Chubb, Henry

  • DICTIONARY OF CANADIAN BIOGRAPHY ARTICLE: George L. Parker, “CHUBB, HENRY,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 8, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–. https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/chubb_henry_8E.html
  • DCB profile notes:
    • Printer, militia officer, newspaper publisher, businessman, politician, and justice of the peace; b. 1787 in Saint John, N.B., son of John Chubb and Mary ——; m. 14 July 1816 Jane Lugrin, sister of printer George Kilman Lugrin, and they had three sons and three daughters; d. 20 May 1855 in Saint John.
    • Henry Chubb’s father and mother immigrated to British North America from Philadelphia in 1783. As a loyalist, John Chubb was granted a lot in Parrtown (Saint John) where he worked as a cordwainer and also served in the militia. In 1802 Henry Chubb began his apprenticeship at the offices of Jacob S. Mott, king’s printer and publisher of the Saint John Royal Gazette and New Brunswick Advertiser. After Mott’s death in 1814, Chubb managed the paper for his widow until she had to discontinue publication in 1815. On 2 May 1811 Chubb had begun his own newspaper, the New-Brunswick Courier. 
    • Henry Chubb’s office was the training-ground for a generation of journalists, including the New York publisher Robert Sears and the New Brunswick editors Robert Shives of the Amaranth and James Hogg of the New Brunswick Reporter and Fredericton Advertiser. According to the obituary Hogg published in the Reporter, “Mr. Chubb has long been designated ‘the Father of the Press’by his brotherhood of the craft.” After Chubb’s death, his surviving sons, Thomas and George James, continued the paper with Seeds, who died in 1864. The Courier was discontinued in July 1865 and George remained sole proprietor of the firm’s printing and bookselling operations until the great fire of 1877. In 1825 his father had printed Hogg’s Poems; religious, moral and sentimentaland, in partnership with James Sears, produced Peter Fisher’s Sketches of New-Brunswick. George carried on the tradition of encouraging local literary activity by printing and underwriting George Stewart’s Stewart’s Literary Quarterly Magazine from 1867 to 1872. All the Chubb children died without issue.
  • Son of United Empire Loyalist listed in Loyalist Directory: https://uelac.ca/loyalist-directory/detail/?wpda_search_column_id=1485
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