Thomas Jefferson Hubbard - Early Life

Early Life

Thomas Hubbard was born in Kinderhook, New York, in 1806. By 1834 he had left New York and joined Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth’s expedition to Oregon Country where Wyeth attempted to set up a fur trading network.

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