John F. Hubbard (February 15, 1795 – October 5, 1876) was an American newspaper editor and politician from

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Life

From 1816 on, he published the ''Norwich Journal''. In February 1820, he married Almira Mead (1800-1878; daughter of Gen. Thompson Mead), and they had five children, among them State Senator John F. Hubbard Jr. (born 1822). He was a member of the

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(Chenango Co.) in

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. He was a member of the

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s. He died on October 5, 1876, in

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Sources

''The New York Civil List''
compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 128ff, 142, 200 and 282; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
John F. Hubbard
at Ancestry.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Hubbard, John F. 1795 births 1876 deaths People from Norwich, New York New York (state) state senators New York (state) Jacksonians Members of the New York State Assembly 19th-century American newspaper editors 19th-century members of the New York State Legislature