Isaac Hubley Sr (1838 - 1917)

Born 14 Feb 1838 in St Margaret's Bay, Halifax County, Nova Scotia, Canada

Ancestors

Husband of Tatiana Vasilievna (Nekrasov) Hubley — married about 8 Oct 1869 in Afognak, Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska Territory

Descendants

Died 27 Mar 1917 at age 79 in Unga, Aleutians East Borough, Alaska Territory

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Biography

Isaac was born in 1838, near St Margaret's Bay in Nova Scota.. He was the son of James Hubley and Eleanor Boutilier. Isaac served in the Civil War in America with the North Carolina Blocking Squadron in Virginia and was stationed on the USS Shohokon. Most of his life Isaac was a seaman - he had two tattoos; on his right arm an English Coat of Arms with the words "don't give up the ship" and on his left arm the image of a crucifix and a Goddess of Liberty. In 1868, Isaac arrived in Alaska as a crewman on the sailing ship Torrent; it carried Battery F of the US Army, and its mission was to build a fort on the Kenai Peninsula. Before the ship reached its destination it went aground on a reef near English Bay. The entire crew and passengers were rescued by the ship Fideliter and taken to Kodiak. Isaac did not return south, but stayed in Alaska hunting sea otter off Kodiak Island and married Tatiana Nekrasov from Afognak Island. Eventually Isaac and his wife migrated west to Belkofski and then settled in Unga where they raised a family of nine children. In Unga, Isaac served as a US Commissioner; he was a respected man and was affectionately titled "father of Unga".

Isaac passed away in 1917. He is interred beside his wife, Tatiana, in the Unga Russian Aleut Cemetery in Unga Village, Unga Island, Shumagin Islands, Alaska.

• Fact: Immigration (1858)
• Fact: Military Service (May 1863) New York, United States
• Fact: Immigration (1863)
• Fact: Residence (1900) Southern District, Alaska Territory, United States
• Fact: Residence (1910) Unga Peninsula, Division 3, Alaska, United States
• Fact: Burial (1917) Unga, Unga Island, Aleutians East, Alaska, United States
• Fact: Pension (1907-1933) United States

Sources

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 21 May 2022, 02:20), entry for Captain Isaac Hubley (PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:KDS9-L5X ); contributed by various users.
• 1900 Federal Census lists Isaac Hubley, age 60, and wife Tatiana, age 48, living in Unga, Southern Supervisors District, Alaska Territory. Children listed are John, age 22, Katie, age 18, Lizzie, age 12, and William, age 9
• 1910 Federal Census lists Isaac Hubley, age 72, and wife Tatiana, age 58, living on the Unga Peninsula, Division 3, Alaska Territory. Children listed are Heanna, widowed, age 39, Isaac Jr, age 35, Elisi, divorced, age 22, and Willie, age 19. Also listed is Mabel Sargant Hubley, granddaughter (assumed to be daughter of Elisi), age 4
• Find a Grave, database and images [1] : accessed 17 May 2021), memorial page for Isaac Hubley Sr. (14 Feb 1838–27 Mar 1917), Find A Grave: Memorial #141164609, citing Unga Russian Aleut Cemetery, Unga, Aleutians East Borough, Alaska, USA ; Maintained by Shumagin (contributor 47463126). Children listed on his FindAGrave site are Irina, Heanna, James, Isaac Jr, May, John, Aleksandra, Katherine, Elizabeth Ann, William, and James aka Effimii
• Wikipedia page for the Torrent [2]