demical education at the Readfield Seminary, he studied
law, and was admitted to the bar in 1839. He was elected to the
Legislature of Maine in 1845, and in the same year removed to Green
Bay, Wisconsin. Five years after he was elected a Circuit Judge, and
held the office until his resignation in 1855. In 1861 he was elected
a Senator in Congress from Wisconsin, and was re-elected in
1867.--421, 459.

ASAHEL W. HUBBARD was born in Haddam, Connecticut, January 18, 1819.
In 1838 he removed to Indiana, and engaged in school-teaching. He
entered upon the profession of law in 1841, and was in 1847 elected to
the Indiana Legislature, in which he served three terms. He removed to
Iowa in 1857, and was soon after elected Judge of the Fourth Judicial
District of that State. In 1862 he was elected a Representative from
Iowa to the Thirty-Eighth Congress, and was re-elected to the
Thirty-Ninth and Fortieth Congresses.

CHESTER D. HUBBARD was born in Hamden, Connecticut, November 25, 1814.
In the following year he was removed to Pennsylvania, and thence to
Wheeling, Virginia, in 1819. Having graduated at Wesleyan University,
Connecticut, in 1840, he returned to Wheeling, and engaged actively in
business pursuits. In 1852 he was elected to the lower House of the
Virginia Legislature. He was a delegate to the Richmond Convention
which passed the ordinance of secession, and opposed that movement
with so much ardor that he was expelled from the Convention. He was a
member of the Wheeling Convention which organized the restored
government of Virginia, and after the formation of the new State of
West Virginia, was elected to the State Senate. He was elected a
Representative from West Virginia to the Thirty-Ninth Congress, and
was re-elected to the Fortieth Congress.

DEMAS HUBBARD was born in Winfield, New York, January 17, 1806. Having
received an academic education he gave his attention to farming and
the practice of law. He was for many years a member and Chairman of
the Board of Supervisors of Chenango County, and from 1838 to 1840 was
a member of the New York Legislature. In 1864 he was elected a
Representative from New York to the Thirty-Ninth Congress. His
successor in the Fortieth Congress is William C. Fields.

JOHN H. HUBBARD was born in Salisbury, Connecticut, in 1805. He was
brought up a farmer and received a common-school education. He was
admitted to the bar in 1826. He was five years Prosecuting Attorney
for Litchfiel