CHARLES M. HUBBARD, physician, Virginia City. Doctor Charles M. Hubbard, one of the most successful physicians of Cass County, was born July 25, 1848, at Lempster, New Hampshire. His father, George N. Hubbard, a native of Vermont, and for more than thirty years a merchant of Providence, R.I., came West, located in Chicago, and engaged in the tin ware and stove business, until he retired in 1855. He died from the effects of a stroke of lightning, in Menard County, Ill., in March, 1871. He married Miss Sarah Vance, who became the mother of five sons and one daughter. Mrs. Hubbard survives her husband and resides with one of her sons, Thomas, in Chicago, at the age of fifty-four years. The subject of this sketch is the oldest of the family. He received his rudimental education in the common schools of Chicago, and later, attended in Jacksonville, Ill., and Springfield, and graduated from the high school of the latter place. At Terre Haute, Ind., he gained a knowledge of dentistry, and in 1871 came to Virginia and opened a dental office. He had during 1869 and 1870 read medicine with Dr. J. B. Stevenson, of Springfield, and during his practice of dentistry he prosecuted his medical studies. He attended medical lectures at both the Ohio Medical College, and the Eclectic Medical School of Cincinnati, and received diplomas from those institutions, in May, 1871. May 20, 1871, he married Miss Charlotte L. Stoll, daughter of H. B. and Susan (Hall) Stoll, both natives of New Jersey. Mrs. Hubbard was the oldest of a family of six children, and was born July 25, 1848. Her father died in March, 1865, and Mrs. Stoll still resides at Terre Haute, Ind. Mr. and Mrs. Hubbard have two sons, Henry C. and Frank L.
--Illinois: History of Cass County, Illinois, ed. William Henry Perrin. O. L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers, Chicago, 1882.