Son of United States Naval Commander Harry Ross Hubbard and Ledora May Hubbard, L. Ron Hubbard was born March 13, 1911, in Tilden, Nebraska, and shortly thereafter moved with his family to Helena, Montana. There, young Ron Hubbard lived what he later described as a typically Wild West existence with as he put it, its “do-and-dare attitudes, its wry humor, cowboy pranks and make nothing of the worst and most dangers.” Under the tutelage of his mother, he learned to read and write at a very early age. He was also an accomplished horseman, actually riding broncos at the age of 3, and was honored with that very rare status of blood brother to the indigenous Blackfeet.
The sentiments that guided his life were formed at an early age. As Mr. Hubbard later wrote of his youth: “I wanted other people to be happy, and could not understand why they weren’t.”
At the age of 12, Ron Hubbard met naval commander Joseph C. Thompson, who had studied under Sigmund Freud in Vienna. Even then avidly interested in the mind, young Ron was an eager student.
A year later, living in Washington State, Mr. Hubbard became America’s youngest Eagle Scout.
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