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Elbert Hubbard Biography and Quotes

Elbert Hubbard History and Quotes

Birthday: June 19th, 1856
Commemoration: May 7th, 1915
Nationality: American

58

Years Old

Famously Known For

Elbert Green Hubbard was a writer, artist, publisher, and philosopher.

Hubbard is known as the founder of the Roycroft artisan community. It is an art and craft movement in East Aurora, New York. Visitors can visit the national historic site at any time open to all.

Early Life

Hubbard was born in Bloomington, Illinois to Juliana Frances and Silas Hubbard. His father practised medicine moving from Buffalo, New York to Hudson, Illinois due to unfavorable career prospects. Hubbard childhood nickname was `Bertie,’ and he had two older siblings.

Elbert attended a public school in the locality. He describes it as splendid. Although a trouble maker and in school, he was able to start his first business venture of selling Larkin soap products. He traveled to Buffalo, New York for business duties.

Hubbard believed in social, political, mental, economic, and spiritual freedom. He was indeed an anarchist who doubled as a socialist.  He wrote a booklet a critique of law, war, and the government.  

Personal Life

He first married Bertha Crawford Hubbard and then divorced her; he later married Alice Moore Hubbard until death did them apart. He had a total of six children from the two marriages.

Career

Elbert worked in his private press which he collaborated with his wife, Bertha. He published two magazines The Fra and The Philistine. His company, the Roycrofters, produced eccentric books and handmade paper; he also operated a furniture shop and subtle bindery.

Hubbard became a lecturer of his homespun philosophy, and his shops were a meeting point for radicals, reforms, and freethinkers. He was mocked in the press for being a sell-out, but he came out to dispute it and state that he lost faith in the means of realizing socialism, but his ideas are still intact.

Death

On May 7th, 1915 while at sea in Ireland the ship he was on was torpedoed and sunk by the Germans, just after the sinking of Titanic.

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