[1] The son of Sylvester Main, a singing school teacher, Hubert Platt Main was born in Ridgefield, Connecticut in 1839 and attended local singing school until 1854, when he went to New York City to work as an errand boy in a wallpaper business.

The following April, Hubert Main took a similar entry-level job at the Bristow and Morse publishing company.

In 1864, Sylvester Main invested in a William Bradbury's publishing business, and Hubert was working there by 1867.

Bell, Mrs. Wilbur F. Crafts and Ira D. Sankey (part of Dwight Moody's evangelism team).

[5] Main died in Newark, New Jersey on October 7, 1925, and was buried in Bloomfield Cemetery in Essex County.