Lester Andrews Hubbard was born on 8 May 1892 in Willard, Box Elder County, Utah, to Joseph and Salley Ann Hubbard. He married Barbara Larsen in 1919. Hubbard was a veteran of World War I, attended Sorbonne University in Paris, and received his bachelor's degree from the University of Utah in 1920. He received his master's degree from the University of Chicago in 1925 and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Hubbard was a faculty member at the University of Utah for thirty-two years.
While teaching at the University of Utah, Dr. Hubbard collaborated with Dr. Guy Montgomery of the University of California in the preparation of
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The Lester Andrews Hubbard folk song collection consists of 97 phonograph records ranging from 1946 to 1951 recorded by Dr. Hubbard, related to Utah and Latter-day Saints history. It includes recordings that Dr. Hubbard used to write his book,
Folksingers include James Jepson, Salley A. Hubbard, Milas E. Wakefield, Susie S. Barlow, and Margaret Y. Boyle.
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Clark Teudt: Huntsman's Horn (round); Old Miller. Thelma Teudt: Billey Boy. / Mary C. Bennion: John Riley. Clark Bros: The Old Miller.
Susie S. Barlow: Kate and Cowhide; Where Are You Going, My Pretty Maid?; The Iron Horse; Dying Cowboys; Merry Mormons.
John S. Niles: Gypsy Laddie; Barbrey Ellen. / Mrs. Mary Brown Clark: Will You Love Me When I'm Old?
Lottie M. Heed: Rosanna; King's Daughter Fair; Lady Isabel and Elfin Knight; Gypsy Davie.
Samuel B. Jones, Etta Smiley: Lucinda; Indian Lass of Mohea; Pat Malone Forgot he was Dead. / Samuel B. Jones: Poor Married Man; Watermelon Smiling on de Vine; De Good Book Tells us to Weep No More.
Lottie M. Heed: My Mother-in-Law; Why Didn't You Say So Before!
F. Y. Morse and James Jepson: It's then to St. George Again; Dixie Artichokes (A Vision); Lord Nelson Randall (Recited). / Mrs. John H. Riding: Mollie Bawn; Mother's Old Red Shawl.
James Jepson: Barbara Allen; Broomfield Hill; Two Orphan Boys of Switzerland; Farmer's Boy; Lorena.
Jan Cooper: Barbara Allen; Foggy Dew; Cowboy's Lament; Down in the Valley; Over Yandro; Tumbling Weeds; Shepherdess Walk; Biting my Fingernail; Down the Trail of Aching Hearts.
Ruth Patridge: Lucy Gray (Recitation from poem, not folklore); The Ladies; Mrs. Eggerston.
Marble S. Overson: Paddy the Rogue (O'Rourke); He Sang Songs to his Herd; Jenny Jenkins; Nelly Bly; Little Sal (Sir Hugh); Ten Commandments.
Ianthus Barlow: House Carpenter; Roving Joe.
Ida D. Hubbard: Sailor's Grave (Dublin Bay); Winds… Blew, Cross… Moor; Barney Mavourneen; House Carpenter; Two Orphans; Gypsy's Warning.
Rosina Rebber: Ship's Carpenter; The Sailor Boy (Sailor's Trade's a Weary Life).
James Jepson: My Grandfather's Goat; Florilla; Bachelor's Farewel; A Yorkshire in London; The Wife Wrapt in a Wetherskin [sic]; Golden Vanity (furmity) [sic].
Milas Wakefield: Joe Bowers; Yellow Rose of Texas; Lass of Mohea; Andy Bardeen; Texas Rangers; Plains of Waterloo.
C. Wilkinson: Poor Married Man; Dutches Gentleman; Hang Up your Hat. / Lydia Watts: Joe Bowers; Sally Monroe (#2); Lass of Mohea; Lord Lovell.
Mr. and Mrs. Archie Hamblin: Winds that Blew Across the Wild Moor; Once I was Happy but Look at me Now. / Dean Baxter: Our Goodman; Jerusalem Pakoo; Something in the Bottle; In Bed with the Man.
Susie S. Barlow: Jenn's Fair Gentle Rosemarie; Farmer's Boys; Farmer's Curst [sic] Wife; Old Woman in Clinton.
Susie S. Barlow: Ancient Farmer; Sleigh Ride; I Love Little Willie; The Orphan Boy; The Dying Sailor.
James Jepson: Farmer's Cursed Wife; Will the Weaver; Ellaree. / Lottie M. Heed: Brooklyn Fire; Boston Burglar.
Salley A. Hubbard: Bishop of Canterbury; Lamferd; Broomfield Hill; John Reilley; I'll Not Marry at All.
James Jepson: In Our Grandfather's Days; Pretty Mohee; Ellen and Edward; Sea Captain; Golden Vanity (furmity) [sic]; She Never Blamed Him.
Elizabeth Jensen: Billy Boy; Golden Vanity; Henry Martin (Ives); Children of the Saints [illegible]; Branbury Briar; Andrew Bardean; Lord Thomas and Fair Ann.
Susie S. Barlow: Derby Ram; Old Dan Tucker; Jenny Lorn; On Green Mossy Banks of Leam; I Saw Sweet Nellie Home.
Mary E. Hoyt: Braes of Strohblane; Sandman (Danish) Robbins. / Mary E. Hoyt and Mrs. Joseph H. Christensen: United Order Song; Butter and Cheese and All.
George Searle: Bride's Death; Dying Message; Sioux Indian Defeat; Bachelor's Hall (Farewell to Girls); I Once Courted a Dutch Girl; I Want to be a Mormon.
Andrew Somerville: I Tickled Her Under the Chin; Girl and the Highwayman (2 versions); Moab Alphabet; Strawberry Roan; I Tickled Her Under the Chin (poor).
Susie S. Barlow: Come Young Men and Maidens (Edwin Lowlands Low); Captain and his Whiskers; Frog in the Well; Dying Miller.
S. A. Hubbard: On Banks of Sweet Dundee; Little Pleader; Bare Feet; I'm Ninety-Five; Girls are All Married but Me; Widow's A-Courtin'.
M. E. Wakefield: On Banks of Sweet Dundee; Roy O'Neill (Dublin Boy); We Never Can Forget Him; Write [a] Letter to my Mother; Oh Larry, Whoa; Picking Berries… .
S. A. Hubbard: Bright Amanda (White Bosom Bare); Willie Taylor; Johnny Doyle; Love has Brought me to Despair; Rainbow Willow (Locks and Bolts).
Susie S. Barlow: Gypsy's Warning; Answer to Gypsy's Warning; Billy Boy; Longest Name Song; Ticket in me Pack; Poor Old Maids.
Luella Adams and S. A. Hubbard: We Left Old Ireland Because we were Poor; Out in the Cold World; Molly, Dear Molly; Chinee Lived in Man; Long John was a Chinaman; Boston Burglar; Erin's Green Shore.
[?] Taggart, [Susie S.?] Barlow: Bear Lake Monster; Days of Forty-Nine; Beggar Girl. / [Susie S.?] Barlow: Clarence McFadden.
Caroline W. Knudsen: Merchant's Daughter; Two Orphans (Brooklyn Fire); Yellow Rose of Texas; Three Perished in the Snow; Sunshine of Paradise Alley.
Milas Wakefield: Boys of SanPete County; Bright Amanda; Comments (shearing contest); Drummer Boy; Baggage Coach Ahead; Poor Little Soldier Boy (Farmer Boy).
Andrew Somerville: Whoa Mule Whoa; What State the World is in; In the Faded Coat of Blue. / D. John Rogers: Of All the Gals the ever was; Bonny Irish Boy; They say he Courts Another.
Jetta Huntsman: Billy Grimes; Water Cress Girl; Brigham Young; Lawyer Outwitted; Baby Brother.
D. John Rogers: The Silver Dagger; Young Charlotte; Three Loving Brothers… Scotland; In Faded Coat of Blue; Way Down in Old Virginia.
M. E. Wakefield: Little German Home Across the Sea; Poor Old Brown; Kitchen Floor.
Jetta Leia Huntsman: Twins; Baldheaded End of the Broom; Creep Upon the Little Cabin Floor; Fallen Leaf; Bear Lake Monster.
Henry Holt: Bishop's Song; Poem: Book of Mormon in a Nutshell; Texas Rangers; I Used to Live in Cottonwood; Sweet Betsy from Pike.
Newell D. Day, Luella Dallin: Mrs. Foggarthy's Cake; Nellie Gray; Kitty Wells. / Sarah Molyneux, George Finlinson: The Old Home Ain't What it Used to be; Rip Van Winkle.
George E. Finlinson: John Bull; Plains of Waterloo; Sego Lily (Utah). / George E. Finlinson, Newell Day: Tomorrow (Finlinson); Tomorrow (Day); The Preacher and the Bear (Day).
Lottie M. Heed: After the Ball (parody); After the Ball (parody campaign song); My Sweetheart is the Man in the Moon (parody); My Nose Sticks Out a Foot; Club had a Meeting Tonight.
George H. Vine: Milwaukee Fire; The Song that Reached my Heart; Eighty Years Ago; Darling Mary.
George H. Vine: Ileen Aroon; Old [?] Chair; Many Happy Returns This Day (Lost [?]); The Steam Arm; The Frog; What has England Done?; O, Mrs. McCarty.
A. G. Burr: Bonny Black Bess (no good); Bonny Black Bess (Dick Turpin); Steve O'Donnell's Wake; Sioux Indians; My Mother-in-Law (dialect); Steve O'Donnell's Wake.
Caroline W. Knudsen: Mistletoe Bough; Baggage Coach Ahead; Captain with his Whiskers; Little Brown Jug; Passing Policeman; Poor Old Slave.
Ida Hubbard: Cruel was my Father; Jack and Joe (tune [of] Fatal Wednesday). / Frank Slaughter SLC: Poor Married Man I; Poor Married Man II.
Milas E. Wakefield: Old Brown Pants; Burial of John Moore (parody); Fisherman and his Child.
James Jepson: Drunkard's Dream; Dying Girl's Message; Nellie Ray; Sarah's Young Man; Shamus O'Brian; Never Push a Man; Soldier Bade his Wife Adieu; Do they Think of me at Home; Dumb Wife.
Caroline W. Knudsen: Boston Burglar; Ten Thousand Miles Away; Poor Old Ned; Lorinna (organ); Massa's in the Cold Ground.
Thomas Isom: The Old Log Barn; Katie MacFearon; Heathen Chinee. / D. John Rogers, Mrs. J. Skeen: Bessie Fair; In Steven's Green; Bred and Born in Boston.
Emile Anderson, Mable Overson: Farmyard Song; Two Orphans; Old Woman in Yorkshire; Gallant Hussars. / Mable Overson: Vacant Chair; Grandfather's Chair.
Clark Bros: I was Born 6000 Years Ago; Poor Married Man I; Poor Married Man II; I Would I were a Small Sparrow. / L. A. Andrews: Texas Rangers; An Old Man; Old Man Came Courting Me; Keyhole in the Door.
Mrs. Margaret S. Boyle: Handcart Song; Up Echo Canyon; Bonnie Dundee; Erin's My Counts.
George Finlinson: Home Sweet Home (parody); Nettie Moore; Kitty Wells; I Want Mississippi Home.
Dean Baxter: The Log Hut; Come Dine with Us. / Mrs. Dean Baxter: Chickory Cho, Chickory Chan; Lost Kitty; A Passing Policeman; I'm Going to Write to Daddy.
James Jepson: Two Soldiers; A Soldier's Homeless Boy; Dublin Bay; Cot Beside the Hill; The Devil and the Lawyer; Thommy Thomas; The Drunkard is no More; Sweet Betsy from Pike.
[?] Gowers: Little Brown Jug; You Look More Like Your Dad Every Day; Bonnie Jean; I'm Poor but a Gentleman Still; The Same Old Game; Take This Letter to your Mother.
Susie S. Barlow: The Old Maid; One Sunday Morning; On the Banks of the Clyde; Poor Little Soldier Boy; Fatal Wedding.
Mr. and Mrs. Archie Hamblin: Flying Horses (Little Boy in Green); Kicking Mule; Honey, the Moon am Shining; Katie Dear.
Etta Smiley: Old Elm Tree; Homemade Chicken Pie; Drunkard's Lone Child; Blackeyed Anna (Florella); Carpenter's Wife.
Afton Cary: Paper of Pins. / Marguerite Millais: Pompey is Dead. / Mr. and Mrs. Millais: Creation. / London Millais: Derby Ram. / [?]: Hungarian Songs.
M. E. Wakefield: Winding on Train; Sweet Sunny South; Fallen Leaf; Kitchen Floor.
Nada Kay: Yellow Rose of Texas; Sweet Sunny South; Diamond Joe; Little Log Cabin in the Lane; Widow in the Cottage by the Sea.
Mrs. John H. Riding: Old Spinning Wheel; Passing Policeman; Aunt Dinah's Quilting Party; Gathering Up Shells from the Shore.
Lucilla R. Adams: The Motto on the Wall; I Left Ireland and Mother Because we were Poor. / Lucilla R. Adams, Harley W. Dalton: Sacred Hymn; So You're Going to Leave Your Home.
Melba Western: You're Going to Leave Home, Jim; Two Little Boys; Poor Little Joe (Wakefield). / Melba Western, Daisy D. Shaffey: Miner's Daughter; Parker.
Amanda B. Shelton: Fair Ella; Edmund, Who Plowed the Lowlands Low; Mrs. Green's Mother, my Mother-in-Law; For Old Time's Sake.
D. John Rogers: Sioux Indians; Silver Dagger; Wild Irish Boy; Dick Darbin, the Cobbler.
James Jepson: Spanish Juanita; I Traced her Footprints in the Snow; Ada Ray; Hard Times; The Wild Rover I; The Wild Rover II.
Caroline W. Knudsen: The Charming Young Widow I Met on the Train; Drunkard's Wife's Dream. / Emma Snow; Kitty Wells; Song of Utah.
Nada Kay, Long Pete Anderson: Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane I; Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane II; Don't Make Me Go To Bed. / L. P. Anderson, A. Gowers, Samuel Jones: Watermelon Smilin' on the Vine; De Banjo's de Instrument for me; When Gabriel Died he Made a Will.
Mr. and Mrs. Archie Hamblin, Mary A. Rhodes: Fair Ella; It is True Dear Heart we are Fading. / Lottie M. Heed: Johnny Sands; Silk Merchant's Daughter; Alonzo the Brave (fragment); Jenny Sinks (parody Capt. Sends [?]); Brigham Young (fragment).
James Jepson: Lucy Gray; Marble; Poor Old Slave; When a Fellow Falls in Love; The Same Thing Over Again; Molly Darling.
M. E. Wakefield: Man, Man, Man; Tim Finnigan's Wake; Dan McGinty; After [the] War, Come Back; First Banjo; World Made in Six Days; Woman, Naughty Woman.
Vern Fullerton: Laughing Song; No One to Welcome Me Home; Rock Dear Snookums to Sleep. / F. Y. Morse: Once I Lived in Cottonwood; The Cohabs.
James Jepson: Tailor in the Chest; Sailor's Grave; Dying Californian; Peter and Mark; Bull Whacker; I Betcha a Dollar you Don't.
George A. Searle: I'm a Gentleman Still; Timothy Harmless; Dreary Black Hills; Bury me not on the Lone Prairie.
S. A. Hubbard: Jim Fiske; Daisy Dean; Broken Down; I Really Can't Keep Still; All Coming Here to Tea. / Up in that Back Room; Dumb Wife; Shipwreck; Bill Smithers.
Lillian McKnight: So You Are Going to Leave the Old Home; Death of Charles [?] Garfield; Days of Forty-Nine; Flower and the Star; Heaven will Protect the Working Girl. / Mr. and Mrs. Moroni Meyers: Passing Policeman (not good).
Mrs. Jose DeVera Ogilvie, Barbara Hubbard: Hungarian Songs; Danish Songs; Three Dreams (L. H.); Sky Blue Water (Cooper).
Ella J. Seegmiller: Marching to Dixie (Walker); A Dixie Song (Walker); Tis Darkest Just Before the Day; All are Talking of Utah.
Ed. S. Kimber: A Married Woman's Lot is not a Happy One; My Name is Joe Morgan. / Annie Kimber: Swedish Songs; Danish Songs (Ed. S. Kimber, Accordion).
Vern Fullerton: Every Race has a Flag but a Coon; Good Old Scottish Custom; I Came Over from Ireland a Short Time Ago; The Hat me Father Wore; Minnehasse Came from China; Apex Boarding House; I'll Go Back to St. George Again.
Ida Hubbard Eskelson: Gov. Zane; Pig Song; Father Come Home; Slave's Dream.
S. A. Hubbard: Dying Message; Dying Boy; Dying Californian; I Can Love Salley; Death of a Soldier on Guard; Old Man's Courtship; Soldier's Return; Never Wed an Old Man; Little Nell of Marragansatt Bay.
S. A. Hubbard: Brigham Young, Lion of the Lord; Royal Family; Brigham Young (first wrong tune, second right); Daddy I'm a Mormon; Mountain Meadow Massacre; Kate and her Horns; My Wife's Become a Mormonite; Drunkard's Wife.
S. A. Hubbard: Fear the Buggers; Courting my Father's Mary; Johnny Green; Joe Bowers; Ladle Song; Silvia (Zilah).
Ephraim Ellertson: Van Dieman's Land; Rose of Ellen Dale; Write a Letter to our Mother; I'm Saddest When I Sing.
M. E. Wakefield: Two Orphans; Ole Olson; Farmer John; Lorena, Dear Lorena; Lorena.
Milas E. Wakefield: Miner's Lonely Grave; Katie McFearon; I'll Await my Sailor Boy; James Bond; White Man Let me Go.
Milas E. Wakefield: Fellow that Look Like Me; Plains of Waterloo; Parrot Said Come In; Passing Policeman; Ship that Never Returned.
Amanda B. Shelton: The Drunkard's Dream; Foggy Dew (by Bruce Wallace, Jr., 6/6/55); Cabin with the Roses by the Door; Three Leaves of Shamrock.