, he was taken by his parents to New England, where he later graduated from Harvard as one of nine graduates in the first commencement ceremony (1642), was ordained and became assistant minister and afterward pastor of the Congregational church at Ipswich, Massachusetts, a post which he resigned just a year before his death. He wrote, at the order of the Colonial government which paid him 50 pounds for it, a ''History of New England'', mainly compilation, which barely escaped destruction by fire when Gov. Thomas Hutchinson's house was mobbed in 1765. The Massachusetts Historical Society printed it in 1815. He wrote also, ''A Narrative of Troubles with the Indians'' (Boston, 1677), which for years was popular in New England. The work contains a map of the greater Massachusetts Bay Colony The Massachusetts Bay Colony (1630–1691), more formally the C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Hubbard (New Brunswick Politician)
William Hubbard (1751–1813) was a farmer, lawyer, judge and political figure in New Brunswick. He represented Sunbury in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1785 to 1792. He was the son of Nathaniel Hubbard and Mary Quintard. Hubbard, a United Empire Loyalist, came to New Brunswick from Stamford, Connecticut in 1783. He settled in Burton Burton, Burtons, or Burton's may refer to: Companies * Burton (retailer), a clothing retailer ** Burton's, Abergavenny, a shop built for the company in 1937 **The Montague Burton Building, Dublin a shop built for the company between 1929 and ..., Sunbury County. Hubbard was registrar of deeds and wills and chief justice for the Court of Common Pleas in Sunbury County. He married Benjamina W. Clarke. His daughter Jane Isabella married John Ambrose Street. His grandson Jeremiah Smith Boies De Veber served in the Canadian House of Commons. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Hubbard, William 1751 births 1813 deaths 18th-cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Blackstone Hubbard
William Blackstone Hubbard (August 26, 1795 – January 5, 1866) was a politician, railroad president, banker and Masonic Grand Master in the U.S state of Ohio. Youth and legislative career William B. Hubbard was born in Utica, New York on August 26, 1795. His parents were Bela and Naomi (Stow) Hubbard. The Stows were an old Connecticut family. He received a thorough education and read law with his maternal uncle, Silas Stow. He was admitted to the New York bar, and moved to St. Clairsville, Belmont County, Ohio in 1816. Hubbard was Belmont County Prosecuting Attorney for several years and was then elected to the Ohio State Senate for the 26th and 27th General Assemblies, serving 1827 to 1829. In February 1830, a bill he had drafted titled "An Act to incorporate the Ohio Canal and Steubenville Railroad Company" was passed. This was the first railroad legislation in Ohio, and came before a railroad with steam powered locomotive was operational anywhere. In 1831, Hubbard was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Peyton Hubbard
William Peyton Hubbard (January 27, 1842 – April 30, 1935), a Toronto alderman from 1894 to 1914, was a popular and influential politician, nicknamed Cicero for his oratory; he was one of the first politicians of African descent elected to office in Canada. Early life Hubbard was born in a cabin in what were then the outskirts of Toronto, in a rural area called "the Bush" near the intersection of what are now Bloor Street and Bathurst Street. His parents were refugee American slaves who had escaped their plantation in Virginia and reached Canada in 1840 via the Underground Railroad.http://www.thegridto.com/city/places/ghost-city-660-broadview-ave/ Raised a devout Anglican, Hubbard was trained as a baker at the Toronto Normal School. He invented and patented a successful commercial baker's oven, the Hubbard Portable. By his thirties, he had married Julia Luckett. After having worked 16 years as a baker, he joined his uncle's horse-drawn livery taxi service. According to what may ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Pallister Hubbard
William Pallister Hubbard (December 24, 1843 – December 5, 1921) was an American Republican politician from Wheeling, West Virginia who served as a United States representative. The son of Congressman Chester D. Hubbard, he served as a member of the 60th and 61st United States Congresses. Hubbard attended the public schools and Linsly School in Wheeling. He graduated from Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut in 1863. After studying law, he was admitted to the bar in 1864. He enlisted in the Union Army as a private in 1865 in the 3rd West Virginia Cavalry. He rose to the rank of first lieutenant before being honorably discharged. After earning a Masters of Arts degree in 1866, again at Wesleyan, he returned to Wheeling and commenced the practice of law in 1866. He married Ann E. Chamberlin of Louisiana in 1868. He was a clerk of the West Virginia House of Delegates from 1866 to 1870, then served as a member of the House of Delegates in 1881 and 1882. He was c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Henry Hubbard
Captain William Henry Hubbard DFC (19 May 1886—19 June 1960) was a Canadian World War I flying ace credited with twelve aerial victories against enemy fighter planes despite spending a year and a half out of action. He was noted for his zeal in ground support missions, as well as his success against enemy fighters. Military service Hubbard had moved to Toronto in 1915 when he volunteered for military service. He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Special Reserve on 1 January 1916. On 9 May 1916, he received Royal Aero Club pilot's certificate no. 2871. On 8 September, while flying a Royal Aircraft Factory BE.2c for No. 5 Squadron RFC, he destroyed a Fokker Eindekker over Saint-Julien. On the day after Christmas, he was severely wounded by Erwin Boehme. Upon recovery, he was posted to Home Establishment as an instructor. He remained there until he was promoted Captain and appointed Flight Commander in No. 73 Squadron RAF, flying a Sopwith Camel The Sopwith ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Will Hubbard
Captain Will Hubbard (25 February 1895 – 1 July 1969) was a British World War I aviation equipment developer and flying ace. He fought in the Gallipoli campaign prior to his aviation career. In 1916, he was sent to England to work on developing self-ejecting parachutes and new aircraft. In latter 1917, he earned his pilot's wings, and would go on to be credited with ten aerial victories. In later life, he developed the first model of Holden automobile. Biography Early life Will Hubbard was born in Todmorden, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. His father William, the landlord of the Rope and Anchor Inn, died of influenza before his birth, and when he was two his mother married James Bulcock, owner of the Gauxholme Brewery. Hubbard was educated at the Manchester Grammar School and, after the death of his mother in 1910, lived with his grandfather, John Hubbard, and worked as a motor mechanic. World War I service On the outbreak of the war in August 1914, Hubbard enlisted int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DeHart Hubbard
William DeHart Hubbard (November 25, 1903 – June 23, 1976) was a track and field athlete who was the first African American to win an Olympic gold medal in an individual event: the running long jump at the 1924 Paris Summer games. He subsequently set a long jump world record of at Chicago in June 1925 and equaled the world record of 9.6 seconds for the 100-yard dash at Cincinnati, Ohio a year later. He attended and graduated from Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati, graduated with honors from the University of Michigan in 1927 where he was a three-time National Collegiate Athletic Association champion (1923 & 1925 outdoor long jump, 1925 100-yard dash) and seven-time Big Ten Conference champion in track and field (1923 & 1925 indoor 50-yard dash, 1923, 1924, & 1925 outdoor long jump, 1924 & 1925 outdoor 100-yard dash). His 1925 outdoor long jump of stood as the Michigan Wolverines team record until 1980, and it still stands second. His 1925 jump of stood as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William C
William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of England in 1066,All Things William"Meaning & Origin of the Name"/ref> and remained so throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era. It is sometimes abbreviated "Wm." Shortened familiar versions in English include Will, Wills, Willy, Willie, Bill, and Billy. A common Irish form is Liam. Scottish diminutives include Wull, Willie or Wullie (as in Oor Wullie or the play ''Douglas''). Female forms are Willa, Willemina, Wilma and Wilhelmina. Etymology William is related to the given name ''Wilhelm'' (cf. Proto-Germanic ᚹᛁᛚᛃᚨᚺᛖᛚᛗᚨᛉ, ''*Wiljahelmaz'' > German ''Wilhelm'' and Old Norse ᚢᛁᛚᛋᛅᚼᛅᛚᛘᛅᛋ, ''Vilhjálmr''). By regular sound changes, the native, inherited English form of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ballad Of Bill Hubbard
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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