Elbert Hubbard

Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Hubbard
Born	Elbert Green Hubbard (1856-06-19)June 19, 1856 Bloomington, Illinois, U.S.
Died	May 7, 1915(1915-05-07) (aged 58) RMS Lusitania, Atlantic Ocean, off the Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland
Occupation(s)	Writer, publisher, artist, philosopher
Spouses	Bertha Crawford Hubbard (divorced) Alice Moore Hubbard (1904–1915, their death)
Children	5

Elbert Green Hubbard (June 19, 1856 – May 7, 1915) was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. Raised in Hudson, Illinois, he had early success as a traveling salesman for the Larkin Soap Company. Hubbard is known best as the founder of the Roycroft artisan community in East Aurora, New York, an influential exponent of the Arts and Crafts movement.

Among Hubbard's many publications were the fourteen-volume work Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great and the short publication A Message to Garcia. He and his second wife, Alice Moore Hubbard, died aboard the RMS Lusitania when it was sunk by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland on May 7, 1915.