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2 unusual facts about Elbert Hubbard


Hudson, Illinois

Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915), known for his essay "A Message of Garcia" and founding the Roycroft community; grew up in Hudson and died in the sinking of the Lusitania

Mount Washburn

In 1914, two years before automobiles were allowed in Yellowstone, noted author Elbert Hubbard and his wife Alice spent two weeks touring Yellowstone.


Andrew Summers Rowan

In 1899 artist and publisher Elbert Hubbard wrote a passage entitled A Message to Garcia extolling the virtues of Rowan, lauding his reliability and competence.

Bertha Crawford Hubbard

She was married to Elbert Hubbard the charismatic leader of the Roycrofters on June 30, 1881 in Bloomington, Illinois - when he was a soap salesman for the Larkin Soap Company.

Harry Kemp

Kemp knew many of the bohemian and progressive literary and cultural figures of his generation, including Elbert Hubbard, Upton Sinclair, Ida Tarbell, Bernarr MacFadden, Sinclair Lewis, Max Eastman, Eugene O'Neill, Edmund Wilson, John Dos Passos, E. E. Cummings, and many others.


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