CENTRE LINES

The Hubler Family

This column is part of a feature series which focuses on a different Centre County family each week. Five new columns will be released each month unless some technical difficulty enters the picture.

This column's focus is on Hubler. An effort has been made to identify all persons carrying that name in the 1890 U.S. Census, using the Centre County business directory which was formed from a preliminary review of that census before the larger set of 1890 U.S. Census records was destroyed by fire. (Sadly, the postal directory does not typically provide the ages of females, but it's the best record we've got).

There are no books in the Pennsylvania Room of the Centre County Library in Bellefonte that apparently deal in part with the Hubler family.

There are 19 different first-name entries for Hubler in John Blair Linn's History of Centre and Clinton County (1883). In addition, there are references to the name in Beers' Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania (1898).

And, now, your ancestors' HUBLER neighbors in 1890:

In FERGUSON Township:

James M., 59, blacksmith--State College Sarah Jefferson D. 29 Ida C. James M. 15 Juniata John W. 9

In MILES Township:

Ada E.--Rebersburg George M., 51, farmer--Rebersburg Maggie E. Frank A. 23 William F. 20 Annie H. Annie Philip J., 48, farmer--Rebersburg Ellen John H. 10 Thomas C. 6 Elmer E. 4

In PENN Township:

William C., 48, laborer--Millheim Mary M.

In RUSH Township:

Walter, 52--Sandy Ridge

In WALKER Township:

Margaret R., 28--Hublersburg Maria M.