At HUB116, even the address has a story. Hubbard Street honors Gurdon S. Hubbard, an early Chicago trader and businessman who arrived in 1818 and became one of the city’s most recognized early residents. Gurdon S. Hubbard (1802-1886). In 1818, Hubbard arrived in Chicago at the age of 16 as a representative of John Jacob Astor's American Fur Trading Company. The Native Americans with whom he traded knew him as Papamatabe, meaning "Swift Walker." In 1834, Hubbard discontinued h