George Hubbard was born around 1803 in Virginia. His family moved to Washington County, Indiana, around 1810, and he married Charlotte Stewart there on January 2, 1827. They had at least seven children: James, born around 1833; Sarah, born around 1836; Minerva, born around 1839; Julia, born around 1841; Emily, born around 1843; Peter Taylor, born around 1848; and Winfield Scott, born around 1851. They settled in Vernon, Indiana, and Hubbard worked as a blacksmith. By 1850, he owned $400 of real estate.
As a young man, Hubbard supported the Democratic Party, and he voted for Andrew Jackson in the presidential elections of 1824 and 1828. As a local reporter observed, however, “after the latter date he could not swallow the free-trade doctrine.” He became a Whig and then a “staunch Republican.” He moved to Darlington, Indiana, around 1864, and by 1870, he owned $1,000 of real estate and $500 of personal property. He retired sometime in the 1870s and moved into his son Peter’s household in Darlington.
His wife died in early 1880. In September 1892, he joined the local “Harrison Republican Club,” which supported President Benjamin Harrison’s reelection campaign. Hubbard passed away in Darlington on October 14, 1892.