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Hubbard, Gardiner Greene

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Hubbard, Gardiner Greene (1822–1897)

US lawyer and business executive. A civic leader, he helped introduce gaslight to Cambridge, Massachusetts, took a leading role in building one of the country's first streetcar lines, and helped develop and expand the telephone service. He served 12 years on the Massachusetts Board of Education and, with his son-in-law Alexander Graham Bell, founded the journal Science. He was founder and first president 1888–97 of the National Geographic Society.

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of a Massachusetts judge, he was an 1841 Dartmouth graduate and practiced law in Boston and Washington, DC. His daughter's deafness led to his interest in problems of the deaf and he was president of a school for the deaf in Northampton, Massachusetts.



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