Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-09-23
n otabIe Golden Wedding.

"In their own home at South Dennis,
Mass, was celebrated, Aug. 2S, the fifth
eth anniversary of the marriage of Cal
win Butler Hubert and Mary Elizabeth
Woodward, which occurred at Sandwich
Center, n. H., in 1854" says the Boston
Congregationalist. 1.-THE special feature
of the occasion was the reading of
letters from large number of old friends
now widely scattered. a family gather
ing was impracticable, owing to the
great distances to be traversed by the
three sons and the three daughters.
Prof. Homer b. Hubert. f. r. G.. S., is
in the midst of educational work under
the Imperial Government at Seoul,
Korea; Mrs. Gertrude Wylie is just
entering upon a position at Whitman
college, Walla Walla, Wa; Mrs. Anne
Wheelock Boehne resides at Laramie,
Wyo.; Mrs Mary E. Rogers is the wife
of a Presbyterian pastor at Bowling
Green, O.; Archer Butler Hubert, re-
siding at Marietta, o., is the author,
a
on Historic Highways in America; Rev.
Henry w. Hubert, d. D., is professor of
church history in Bangor Theological
seminary.
"There are eleven living grandchild-
rem. The only deaths in the immediate
con nection have been those of the SON
in-law, Rev. Edgar b. Wyhe of Chicago,
and three little grandchildren. In the
presidency of Middlebury college. Yer
mont, and III his pastolates in Vermont,
New Jersey and Ohio, DR.. Hubert. ably
seconded by his wife, has touched a
multitude of lives. \ host of friends
have taken this occasion to send con-
gratuatory messages"
Calvin Butler Hubert was born at
| East Sheldon, October IS, LEI. and pre-
pared for college at Bakersfield and
| Thetford academies. He was graduated
from Dartmouth college in 1853, cele-
| brating the tiftieth year of graduation in
/ 1903 He taught for three years in
/ Swanton and st. Adams before taking
up his theological studies at Andover,
where he was graduated in 1859 On
October 20 of the same year he was
ordained and installed pastor of the Con-
gregational church in New Haven,
where ne did a most far-reaching work
through the numerous young people
who came under his influence, and who
are now scattered to the ends of the
earth i'm active and effective service in
all calhng,. At tiis time DR.. Hubert
Yves elected a member of the board of
trustee. of Niddleburv college and was
active in that relation for many years,
coming in 1910 to the presidency of the
institution i'll the days of her greatest
trial. But before this he was pastor of
the Beleville Avenue Congregational
I church in Newark y. j., and. later,
pastor of the Congregational church at
Bennington, where, under his leader
ship. the present commodious church
auditorium was constructed and an
important work done
Since leaving Niddlebury in 1850 DR..
Hubert has been constantly at work in
pulpit and class room rendering many
and varied forms of service in Vermont
/ Gyndonvile and East Hardwick) and in
Ohio GAINESVILLE, Marietta, Adams Mills,
Rome closing a tive-year pastorate at
the latter place in 1903. He is now a
hale and hearty man nearing his seventy
seventh anniversary.
Mrs. Hubert MARY Elizabeth Wood
ward) was born of missionary parents
at the Ceylon mission of the American
board and came to this country at six
years of age, living at Sandwich, n. H
in the home of her uncle, Judge Emer-
son. She studied at Thetford academy
and taught several years before her
marriage in 1853. In connection with
many family cares she has had full
share in the labors and successes of her
husband, being greatly beloved by a
large circle in every place where they
/ have resided.
They now live in their own home in
South Dennis, Mass, interested as ever
in the affairs Of church and education,
rejoicing in the work of their children
and of the many others whose lives have
been strongly effected for good by their