292                 HISTORY OF CLAY COUNTY


the public school term of two or three months in winter seasons, pursu-
ing his studies at home, at nights, by the light of the chimney fire or a
tallow candle. At the age of ten years he began the study of Ray’s
Higher Arithmetic, which he pursued for five consecutive years. always
starting in at the beginning of the book at the opening of the school,
and going through it during the term.
    At the tender age of seventeen years, small of stature and light in
weight—tipping the beam at 117 pounds, he enlisted, on the 21st day of
August, 1863, in Company C, Sixth Indiana Cavalry, having chosen to
go into this company because of an older brother who had been a
member of it for eighteen months.
    Having served his country until the close of the war, been dis-
charged and returned home, he resumed work on the farm for three
years, economizing his earnings, then attending school three years——one
year at Union College, Mcrom, and two years at Asbury University,
Greencastle. Then he entered the dental office of A. C. Fry. at Green-
castle, where he remained five years, meanwhile doing professional work
at several points in Clay and other counties. On the 18th day of July,
1875, he married Miss Jane Estella Layman, of Putnamville. In Novem-
ber of the same year he located a dental office at Brazil, where he prac-
ticed his profession successfully for nearly the third of a century. In
his church relations Dr. Lybyer was a Presbyterian. his wife a Meth-
odist. His services as deacon in the church covered a period of prac-
tically twenty-five years. As an ardent friend and patron of the Sunday
school cause he was twice honored by election to the presidency of the
Clay County Sunday School Union, the society tendering him. on his
retirement from the second years service, its congratulations and thanks
for its management and prosperity under his zealous care and guiding
hand.
    To Dr. Lybyer and wife were born four sons, of whom the
second, Estes Layman, died in 1892, at the age of thirteen years. The
wife and mother died in the month of September, 1895. In the early
spring of 1906 the father suffered a break-down in health which neces-
sitated his retirement from the practice of his profession. For a time
he traveled in the hope of being benefited by change of climate and
scenery, in Oklahoma, Missouri and Michigan, and took a course of
treatment at Battle Creek, then returned temporarily to Brazil, with the
intention to spend the winter in Missouri. While stopping at the Rigby
hotel, he died suddenly at an early hour, Thursday morning, November
19, 1908, aged sixty-three years, two months and ten days, survived by
three sons—Albert Howe, who is at Harvard University; Daniel Henry,
who is in business at Des Moines, Iowa, and Paul Carroll, who is a
student at Purdue.

    George E. Hubbard, native of Indiana, born in Morgan county,
April 29, 1843, the youngest of four children, living with his parents
on the farm until twenty-one years of age, taking advantage of such
school facilities as were afforded at that time. Leaving home in 1864.
he engaged as a day laborer with a grain dealer at Amo, Hendricks
county, remaining there until February, 1865, when he enlisted in Com-
pany H, Eleventh Indiana Regiment Zouaves, serving as company clerk.
At the close of the war, having been honorably discharged, he engaged
in the grain trade at Greencastle, and two years later, in 1867, came to