LUCIUS FREDERICK HUBBARD Ninth Governor of the State of Minnesota, was born in Troy, New York, January 26, 1836, and is still living in St. Paul. He engaged in journalism, milling, and railroad operations; and was brigadier general in the Civil War. He was a State senator in 1872-5; and was governor of Minnesota from January 10, 1882, to January 5, 1887. LUCIUS FREDERICK HUBBARD NINTH GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA January 10, 1882, to January 5, 1877. A MONG the names that adorn our gubernatorial gallery, few stand higher in practical good sense, in personal character, political integrity, and in patriotic devotion to his country in its most trying crisis, than Lucius Frederick Hubbard, the ninth governor of our state. He directly followed another governor of practical and sagacious administrative ability, John Sargent Pillsbury, and that era of eleven years may be denominated the era of sound common sense in the administration of the state government. There is a royalty in that sterling good sense which is the best genius for mankind. You look in vain for its possessors to do a foolish thing; but wisdom guides their councils, and good judgment, with corresponding good results, crowns their public career with the happiest consequences. Conscious as every one must feel how naturally our judgment may be biased by long personal friendship in the opinions we form of public men, yet I have most strenuously endeavored to treat each and all in this series of our governors with the historian's unbiased judgment as to themselves and their relation to their times and to public measures. It is the constant object of these pages to record only just and true history. Some, therefore, may be crowned with honor; others may at times suffer a shade to their discredit; but all should be clothed in the garments of truth. Public men must learn that it is their ultimate fate to be weighed and estimated both by their personal character and their public performances, for the private life of every public man will tinge his reputation, and no apparent public. virtue can suppress the story of tainted private morals. These observations are a salutary lesson to those ambitious politicians whose eyes should often turn towards an impartial posterity. Lucius Frederick Hubbard was born January 26th, 1836, at Troy, New York. He was a descendant, on the father's side, of that Hubbard family (George Hubbard and Mary Bishop) that emigrated from England to this country and settled in Connecticut in the seventeenth century. On the mother's side (Van Valkenburg) he came of the Holland Dutch stock that have occupied the valley of the Hudson river since its earliest history. His great grandfather was Israel Hubbard, who was a delegate to the Provincial Congress in Massachusetts Bay from the town of Sunderland in 1774, and in many active ways contributed to the work of preparing for the Revolution. His grandmother, on the mother's side, Margaret Van Cott, was a cousin of President |