Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-03-31
One Hundred Years Old.
JAMES HCRBARTT CELEBRATES HI. OSK
HUsDREDTH BIRTHDAY

IsDIASAPoLIs, Ind, March 27.-James
Hubbartt, living few miles north of the
city. celebrated his one hundredth birthday
| to-day He was born in Delaware, March q,
| 1855. Tomorrow will be the seventy sixth
anniversary of his wedding day. HIS wife
Nancy has been dead so long that it seems
she must have died a young woman, whereas
she lived to celebrate her golden wedding
and was herself grandmother when she
died at the age of II. The Hubbartt stock is
| long!ived. The father of the centenarian
lived beyond his ninety ninth year, and
regiment could be formed, almost, of MEM
bers of the family who have lived beyond the
seventies. James Hubbartt came to the To-
calitv where he now lives 81 years ago. The
old gentleman was in bed to-day from the eff
fects of bronchitis contracted last week,
He had been sitting by the warm
stove last week, and went out in
the cold air to split wood or take a
walk. In this way bis bronchial weakness
was developed. OF the 10 children born to
James and Mary Hnbbartt, 5 are still living,
and 40 grandchildren, "a t-grandchildren
and / great-great grandchildren are live
Many OF these were present to-day. Father
Eubbartt has been a man of abstemious hab-
its He uses no tobacco in anv shape, and
has no taste for stimulating beverages He
has been lover of milk, aud this for
years has been his principal diet. Ia early
life Mr. Hubbartt settled ia Ohio. In 1910 he
| settled near Lawrenceourg in what was then
Indiana Territory. 1t was while he was
living there tina, the war Of 1912 broke out.
He enlisted as Ranger" A blockhouse
was built for the protection of the settlers
against the Indian allies of the British He
was detailed to scout duty, and was not en-
uaU god N of rho hafflao Of ha Ho
still draws pension of s96 per year for his
services against the cred skins"
The old man looks his age. He looks
like old Father Time. He has command of
his faculties. He has been a great reader,
and up to last week has carefully scanned the
| newspapers. One day last week he threw
the paper aside, saying that he was "tired of
reading aba ut old Hendricks" and there did
not seem TO be much else in that issue. For
years he was totally blind, but surgical op-
GRAFTON restored his eyesight. In politics he
has been anti-democratic. First he was a
Wing, and since the organization of the re-
publican party he has voted the straight tick
ct. He had voted for every President since,
and including James Monroe in 1916. He
has preserved a fac simie of every ticket
that he ever voted, and the collection is of no
little interest and value, seeing that he has
never been known to miss an election,
national, State or county. He has never held
public office. He has been a member of
the Methodist church since the memory of
man runneth not TO the contrary. Among
the relics which he has preserved is a basket
in which his mother, as school girl carried
her dinner in the Revolutionary time;
gourd $50 years old used in We olden times
az a pepper and spice holder; a sun dial,
which answered for a timepiece in his boy
hood days, and many Indian relics. The
old gentleman it was feared would die today
in the excitement of his birthday, but he is
better tonight, and will be able to celebrate
the seventy sixth anniversary of his marriage
to- morrow in fair health.