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  1. Jan 21, 2021 · Gardiner Greene Hubbard. sister projects: Wikipedia article, Commons category, Wikidata item. United States lawyer, financier, and philanthropist. He was one of the founders of the Bell Telephone Company and the first president of the National Geographic Society.

  2. Gardiner Greene Hubbard (August 25, 1822 – December 11, 1897) was an American lawyer, financier, and community leader. He was a founder and first president of the National Geographic Society; a founder and the first president of the Bell Telephone Company which later evolved into AT&T, at times the world's largest telephone company; a founder ...

  3. Oct 19, 2018 · In 1877 Gardiner Greene Hubbard formed the Bell Telephone Company to exploit the invention. The company controlled a highly lucrative monopoly on telephone communication in the USA: the multinational telecommunications giant AT&T is its direct descendant.

  4. Gardiner Greene Hubbard (trustee and president): 1,397 shares, along with Gertrude McC. Hubbard (née Mercer, likely Gertrude Mercer McCurdy Hubbard, wife of Gardiner Hubbard): 100 shares; Charles Eustis Hubbard (the brother or nephew of Gardiner Hubbard): 10 shares

  5. IN HIS INAUGURAL ADDRESS A CENTURY AGO, the National Geographic Society's first president, Gardiner Greene Hubbard, noted that during the nineteenth century 'the progress of geography' embarked on a new era?'the era of organized research'. Mr Hubbard hailed the founding of the Royal Geographical Society in 1830 as 'a

  6. May 21, 2021 · By October 1874, Bell's research had progressed to the extent that he could inform his future father-in-law, Boston attorney Gardiner Greene Hubbard, about the possibility of a multiple telegraph.

  7. Twenty-seven donors contributed to the Mount St. Elias expedition, including a handful of figures crucial to our founding: the Society’s first president Gardiner Greene Hubbard, explorer John Wesley Powell, financier Charles Bell, inventor Alexander Graham Bell, and Russell himself.

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