California Biographies 

Source:
History of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura Counties, California
by: C M Gidney - Santa Barbara. Benjamin Brooks - San Luis Obispo. 
Edwin M Sheridan - Ventura
Volumes II - Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, ILL., 1917

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HUBBARD RUSSELL. In the past thirty or forty years there has been a remarkable drift from the 
old grazing and ranching industry of Ventura County to the growing of fruit crops and other 
specialized products of the farm. However, the county is by no means an exclusively 
horticultural district. Perhaps the most conspicuous instance of the stock raising industry on a 
large scale is furnished by the operations of Russell Brothers, whose headquarters are at 
Triumfo, though their operations extend to various sections of the state.
The business is an outgrowth of the enterprise of Mr. Andrew D. Russell, father of the sons 
comprising the firm of Russell Brothers. Mention of Mr. A. D. Russell's career is given on other 
pages. One of the members of the firm of Russell Brothers is Hubbard, who was born in 
Ventura County April 5, 1885. As a boy he attended the public schools of this county up to the 
age of thirteen, and then entered the high schools of Los Angeles, where he was graduated in 
1902. Since then he has found ample employment for his energies and ambitions in connection 
with his father's magnificent estate at Triumfo. In 1905 he and his brother J. II. Russell rented 
the 6,500-acre ranch of their father at that location, and began general farming and handling 
of stock. In 1908 their older brother H. A. Russell joined them, and in 1911 another brother M. 
L. Russell came into the partnership, the firm at that time being Russell Brothers.
The home ranch of 6,500 acres now grazes and feeds 1,500 head of cattle, horses and hogs. The 
firm specializes in the production of beef and stock cattle and they are undoubtedly among the 
largest shippers of beef out of Ventura County. They also specialize in Percheron Norman 
horses, and are probably the largest breeders of big horses in the county at the present time. 
Their operations are not confined to this one locality. On land rented by them in the San 
Fernando Valley they have 500 head of beef and stock cattle. They also own 640 acres in the 
wonderful Imperial Valley. That land is farmed to alfalfa, and the crop is used for feeding 2,000 
beef cattle and I,000 hogs. They also conduct a plant at Seal Beach. There they keep from 1,500 
to 2,000 head of beef cattle and put them in condition for market largely through a ration of 
beet tops. The brothers also have a stock breeding ranch at Monterey, California, and on that 
they keep about 2,000 head of stock.