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Gardiner Greene Hubbard

Gardiner Greene Hubbard
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Born (1822-08-25)August 25, 1822
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died December 11, 1897(1897-12-11) (aged 75)
New York City, New York, U.S.
Occupation Lawyer
President, Bell Telephone Company
Children Mabel Gardiner Hubbard, daughter
Parent(s) Samuel Hubbard
Relatives Richard Aldrich McCurdy (brother-in-law)
Alexander Graham Bell (son-in-law)
Grace Hubbard Fortescue (granddaughter)

Gardiner Greene Hubbard (August 25, 1822 – December 11, 1897) was an American lawyer, financier, and philanthropist.

He was the first president of the National Geographic Society and one of the founders of and the first president of the Bell Telephone Company which later evolved into AT&T, at times the world's largest telephone company.

One of his daughters, Mabel Gardiner Hubbard, also became the wife of Alexander Graham Bell.

Hubbard was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Samuel Hubbard (June 2, 1785 – December 24, 1847), a Massachusetts Supreme Court justice, and Mary Greene (April 19, 1790 – July 10, 1827). Hubbard was a grandson of Boston merchant Gardiner Greene. He was also a descendant of Lion Gardiner, an early English settler and soldier in the New World who founded the first English settlement in what later became the State of New York, and whose legacy includes Gardiners Island which remains in the family.

Gardiner Hubbard attended Phillips Academy, Andover and later graduated from Dartmouth in 1841. He then studied law at Harvard, and was admitted to the bar in 1843. He later lived in the adjoining city of Cambridge and joined a Boston law firm, practicing his profession in Boston until 1873, when he relocated to Washington, D.C. Gardiner Hubbard helped establish a city water works in Cambridge, was a founder of the Cambridge Gas Co. and later organized a Cambridge to Boston trolley system.


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