Nathaniel M. Hubbard

Nathaniel M. Hubbard (1829-1902) was an American lawyer. Early life Hubbard graduated from Alfred University in 1853 and studied law in Hornellsville, New York. He served as Captain and mustered a company in the Twentieth Iowa Regiment during the Civil War. Career He began his practice of law in Marion, Iowa in 1854 after arriving from New York. Hubbard was a trial lawyer known for his sarcasm. His first reported case was on behalf of State of Iowa, for whom he prosecuted an alleged bootlegger in 1857. Later, Hubbard represented the City of Cedar Rapids in its annexation of the City of Kingston which at the time lay on the southwest side of the Cedar River.