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 i Intelligence reached Woodstock ! Saturday evening of the death in Hart ] ford of Rev. A. c. Hubbard, who was ! the beloved pastor of tne Woodstock . church for nearly a decade. A man ot mental and spiritual power, he ieit l his impress on the community during his nine years pasf0r1te, leaving his work when forced by increasing weak ness to do 50. To him death brought welcome release to tired and worn mind and body, he awaits his lovea ones in the land where life has no i limitations. His family made a warm ! place for themselves in the hearts of i Woodstock people and they are re- memhered with tender sympathy by their many friends. The following obituary notice is taken from the Hart l ford Courant.
 1 Rev. Augustine George Hubbard, | who had made his home for several years with his son Merrill al .Torring- l lon, died al a sanitarium in Hartford ] Saturday morning of complications in- l eident 10 advanced age. He was boTn l in Mansfield. July 20, 1888, son of l Eliphaz Bolles and Almira Stanley I Hubbard. In early life he WAS a I school teacher in the West but through the efforts of an influential friend his I attention and efforts were early turned to the ministry. lie held pastorstes st l Galesburg, Dundee, and Wheaton, Ills, at Stanton, Mich, and Hannibal and Carthage, Mo. In lsss he came 1 from the West to the old church at 1 Goshen in thus state, where he re- mained till ls96; going from there to 1 Woodstock Hill, retiring from the lat ter church i'll 1905 on account of de- l elining health. While at Goshen he was ultimately associated with the schools and other public works ef ,the i town and became prominent in the l Congregational church work of ldtcl- 1 field County. \ history of Goshen was prepared by him and was publish. ed by the Case, Lockwood X Brainard 1 Company. While at Woodstock he prepared the genealogy of the Hubbard i family, and took an active part ill revising the town library, and in the work of the Woodstock schools and 1 the academy.
 | He was thrice married. His first 1 wife was Caroline Lincoln of South | Coventry who died of consumption a ! few weeks after the marriage. He married his second wife, Laura Ellen l Parker, at Woodstock, Ills. She died | in 1887 at Carthage, Mo. There were | four children by the second marriage, three dying in infancy. 6 The surviving child is Charles Merrill with whom | he lived. In 1888 he married, at 1 Windsor, Mo-, Julia Kendall Sanborn, who with two daughters by former marriage, Faith and Ruby Sanborn, survive him.
 l He was a much beloved pastor and friend and will be sincerely monrned l by a host of friends and former par | ishioners.
 l The funeral was held at the Congre- gational church, Torrington, Monday
 afternoon at 3 o'clock. The burial will
 he in Carthage, Mo.
 Dr. William Howard Doane, the
 eminent musical composer of Cincin-
 nati, who many years ago was stu
 dent at Woodstock Academy, has ar | rived al Echo Lodge, his beautiful
 summer home at Watch Hill. Dr
 Doane is & years old, but his eye is
 not dim nor his natural strength
 abated. He is one of the pioneer cot
 tagers of Watch Hill, voting in Wes'
 terly.
 The sermon of Rev. c. F. Waters Sunday morning was characteristic
 one and as the scenes of army life 1T
 the sixties were depicted, his words
 carried weight with them, they beins
 the expression of actual experience O
 his own. Soldiers graves were de
 corated at 2 o'clock, and appropriate
 exercises were held in the cemetery. E. NJ. Child from Worcester and his
 friend, Fred Condy, spent Memorial
 day at Valleyside.
 William Gallup has entertained 2
 friend the rast week.
 Henry Linderman spent Sunday ir
 Woodstock.
 The Hamilton Holt family are al
 their summer home.
 The Woodstock friends of Cassins l Child of Rolendsville, Maryland
 sympathize with him in the death ol 1 his eleven year old son from diabetis.
 Charles Bowen with daughter and friend, also, Miss Sara Bowen were in 1 town Memorial day.
 Senexet patrons attended Neighbour | Night exercises al Dudley last week,
 presenting a drama as their part Of
 program.
 Miss Mabel Cochran spent Sunday with Miss Mildred Brown. 1 Alex Hibbard is now in Idaho ieon- l nected with a k. k. camp. I