Class of 1862

Grosvenor Silliman Hubbard died after a lingering illness, at his home in the city of New York, January 4, 1919.

He was born at Hanover, N. H., October 10, 1842, and was the only son of the late Professor Oliver Payson Hubbard of Dartmouth College and Faith Wadsworth (Silliman) Hubbard, daughter of the eminent Professor Silliman of Yale University.

Hubbard fitted for college at Phillips Andover Academy and under private tutors in Hanover, entering Dartmouth in the fall of 1858. After graduation in 1862 he taught school for a short time at Grand Ligne, Canada, and for two years was connected with the Register's Office, Treasury Department, in Washington, D. C. In September, 1865, he entered the Yale Law School, and after a few months transferred to the Columbia Law School in New York city, studying also in the law office of that famous firm of Man and Parsons, and was admitted to the bar of the city and state of New York in 1867. He practised law by himself for four years, when he formed a partnership with Mr. Chittenden (formerly register of the treasury), under the firm name of Chittenden & Hubbard, which partnership was dissolved in May, 1881, since which time he was in practice by himself until his death.

Hubbard's law practice was very extensive and eminently successful. He won for himself a proud position as a sound and skilful lawyer at the bar of New York, and as a man of the strictest integrity. He had the confidence of the bench, and was appointed referee in more than four hundred cases. His dominant characteristic was loyalty. He was loyal to classmates, friends, and to Dartmouth College. He bore his long and painful illness with cheerfulness and hope. At the semi-centennial celebration of his class in 1912, he wrote in a humorous mood to the Secretary, that he was sorry he could not attend, owing to ill health, but sent his "best regards to each of 'our' aged classmates who may be present; tell them I have had a comfortable existence practising law in New York, and everything to be thankful for, including ten trips to Europe."

Hubbard never married.

Thus passes a man who fought a good fight, who kept the faith, and worthily upheld the high ideals and traditions of his able and distinguished family.