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Memorial Record of the Northern Peninsula of Michigan
Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago - 1895


              [406-407]

              JOHN W. HUBBERT, a leading grocer and produce dealer of New-
           berry, Michigan, has been identified with the northern peninsula
           since 1878, when he landed here a youth of less than twenty
           years. His history is that of a selfmade man and the success he
           has attained is eminently worthy of record here.
              On his arrival in northern Michigan young HUBBERT stopped
           first near Sault Sainte Marie, where he was employed for
           eighteen months as a farm hand by GEORGE ROGERS. After leaving
           that place he took up his abode at St. Ignace. There he secured
           work in the woods with the Mackinac Lumber Company and remained
           in and about the point till 1886, when he located in Seney and
	   with his small earnings as capital engaged in the meat business,
	   continuing there successfully until 1890. That year he removed
	   to Newberry and added groceries to his stock, the business here
	   being conducted from 1890 to 1892 under the firm name of DARCY &
	   HUBBERT. MR. HUBBERT purchased his partner's interest in the
	   latter year and has since continued alone. He has a building 24
	   x 60 feet, and for the first fifty feet on each side of the
	   store can be found a complete stock of staple and fancy grocer-
	   ies of every description, and he has certainly done his share
	   toward giving Newberry a first-class grocery and provision
	   store. Here can be found all the leading and staple articles
	   for table use. One feature we notice in particular about MR.
	   HUBBERT'S store and that is the general air of cleanliness and
	   order that prevails. He keeps his store well stocked with the
	   very best goods that money can buy and the people of the city
	   realize that fact and extend him a good patronage in return. In
	   the rear of the building we find the meat market where may be
	   found all kinds of fresh and cured meats. He has a neat and
	   clean market and takes extraordinary pains to keep it in that
	   condition.
	      MR. HUBBERT was born in Lincolnshire, England, November 23,
	   1859. His father, JAMES HUBBERT, crossed the Atlantic with
	   his family in 1862 and settled at Barrie, in the province of
	   Ontario, Canada, where he still resides. He has been a farmer
	   all his life. He and his good wife are now aged respectively
	   sixty and sixty-one years, and their family is composed of the
	   following members: JOHN W., the subject of our sketch, is the
	   eldest; SARAH is the wife of GEORGE COLES and resides in Barrie;
	   EMMA and LIZZIE are also residents of that place; FRANK is some-
	   where in British America; and EARNEST is in Montana.
	      J. W. HUBBERT was married at St. Ignace, June 26, 1882, to
	   MISS LUCY, daughter of WILLIAM and MARY ANN (MOTT) DARCY. She
	   was born in Brockway, Michigan, in 1862, one of a family of
	   three, the others being MRS. AMBRO BETTES and W. T. DARCY, of
	   Newberry. Mr. and Mrs. HUBBERT'S children are MABEL L., aged
	   eleven years; ERWIN, nine; and LULA E., four.

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