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According to a lengthy and flattering biography for Morrison Lindsey Hubbard, which you can find online at Ancestry.Com, his father Eri Hubbard, 1818- 1899, was the first male white child born in what is now Cherry Valley Township, Ashtabula County, Ohio. Eri was probably a son of Nathaniel and Lucy Hubbard.
Anecdotes from the history of that township by the Ashtabula County Historical Society, and from the compilation of facts about the pioneer women of Ashtabula County by the Western Reserve Historical Society, tell that Nathaniel Hubbard and his wife, Lucy “Waful” (sic), came to Conneaut in Ashtabula County in 1808 from New York, and the couple were in Conneaut at the time of the War of 1812.
They moved to Cherry Valley (then part of Andover Township) in 1818, Nathaniel becoming the third settler of that future township. He moved his family into an abandoned cabin built the previous year by one of the first two settlers. Later Nathaniel and Lucy moved to neighboring Dorset Township where they are buried. Nathaniel, probably born in Massachusetts, is believed to have lived from 1775-8 Sep1834, and Lucy from 1776 (born NY) to 10 Nov 1848. (Per family trees at Rootsweb).
Since Eri’s tombstone has his birth year as 1818, since the biography has him born in Cherry Valley, and since the only Hubbard family known to have been in Cherry Valley in 1818 was that of Nathaniel Hubbard, logic dictates that Eri was Nathaniel’s son.
Eri, who at one time as a young man worked on the construction of the Erie Canal, and who later became a wagon maker, married Elvira Woodworth, (24 Dec1828 West Williamsfield, OH – 6 Feb 1909 Youngstown, Mahoning, OH), daughter of his one-time employer Charles Woodworth of West Williamsfield, Ashtabula County, and Charles’s wife Phoebe Randall. (Elvira’s given name appears as Alvira and even as Deborah in some censuses, but is Elvira on her Ohio death certificate, which you can find online at the Family Search Labs pilot site.) Eri and Phoebe lived the remainder of their lives in West Williamsfield, and are buried in West Williamsfield Cemetery. Nearby are the graves of Charles and Phoebe Woodworth. You can view the tombstones of the Woodworths and Eri, Phoebe, Nathaniel, Lucy online at the Ashtabula County OhGenWeb site by using their search engine. Buried next to Nathaniel are one of his sons, Samuel W. Hubbard, Samuel’s wife and one of Samuel’s daughters.
Eri and Elvira had three sons: Charles W., born 5 Jan 1858 in West Williamsfield, married Edith M. Clark, and died 4 Jul 1931 in Youngstown; Edwin, died in infancy; and the well-known Professor Morrison Lindsey (as it is spelled on his wife’s death certificate) Hubbard, born in West Williamsfield on 29 May 1849, and who married Alice Emeline Hart of Williamsfield on 2 May 1874. Alice was born 5 Oct 1851 in Wayne Township, Ashtabula Co., the daughter of Jessie Hart and Julia Woodworth. (Julia was another daughter of Charles and Phoebe Woodworth). Alice died 13 Feb 1921 in Akron, Summit Co., Ohio. She is buried in New Lyme Township. (Sources: 1850-60 censuses; Ohio death certificates of Elvira Woodworth Hubbard, Charles Hubbard, and Alice Emeline Hart Hubbard; biographical info for Morrison Hubbard).
Charles, per his Ohio death certificate, worked as a layout man for the Lake Shore & Southern Michigan Railroad. His date of birth as provided in Morrison’s biography was given as 1834, and is obviously incorrect since Eri and Elvira were married in 1847. Charles’s Ohio death certificate states he was born and died as shown in the above paragraph.
Professor Morrison Lindsey Hubbard was a renowned educator in Northeastern Ohio. His work at the famed New Lyme Institute and Grand River Institute in Ashtabula County is touted in his lengthy biography. Morrison’s seven children (as of 1893, the date his biography was published) and their birth dates are listed as Fred, 2 Mar 1878; Burton, 14 Feb 1877; Alice E., 5 Aug 1879; Carl, 20 Nov 1881; Flora, 1 Dec 1884; Diodate, 23 Feb 1887; and Edith, 25 May 1889. Based on the DAR info for one of his daughters, Edith, descendants of Morrison and Alice Hart Hubbard can claim two Revolutionary War veterans from the Hart and Woodworth families.
The 1900 federal census shows a widowed Alice E. Hubbard as head of household in Rock Creek, a small village in Morgan Township, Ashtabula County. Presumably Morrison L. Hubbard died between 1896- 900, since living with Alice in 1900 were children Carl T., Flora J., Diodate D. and Edith M. from above, plus two “new” children, Kent W. Hubbard (b. Nov 1893 Ohio) and Lloyd O. Hubbard (born Feb 1896). Alice indicated she was the mother of nine children, all of whom were alive in 1900, so these latter two were also hers and Morrison’s.
If the Kent W. Hubbard I found in that census is the Kent Lindsley Hubbard you seek, he also appears in the 1920 census of Painesville, Lake County, Ohio (a county that borders Ashtabula County on the northwest). He is residing with Alice. His info indicates he is divorced (he was about 26 in 1920). A Ruth Hubbard, age 17 (born about 1903) and a granddaughter of Alice Hart Hubbard is also in the household.
Based on family trees found at Rootsweb, children of Nathaniel Hubbard other than Eri probably include Joel Clark Hubbard, born about 1800 in New York and died 1872 in Noble Co., Indiana, married Mary M. Matthews in 1822; Levi Hubbard, b. 1804 NY, married Anne M. in 1817; Susan Hubbard (1805 NY - 19 Sep 1882 in West Andover, Ashtabula Co., married Abraham Holcomb in 1828; Lucy Hubbard, born 1808 in NY, married Abel Ives; Mary Hubbard, born 1814 in Ohio, married Philo C. Amsden, died 1894 and buried in Oakdale Cemetery, Jefferson; and Clarissa Hubbard, born 28 Jul 1820 in Cherry Valley, married in 1844 to Samuel C. Amsden, died 13 Mar 1870 in Jefferson and was buried at Oakdale Cemetery.
I also think another son of Nathaniel was the aforementioned Samuel W. Hubbard (b. abt 1812 Ohio), who is buried next to Nathaniel and Lucy Hubbard in Dorset Cemetery with his wife Julia Ann Sage (b. abt 1813). The online photos of the tombstones for both couples are identical in design, and may be different faces of the same large family stone.
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