"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA.  HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR.  CHICAGO:  F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS.  1884.
F. A. BATTEY.  F. W. TEPPLE

MORGAN COUNTY, INDIANA
MONROE TOWNSHIP

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JOHN S. HUBBARD, farmer and stock-raiser, was born September 22, 1811, in
Stokes County, N.C., and is the third of the nine children of GEORGE and
NANCY (SHIELDS) HUBBARD, natives of North Carolina.  He was reared on a
farm, and in 1826 emigrated to Indiana with his parents, who located in
Wayne County;   moved to Morgan County in 1830, and purchased the site of
Monrovia, where they remained until their deaths, in 1865 and 1866
respectively.  After his majority, John S. Hubbard worked as a laborer until
able to pay for eighty acres;  he also entered forty, which he prepared for
cultivation.  February 29, 1836, he married ABIGAIL HENSHAW, a union
cemented by four children--JESSE, WILLIAM, JOHN I. and GEORGE E.,  all
soldiers in the late war.  Mrs. Hubbard died in 1865, and November 15, 1866,
Mr. Hubbard married CATHARINE DAY, which marriage was crowned by one
child--MARY B.  Mr. Hubbard is the owner of 230 acres, well cultivate,
stocked, improved and appointed.  He is a Republican, and voted first for
Henry Clay, in 1832.  He has served three terms as Justice of the Peace, two
as Commissioner, five as Notary, and has also been Township Trustee.  Mr.
and Mrs. Hubbard are members of the Friends' Society, advocates of
temperance, workers in all charities, and highly respected in their community.

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