This story was written by National Geographic staffer Laura Wallach, who researched it in our archives. Mabel Gardiner Hubbard was only five years old when scarlet fever rendered her deaf for life. At ...

Mabel E. Hubbard, the first African-American woman to serve as a judge of the District Court of Maryland and later the Circuit Court of Baltimore City, died Saturday at Atrium Village, an Owings Mills ...

Baltimore City's newest courthouse honors a Maryland trailblazer. The Department of General Services cut the ribbon on the Mabel Hubbard Courthouse on Calvert Street on Tuesday. Hubbard was the first ...

Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice. She urges him to put off thoughts of marriage ...

The ostensible topic of Seth Shulman’s new book, The Telephone Gambit, is how Alexander Graham Bell cheated his way into owning the phone patent. Apparently Bell copied research from his chief rival ...

Funeral service will be at 1 p.m. Thursday at Collier-Butler parlor for Mabel Willie Mae Hubbard, 81, Gadsden, who died Monday, June 30, 2003. The Rev. Steve Trader will officiate. Burial in Forrest ...

SMITHFIELD – Mabel W. Hubbard, 80, went to be with her Lord on Friday, Sept. 12, 2003. A native of Lawrenceville, she had been a Newport News resident since 1945. She was a member of Calvary Baptist ...