Haven Hubbard Home

Haven Hubbard's grandfather was Jonathon Hubbard, who settled 320 acres (130 ha) of Terre Coupee prairie roughly 3 miles (4.8 km) to the north-east of New Carlisle, Indiana that he had bought in 1836 from a Samuel Harwood.^[3][4] He built the family homestead there, and with his son Ransom Hubbard enlarged it to roughly 704 acres (285 ha).^[3][5] Both Jonathon and Ransom had come from Oneida County, New York, where Ransom had been born in 1817.^[4][5] Jonathon platted the town of "Hubbard Town" on the prairie, originally going to be named Terre Coupee town, which was later renamed the village of Hamilton.^[3][4]

Ransom's son Haven, by his wife Mary (née Mary Davis), was born on 1853-12-04; with Jonathon then dying in 1861.^[3][5] Haven was educated at Notre Dame University and the University of Michigan and married Arminia Hoffman in 1909, who inherited the estate from him in 1916.^[3][5] Arminia had come to the United States from Leipzig in 1891, where she had been born on 1865-05-09.^[5] In 1920, finally furthering her late husband's wish during his lifetime to minister to the elderly, Arminia Hubbard deeded the farm to a local church, which built the Haven Hubbard Memorial Old People's Home in 1922 and formally dedicated it on 1923-05-05.^[6]

The Old People's Home remained a working farm, with residents encouraged to help with tending to crops, and comprised a chapel on the second floor, to be later remodelled in 1950 and named the Arminia Hubbard Memorial Chapel, administrative offices, sun parlours, a dining hall, guest rooms, and open-air verandahs.^[7]

Haven's elder brother was Lucius, born in 1844 and educated in the same places as Haven, who married a Martha Davis and in turn had a son Arthur Lucius Hubbard, who was to become a prominent banker and attorney in nearby South Bend, Indiana, forming a law partnership with Samuel Pettengill.^[4][8][9]