Gardiner Greene Hubbard
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Gardiner Greene Hubbard (August 25, 1822 – December 11, 1897) was the first president of the National Geographic Society.
Born in Boston, Massachusetts he was a lawyer, financier, and philanthropist. He graduated from Dartmouth in 1841, studied law at Harvard, and was admitted to the bar in 1843. He practiced his profession in Boston until 1873, when he relocated to Washington, D. C. There he was intimately connected with the organization and development of the American Bell Telephone Company. He was the founder and first president for many years of the National Geographic Society, and made a large collection of etchings and engravings, which were given by his widow to the Library of Congress with a fund for additions. Hubbard devoted much attention to the advancement of oral instruction among deaf-mutes. His life is detailed in the book One Thousand Years of Hubbard History by Edward Warren Day. Hubbard was the father-in-law of Alexander Graham Bell.
In 1890, Mount Hubbard on the Alaska-Yukon border was named in his honour by an expedition co-sponsored by the NGS while he was president.
See also Massie Case.
- This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.
