Nathaniel M. Hubbard (1829-1902) was an American lawyer.
Early life[edit]
Hubbard graduated from Alfred University in 1853 and studied law in Hornellsville, New York.[1] He served as Captain[2] and mustered a company in the Twentieth Iowa Regiment during the Civil War.[1]
Career[edit]
He began his practice of law in Marion, Iowa in 1854 after arriving from New York.[3][4] Hubbard was a trial lawyer known for his sarcasm. His first reported case was on behalf of State of Iowa, for whom he prosecuted an alleged bootlegger in 1857.[5] Later, Hubbard represented the City of Cedar Rapids in its annexation of the City of Kingston which at the time lay on the southwest side of the Cedar River.[6][7]
Hubbard represented a pioneering land developer, the Iowa Railroad Land Company, which sold land near the railway to the incoming settlers.[8] He represented the Iowa Falls and Sioux City Railroad,[9] a line that would run through Hubbard, Iowa, a town that was named after Hubbard upon its incorporation in 1881.[10] Hubbard served as Iowa Counsel for the Chicago and North Western Railway in a case where a train whistle startled a team of horses causing injury to the buggy occupants.[11] The Supreme Court's opinions in that case (which was twice tried and twice appealed) analyzed the competing interests between the dominant modes of transportation, and were a significant victory for the railroad.[12]
Hubbard died from injuries inflicted by a runaway horse in 1902.[13]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Gue, Benjamin F.; Shambaugh, Benjamin Franklin (1899). "Biographies and Portraits of the Progressive Men of Iowa: Leaders ..., Volume 1 Pgs 355-357".
- ^ "Iowa Genweb Iowa in the Civil War Project after Logan, Guy E., Roster and Record of Iowa Troops In the Rebellion, Vol. 1".
- ^ Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette, June 12, 1902.
- ^ Caldwell, J. R. (1910). "A History of Tama County, Iowa, Volume 1 p225".
- ^ State of Iowa v. Garrettson, 4 Iowa 338 (Iowa 1857).
- ^ In the Matter of the Annexation of Kingston to the City of Cedar Rapids, 32 Iowa 594 (Iowa 1871).
- ^ "Cedar Rapids History".
- ^ Supreme Court, Iowa (1881). "Iowa Railroad Land Co. v. Story Co et al, 36 Iowa 48 (Iowa 1872)".
- ^ The I.F. & S.C.R. Co. v. Plymouth Co., 40 Iowa 609 (Iowa 1875).
- ^ "Profile of Hubbard Iowa". Archived from the original on 2014-07-11. Retrieved 2014-07-15.
- ^ Ochiltree v. Chicago & N.W.Ry.Co., 93 Iowa 628 (Iowa 1895).
- ^ Ochiltree v. Chicago & N.W.Ry.Co ., 99 Iowa 373 (Iowa 1896).
- ^ Judge N.M. Hubbard Killed, The New York Times published June 13, 1902.