Imperial Valley press., 1922-07-15
TALENTED MAN
NOW CANDIDATE
FOR PUBLIC OFFICE:
Sketch of the Career of Versa
tile Attorney Whom the Vot-
erS Are to Consider for
important office

A. L. Hubbell, Calexico's can
didate for district attorney, was
born in Michigan, but few
miles from the great modern in
dustrial center, Flint. In his
boyhood his educational ad-
vantages were meager indeed,
as his father was engaged in
the manufacture of timber pro-
ducts, first as q laborer and
after as a mill owner, moving
often from place to place, so
that there were many breaks in
his schooling. From his twelfth
to his fourteenth year he was
unable to attend school at all,
and the next three years he at
tended a district school three
miles from his home, necessi-
tating a six miles walk daily.
At the age of II he entered
the railroad service and work
ed for the larger systems in
both the north and south, as
operator, station agent, ETC.,
and for a time was employed as
yardmaster for the Plant Sys-
TEN, later the A. c. L., in Mont
gomery, Ala. Being ambitious
for an education, he spent his.
spare time in study, and in that
manner covered high school
work and prepared himself for
college. He also took up the
study of law with an early cor
respondence school, and while
still in the railroad service.
working IL to Is hours per day
(there were no limits to the
hours of labor in those days in
that section), ne fitted himself
for the bar examinations, which
he passed successfully, and was
admitted to practice by the su-
preme courts of the states of
Georgia and Michigan. He then
took the entrance examinations
and entered the law department
of the University of Michigan,
from which he graduated with
the degree Of LII. B.
After leaving college he To-
Gated at Kelso, Wash, where he
practiced law until the out
break of the war, being much in
public life, attending Masonic
grand lodge and republican
state conventions as q delegate,
and holding the offices of city
attorney and mayor of his home
city, and district attorney of
his home county, and was for
six years secretary of the board
of education of his home city.
AS district attorney he made
an enviable record, not only as
successful prosecutor but al
so in an economical capacity,
being directly responsible for
action by the county which
caused the timber trusts, which
had been evading a large part
of their taxes for many years,
to assume the burden they had
been evading, and recovering
for the county treasury many
, thousands of dollars which had
been illegally withdrawn or
held out.
In 1917 Mr.. Hubbell disposed
of his library and practice at a
great sacrifice, with the assur-
ance that he would be allowed
to enter the San Francisco
training camp, which he much
desired to do, as his father, two
uncles and grandfather had all
been soldiers in the civil war,
but at the last moment change
in the regulations debarred
him. Later he went to Wash
ington, hoping to enter the SER
vice in some capacity, but was
unable to succeed, and he re-
turned to Los Angeles, where he
worked in a shipyard for a time
until injured in an accident.
Thereupon he responded to Mr..
McAdoo's appeal for railroad
workers and entered into the
railroad service, and as he soon
demonstrated that he could do
almost anything in transporta-
tiOn service. he was sent to