Elbert Hubbard

Elbert Hubbard was an American philosopher, publisher and writer, responsible for establishing the Roycroft professional community of the New York community in East Aurora. He was born Elbert Green Hubbard on June 19, 1856, in Bloomington, Illinois, to Silas Hubbard, a physician, and Juliana Frances Read. He had two older brothers, a brother and a sister, and three younger sisters. He attended public school as a child, at the age of 16 he started selling soap and at the age of 22 he was a partner in J.D. Larkin & Co, a soap-making business in New York. He was 35 years old when his first novel, The Man: A Story of Today, was published.