Family
Thomas Hubbard died in Utica at the age of 75 and was interred in Forest Hill Cemetery. The Hubbard family was prominent in investing and developing of the Hudson River, Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana Railroad lines from mid-1840s through the late 1860s and, in subsequent decades, Hubbard's son, Frederick, served as Superintendent of Construction on various sections of the New York and Erie Railroad bridges, becoming assistant engineer of the Michigan Southern and Michigan Central Railroad. Hubbard's son Bela moved to Detroit, Michigan and became a noted Michigan geologist, naturalist, explorer, writer and civic leader.
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