Health & Wealth

About the author:
Elbert Green Hubbard (June 19, 1856 – May 7, 1915) was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. Raised in Hudson, Illinois, he met early success as a traveling salesman with the Larkin Soap Company. Today Hubbard is mostly known as the founder of the Roycroft artisan community in East Aurora, New York, an influential exponent of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Among his many publications were the nine-volume work Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great and the short story A Message to Garcia. Owing to his prolific publications, Hubbard was a renowned figure in his day. Contributors to a 360-page book published by Roycrofters and titled In Memoriam: Elbert and Alice Hubbard included such luminaries as meat-packing magnate J. Ogden Armour, business theorist and Babson College founder Roger Babson, botanist and horticulturalist Luther Burbank, seed-company founder W. Atlee Burpee, ketchup magnate Henry J. Heinz, National Park Service founder Franklin Knight Lane, success writer Orison Swett Marden, inventor of the modern comic strip Richard F. Outcault, poet James Whitcomb Riley, Nobel Peace Prize recipient Elihu Root, evangelist Billy Sunday, political leader Booker T. Washington, and poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Another book which was written by Hubbard is titled Health and Wealth. It was published in 1908 and includes many short truisms that are in line with the Truth movement and Transcendentalists concerning using intelligence to rid one of fear and, thus, to bring the body back to health and happiness which leads to true wealth through service to others.[citation needed]

After his death, Hubbard's Message to Garcia essay was adapted into two films: the 1916 silent film A Message to Garcia and the 1936 sound film A Message to Garcia (1936).

Today, remnants of Hubbard's contributions to the Arts and Crafts movement still remain, and are embraced by the community of East Aurora, New York.

Selected list of works
Forbes of Harvard (1894)
No Enemy But Himself (1894)
Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great (1895-1910)
The Legacy (1896)
A Message to Garcia (1899)
A Message to Garcia and Thirteen Other Things (1901)
Love, Life and Work (1906)
White Hyacinths (1907)
Health and Wealth (1908)
The Mintage (1910)
Jesus Was An Anarchist (1910), also published as The Better Part
Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book (1923)

This pre-1923 publication has been converted from its original format for the Kindle and may contain an occasional defect from the conversion.