1. Elbert Green Hubbard was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher.
22 Facts About Elbert Hubbard
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Elbert Hubbard was born in Bloomington, Illinois, to Silas Elbert Hubbard and Juliana Frances Read on June 19,1856.
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Charlie died at the age of nine, when Elbert Hubbard was three-and-a-half years old.
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Elbert Hubbard had three younger sisters who were named Mary, Anna Miranda, and Honor.
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The Elbert Hubbard children attended the local public school, a small building with two rooms that overlooked a graveyard.
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Elbert Hubbard's second wife, Alice Moore Elbert Hubbard, was a graduate of the New Thought-oriented Emerson College of Oratory in Boston and a noted suffragist.
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Elbert 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.
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Elbert Hubbard was mocked in the Socialist press for "selling out".
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Elbert Hubbard replied that he had not given up any ideal of his, but had simply lost faith in Socialism as a means of realizing them.
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In 1908, Elbert Hubbard was the main speaker at the annual meeting of The Society in Dedham for Apprehending Horse Thieves.
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Elbert Hubbard had learned about Flying Hawk during 1915 from Major Israel McCreight.
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Elbert Hubbard subsequently wrote of the disaster, singling out the story of Ida Straus, who as a woman was supposed to be placed on a lifeboat in precedence to the men, but refused to board the boat, and leave her husband.
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At the beginning of World War I, Elbert Hubbard published a great deal of related commentary in The Philistine and became anxious to cross the ocean, report on the war and interview the Kaiser himself.
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However, Hubbard had pleaded guilty on January 11,1913, in the court of US District Court Judge John R Hazel for violating Section 211 of the penal code.
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Elbert Hubbard was convicted on one count of circulating "objectionable" matter in violation of the postal laws.
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Elbert Hubbard requested a presidential pardon from William Howard Taft, but the administration discarded the request as "premature".
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When his application for a passport was denied in 1915, Hubbard went directly to the White House and pleaded with Woodrow Wilson's personal secretary, Joseph P Tumulty.
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On receiving his pardon, Elbert Hubbard obtained a passport and, on May 1,1915, left with his wife on a voyage to Europe.
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Elbert Hubbard's end seems to have followed the pattern he had admired in Mrs Straus.
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Elbert Hubbard simply turned with Mrs 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 believed in social, economic, domestic, political, mental and spiritual freedom.
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Elbert Hubbard wrote a critique of war, law and government in the booklet Jesus Was An Anarchist.