Surnames: Hubbs, McFee, Titus, Adamson
J Allen Hubbs, MD of Bridgeport is a gentleman in the fullest sense and the word as used in connection with his name is not merely an idle term of complaisance but one definitive of the man and of his character and life.He is the son of William G Hubbs and Elizabeth McFee Hubbs. His father was a native of Baltimore, Maryland, born in 1811 and in 1818 he came with his father, Charles Hubbs, to Mt Pleasant, Westmoreland county, Penna.
Charles Hubbs, MD, was a native of New Jersey born in 1767. He practiced medicine at Mt Pleasant from the time he moved there till his death in 1847. William G Hubbs read medicine with his father, practiced his profession at Fayette City from 1830 to 1867 and had a large and successful practice. In 1867 he removed to Bridgeport and practiced medicine till April 6, 1881, when he died at the age of seventy years. Since 1850 he had practiced the physio-medical system. He was a member of the Christian church.
The mother of the subject of this sketch was a native of Freeport, now Fayette City, and was born in 1818. She died at her home in Bridgeport in 1881 at the age of sixty three years.
J Allen Hubbs was born in Fayette City, Fayette county, Penna, February 13, 1840. He commenced reading medicine with his father when he was sixteen years of age, graduated at the Physio Medical College of Cincinnati, Ohio, in the winter of 1857, and at the Physio Medical Institute of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1860. This institute is now located at Chicago, Illinois. In 1860 he commenced practice in Fairview, Greene county, Penna, where he continued till 1867 when he came to Bridgeport and with his brother, M G Hubbs, engaged in the drug business, the firm being Dr J Allen Hubbs & Co. He continued successfully at this until the death of his father, when he commenced the practice of medicine again, and has followed it ever since. He is a general practitioner but gives special attention to the treatment of diseases of the stomach and liver, also dropsy and female weakness in which he has been very successful. He is a member of the American Associaton of Physio Medical Physicians and Surgeons.
Dr Hubbs was married in 1861 to Miss Sarah J Titus, daughter of Eli Titus of Greene county, Penna. She died in 1880 leaving one child, Cherrie T Hubbs, now twelve years old. He married the second time Miss Maggie A Adamson of Greene county, daughter of Thomas Adamson, a farmer of that county. By this marriage he has no children living. The second wife died May 21, 1889.
Dr Hubbs cast his first vote for Abraham Lincoln and his last presidential vote for President Harrison.