Thomas Chubb in WA (Washington)

Ben Chubb, age 29, Bellingham, WA View Details

Cities: Olympia WA, Puyallup WA Possible Relatives: Dorthy Irene Chubb, Richard John Chubb, Rosetta Marie Chubb

Ben Chubb, age 29, Bellingham, WA View Details

Locations: Olympia WA, Puyallup WA Possible Relatives: Dorthy Irene Chubb, Richard John Chubb

Thomas Chubbuck

Thomas Chubbuck was an American copper and steel engraver and the designer of one of the earliest American gummed stamps, the "Brattleboro stamp", in 1846, as well as the engraver of the modern seal oread more...f Springfield, Massachusetts. While living in Boston, apprenticing as an engraver by profession and studying music as an amateur, he met Frederick N. Palmer, then a music teacher but future postmaster of the Brattleboro, Vermont post office. After the two had since-relocated to Brattleboro, Palmer would later ask Chubbuck to design a simple stamp for pre-paid postage in August 1846, which Chubbuck obliged "for the fun of the thing". Though a rarity, the Brattleboro stamp has been falsely described as the first postage stamp in the United States, Chubbuck modeled it after its preceding counterparts from Providence and the New York Postmaster's Provisional. By the end of Chubbuck's life examples of such stamps were sold by collectors for as much as $200, and were sold for as much as $16,500 at auction in 2015. Chubbuck was also a prominent figure in Springfield's temperance community, paying for the fees and charter of the Western Massachusetts Sons of Temperance chapter in his final years leading up to his death.read less...

Thomas Chubbuck Jr. House

The Thomas Chubbuck Jr. House is a historic house in Hingham, Massachusetts. Built in 1778, it is the best-preserved three-quarter Cape style house in the town, and is further noted for its long assocread more...iation with locally important Chubbuck and Gardner families. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.read less...

Thomas C. Hubbard

Thomas C. Hubbard is a diplomat and former U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines (1996–2000) and South Korea (2001–04). He is currently a Senior Director for Asia at McLarty Associates and Chairman oread more...f The Korea Society.read less...