Background on Ashley Hubbard
Ashley Hubbard was born in Sunderland, Mass., on Dec. 28, 1792 to Caleb Hubbard and his second wife Lucretia. Raised on a farm and taking farming for his living, Hubbard prospered in both work and family. At the height of his operations in the mid-1850s, Hubbard owned one hundred acres of land and had an active run of livestock, including horses, oxen, milk cows, and sheep.
Hubbard's first marriage to Nancy Henderson (1797-1821) resulted in a son and daughter, and he had five more children after marrying Betsey Dole of Shelburne, Mass., in 1822. The middle son of this second marriage, Stephen A. Hubbard, became a well known newspaperman with the Hartford Courant. Ashley Hubbard died of consumption on Feb. 8, 1861.
