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  Elbert Hubbard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Elbert Hubbard illustrated in the frontispiece of The Mintage
Hubbard became a popular lecturer, and his homespun philosophy evolved from a loose William Morris-inspired socialism to an ardent defense of free enterprise and American know-how.
Hubbard and entered a room on the top deck, the door of which was open, and closed it behind him.
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 Elbert Hubbard: The Lusitania Resource
Elbert Hubbard, 55, was born in Bloomington, Illinois, United States on 19 June 1859.
Elbert complained that Bertha was boring and that "Great men often marry commonplace women." Bertha retained custody of two of their children.
Hubbard had barely finished speaking when they felt a muffled impact, and "the good ship trembled for a moment under the force of the blow." They turned to see where the sound was coming from and saw a "smoke and cinders flying up in the air on the starboard side." A second explosion soon followed.
web.rmslusitania.info:81 /pages/saloon_class/hubbard_eg.html   (1521 words)

  
 Elbert Hubbard - Biography and Works
Elbert Green Hubbard was born on 19 June, 1856 in Bloomington, Illinois, the son of Francis and Silas Hubbard, a country doctor “whose income never exceeded five hundred dollars a year.” Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard (1911-1986) was a nephew of his.
Hubbard’s second wife Alice Moore (1861-1915) was a noted feminist and suffragist and the community soon attracted conventions of radicals, free-thinkers, and reformers.
Hubbard was an outspoken speaker on matters of reform and free enterprise.
www.online-literature.com /elbert-hubbard   (885 words)

  
 Elbert Hubbard Biography | Dictionary of Literary Biography
From the waning years of the nineteenth century until his death aboard the Lusitania in 1915, publisher Elbert Hubbard exerted a tremendous influence upon his contemporaries as a pundit, thinker, and lecturer.
All but forgotten today except for a few epigrams rarely credited to him, Hubbard is one of those illustrious men of his times whose glory failed to extend beyond the grave.
Elbert Green Hubbard (at age thirty-seven he dropped his middle name) was born in Bloomington, Illinois, on 19 June 1856 to Silas Hubbard, an eccentric country doctor, and Juliana Frances Hubbard.
www.bookrags.com /biography/elbert-hubbard-dlb   (182 words)

  
 The Webpage of the Roycrofters
Hubbard proved to be such a prolific and popular writer that fame and fortune soon followed.
Not only had Elbert written the inspirational pamphlet, A Message to Garcia, with an estimated printing of 40 million copies, but he was also publishing monthly magazines, The Fra and The Philistine.
A Jewel in the Roycroft Crown is the Elbert Hubbard Roycroft Museum in East Aurora.
www.roycrofter.com   (1123 words)

  
 Archived Biography - Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Green Hubbard was born on June 19, 1856, the third child to a country doctor and his wife in Bloomington, Illinois.
Elbert's father was a phrenologist, having studied medicine at Castleton College in Vermont.
Elbert Hubbard founded the Roycroft Press in 1895, and two years later, he began building what was to become the Roycroft Campus.
home.att.net /~shadow-raven/Politics/Bios/Hubbard.htm   (607 words)

  
 The Infidels - Elbert Hubbard
Hubbard edited and published two magazines, "The Philistine" and "The Fra." "The Philistine" was a pioneering little magazine, bound in brown butcher paper and full of satire and whimsy.
Hubbard's second wife, Alice Moore Hubbard, was a noted suffragist, and the Roycroft Shops became a site for meetings and conventions of radicals, freethinkers, reformers and suffragists.
The American writer L. Ron Hubbard was a nephew of Elbert, by the adoption of his father, into the Hubbard family.
www.theinfidels.org /zunb-elberthubbard.htm   (765 words)

  
 The Elbert Hubbard Roycroft Museum
Hubbard took to the open road in England and Ireland and embarked on a walking tour when he met William Morris, who produced stunning Arts and Crafts stylebooks at his Kelmscott Press studio.
On May 7, 1915, Elbert and Alice Hubbard who were traveling to England for a lecture series and speaking engagements were lost at sea when the Germans sunk the Lusitania in the Irish Sea.
Bert Hubbard, Elbert's oldest son assumed leadership for the Roycrofter Movement.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/1759/58853   (452 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: A Message to Garcia: Books: Elbert Hubbard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Hubbard's inspiration for his "preachment" was an obscure but important event in the 1898 Spanish-American War.
Hubbard's lessons of initiative (doing the right thing without being told) and loyalty to yourself, your boss, and your organization (doing the right thing when told only once) are timeless and well told.
Hubbard spoke to all leaders and subordinates when he wrote, "It is not book-learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies: do the thing -- "Carry a message to Garcia.""
www.amazon.ca /Message-Garcia-Elbert-Hubbard/dp/1417911034   (1257 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Elbert Hubbard (American Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Elbert Hubbard 1856–1915, American author and publisher, b.
An ardent believer in rugged individualism, Hubbard edited the inspirational Philistine magazine and was the author of the essay "A Message to Garcia" (1899), a lesson in duty and efficiency based on an incident in the Spanish-American War.
Hubbard died on the Lusitania, which was sunk in the Irish Sea by a German submarine on May 7, 1915.
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 Elbert Hubbard
THINGS TO DO Elbert Hubbard was born in 1856 in Bloomington, Illinois.
Hubbard edited the Roycrofter's monthly, "The Philistine, in which appeared his famous article "A Message to Garcia" in 1899, which embodied his ideas on a community of workers.
Editor's note: In the spirit of political correctness, and since we are reading quotes from a person who wrote in the late 1800's and early 1900's, in many cases you may wish to substitute the word person for man.
www.newenglandexplorer.com /hubbard.htm   (488 words)

  
 Elbert Hubbard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Secretly Hubbard had written a novel and the prospect of a literary career fascinated him.
Hubbard began his intellectual quest by enrolling at Harvard, but he resigned after being told that he lacked the basic requirements to achieve a degree in letters.
From 1905 to 1915, Elbert Hubbard was the most sought after lecturer in the United States.
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 "A Message to García": Elbert Hubbard's Paean to Perseverance
Another legend born during the war was Elbert Hubbard’s short story “A Message to García.” Published as a book in 1898, 40 million copies had been printed by 1913.
Hubbard’s story described the activities of U.S. Army Lieutenant Andrew S. Rowan, dispatched on a secret mission to Cuban General Calixto García to arrange for military cooperation between Cuban and American armies.
Hubbard’s mythmaking distorted the story of the war by erasing the contribution of the Cubans from the history of their own war for independence.
historymatters.gmu.edu /d/5577   (1376 words)

  
 Elbert Hubbard
Hubbard was a successful soap salesman for J. Larkin and Co. in Buffalo, NY.
Hubbard and his wife were lost in the Irish Sea with the Lusitania May 7, 1915.
This literary trifle, A Message to Garcia, was written one evening after supper, in a single hour.
www.charleswelty.com /authors/hubbard.htm   (2014 words)

  
 Elbert Hubbard - bibliography
(This was Hubbard's "life" of John Brown; the Library of Congress has it catalogued as fiction).
Elbert Hubbard of East Aurora by Felix Shay, Wm.
A thoughtful biography and analysis of Hubbard, the Roycrofters, and their world.
www.bigeye.com /ehbiblio.htm   (273 words)

  
 Elbert Hubbard of East Aurora
HUBBARD, Elbert; editor, The Fra and Philistine Magazine; President of the Corporation known as the Roycrofters; b.
Go shrive thyself, and with soul all in tune to the harmonies of the Universe listen to the waves and they shall tell thee the secrets of life.
It is amazing that these Hubbard writings are nearly a century old!
www.bigeye.com /elberth.htm   (1169 words)

  
 Elbert Hubbard - Philosopedia
You just believe, and the more you believe the more do you plume yourself that fear and faith are superior to science and seeing.
Hubbard wrote The Philosophy of Elbert Hubbard (1916).
He and his wife were drowned on the Lusitania, which was sunk in 1915 by a German submarine in the Irish Sea.
philosopedia.org /index.php?title=Elbert_Hubbard   (314 words)

  
 Arts and Crafts Movement - Elbert Hubbard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
After meeting William Morris, and visiting Morris' Kelmscott Press in 1894, Elbert Hubbard returned home to establish the Roycroft Press at East Aurora, NY in 1895.
The culmination of Hubbard's efforts several years later included the construction of a medieval manor, complete with a workers community.
Although Hubbard and his wife died with the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915, the Roycroft establishment continued successfully for number of years thereafter.
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 Elbert Hubbard ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
George Elbert Burr, Dawn in the Land of the Buttes, 19th - 20th century
The diorama is, like its relative the panorama, an eighteenth-century innovation, a pre-cinematic form of entertainment and education intended to provide views of significant places and events.
Elbert Hubbard biography pictures portrait books online forum
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 Elbert Hubbard Quotes
ELBERT HUBBARD, Philistine: A Periodical of Protest, 1905
No man needs a vacation so much as a man who has just had one.
College football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.
www.notable-quotes.com /h/hubbard_elbert.html   (93 words)

  
 TitanicBookSite.com: Elbert Hubbard
In his grief, it can perhaps be forgiven that he abandons all objectivity and lauds upon the passengers of the first cabin all the nobility, bravery and fortitude that the high and the mighty of the time thought they possessed.
Hubbard’s was one of the many lives lost when the Lusitania was sunk by a German u-boat in 1914.
The Titanic related item is called “Parable of a Survivor” in which Hubbard recounts the story of a man he met who was rescued by the Carpathia.
titanicbooksite.com /hubbardelbert.html   (407 words)

  
 A Message To Garcia by Elbert Hubbard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Elbert Hubbard was a renouned philosopher, author, editor and
At dinner, Hubbard's son, Bert, claimed that the true hero of the Spanish-American war was Rowan -- a messenger who braved death by carrying a note behind the lines to Garcia, the leader of the insurgents.
The essay originally ran in Hubbard's magazine, The Philistine, in February, 1899.
hermstrom.tripod.com /garcia.html   (1734 words)

  
 Elbert Hubbard and the Roycroft Print Shop
Elbert Hubbard believed that life was expression, and that stagnation was death.
Hubbard recognized his talent, and Denslow was a regular visitor -- often staying a month or more -- in East Aurora for the next several years.
They became friends and some speculate that Hubbard influenced Wright to wear long ties and unusual clothes and suggest that Wright's Taliesin East was influenced by East Aurora, as were Wright's views on mechanization.
www.hricik.com /Roycroft/roycroftlinks.html   (1779 words)

  
 Amazon.com: A Message to Garcia: Books: Elbert Hubbard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The message of Hubbard's commentary on Col. Rowan's mission is not to do what you are told without question, but to think for yourself.
Although Hubbard's main point is absolutely correct regarding the value of initiative from subordinates, he goes too far demanding honest and hard work for a boss, no matter what is the behaviour of the latter or the rewards!
Hubbard has a few points to make and doesn't waste time making them.
www.amazon.com /Message-Garcia-Elbert-Hubbard/dp/0880884347   (1733 words)

  
 Elbert Hubbard Summary
Elbert Green Hubbard(June 19, 1856 – May 7, 1915) was an American philosopher and writer.
He was born in Bloomington, Illinois and founded Roycroft, an Arts and Crafts movement community...
Elbert Hubbard: Elbert Green Hubbard, American philosopher and writer
www.bookrags.com /Elbert_Hubbard   (232 words)

  
 HUBBARD, Elbert Green [1856-1915] -- American writer, editor and printer
Elbert Hubbard, of East Aurora, New York was a philosopher, soap salesman, entrepreneur, vaudville performer, bohemian, bigamist, horseman, humorist, printer, novelist, moralist, farmer, egotist, liar, plagiarist, avid supporter of big business, avid defender of individual rights, anti-intellectual, supporter of the arts, male chauvinist, pro-feminist, and college drop-out.
Elbert Hubbard of East Aurora The English Who's Who for 1913 offers
Elbert Hubbard on Work a few of his thoughts on the work ethic [archive]
freepages.history.rootsweb.com /~dav4is/people/HUBB1511.htm   (525 words)

  
 The Elbert Hubbard Roycroft Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The first Elbert Hubbard Museum was located in one large room in the East Aurora Village hall.
In 1985, Gladys ScheideMantel, at the age of 100 years, donated her house, a craftsman bungalow, to the Aurora Historical society.
The Hubbard Museum combined its acquisitions with the Roycroft collection of George and Gladys ScheideMantel, in the house they had built (1910) by Roycroft Craftsman.
www.roycrofter.com /museum.htm   (399 words)

  
 Elbert Hubbard Quotes
59 Quotes for 'Elbert Hubbard' in the Database.
It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
All Quotes are provided for educational purposes only and contributed by users.
www.worldofquotes.com /author/Elbert-Hubbard/1/index.html   (858 words)

  
 Elbert, Hubbard on LibraryThing | Catalog your books online
Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) Photo by Zaida Ben-Yusuf, ca.
Also known as: Fra (pseud.) Elbertus, Elbert Hubbard, Fra Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Hubbard's scrap book, containing the inspired and ins… 16 copies
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