H. C. Tibbetts was born in Louisville, Ky., but the family came from Rhode Island.  A removal was made, first to a farm in Illinois, then to Lawrenceburg, Ind., and in 1849 to Cincinnati.  In the public schools of that city Mr. Tibbetts got his education, finishing Hughes High School.  His early business life was spent in flour and grain trade with his father.  To this was subsequently added an interest in marble and stone, which finally became the sole business of Mr. Tibbetts.  He is president of the Buckeye Marble and Freestone Company, with quarries and mills at McMillans, Tenn., and mills and office in Cincinnati.  In 1876 Mr. Tibbetts married Miss Sarah M. Gardner, of Cleveland, O.., and the same year came to Dayton.  They first encountered the old Pythian house, which stood alone on a thirty acre tract, and near the corner of Fourth and Terrace Avenues.  The family now includes a son.  For many years, Mr. Tibbetts has been an elder of the First Presbyterian Church of Dayton. 

Mr. Tibbetts was one of the first school board of Dayton [sic], his associates being Wm. Hasson and Wm. Tieman. Sr.  Mr. Tibbetts continued in the school board for twenty years, and was on the building committee during the construction of the Fifth and Sixth Avenue buildings.