Nathaniel M. Hubbard

Nathaniel M. Hubbard (1829-1902) was an American lawyer.

Early life

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

The Gazette

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

  1. 1 2 "Biographies and Portraits of the Progressive Men of Iowa: Leaders ..., Volume 1 Pgs 355-357".
  2. ↑ "Iowa Genweb Iowa in the Civil War Project after Logan, Guy E., Roster and Record of Iowa Troops In the Rebellion, Vol. 1".
  3. ↑ Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette, June 12, 1902.
  4. ↑ "A History of Tama County, Iowa, Volume 1 p225".
  5. ↑ State of Iowa v. Garrettson, 4 Iowa 338 (Iowa 1857).
  6. ↑ In the Matter of the Annexation of Kingston to the City of Cedar Rapids, 32 Iowa 594 (Iowa 1871).
  7. ↑ "Cedar Rapids History".
  8. ↑ "Iowa Railroad Land Co. v. Story Co et al, 36 Iowa 48 (Iowa 1872)".
  9. ↑ The I.F. & S.C.R. Co. v. Pymouth Co., 40 Iowa 609 (Iowa 1875).
  10. ↑ "Profile of Hubbard Iowa".
  11. ↑ Ochiltree v. Chicago & N.W.Ry.Co., 93 Iowa 628 (Iowa 1895).
  12. ↑ Ochiltree v. Chicago & N.W.Ry.Co ., 99 Iowa 373 (Iowa 1896).
  13. ↑ Judge N.M. Hubbard Killed, The New York Times published June 13, 1902.
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