Hunt, Herbert and Floyd C. Kaylor. Washington: West of the Cascades. Vol. II. Chicago: S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1917. p. 613-615. F. B. HUBBARD: Emerson said, "An institution is but the lengthened shadow of a man." If the Eastern Railway and Lumber Company be the measurement of F. B. Hubbard, its president and promoter, it is easy to judge of his qualities, many of which bear the stamp of greatness. While he has conducted his interests in the attainment of success, he has at all times been guided by ideal principles concerning the relation of employer and employee, and the business of which he is still president, is the expression in large measure of an idealism that is most commendable in that respect. Mr. Hubbard has now reached the Psalmist's span of life of three score and ten, yet in appearance, in spirit and in interests seems many years younger. He was born in New York and from early manhood has been connected with important industrial or corporate enterprises. In his youthful days he became an employee of the Michigan Central Railway, making his home at that period in Kalamazoo, Michigan. On severing his connection with that company he became superintendent of telephone and telegraph construction for the Northern Pacific, with headquarters in St. Paul. Business interests brought him frequently to the west and he became impressed with the wonderful opportunities for the development of the lumber industry in southwestern Washington, leading eventually to the resignation of his position with the Northern Pacific and his removal to this state in 1901. He was first identified with the McCormick Lumber Company of McCormick, Washington, and afterward organized the Rock Creek Lumber Company of Walville, this state, where he developed one of the largest cross arm manufactories of Washington. Subsequently he became connected with the organization and successful development of the Doty Lumber Company and in 1903 he became the moving spirit in the organization of the Eastern Railway and Lumber Company, in which he was associated with several other practical and substantial business men. On the organization and incorporation in that year he was elected to the presidency, which he has held up to the present time, with D. F. Davies as vice president; George Dysart, secretary; C. S. Gilchrist as treasurer; and William Brown as manager. Mr. Brown remained in that position until 1907, when he retired. Reid F. Hubbard is secretary and treasurer, and since her husband's death in 1915, Mrs. D. F. Davies has been the vice president. The company secured what was known as the old Ballard mill, with a capacity of fifty thousand feet of lumber. They built a planing mill and from time to time have erected other buildings that constitute today the largest industrial plant of Centralia. The new sawmill has a capacity of one hundred and seventy-five thousand. The equipment is thoroughly modern, the cross arm factory being prepared to fill any order, no matter what size. They employ two hundred and twenty-five men, having a monthly pay roll in excess of twenty-five thousand dollars, a fact which contributes materially to the prosperity of the city. The company owns its own logging camps twelve miles east of Centralia and has fifteen miles of standard gauge railroad equipped with geared engines. The mill is located on the main line of the Northern Pacific, Great Northern and Oregon and Washington Railway and Navigation Companies, giving unequaled transportation facilities for the products of the company because of the excellence of the finished article and the energetic sales methods employed. From the cross arms department shipments are sent to every state in the Union. Mr. Hubbard has remained from the beginning the guiding spirit of the business and has justly earned the title "captain of industry." Moreover, as stated in the beginning, his business methods are characterized by high ideals and humanitarianism forms one of the features of this great industrial enterprise. He has ever endeavored through times of prosperity and adversity to keep the mill in operation to the full extent that employees may be kept at work. Mr. Hubbard has never regarded his workmen as part of a great machine but as individuals with human interests, ambitions, needs and possibilities. It is said that he regards his men with almost a paternal solicitude and recognizes no class distinction. He has himself worked his way upward from the ranks and his success should be an inspiration and source of encouragement to others. He is connected with interests of a semi-public character, having been active in the organization of the Southwest Washington Fair Association, which has done much to stimulate an interest in the development of this region, and he has served as president since its organization. Important and extensive as are his business interests, however, it is but one phase of his activity. He is a most charitable man, giving generously of his means wherever aid is needed. Mr. Hubbard is united in marriage to Miss Mina Tuttle, a native of Indiana, and they became the parents of two children: Charles, who died at the age of sixteen years; and Mrs. F. A. Martin, of Centralia. In his political views Mr. Hubbard has long been a republican, active in the work of the party. He is also a loyal exemplar of the Masonic fraternity and his qualities of manhood and citizenship place him in the front rank of Centralia's honored residents. Hubbard Davies Dysart Gilchrist Brown Tuttle Martin = NY>MI>Lewis-WA