[2] Hibbard was born on March 15, 1844[2] in Farmington Falls, Maine, he attended Phillips Andover and graduated from Amherst College in 1867.

[2] After he graded from Amherst College Hibbard began his study of the law in the Woodstock, Vermont office of William Collamer.

Hibbard later finished his course of legal study with William M. Rogers of Methuen, Massachusetts.

[4] In 1890 Hibbard was elected the first mayor of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, serving a one-year term[2] in 1891.

[7] In 1916 the Massachusetts legislature and electorate approved a calling of a Constitutional Convention.