History of Hamden, (New Haven County) Connecticut United States of America

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Chester Dorman Hubbard, representative was born in Hamden, Conn., Nov. 25, 1814; son of Dana and Asenath (Dorman) Hubbard; grandson of John and Martha (Bradley) Hubbard, and a descendant of William Hubbard of Ipswich, Mass., who was born at Ipswich, England, in 1594, and landed at Boston, Mass., Oct. 6, 1635. His parents made their home in Wheeling, Va., in 1819, where he received his preparatory education. He was graduated at Wesleyan university in 1840; was a lumber merchant in Wheeling, 1840-53; a member of the house of delegates of Virginia, 1851-52; president of the Bank of Wheeling, 1853-58; president of the Crescent iron works, 1858-61; a delegate to the state secession convention of 1861, and voted against the ordinance of secession; a member of the Wheeling convention of 1861 that formed the "Restored government of Virginia," resulting in the foundation of the state of West Virginia; state senator, 1863-64; representative in the 39th and 40th congresses, 1865-69, and bank president, manufacturer of iron and steel, and railroad president, 1871-91. He was a lay delegate to the general conference of the M.E. church in 1872. He was a delegate from West Virginia to the Republican national conventions at Baltimore, Md., in 1864, and Chicago, Ill., in 1880. He was active in educational work, having aided in the establishment of free schools in Wheeling, the first system of the kind in the state of Virginia, and in the support of a private school of high class for each sex in that city. He was married in 1842 to Sarah Pallister, of Wheeling, and his son, Chester Russell Hubbard, engaged with him in business. He died in Wheeling, W. Va., Aug. 23, 1891.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Henry Washington Lee, first bishop of Iowa and 61st in succession in the American episcopate, was born in Hamden, Conn., July 29, 1815. He was a student at the Episcopal academy, Cheshire, Conn., and at Trinity college, but was not graduated. He then pursued a course in theology, and was admitted to the diaconate in Grace church, New Bedford, Mass., May 27, 1838, and ordained a priest in St. Anne's church, Lowell, Mass, Oct. 9, 1839. He was assistant at Grace church, New Bedford, 1838-39; rector of Christ church, Springfield, Mass., 1839-42; of St. Luke's church, Rochester, N.Y., 1843-54, and was consecrated the first bishop of Iowa, Oct. 18, 1854, in Rochester, by Bishops Hopkins, McCoskry, De Lancey, Eastburn, Burgess and Whitehouse. He erected the cathedral and bishop's house at Davenport; founded Griswold college, opened in 1859, and raised an endowment fund of $50,000 for the diocese. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from Trinity college in 1841, from Hobart in 1850; that of S.T.D. from the University of Rochester in 1851, and that of LL.D. from Cambridge, England, in 1857, during his attendance at the first Lambeth conference. He was a corresponding member of the New England Historic Genealogical society, 1865-74. He is the author of A Manual of Trinity Prayers and several published sermons and addresses. He died in Davenport, Iowa, Sept. 26, 1874.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor