• I don't know if you know this but Samuel had a son named Jay Abel and was D.A. for the upper peninsula of Michigan. He was also a state and U.S. congressman. A co-founder of Michigan College of Mining and Technology in Houghton. They named a town after him.3008

• Hubbell, Jay Abel, a Representative from Michigan; born in Avon, Mich., September 15, 1829; attended the district schools; was graduated from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1853; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1855; moved to Ontonagon, Mich., in November 1855 and engaged in the practice of law; elected district attorney of the Upper Peninsula in 1857 and 1859; moved to Houghton, Mich., in February 1860 and continued the practice of law until 1870; prosecuting attorney of Houghton County 1861-1867; identified with the development of the mineral interests of the Upper Peninsula; appointed by the Governor of Michigan in 1876, State commissioner to the Centennial Exhibition and collected and prepared the State exhibit of minerals; elected as a Republican to the Forty-third and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1883); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Interior (Forty-seventh Congress); member of the State senate 1885-1887; served as circuit judge of the twelfth judicial circuit from January 1, 1894, to December 31, 1899, when he resigned; died in Houghton, Mich., October 13, 1900; interment in Forest Hill Cemetery.3011

• His parents were Samuel and his second wife, Nancy Clark.3078

• [excerpts] The bearer of the above now most conspicuous name is a native of the State of Michigan, born at Avon, September 15, 1829. He was graduated at the State University in Ann Arbor in 1853, and two years afterwards was admitted to the bar. After this he removed to Ontonagon, Mich., in the month of November, 1855, and was elected a district attorney in the Upper Peninsula of the State in 1857 and 1858. In February, 1860, he removed to Houghton, Mich., and was elected district attorney at Houghton county in 1860, 1863 and 1865. He spent the next five years of his life as a practicing lawyer, and as such assisted considerably in the development of the mining interests of the Upper Peninsula. Mainly as a result of the influence he acquired in this way, he was elected a member of the Forty-third Congress, and has represented the same district ever since.
In an evil hour Mr. Hubbell published a book, himself the reputed author. Its substance, aim and object were the glorification of the Hubbell family, of which he himself a most distinguished member. According to this precious piece of genealogy, the founder of the family was a Bedouin. Who so apt to collect assessments effectually as he? At an early date the family emigrated to Norway, when and where enforced assessments were continually in order. The removal of the Hubbell’s to France and subsequently to the United States furnish excellent material upon which the caricaturist can exercise his fancy. A Hubbell at the court of Louis XIV would certainly have made assessments from his colleagues there, and frontier life in America gave representatives of the same stock opportunities of assessing from miserable Indians and travelers why the stage in unsettled regions; but at the head and front of all the Hubbell assessors stands the great political assessment man of 1882.8368

• 1830 Census: Oakland County, Michigan. 200001/01101.3061
• 1870 Census: Portage Twp., Houghton County, MI. Age 40, lawyer; $17,000, $69,000; b MI.3060