South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-09-30
PAY TRIBUTE To
LATE |. HUBBARD
Memorial Services Are Held at
Court House by Bar
Association.

A memorial service in honor of the
late Judge Lucius Hubbard was held
at $3.50 o'clock in the circuit court
room Judge Walter A. Funk of the
circuit court presided at the meeting
which was attended by large num-
Der OF the members of the St Joseph
County Bar association.
A memorial, adopted by the bar as
ISOLATION was read by Judg Timothy
+. Howard, chairman of the resolu-
tons committee, and was ordered
spread upon the minutes of the court
as a permanent record of the high es-
TEEN in which Judge Hubbard had
been held by the members of the bar.
Following the reading of the memo
rial a talk was given by Judge George
Ford of the superior court. Judge
Ford was followed by Judge Andrew
Anderson, Judge James Gallagher of
the Laporte circuit court, Judge YER
non w. Van Fleet, Samuel Parker,
William Bergan and Judge Walter A.
Funk.
The address OF the morning were
eloquent in tn ,ir appreciation of Judge
Hubbard as a broad minded scholar
and man. The speakers who had
known him intimately, told in detail
of how the one to whom they were
paying tribute had been tireless in his
search for knowledge and how he
came to be classed as one Of the most
learned men who had ever practiced
law in the state of Indiana. 1t was
related too, how he had attained his
hig standing in spite Of i'll health
which had been with HIM through
much of his life time.
Memorial Adopted.
The memorial, which was adopted
to be spread upon the record of the
court covers the facts of Judge Hub
bard's life as they were given in sub
stance by the speakers Of the morning.
A copy of the memorial was also pre-
pared for Judge Hubbard'S son, Ar
thur l. Hubbard. 1t is as follows:
"Lucius Hubbard, long an honored
member of this bar, was born on
Terre COupee prairie. in this county,
Jan. Z, 1914, and lived in the county
during all his life, and dying at his
home in the city of South Bend, Aug.
10, 1915. He received his early educa-
ton in the public schools and after
wards in the Northern Indiana college,
then located in South Bend. and still
later at Hillsdale, college in Michigan.
At Is years of age he became a stu
dent in the university of Notre Dame,
where he completed his literary
and mathematical studies. He was
afterward for many years lecturer and
tAdlllAllCl dllu bCAQNNu VI NAAt AeNN 1NN
dents of the law school at NOtre
Dame. He then entered the law
department of the university of Michi-
gan and graduated there in 1866.
But high as were his attachments as
a student in these several institutions
yet the eminent scholarship of Lucius
Hubbard was due rather to his own
unremitting studies during his whole
life than TO any aid received from the
Il. Id
never wearied of this studiouS toll,
which indeed was to him not an
irksome task but a labor of love. In
this way he took up science after
science and became an adept in en-
tomOlogy, botany, geology. mineralosy,
chemistry, spectrum analysis, astrOn-
omy, and nearly every other natural
science. Nor was he satisfied in these
studies with mere book knowledge.
He erected on his grounds fine as
Economical observatory and also a
chemical laboratory, the only one then
in the city; he searched over the
farms and through the forests and
marshes for new specimens of plant
and insect life; he took a voyage to
northern Europe merely for the pur-
pose of studying the indentations of
the sea on the west coast of Norway
Became World Traveller.
These nature studies made MIN a
hunter and a world traveller. Annually
he gathered about him a few choice
spirits and spent weeks in the PARKWAY
wilds. He was a hunter and a trav-
eler because he was a student, yet,
even more these pursuits of the 81
ences did not fully satisfy him. He
was devoted also to literature, Ian
gua,ges and the arts His last extend
ed journey was TO France that he
might familiarize himself at first hand
with the delicacy and beauty of the
language of that country. 1t is hard
~ necessary to add that his library
was one of the choicest private col
lections in the country. Such was the
devotion of this gifted son of St. Jo-