Walter D. Hubbard was born on October 3, 1840, in Kentucky to John Harrison Hubbard and Sarah A. Brooks. By 1860, the family was living in Jackson, Missouri.

 

He remained loyal to the Union during the Civil War. He enlisted as a private in Company B of the 6^th Missouri Militia Cavalry on March 1, 1862, and he eventually earned a promotion to 1^st lieutenant. He became a 1^st lieutenant in the 13^th Missouri Cavalry on September 6, 1864, and he was promoted to captain on February 27, 1865. He mustered out on June 1, 1866.

 

Hubbard married Emily Powell on July 3, 1866, and they had at least two children: Charles, born around 1867; and Walter, born around 1869. The family lived in Springfield, Missouri, and he earned a living as a lawyer. He applied for a federal pension on February 1, 1897, and eventually secured one. His wife was eventually admitted to an “insane asylum,” and by 1900, he was living in his son Charles’s household in Springfield. By the early 1900s, he was suffering from nephritis, and he was admitted to the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Leavenworth, Kansas, in 1909. He died of heart disease in Springfield on April 8, 1912.

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