Charles Williams, Jr.
Thomas A. Watson
Gardiner Greene Hubbard
First President of Bell Telephone
American Bell Telephone · Bell Telephone | Associates: Alexander Graham Bell, Alexander Melville Bell, William Hathaway Forbes, Mabel Gardiner Hubbard, Thomas S. Sanders, James J. Storrow, Theodore Newton Vail, Thomas A. Watson, Charles Williams, Jr., Gertrude Mercer McCurdy, Thomas B. Doolittle
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Gardiner Greene Hubbard (August 25, 1822 – December 11, 1897) was an American lawyer, financier, and community leader. He was a founder and first president of the National Geographic Society; a founder and the first president of the Bell Telephone Company which later evolved into AT&T (at times the world's largest telephone company); a founder of the journal Science; and an advocate of oral speech education for the deaf.
One of his daughters, Mabel Gardiner Hubbard, married Alexander Graham Bell.
Hubbard was born, raised and educated in Boston, Massachusetts, to Samuel Hubbard (June 2… More on Wikipedia →
Timeline events (7)
Bell reveals his work on the harmonic telegraph to Hubbard and Sanders, who agree to fund his efforts
Bell Patent Association formed so Sanders and Hubbard can share in proceeds from Bell's patents
