Lawyer. Linguist. Poet. General. Inventor. He was a graduate of Union College in New York. He later graduated from Yale in 1818. He was the Brigadier General of the 3d Brigade, 1st Division of the Philadelphia Militia. His troops were raised in southern Philadelphia County. During 1844, in which most Know Nothing riots took place, Hubbell and his troops saved the Catholic churches of St. Paul and St. Joseph from destruction. He was the first to suggest the possibility of laying a telegraph cable between Newfoundland and Ireland. He also suggested the existence of a plateau at the bottom of the ocean for the cable to be laid. He partnered with Col. John Henry Sherburne in petitioning Congress in implementing the plan. In 1858, two issues of Scientific American credited Hubbell with the idea of laying the cable.

Lawyer. Linguist. Poet. General. Inventor. He was a graduate of Union College in New York. He later graduated from Yale in 1818. He was the Brigadier General of the 3d Brigade, 1st Division of the Philadelphia Militia. His troops were raised in southern Philadelphia County. During 1844, in which most Know Nothing riots took place, Hubbell and his troops saved the Catholic churches of St. Paul and St. Joseph from destruction. He was the first to suggest the possibility of laying a telegraph cable between Newfoundland and Ireland. He also suggested the existence of a plateau at the bottom of the ocean for the cable to be laid. He partnered with Col. John Henry Sherburne in petitioning Congress in implementing the plan. In 1858, two issues of Scientific American credited Hubbell with the idea of laying the cable.