Solon was the son of Matthias and Cynthia Hubbell and grandson of early Schoharie County settlers Peter and Sally Hubbell.
He married to Margaret Priscilla Oakley after returning from service in the Union Army during the Civil War.
Solon and Priscilla had three children who lived to adulthood; Marvin, Milton and Flora.
After their father's untimely death at age 36, the children stayed with relatives.
Their mother, unable to care for them, found work in a local dairy. She married the dairy farmer and cared for her elderly husband until his death in 1901. Soon after she became an inmate at a State Hospital where she remained, cared for by the grandson of her second husband, until her death in 1936.
It is not known how much contact Solon's wife had with their children through the years.
In 1920, when making preparations to build the Schoharie Resevoir, the village of Gilboa was razed and Solon's nephew, C.B. Hubbell, a Schoharie County undertaker, arranged to have Solon, and many other relatives, removed from the old, soon to be flooded Gilboa Cemetery and reinterred with family members in Jefferson, NY (findagrave.com)