INTRODUCTORY.

     East of the Mahoning in the southern tier of townships of this county the country for several miles presents a broken surface consisting of a succession of low hills, knolls, ridges and valleys.  From the tops of the principal elevations the observer obtains a fine view of picturesque scenery in which the results of the handiwork of Nature and man's creative industry are harmoniously blended.  Fertile fields, green woodlands and sparkling streamlets delight the eye, and the subdued sounds of industrial activity greet the ear.  At the foot of the hills are busy towns and hamlets, whence arise such dense clouds of black smoke that one would almost fancy himself near the workshops of the Titans and Vulcans of antiquity.  Toiling locomotives, dragging heavy loads of coal and ore, wend their way through the valleys, and from numerous hillsides arise the puffs of smoke and steam which attest that the coal-beds beneath the earth are being made to yield up their hidden wealth.  Everywhere the steam-engine is at work, even

     Down in the depths of the fathomless mine
          Its tireless arm doth play,
     Where the rocks never saw the sun's decline
     Or the dawn of the glorious day.

     Hubbard township contains some of the most extensive coal deposits of the Mahoning valley.  Two railroads, branches of the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio and the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern, pass through the township, having

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their termini in Youngstown. Numerous coal roads branch off from these and run to the various banks in Hubbard.  The coal and iron interests of this township have contributed largely towards increasing the wealth and prosperity of the inhabitants.
     Hubbard also contains much good farming land.  The soil is variable, consisting of clayey, sandy, and gravelly loams.  As the most of the surface is high and rolling, the soil is well-drained and arable.
     Little Yankee run is the chief stream in the township.  Crossing the township line about three-fourths of a mile east of the northwestern corner of Hubbard, it flows southerly and southeasterly, past the village of Coalburg to a point very near the center of the township and just north of Hubbard village, where it makes a U-shaped turn and flows easterly a mile; then bending to the northward passes over into the southeast of Brookfield township, where it enters the Shenango river.  The stream in its course through Hubbard township is very crooked; and the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio railroad, which follows up its valley from Hubbard village, crosses the Little Yankee five times in the township.
     Hubbard township is the southeastern corner of Trumbull county, and adjoins the Pennsylvania line on the east.  Brookfield is the next township north of it; Liberty lies on the west, and Coitsville, Mahoning county, on the south.  Hubbard is the third township in the first range of New Connecticut.

OWNERSHIP, ETC.

     Nehemiah Hubbard, Jr., an original member of the Connecticut Land company, was the owner of the land of township three, range one, and it was sold out to settlers by his agent, Samuel Tylee.
     The township was organized into an election district in 1806, and named after its original owner. No records of early elections can be found.

SETTLEMENT.

     Hubbard was first settled by people from Connecticut, New Jersey, Virginia, and other eastern States; a few Pennsylvanians were also among the pioneers.  Very few of the original families are now represented in the township.  The growth of population was very slow. In 1834 there were only about one hundred voters in the township.

     SAMUEL TYLEE and family were the first settlers.   They came from Middletown, Connecticut, and arrived in Hubbard Sept. 1, 1801.  Mr. Tylee chose as a site for his cabin a spot northwest of the present corners of the village, and there began the life of a pioneer.  He married Anna Sanford, and they had a family of five children when they came here.  Mr. Tylee acted as agent for Nehemiah Hubbard for the sale of the land of the township to settlers, for many years.  He was born in Litchfield county, Connecticut, in 1766, and died in Hubbard in 1845.  His first wife bore ten children, and his second, Elizabeth Ayres, one.  The names of these children were Anna, Laura, Samuel, Mary, Sanford, William, Julia, Hannah, Maria A. and Olivia.  Five are still living, viz: William, in Kansas; Hannah (Bussey), New Orleans; Maria (Clingen), Hubbard; Eliza (Hagar), Hubbard; and Olivia (Barnheisel) San Francisco.  Samuel Tylee was the first justice of the peace in the township and also a very prominent business man, whose enterprise contributed not a little to the prosperity of the settlement.

     SYLVESTER TYLER

     WILLIAM BURNETT

     ENOS BURNETT

     As definite dates of the several settlements cannot now be ascertained, we mention below several representatives of the pioneers, most of whom came to the township between 1802 and 1808:

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     JEREMIAH WOLF

     JESSE HALL

     JOHN AYRES

     CORNELIUS DILLEY

     MARTIN SWARTZWELTER

     SAMUEL LESLIE

     MATTHEW MITCHELL

     WILLIAM PORTERFIELD

     JOHN JEWELL

     JOEL SMITH

     JOHN GARDNER

     AMOS SMITH settled in the southwest of the township.  His sons, William, Amos, Nathan, and Joel, lived in this township and reared families.

     GEORGE FRAZIER lived on the farm adjoining that of Amos Smith, Sr.  His son George brought up his family here. Hugh died on the old place; John went West.

     STEPHEN DOUGHTON lived on a place adjoining the Porterfield farm.  His son David reared a family of four children here, and died on his way to California of cholera, in 1852.

     DAVID BAILEY, from Connecticut, settled on the south lot of the township, on the road leading to the center.  His sons were David, Seth, Tryan, and Ritter. He also had four daughters.

     WILLIAM PARRISH was one of the early Maryland settlers.  His son John, who is one of the oldest residents of Hubbard, still lives upon the old farm.

     The Rogers and Clark families were among the first of the Yankee settlers in the southern part of the township.  The names are no longer to be found among the residents of Hubbard.  Edward Bussey, about 1803, settled north of the Porterfield farm.

     A. K. CRAMER, a native of New Jersey, settled in east Hubbard in 1816.  His father, Captain Frederick Cramer, was under the immediate command of Washington during six years of the Revolutionary war.  Mr. Cramer came here a young man and married Susan Price, by whom he had four children, Elizabeth, Sarah (deceased), Naomi, and Susan.  By his second wife, Matilda Pierce, seven children were born: J. P., Hannah, S. P., A. K., J. H., Matilda, and A. W.  Two of these, S. P. and A. K., reside in Hubbard and are engaged in the drug business.  A. K. Cramer, Sr., was one of the organizers and main supporters of the Baptist church.  He was justice of the peace two terms and township clerk thirty consecutive years.  In 1865 he moved to Iowa.  He died in 1873 aged seventy-seven.  Mrs. Cramer died in 1877 aged seventy-three.  Of their sons, S. P., was township clerk for years, and justice of the peace one term.  A. K., Jr., has been twice elected justice and three times mayor.

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EARLY EVENTS.

     The first frame house in Hubbard township was erected in 1808 by Samuel Tylee.  It is still standing in Hubbard township.
     The first justice of the peace was Samuel Tylee, who also served in later years.  George Frazier, Joel Smith, and Thomas Robinson were also among the early justices.

     GEORGE FRAZIER built the first brick house in the township.

EARLY SCHOOLS

EARLY INDUSTRIES

HUBBARD VILLAGE.

PORTRAIT OF A. M. JEWELL

REBECCA C. JEWELL

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INCORPORATION

HUBBARD FLOWERING MILL

HUBBARD NATIONAL BANK

NEWSPAPERS

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HUBBARD SCHOOLS

METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

THE BAPTIST CHURCH.

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THE DISCIPLES CHURCH.

CATHOLIC CHURCH

WELSH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH

WELSH BAPTIST CHURCH.

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THE LUTHERAN CHURCH

COALBURG CHURCHES.

CEMETERIES

     The principal cemetery of this township is located a short distance north of Hubbard Village.  Interments were made here very early, as the old-fashioned grave stones would attest, even if no inscriptions were upon them.  These stones are common flag-stones obtained from the creek bed, rudely carved and rudely lettered.  Many departures from modern methods of orthography are observable.  The oldest stone in the graveyard was erected

To the memory of
JEHIEL ROBBARTS,
who departed this life
January 16, 1809.
aged thirty years.

     Roberts was a shoemaker, and was drowned by breaking through the ice into the Mahoning river, while he was carrying a bundle of shoes to some of his customers.  The shoes were found lying upon the ice, and led to the recovery of his body.
     Another of these old grave-stones chronicles
the following history:

In memory of
ANNA TYLEE,
who departed this life.
February 2, 1818,
aged 45 yrs.

     Of the early settlers buried here, Ida, wife of Barney Lyons, died in 1812, aged thirty-eight; Barnabas Lyons died in 1841, aged eighty; Amos Ayres died in 1817, aged fifty-two; Samuel Price, aged seventy-six, died in 1827; Cornelius Dilly died in 1824, aged fifty-three; Mary, wife of Enos Burnett, died in 1813, aged forty-nine; John Burnett died in 1843, aged forty-six; Silas Burnett, born in New Jersey, in 1791, died in Hubbard in 1878. -
     In the northern part of the township adjoining the Disciples' church is another graveyard of more recent origin.

ODD FELLOWS

TEMPLE OF HONOR

FORESTERS

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COALBURG

COAL OPERATIONS

     Jackson Brothers opened the first banks in 1861.  These were known as the Veach mines, situated in East Hubbard.  E. P. Burnett owned the most valuable coal fields in the township, and after opening a mine leased it to Andrews & Hitchcock, who are still operating it.  After coal railroads had been built to various parts of the township, mining went forward with an impetus until very recently.  The enterprising firm, Andrews & Hitchcock, are still operating quite largely.  P. Jacobs & Sons are now opening mines in the southeast of the township and preparing for an extensive business.
     The first coal operations in the vicinity of Coalburg began in 1863.  Powers & Arms leased coal fields from Jesse Hall, Madison Powers, and others, and after working them a short time leased to Brown, Bonnell & Co., who, under the name of the Mahoning Coal company, have carried on the business very extensively.  They built the railroad from Youngstown, which has since become the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern branch, now extended northward to the main line.  Some of the banks once yielded three to four hundred tons of coal per day and gave employment to hundreds of work men.  The Love, Burnett, and Cramer banks, operated by Andrews & Hitchcock have each been very productive.  All are now more or less exhausted, though the annual coal production of  this township still amounts to a large number of tons. 

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

WILLIAM BURNETT - 365

A. W. JEWELL - 366

SETTLEMENT NOTES:

     JESSE HALL

     NATHANIEL MITCHELL

     ROBERT PORTERFIELD

     CORNELIUS PRICE

     LEWIS S. BURNETT

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     JUDSON RAY NOBLE

     GEORGE W. RANDALL

     G. R. STEVENSON

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