When Hobart Ripley Doud was born on 22 December 1838, in Sullivan Township, Tioga, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Rev. Peleg Ward Doud III, was 28 and his mother, Amanda Rose Packard, was 26. He married Elenore M Spencer about 1859, in Tioga, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Farmington Township, Tioga, Pennsylvania, United States in 1880 and Ulysses Township, Potter, Pennsylvania, United States in 1900. He registered for military service in 1862. He died on 29 November 1902, in Ulysses, Potter, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Ulysses Cemetery, Ulysses, Potter, Pennsylvania, United States.