Alrick Hubbell (October 4, 1801 Utica,

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– January 19, 1877 Utica, Oneida Co., NY) was an American politician from New York.

Life

He was the son of Mathew Hubbell (c. 1762–1819), a farmer who in 1789 left

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and settled on a farm then in

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, in the area where now the City of Utica is located. Alrick Hubbell was Deputy Sheriff of Oneida County from 1826 to 1828, and at the same time Police Constable of the Village of Utica for a year. In June 1826, he married Laura Eliza Squire (d. 1877), and they had several children. In 1829, he became a merchant, and retired from business in 1855. He was a colonel of the State Militia. He entered politics as a Whig, was Chief Engineer of the Utica Fire Department for about ten years, and an alderman from 1840 to 1842. He was a delegate to the

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, and was

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from 1856 to 1858. He was a member of the

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(19th D.) in

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and

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Sources

''The New York Civil List''
compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough, Stephen C. Hutchins and Edgar Albert Werner (1867; pg. 442 and 548)
''Biographical Sketches of the State Officers and Members of the Legislature of the State of New York in 1859''
by William D. Murray (pg. 59ff) {{DEFAULTSORT:Hubbell, Alrick 1801 births 1877 deaths Republican Party New York (state) state senators Mayors of Utica, New York 19th-century American politicians