In Elbert married Bertha Crawford. Bertha was of a prominent Illinois family and together they moved to East Aurora, New York, and had four children. Hubbard also marketed himself as a popular philospher, advocating individuality and positive thinking while disparaging formal education. Also a writer, Hubbard published a ten-page pamphlet in entitled, A Message to Garcia.
That pamphlet argued for employers in the United States labor relations and sold about 45 million copies. An ugly divorce ensued in as Elbert had been having an affair with Alice Moore , a teacher at East Aurora Academy, resulting in a daughter, Miriam, in The bride of a year entered a drugstore. The clerk approached. If anything you buy here is not satisfactory we will exchange it. Wilson granted the pardon at once. He is swollen, like a drowned pup, with a pride that stinks.
Caligula, the royal pagan pervert, was kind compared to the kaiser. In order to accomplish his business of covering the war, Elbert Hubbard and his wife Alice booked passage on the Lusitania. Part of his assignment was to interview Kaiser Wilhelm whom Hubbard had disparaged. On the day of the sailing, Hubbard dismissed the German warning not as a threat but as a personal challenge.
In any case, when packing for their trip abroad, the Elbert packed copies of his essay to distribute to fellow passengers. Hubbard when on to say:. It might be a good thing for me. Barring accidents, Hubbard claimed that he would live to be a hundred. All disease is indecent. Hubbard told Cowper about his plan to recreate the voyage for his magazine, The Philistine , by cabling his Lusitania Diary from London. Lauriat suggested to the Hubbards that they go back to their portside B Deck cabin and retrieve their lifebelts.
Alice Hubbard could not swim and seemed to be too stunned at what had happened to move. Lauriat went below to fetch lifebelts for the Hubbards and himself, but when he came back he found that the Hubbards were gone. He named it Roycroft Press which later proved to be the foundation of his enormous success. This was the first press for The Philistine magazine.
By , the press has transformed itself from a little building to a campus where hundreds of dedicated sycophants were working.
Elbert attracted an ever growing group of artists, pilgrims and admirers from all over the world. Young hard working men and women hoped to be a part of this vibrant artistic community. Known for its vast variety of hand-illuminated books, Mission furniture, stained glass, leather goods, and copper utensils, the shop gained international recognition.
His second wife Alice Moore, a noted feminist, also earned the community an attraction of free thinkers and reformers. In Elbert lost his right of citizenship been convicted of an offence against the US postal service laws. However, he received a presidential pardon from President William Taft. Elbert Hubbard and a highly regarded writer, but is most remembered for his philosophy and work in the Arts and Crafts movement.
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