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  1. Sep 22, 2016 · The National Geographic Society's first president, Gardiner G. Hubbard, confesses that he is "not a scientific man" in the very first sentence of his address. "I possess only the same general...

  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. Feb 14, 2012 · Gardiner Greene Hubbard, Mabel’s father and National Geographic’s first president, took a liking to the industrious teacher and part-time inventor. We know him better as Alexander Graham...

  6. 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

  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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