. Men of mark in Connecticut; ideals of American life told in biographies and autobiographies of eminent living Americans . terested in religious matters as in business and public affairsand is a zealous member of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He isjunior warden of St. Michaels Church and treasurer of the FirstEpiscopal Society of Litchfield. Though he is a Eepublican in politi-cal faith he is not strongly partisan and he is a believer in tariff forrevenue only. The only societies to which he belongs are the Litch-field Scientific Society and the Litchfield County University Club. A thoroug
. Men of mark in Connecticut; ideals of American life told in biographies and autobiographies of eminent living Americans . terested in religious matters as in business and public affairsand is a zealous member of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He isjunior warden of St. Michaels Church and treasurer of the FirstEpiscopal Society of Litchfield. Though he is a Eepublican in politi-cal faith he is not strongly partisan and he is a believer in tariff forrevenue only. The only societies to which he belongs are the Litch-field Scientific Society and the Litchfield County University Club. A thorough and resourceful student, Mr. Hubbard has never con-fined his mental life to professional study. He is greatly interested insocial problems and is engaged in developing plans for a method ofdealing with the tramp problem in this state. He i? also inter-ested in an investigation of the mineral resources of Connecticut andhe frequently contributes articles to local papers. As a young manMr. Hubbard devoted much time to baseball and in later life he hastaken his exercise in bicycling, walking, and working in his AUGUSTUS MILO BLAKESLEY BLAKESLEY, AUGUSTUS MILO, banker of Waterbury andthe president of the American Pin Company, was born inPlymouth, Litchfield County, Connecticut, March 4th, is descended from Simeon Blakeslee, a member of the Englishgentry, who followed Richard Cceur de Lion in his crusade. Hisfirst ancestors in America were Samuel and John Blakeslee, whocame from England to Massachusetts and purchased Boston Blakeslee, grandson of Samuel, was a deacon and a prominentfactor in the public life of his day. Milo Blakesley, Mr. Blakesleysfather, a clock manufacturer and farmer, was a devout deacon ofhis church, a strong Abolitionist and a man who held many localoffices. He was the first to change the spelling of the name fromBlakeslee to Blakesley. Mr. Blakesleys mother, who was DorcasHine McKee, was of Scottish lineage and a woman of great m
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