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Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1856-06-19 - 1915-05-07

Biographical note

Elbert Green Hubbard was born in Bloomington, Illinois to Silas Hubbard and Juliana Frances Read on June 19, 1856. Raised in Hudson, Illinois, he had early success as a salesman for the Larkin Soap Company in Buffalo, New York. In 1895, he founded Roycroft Shops, an Arts and Crafts community in East Aurora, New York. Hubbard's first wife, Bertha Crawford Hubbard, started the Roycroft printing business. In 1904, Elbert Hubbard married his second wife Alice Moore Hubbard after a controversial affair and the birth of their illegitimate child, Miriam Elberta Hubbard (1894–1985). Hubbard became a popular lecturer, and his philosophy evolved to self-described anarchism and socialism. Among Hubbard's many publications were the fourteen-volume work Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great (1894) and the short publication A Message to Garcia (1899). Hubbard died aboard the RMS Lusitania when it was sunk by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland on May 7, 1915.

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Kitty Haas collection of Elbert Hubbard and Roycroft materials

 Collection
Identifier: BC-2022-065
Abstract Collected by Roycroft Shops expert and antiquarian Kitty Haas, materials document the life of writer, publisher, and philosopher Elbert Hubbard, who founded the reformist community of craftspeople, known as the Roycrofters, in 1895. Collection consists of Roycroft-related advertisements and broadsides, ceramics, correspondence, newspaper articles, photographs and sketches, and printing press records. Also included are papers documenting the assemblage of the collection and Kitty Haas's...
Restrictions on Access

Collection is open for research. Negatives in Shared box 1274 are not an access medium and are not available for use.

Dates: 1870 - 1980; Majority of material found within 1895 - 1939

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