Cyrus Hayden Hubbard was the son of Eliza Ann Robinson, the sister of Nancy
Robinson Miller.
Cyrus grew up in Ohio, where his father, Henry Hubbard, worked as a tin-ware
manufacturer. He was in business with his father when the Civil War began. Cyrus enlisted, and served in the 23rd Ohio
Volunteer Infantry under R.B. Hayes. During the War, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war for 30 days. He managed
to escape, hiding in the wilderness and surviving on wild berries; he was mustered out in August, 1865. Some letters he wrote
during this period to his sister Harriet Celestia and to his father still survive today.
After the Civil War, Cyrus came to Sacramento to live near his Miller relatives.
He was manager of Baker and Hamilton, a large business which manufactured and sold farm equipment. Hubbard was elected
Mayor of Sacramento in 1896-97.
Cyrus' first wife was Pauline Smith; they married on February 3, 1869. She died
very young, after only three years of marriage. Cyrus married for the second time, Mary Blanche Cushman, December 24, 1876.
Cyrus and Blanche, as she was known, had two children together: Muriel Hubbard,
who married Alfred Michel Fournier; and Hazel Hubbard, who married Frederick Gilbert King.
In 1889, a portrait of Blanche was painted by artist Mary Curtis Richardson.
The painting was donated to the Crocker Museum by Blanche's son-in-law Frederick G. King, and granddaughter Elizabeth King.
