Freeborn Garretson Hibbard

Reverend Freeborn Garrettson Hibbard (February 22, 1811 - January 27, 1895) was an American Methodist minister, theologian, and author.

His father, Reverend Billy Hibbard, was a well-known clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Freeborn entered the ministry of the same church in the New York conference at the age of eighteen, before he had completed his college course, and continued in this work chiefly in western New York from 1830 till 1856, when he was elected editor of the "Northern Christian Advocate", printed in Auburn, New York.

[1] His wife, Maria Hyde Hibbard, served as President of the New York State Woman's Christian Temperance Union.

[2] Hibbard died on January 27, 1895, in Clifton Springs, New York.

Reverend Freeborn Garrettson Hibbard in his study at Clifton Springs
Reverend Freeborn Garrettson Hibbard with his niece Ellen Hinckley Hyde to his right and his wife Maria Hyde Hibbard to his lower left, with her arms around unidentified children