William Hubbard (1898 - 1979)

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Karisha M Leeper

Karisha M. (Hubbard) Leeper

Sheridan School, NY

Walter Hubbard

Eugenia (Hubbard) Rogers

Roger E. Hubbard

Paul E Hubbard

Paul E Hubbard

Alvin Horton Hubbard

Alvin. Horton Hubbard

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Alvin and Elaine Hubbard

Blythe & Tessie (Schlichting) Hubbard, Wisconsin 1917

Earl and Pearl Huddleston, Tennessee

Henry Hubbard, Kentucky 1908

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In 1898, in the year that William Hubbard was born, magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company controlled 84% of the oil and pipelines in the United States. Rockefeller grew Standard Oil through the merger of several other small oil companies throughout the U.S., creating a monopoly.

In 1906, at the age of just 8 years old, William was alive when English biochemist Frederick Hopkins concluded that vitamins are essential to the human body and that a lack of vitamins caused scurvy and rickets. Scurvy and rickets were both huge problems in sailors that were at sea for extended time and the addition of vitamin C, vitamin D, and calcium in their diets helped eradicate the problem.

In 1931, by the time he was 33 years old, on May 1st, the Empire State Building opened in New York City. At 1,454 feet (including the roof and antenna), it was the tallest building in the world until the World Trade Center's North Tower was built in 1970. (It is now the 34th tallest.) Opening at the beginning of the Great Depression, most of the offices in the Empire State Building remained unoccupied for years and the observation deck was an equal source of revenue and kept the building profitable.

In 1953, William was 55 years old when on January 20th, Dwight D. Eisenhower became the 34th President of the United States. Formerly the 1st Supreme Allied Commander Europe in World War II, Eisenhower had never previously held a political office.

In 1979, in the year of William Hubbard's passing, on March 28th, a partial nuclear meltdown occurred at the power plant at Three Mile Island Pennsylvania. Radiation leaked into the environment, resulting in a rating of 5 on a scale of 7 ("Accident With Wider Consequences") . It ended up costing $1 billion to clean up the site.