American author, born in Williston, VT, on the 30th of October 1799; educated at Yale College and at the Andover and Yale theological seminaries; preached in Dover, NH, Boston, MA, and Geneva, NY; was principal of the Mount Vernon Institute, Boston (1844–53), devoting himself then and afterward to the advancement of higher education. Among his many published works are Doctrine of the Trinity (1831); Natural Science and Revelation (1841), and The Young Man’s Aid to Knowledge (1836), the latter having a sale of over one hundred thousand copies. He died in Williston, on the 13th of August 1864.—His brother Myron, a missionary; born in Williston, VT, on the 11th of December 1789; graduated at Middlebury College in 1815, and at Andover Theological Seminary in 1818. In 1819 he went to Ceylon and established a mission, and later, a seminary; founded the mission at Madras in 1836, and remained there during the rest of his life, founding seven schools and a college for the natives. He received the degree doctor of divinity from Harvard, in 1858. He is the author of Hints on Missions to India (1856); a translation of the Bible into Tamil; A Comprehensive Tamil and English Dictionary; and other works. He died at Cape of Good Hope on the 22nd of October 1864.—His brother, Gordon, a clergyman; born in Williston, VT, on the 12th of September 1803; was minister in Episcopal churches in Troy and Elmira, NY, Annapolis, MD, and on Staten Island; enlisted as chaplain in the Fifth New York Regiment; was instrumental in establishing the Sanitary Commission, of which he was inspector for the Army of the Potomac. A member of scientific societies, he published papers on their proceedings and received the honorary degree of M.D. from New York University, in 1863. He was drowned in the Potomac River, on the 7th of June 1864.—Hubbard’s son, William Copley, an archæologist; born in Boston, on the 13th of January 1840; graduated at Hamilton College (1862) and at the Episcopal Theological Seminary, New York City, in 1865, acting as assistant editor of the New York World (1862–63), and of the Christian Union (1864). He engaged in preaching to temporary charges, lecturing and writing for reviews and journals, being regarded as an authority on Biblical and especially Egyptological explorations. A prominent member of many learned societies, he received the degrees Ph.D. from Hamilton College, in 1866, LL.D. from St. Andrew’s, Scotland, in 1886, L.H.D. from Columbia, in 1887, and D.D. from Amherst, in 1886. Among his more important books are Israel in Egypt (1883); The Store City of Pithom (1885); and A Greek City in Egypt (1887). He died in 1917.
