Background
Lybarger, Donald Fisher was born on December 19, 1896 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Jesse James and Margaret Shuler (Fisher) Lybarger.
Lybarger, Donald Fisher was born on December 19, 1896 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Jesse James and Margaret Shuler (Fisher) Lybarger.
Bachelor of Arts, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 1919. Juris Doctor, Western Reserve, 1923. Honorary Doctor of Laws, Cleveland Marshall Law School, 1967.
1 stepdau., Dianne Dean Keogh. Admitted to Ohio bar, 1923, Supreme Court of the United States Court, 1926. Engaged in practice of law with firm of Horn, Weisell, McLaughlin and Lybarger, Cleveland, 1923-1928, 1932-1945.
County recorder of Cuyahoga County, Cleveland, 1933-1950.
Judge of court of common pleas, 1950-1970, chief justice, 1967-1969.
Served United States Navy, World War I. Chairman Spirit of ’76 Commission 1936. President Woodland Center Neighborhood House, 1942-1943. Trustee Woman’s Hospital, from 1943, Great Lakes Shakespeare Association, from 1962, Presbytery of Cleveland, 1949.
Member board of fellows Gettysburg College, 1967.
Member Cleveland Sesquicentennial Commission, 1946. Member of the Cleveland, American, Cuyahoga, bar associations, Sojourners, Early Settlers Association (president 1946-1959), Western Reserve, Ohio (trustee 1959-1962) history societies, Ohio Recorders Association (president 1950), Army and Navy Union, American Philatelic Society, (president 1943-1949.
Mason (33 degree). Club: Garfield-Perry Stamp (president 1938).
Married Cornelia Marjorie Hartshorne, September 16, 1924 (deceased November 4, 1953). Married second, Helen Baldwin Dean, August 7, 1956. Children: Cornelia Marie (Mistress Henry C. Neuswanger), Virginia Dowler Patterson, Lee Hartshorne, Leonard Fisher.