Solano County Biographies

HENRY HUBBARD

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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came to California with a company organized at Hartford, Connecticut, on barque 
�Selma,� Captain Sellew, arriving in San Francisco October 5, 1849; resided in 
Sacramento the following winter, a time of �high water,� and great suffering 
among many of the people at that place.  In the spring � 1850 � he went to the 
mines at Caldwell�s Diggings, now Nevada City, and followed mining and trading, 
in what are now Nevada, Yuba, and Placer counties, with the exception of the 
time occupied by a visit to his friends in his native State and the State of 
Georgia � from May, 1852, to October, 1853 � until July 5, 1856, at which time 
he settled at Suisun, where he has since resided.  In 1861, he was elected 
Justice of the Peace and Associate Justice of the Court of Sessions, and up to 
this time has held the position of Justice of the Peace � nearly ten years.  In 
1862, soon after the commencement of the war of the Southern rebellion, with the 
aid and encouragement of others, he established the newspaper called the SOLANO 
PRESS, through which to uphold and encourage all friends of the cause of his 
country, and continued its management until the fall of 1866, when he retired.  
It can be truthfully said that he has been specially interested in all matters 
of public interest in his adopted home.
            He was born in Bloomfield, Connecticut, May 24, 1820, and received 
his early education at the public schools of his native county, and at the 
Connecticut Literary Institution, at Suffield.  Married Clarissa Elizabeth 
House, in 1846, who died in 1868.  He again married, January 26, 1878, Elizabeth 
(Alderman) Jackson.  Has two children by his first marriage � Henry F., and 
Julia.
 
History of Solano County � San Francisco, Cal. - Wood, Alley  & Co., East 
Oakland, pub 1879, pp 412-413