R. P. Hibbard was born in the state of Michigan, of Scotch parentage, and as a young man removed to Wisconsin, where he spent a number of years in agricultural pursuits. R. P. and M. R. Hibbard came to Texas in 1876 with four sons, and almost immediately embarked in the drug business at Denison, in which he continued to be engaged during the remainder of his life.
He passed away in 1907.  Mrs. Hibbard, a native of New York, passed away the same year.

Their sons were:
Walter S.
Fred P.
Charles
Henry Adelbert "Dell"

‪Biography of Walter S. Hibbard

Source: A History of Texas and Texans, by Francis White Johnson and Ernest William Winkler, volume 3 (1914), page 1417

There are in every community men of great force and exceptional ability, who by reason of their capacity for leadership become recognized as foremost citizens and bear a most important part in public affairs.  Such a man is Walter S. Hibbard, president of the Denison Grocer Company, at Denison, a man of large and varied interests, who has spent his entire business career here. He has at various times taken an active part in shaping public sentiment when the welfare of the city has been at stake and is a representative of its best type of citizenship.  
Walter S. Hibbard was born on September 14, 1860, the son of R. P. and M. R. Hibbard, in Wisconsin.  His early education was secured in the public schools of his native state. He completed his studies in the graded and high schools of Denison.  He early showed ambition and industry, and after his graduation from the high school, he soon secured employment as a telegrapher for the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad at Denison.  On April 3, 1884, Mr. Hibbard was united in marriage at Denison, Texas, with Miss Alice Buckman, a daughter of Isaac Buckman. Mrs. Hibbard's father, an old-time grain merchant, came from Illinois to Sherman, Texas, at an early day, and later located in Denison, where his death occurred in 1894. To Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. Hibbard there has been born one daughter: Margaret Evelyn, who became the wife of Jack Little, in the employ of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad, and has one child, Margaret Alice, who is now four years old.  Mr. and Mrs. Hibbard reside in their comfortable modern home, a center of culture and refinement, located at No. 629 Woodard Street, Denison.
It has always been his ambition to enter commercial lines, and when the opportunity offered, in 1890, he took his earnings and engaged in the grocery business with his brother, Fred P. Hibbard, under the firm style of Hibbard Brothers. This was but a retail concern, but in 1895, the brothers embarked in the wholesale trade, which met with such success that in 1901 the business was incorporated with a stock company, under the style of Denison Grocery Company, and of this concern Mr. Hibbard has continued to be president.


Although he devotes the greater part of his attention to this business, his abilities are not allowed to go to waste, for several large industries have gained the benefit of his keen discernment, acumen and good, judgment.  He is vice-president of the Southwestern Surety and Insurance Company, and a director of the National Bank of Denison and of the Denison Banking and Trust Company.  He is a member of the executive board of the Chamber of Commerce, and has the utmost confidence of his associates in all fields.
The Denison Grocery Company is a concern which has grown out of the needs of its locality, and which has developed its trade until it extends all over the states of Texas and Oklahoma.  The business house, at Nos. 212  and 214 North Houston Avenue, is a modern structure, and here handles a full line of all general groceries of a high grade.  From the first Mr. Hibbard's able management has been seen in its affairs, and his partners constantly look to him for advice and leadership in matters of importance affecting the firm.  Mr. Hibbard has always been a Republican, and while he has served efficiently and conscientiously in the responsibilities placed upon the successful men of any community, and has served efficiently and conscientiously in the capacity of alderman, his record in the city council being an active and honorable one.  A close friend of education he has done all in his power to advance its cause, and has served for a long period as a member of the school board, of which he has been president for seven years.  His fraternal connections are with the Woodmen of the Word and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, in both of which he has numerous friends.  With his family he attends the Presbyterian church, to which he gives his hearty support, both financial and as a member of the board of trustees.

After the death of his wife, Alice, in 1923, Mr. Hibbard married Miss Sue Newby in 1945.  Mr. Hibbard died in 1947 and his second wife, Sue, in Fairview Cemetery.