Nathaniel M. Hubbard
{{short description|American lawyer}}
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. He served as Captain{{cite web|url=http://iagenweb.org/civilwar/books/logan/mil504.htm|title=Iowa Genweb Iowa in the Civil War Project after Logan, Guy E., Roster and Record of Iowa Troops In the Rebellion, Vol. 1|publisher=}} and mustered a company in the Twentieth Iowa Regiment during the Civil War.{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BEL_J9bJSDQC&pg=PA356 |title=Biographies and Portraits of the Progressive Men of Iowa: Leaders ..., Volume 1 Pgs 355-357|publisher=|last1=Gue|first1=Benjamin F.|last2=Shambaugh|first2=Benjamin Franklin|year=1899}}
Career
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He began his practice of law in Marion, Iowa in 1854 after arriving from New York.Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette, June 12, 1902.{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JFA0AQAAMAAJ&q=N.M.+Hubbard+iowa+1857&pg=PA225|title=A History of Tama County, Iowa, Volume 1 p225|publisher=|last1=Caldwell|first1=J. R.|year=1910}} 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.State of Iowa v. Garrettson, 4 Iowa 338 (Iowa 1857). 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.[https://books.google.com/books?id=9q4UAAAAYAAJ&dq=annexation+of+kingston+to+the+city+of+cedar+rapids&pg=PA594 In the Matter of the Annexation of Kingston to the City of Cedar Rapids, 32 Iowa 594 (Iowa 1871)].{{cite web|url=http://www.city-data.com/us-cities/The-Midwest/Cedar-Rapids-History.html|title=Cedar Rapids History|publisher=}}
Hubbard represented a pioneering land developer, the Iowa Railroad Land Company, which sold land near the railway to the incoming settlers.{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SpgUAAAAYAAJ&q=Iowa+Railroad+Land+Co.+v.+Story+Co+et+al%2C+36+Iowa+48.&pg=PA768|title=Iowa Railroad Land Co. v. Story Co et al, 36 Iowa 48 (Iowa 1872)|publisher=|last1=Supreme Court|first1=Iowa|year=1881}} He represented the Iowa Falls and Sioux City Railroad,[https://books.google.com/books?id=CDETAAAAYAAJ&dq=%2240+Iowa+609%22&pg=PA888 The I.F. & S.C.R. Co. v. Plymouth Co., 40 Iowa 609 (Iowa 1875)]. a line that would run through Hubbard, Iowa, a town that was named after Hubbard upon its incorporation in 1881.{{cite web|url=http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=7387|title=Profile of Hubbard Iowa|publisher=|access-date=2014-07-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140711173417/http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=7387|archive-date=2014-07-11|url-status=dead}} 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.Ochiltree v. Chicago & N.W.Ry.Co., 93 Iowa 628 (Iowa 1895). 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.Ochiltree v. Chicago & N.W.Ry.Co ., 99 Iowa 373 (Iowa 1896).
Hubbard died from injuries inflicted by a runaway horse in 1902.[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1902/06/13/101955058.pdf Judge N.M. Hubbard Killed, The New York Times published June 13, 1902].
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Category:19th-century American lawyers
Category:Alfred University alumni