History of Bridgeport and Vicinity Vol. 2: Illustrated (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from History of Bridgeport and Vicinity Vol. 2: Illustrated<br><br>Dr. Robert Hubbard of Bridgeport was born April 27 1826 in Upper Middletown now the town of Cromwell in Middlesex county_ Connecticut. He was a descendant of a prominent pioneer family the first American Hubbard having come from England to the Connecticut colony about 1660. His father Jeremiah Hubbard was also a native of Upper Middletown and for many years sailed a vessel in the Indies trade and also engaged in farming in this state. He married Elizabeth Roberts a native of Middletown and a daughter of Roberts who was a farmer. To this marriage were born eight sons and two daughters.<br><br>Robert Hubbard was the eldest of the family and in his boyhood attended the district schools but spent most of his time in work on the farm his services being badly needed in the cultivation of the fields so that his educational opportunities were therefore soure what limited. Finally however he entered the academy and worked his way through that institution. In 1846 at the age of twenty years he had finished his preparatory course and was then admitted to Yale College. At the close of his freshman year he accepted the position of principal in the academy at Durham Connecticut and a year later he was induced to take up the study of medicine. After two years as principal of the academy he entered the office of Dr. Benjamin F. Fowler who directed his reading for about a year when he became a student under Dr. Nathan B. Ives of New Haven. During the two years spent under Dr. Ives he also attended the Yale Medical School and in 1851 was graduated with the M. D. Degree winning the valedictorian honors of his class.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.