Clarence Hubbell, civil engineer, was born in 1870 and grew up in Benzonia, Michigan. In 1893, he received a degree in civil engineering from the University of Michigan and subsequently worked for the Detroit Water Department. He married Winifred Temperance Waters, also of Benzonia, in 1895.
From 1907 to 1912 the Hubbell family lived in the Philippine Islands, where Clarence Hubbell worked as a water supply and public works engineer. Shortly after the family returned to Michigan, he established his own engineering firm in Detroit. He was a design and construction engineer for the Detroit Sewer System from 1916 to 1922 and served on the Detroit Rapid Transit Commission from 1925 to 1940. He retired in 1946. In 1950, Clarence Hubbell was killed in an automobile accident.
Clarence Hubbell's oldest son, Theodore, was born in 1897 in Detroit. He graduated from Benzonia Academy in 1915. An entomologist, Theodore Hubbell received his PhD in Zoology from the University of Michigan in 1934. He was on the University of Florida faculty from 1923 to 1946 and then came to the University of Michigan where he taught and was director of the Museum of Zoology. He retired in 1968.
From the guide to the Hubbell Family Papers, 1859-1983, (Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan)
