Continued.

Burton Henry Hubbell, 1863-1912 (the following research compiled and courtesy of Chris Hendricks, Meriden Historical Society.)

1863, March 20 – Born in Hamden

1880, City Directory, Meriden – Hubbell, Burton H., emp C. Parker Co., bds, Newton

1885, City Directory, Meriden – Hubbell, Burton H., emp W. S. P. Co., bds 31 Newton

(Wilcox Silver Plate Co.)

1890, City Directory, Meriden – Hubbell, Burton H., painter, 53 Newton, bds

1890, Photo of Casper Hall Place (History, see attached, 1762-1837)

1894, Book by HUBBELL, Burton H: A Wheel in Acadia [594087] [Boston]

Acadian Wheeling Tourists (A privately printed book of photographs documenting an 11-day bicycle and boating trip by the bicycle club, July 1894)

Member of the Meriden Bicycle Club

1895, City Directory, Meriden – Hubbell, Burton H., artist and photographer, 53 Newton, bds do

1902, City Directory, Meriden – Hubbell, Burton H., photographer and painter, 53 Newton, bds do

1909, Married Mabel Edith Eick Hubbell, died 1979

About 1909, Secured employment with Edward Miller & Co

1910, Daughter, Asa Horton Hubbell, died 1963

1912, City Directory, Meriden – Hubbell, Burton H., painter, h 53 Newton

1912, October 23 – Died in Meriden

He was a member of the First Baptist church and Meriden Center lodge, I. O. O. F. He leaves a wife and two small children.

Aged 49, died Wednesday evening at 8:45 o’clock at his home, 53 Newton Street after an illness of only four days. He was taken sick Sunday with pleurisy and it quickly developed into pneumonia. Wednesday his condition steadily grew worse and his recovery was despaired of.

The funeral of Burton H. Hubbell will be held at the home Saturday afternoon at 1:30, Rev. B. N. Timble officiating. Friends may view the face from 12 to 1 o’clock. The body will be taken on the 3:26 train to New Haven by Undertaker R. G. May. Burial will be in the family plot in Evergreen cemetery.

(2023, Findagrave.com photo of headstone requested. 1833-1867 George Lewis Hubbell, Plot 48)

2016, May 17 – Carol Hubbell Boggs, granddaughter, on FaceBook.

2016, July 17 – Carol Hubbell Boggs, Inquiry re: Elaborately decorated, silver plated ice skates, 1890s

2023, September 26 – Search FaceBook for “Burton Henry Hubbell” brings up Photos.

Casper Hall Place

Jonathan Law

Rev. Samuel Hall is buried in the Hillside Cemetery, Cheshire, CT b. 10/04/1695 d. 02/26/1776

Brenton Hall is buried in the Broad Street Cemetery, Meriden, CT b. 04/02/1738 d. 11/25/1820

1762, February 18 – Married Lament Collins. The house is said to have been built by Rev. Samuel for his sone at about the date of his marriage, viz. 1762. Located on Old Liberty Street near Preston Avenue.

1767, August 4 – Brenton received deed to farm and two hundred acres of land in Middletown from Rev. Samuel

1784, May 18 – After the death of his wife in 1782, he married Widow Abigail (Baldwin) Guy of Branford. He had eight children by his first wife and four by his second.

1788 – Hon. Brenton Hall, Esq., (one of Meriden’s forefathers) became representative of his native town of Wallingford in the general assembly and was repeatedly re-elected for fourteen years up to 1802. From 1794 to 1803 the records show that he was very active and influential in having the town of Meriden set off from Wallingford. His father, one of the leading ministers of Connecticut. His grandfather, Jonathan Law, was one of the most distinguished governors of the colony. Two of his great great grandfathers were John Eliot, the “Apostle” and Governor William Brenton of Rhode Island.

Note: Lyman Hall, cousin, was a member of the Continental congress, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and in 1783 was elected governor of Georgia.

Casper Hall is buried in the East Cemetery, Meriden, CT b. 04/15/1790 d. 04/07/1869

Newspapers.com, The Meriden Weekly Republican, Thursday, April 28, 1904, Article entitled: Founded Meriden, Brenton Hall’s Descendants Living Here

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