Editing Elbert Hubbard (section)

{{Short description|American writer and philosopher (1856-1915)}}
{{About|the American writer and philosopher|the American politician|Elbert H. Hubbard}}
{{Infobox person
| name         = Elbert Hubbard
| image        = Elbert Hubbard - Project Gutenberg eText 12933.jpg
| caption      = Elbert Hubbard 
| birth_name   = Elbert Green Hubbard 
| birth_date   = {{Birth date|1856|6|19}}
| birth_place  = [[Bloomington, Illinois]], U.S.
| death_date   = {{Death date and age|1915|05|07|1856|06|19}}
| death_place  = {{RMS|Lusitania}}, [[Atlantic Ocean]], off the [[Old Head of Kinsale]], [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]]
| other_names  = 
| occupation   = Writer, publisher, artist, philosopher
| years_active = 
| spouse       = {{Unbulleted list|[[Bertha Crawford Hubbard]] (divorced)|[[Alice Moore Hubbard]] (1904–1915, their death)}}
| children     = 5 
}}

'''Elbert Green Hubbard''' (June 19, 1856 – May 7, 1915) was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher.  Raised in [[Hudson, Illinois]], he had early success as a traveling salesman for the [[Larkin Company|Larkin Soap Company]]. Hubbard is known best as the founder of the [[Roycroft]] artisan community in [[East Aurora, New York]], an influential exponent of the [[Arts and Crafts movement]].

Among Hubbard's many publications were the fourteen-volume work ''Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great'' and the short publication ''[[A Message to Garcia]]''.  He and his second wife, [[Alice Moore Hubbard]], died aboard the [[RMS Lusitania|RMS ''Lusitania'']] when it was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine [[SM U-20 (Germany)|SM ''U-20'']] off the coast of Ireland on May 7, 1915.