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A Narrative History
of
The People of Iowa
with
SPECIAL TREATMENT OF THEIR CHIEF ENTERPRISES IN
EDUCATION, RELIGION, VALOR, INDUSTRY,
BUSINESS, ETC.
by
EDGAR RUBEY HARLAN, LL. B., A. M.
Curator of the
Historical, Memorial and Art Department of Iowa
Volume IV
THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Inc.
Chicago and New York
1931
JAMES W. HUBBELL, is manager of the F. M. Hubbell estate, which is one of
the most important in the City of Des Moines, he having been born in this city
on the 5th of June, 1895, and here being a scion of the third generation of a
family whose name has been one of major prominence in connection with the
history of Iowa's capital city during a period of nearly three-quarters of a
century. Of the history of the Hubbell family adequate record is given on
other pages of this publication, in the personal sketch of Frederick C. Hubbell,
who is the father of James W. of this review and a son of Frederick M.
Hubbell, who remains as one of the most venerable and honored pioneer citizens of Des Moines and of whose large estate the subject of this sketch has general executive management.
After completing his course in the West High School of Des Moines James W.
Hubbell entered historic old Harvard University, in which institution he was
graduated as a member of the class of 1917 and from which he received the
degree of Bachelor of Arts. At the university he was a popular member of the
representative student organization known as the Fly Club.
In the year that marked the graduation of Mr. Hubbell from Harvard University the nation entered the World war, and it was his to represent Iowa as one of the gallent young soldiers in that great conflict. After his enlistment he
received preliminary training at Camp Dodge, Iowa, where he won commission as first lieutenant. He went overseas as a member of the Eighty-eighth Division, and with the American Expeditionary Forces he was in active service in France at the time the historic armistice brought the war to a close. He later returned with his command to the United States, and he received his honorable discharge on the 6th of June, 1919.
After his return to his native city Mr. Hubbell became a trustee of the F.
M. Hubbell estate - that of his grandfather, and he now has the active
management of this estate, the holdings and interests of which are many and varied and include valuable Des Moines real estate. Mr. Hubbell is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Equitable Life Insurance Company and in his home city is likewise a director of the Bankers Trust Company. His political alignment is with the Republican party, he and his wife are communicants of Saint Paul's Church, Protestant Episcopal, and he has membership in the Des Moines and the Wakonda Clubs.
In 1921 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Hubbell and Miss Harriet Cox, who was born and reared in Sacramento, California, and who is a daughter of Crawford Cox. The three children of this union are James W., Jr., Mary Windsor and Crawford Cox, aged respectively, at the opening of the year 1929, seven, five and three years.
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