HALL, Lincoln Grant, of Coggon, is of Scotch descent and is a distant relative of ex-President Harrison. His father, William Hall, is a prosperous farmer, who moved to Iowa in 1869, from near Lima, Allen county, Ohio, and located in Linn county. William Hall enlisted as a soldier in the civil war and was second lieutenant of Company B, One Hundred and Fifty-first Ohio volunteers. William Hall's father, Jacob R. Hall, served as a private in the war of 1812, under General Harrison, who was his cousin. Jacob R. Hall was a "Campbellite" minister, a merchant and a farmer in Allen county, Ohio.  L. G. Hall's mother was Mary E. Manner, and she was a cousin of Col. A. V.  Rice, of Ottawa, Ohio. In her youth she attended a school taught by Samuel J.  Kirkwood, war governor of Iowa, in Richland county, Ohio.

On October 15, 1863, Lincoln G. Hall was born. He went to the country school in Jackson township, Linn county, known as the Old South Prairie school, and taught by Mrs. Elizabeth Blodgette, at present well known as a prominent member of the Woman's Relief corps. In 1881 and 1882 he attended the Marion high school and in 1883 and 1884, Coe college at Cedar Rapids. He then went to Chicago and took a course in the Chicago College of Pharmacy. In March, 1885, he entered the employ of J.  H. Davis, of Paris, Iowa, who was in the general merchandise business. Here he remained for over two years and had the advantage of a thorough training in practical and successful business. In October, 1887, he formed a partnership with Dr. A. S.  Cunningham in the drug business at Nugent's Grove, which is now known as Coggon. In 1888 Mr. Hall's father purchased the doctor's interest in the business, which was continued under the firm name of L.  G. Hall & Co. for one year, when he became sole proprietor.

On November 23, 1887, Mr. Hall was married to Inez E. Fleming. They have two daughters, Hazel W. and Muriel M.  Mr. Hall and his wife joined the Jackson Congregational church in 1890 and in 1897 transferred their membership to the Zion Presbyterian church at Coggon. 

As an active republican Mr. Hall's efficient services in the cause have been recognized by his selection as chairman of the township central committee for three years. He has also been for several years a member of the county central committee. For three years, from 1892 to 1895 he was a member of the council of Coggon.  He was made a member of Level Lodge No. 284, A. F. and A. M., at Central City, in 1885, exalted to Royal Arch degree in Marion Chapter No. 10, Marion, in 1891; dubbed sir knight of Apollo Commandery, Knights Templars No. 26, at Cedar Rapids, in 1891, and was made a noble of the Mystic Shrine in El Kahir Temple A. A. O. N. M.  S., at Cedar Rapids.in 1891. He was a member of D. Hedges Camp No. 68, Sons of Veterans, at Central City, for three years, from 1885 to 1888; was captain of the company during his connection with the order, and for faithful service was presented with an elegant sword by the members of above named camp. Served one year as aid-de-camp on the staff of Gen. Walter S. Payne.

HARVEY, Charles B., of Marion, Iowa, well known in that region as secretary of the Y. M. C. A., is a native of Illinois. His father, John F. Harvey, is a farmer living near Aledo, 111., and was a brave soldier in the war of the rebellion.  He enlisted in Company G, Thirtieth Illinois infantry, and was in the third division of the seventeenth army corps. He never missed an engagement that his company was in; was never wounded and was never in the hospital. After serving three years and eleven months he was mustered out as a sergeant. John F. Harvey's father, Beauchamp Harvey, came to Illinois at an early date, and was of English descent.  He was a very active member of the Christian church.

Esther J. McClure, the mother of Charles B., was a daughter of Capt. John McClure, and was born near Attica, Ind., and when a little girl came west to Illinois with her father's family. Most of that country was then unsettled prairie and they came in wagons. Her father was captain of Company G, Thirtieth Illinois Veteran volunteers, and was in the service about three years.

Charles B. Harvey was born near Keithsburg, on July 9, 1870. He was rather sickly when a child and attended school irregularly. In 1888 he attended the city high school and in 1889 the academy. He then began to prepare for commercial life and entered the Iowa Commercial college at Davenport. It was there he first came in contact with the Young Men's Christian association, although he had previously joined the Presbyterian church, to which his parents belonged. He found a higher standard of spiritual life among the young men who made up that association than he had found in the country church. Before a year had passed he felt a desire to take up the Y. M. C. A. work for young men, but no way seemed open at the time.  In 1891 he began work as bookkeeper for the Alpha nursery, at Alpha, 111. November, 1893, he commenced work for an uncle, Charles McClure, in his grocery store at Keithsburg. While there he found an opportunity to go into Y. M. C. A. work and in October, 1894, became assistant secretary at Davenport, Iowa. From here he went to Chicago to the "Secretarial Training School" of the Y. M. C. A. and in June, 1896, came to Marion as secretary.  He closed his work in Marion, December 31, 1897, resigning to accept a call to Sabbath school missionary work in northwestern Minnesota, with headquarters at Fergus Falls.

He was married December 29, 1897, to Miss Fannie Grace Veach, of Keithsburg, ILL., at the Methodist parsonage, by Rev.  W. H. Witter, Keithsburg, ILL. Miss Veach was an active member of the Methodist church, teacher in the Sabbath school and a leading member of the Epworth League.  She was also a member of the choir for about eight years, and now aids her husband in his work by the power of song.  They have one son, Louis Warden, born January 21, 1899.

HATCH, Ezra Kidder, the well-known banker of Central City, is a son of Luther Hatch, one of the first residents of Chicago, who located there in 1831, and who kept an Indian trading post at Naperville before the Black Hawk war. Mr. Hatch's ancestors were all of English descent, who came from England and settled in Massachusetts when it was an English colony.  From there the families removed to New Hampshire, where they were prominent citizens and took an active interest in public affairs. His grandfathers, on both sides, held local town and county offices, and were members of the New Hampshire legislature.

Ezra was born in Lisle, Du Page county, 111., February 3, 1841. His father was a farmer during this period, and the son attended the common schools of his neighborhood, and received from them such instruction as they afforded. When he reached the age of 11 his father died, and at the age of 15 his mother married again and he had henceforth to shift for himself.  Soon after this he came to Iowa and worked on a farm in Jones county at $8 per month and board. When farm work was slack in the winter he went to school, and when about 17 he was able to teach school himself. He then went to school at Oberlin, Ohio, for one year and took a business course. He continued working on a farm in summer and teaching school in winter, saving his money and investing it in land, until March, 1865, when he married Lavonia D. Jordan and settled on a farm of 160 acres. In 1868 he sold the farm and stock for a little over $5,000, and went into the mercantile business at Central City. In 1884 he started the Bank of Central City, with which he is still connected. Mr. Hatch has been closely identified with all enterprises for the good of his town, and is a successful and conservative business man. He is president of the Central City Land and Improvement company, and manager of the stock, grain and lumber business. He has always been a republican, and has held several local offices at various times. He is a prominent Mason, and a member of the Free Will Baptist church.

They have five children: Laura Marilla, born January 4. 1868; Arabella Lavonia, born December 5,1869; Calista Lydia, born October 19, 1871; Lester Orin, born October 4,1878; and Ellen Jordan, born November 16, 1880.

HUBBARD, Nathaniel Mead, one of the most distinguished of western railway lawyers, was born in Oswego, N. Y., September 24, 1829, and was the son of a Methodist preacher and farmer with a NewEngland ancestry reaching back to 1624. The boyhood days of Judge Hubbard were not spent in idleness, for he battled with adverse conditions and conquered them in his determination to obtain an education and attain that station in life which his intellectual powers qualified him to fill.  His father was Ansel Hubbard, who descended from George Hubbard, of Middletown, Conn., who was born in England in 1601 and settled in America in 1624. Ansel Hubbard was married to Mary Mead, the daughter of Nathaniel Mead, of New Jersey, and Mary Buryl, a daughter of the first chancellor of New Jersey. When Nathaniel was 7 years of age the family removed to Troopsburg, Steuben county, N. Y., and lived there until the death of Ansel Hubbard.

An elder sister was the first tutor of Nathaniel Hubbard, when he was a hard-worked boy on the farm. By the aid of a pine knot in the evenings, after his regular work was done, he began his earnest efforts to educate himself. After he had progressed far enough, he taught school and carried on his studies out of school hours. After he was 20 years old, he went to Alfred university, a Seventh Day Baptist college in Alfred, N. Y., which has, for more than half a century, welcomed the poor but earnest student. From this institution young Hubbard was graduated in 1853. He studied law in Hornellsville, N.  Y., and came west next year, locating in Marion, Iowa, April 14, 1854. Just before he left New York he was married to Mary Wise. Mr. Hubbard continued the practice of law in Marion until the civil war broke out, when he early entered the service of his country and served about three years.

Though he never boasts of his army record, Judge Hubbard has seen much more service than the average soldier and is far more deserving of military distinction than many who have more to say about what they have done. He simply did his duty, and is satisfied with that. He raised a company in Linn county and entered the service as its captain, August 25, 1862. He served as captain of Company F, Twentieth Iowa Volunteer infantry, in General Herron 's division of the army of the frontier, until March, 1863, when he was promoted to be provost marshal and judge advocate of the army of the frontier, on the staff of General Herron. He was transferred to the Thirteenth Army corps, Major-General Ord commanding, June 2, 1863, and went to Brownsville, Texas, as judge advocate and provost marshal of the Thirteenth Army corps. He resigned for disability and his resignation was accepted April 20, 1865. He was breveted major for faithful and meritorious services, March 16, 1867. Judge Hubbard is a member of the Loyal Legion and is president of the Society of the Army of the Frontier.  Some of the most inspiring patriotic addresses ever given in the state have come from his pen, among them a tribute to the flag, which has been recommended by the state superintendent of public instruction for use in the public schools.

Mr. Hubbard was appointed district judge, November 15,1865, to fill a vacancy, and served one year, when he was succeeded by James H. Rothrock. Judge Hubbard left the bench to enter the legal department of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway company, and has been in that company's service ever since, most of the time as its Iowa attorney. He removed to Cedar Rapids in 1870, and lives there now.  No man has acquired more complete knowledge of the state of Iowa than Judge Hubbard. It has been a part of his duty to know and measure the importance of all the elements and influences that could affect the great property he represents in this state, and the errors of judgment he has made in law or in the discharge of other duties, have been very few indeed. His keen and far-seeing insight into the motives and purposes of men have been of the greatest value to the important interests entrusted to his care. He has been more than successful. In the important litigation in which the Northwestern has been sometimes engaged, Judge Hubbard's plan of conducting it, when differing from that of other distinguished lawyers, has on several occasions proved to be the correct one; notably in the long and short haul cases several years ago.

Along with his professional duties, which have not been confined to railway business alone, Judge Hubbard has found time to contribute of his time and brain to political discussions and addresses on current topics, as well as some literary work of a high order. Whatever appears with his name attached is eagerly read in Iowa because the people have learned that they will find it full of ideas, presented with telling force and in clear cut, direct language. He has always been in demand as a speaker on national holidays and other public occasions. Having always been an earnest republican, Judge Hubbard has taken a more or less active part in every campaign, since he has lived in Iowa, and in 1896 made a good many strong sound money speeches.

Of his first marriage were born twin daughters, Jessie and Jennie, in 1856.  Jessie was married in 1878 to George K. Barton, of Cedar Rapids, and died in 1894. Jennie was married in 1877 to John W.  Nye, and died in 1882, leaving two children, Hubbard Nye and Mary Nye. Judge Hubbard's first wife, Mary Wise Hubbard, died in 1857, and in 1859 he was married to Katherine Hervey, daughter of James K.  and Mary W. Hervey, in Marion, Iowa. Of this marriage was born, February 14, 1860, Nathaniel M. Hubbard, Jr.

HUBBARD, Nathaniel Mead, Jr., son of Judge N. M. Hubbard, of Cedar Rapids, was born in Marion, Iowa, February 14,1860. His ancestry is spoken of in the sketch of his father, in this work.  One of his mother's ancestors, Rev. James Kieth, was pastor of the first church in Bridgewater and settled in Massachusetts in 1632.

In his boyhood and youth Mr. Hubbard enjoyed the excellent educational advantages of Cedar Rapids, and in 1877 entered the United States Naval academy at Annapolis and was graduated in 1882. After graduation he served three years abroad, first on the United States ship Yantic, in the North Atlantic squadron, and then on the United States ship Juniata, in European and Asiatic waters. He resigned from the navy in 1885, attended Columbia Law school and was admitted to practice law in Iowa in 1887. He was then admitted to his father's law firm, Hubbard, Clark & Dawley, composed of the two Hubbards, Col. Charles A. Clark and Frank F. Dawley. Colonel Clark retired from the firm a few years later, and it was known as Hubbard, Dawley & Hubbard, and now, by the admission of Charles E.  Wheeler, as Hubbard, Dawley & Wheeler.  Mr. Hubbard was one of the organizers of the Royal Union Mutual Life Insurance company, of Iowa, and has been a director and the general attorney of that company since its organization.

In 1889 Mr. Hubbard went to Omaha and became the attorney for the Chicago, St.  Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway company, in Nebraska. He returned to Cedar Rapids in 1894 and has resided there since.  The firm is one of the best known in the west, being engaged in important litigation besides its railway business, and enjoying a large consulting clientage. N. M. Hubbard, Jr., has long taken a considerable and growing share in the important work of the firm, relieving his father of many responsibilities and duties and performing them all with credit to the name he bears.  Having inherited his father's peculiar ability and great energy, with a resourceful and well trained mind, he has already an established position at the bar as one of the most successful in Iowa.

When Spain declared war on the United States, Mr. Hubbard remembered his duty to the navy, which had given him such valuable training, and he immediately re-entered the service, May 5, 1898, with the commission of an ensign. He was promoted to be lieutenant, July 17, 1898, and was honorably discharged November 19, 1898. During the war he served all the time in the fleet before Santiago, having been attached to the United States ship Justin, and United States battleship Oregon, and took part in the bombardment and blockade of Santiago. At the close of the war, Lieutenant Hubbard was second in command of the double-turreted monitor Miantonomoh, and remained with her until she was taken to the League Island navy yard, Philadelphia, for repairs, and put out of commission. He belongs to the Loyal Legion, the Naval and Military Order of the Spanish-American war, the Association of United States Naval Graduates, the United States Naval institute, and the Army and Navy club, of Washington, D. C.  Mr. Hubbard was married December 24, 1889, to Miss Harriet Howard, daughter of the late Hiram Howard, of Faribault, Minn.