Linus Green Hubbard, served in the Civil War as a private in Co. "F", 16th Regiment, Vermont, Infantry, Volunteers. He enlisted for nine months, on Sept. 6, 1862. He was mustered into service on Oct. 23, 1862. His regement was sent directly to Washington D.C. and spent the winter defending it, building forts and rifle pits. In the spring of 1863, his company was transferred to the Army of the Potomac. It was in the Battle of Gettysburg and as a part of the Second Vermont Brigade under General Stanard, repulsed Pickett's last charge. They then followed Lee's Army back to Virginia with light skirmishes.

In 1867, Linus Hubbard came West. He spent the first year on a farm near Beloit, Wisconsin. He then traveled to Bureau County, Illinois, found the Stanards, met and married Helen Stanard in 1870. The young couple came to Champaign County in 1870, right after they were married. They bought the S1/2 of the NE1/4 of Sec. 6 in Tolono Township from the Illinois Central Railroad for $8.00 per acre, a total of $960.00. It is about three miles west of the now Willard Airport. Of green, rough sawn lumber they built a one room hut. His means of heating was a large fireplace of boards in the form of a four-sided pen daubed within and without with mud, all built with his own hands. The fireplace furnished heat in the winter and meals were cooked on it all year round. The furniture consisted of homemade bed with board slats with a straw tick as a mattress. Feathers from the wild ducks and geese were carefully collected to make a feather bed. Chairs were made by hand and a large pine box served as a table. They only had two wooden handled knives and forks and two plates. The windows were of solid wood to keep out the cold. Home made candles furnished light.

Their first child, George David Hubbard, was born on this farm in May, 1871. The deed from the Railroad is dated Nov. 30, and recorded Dec. 7, in 1872. However, this land was too wet and a year later he sold it to H. Elwin and E. Hylan Cushman for $2,100.00, and bought the N1/2 of the SE1/4 of Sec. 29 in Urbana Township for $2,000. It is noted by the deed records that the farm was deeded to his father George C. and his two brothers, Chester C. and Porter G. and financed at 12% interest by a Wilmington, Vt. Bank. They were paid off and the farm deeded to Linus G. in January, 1894. He named the farm the Pleasant Hill Fruit Farm, and it is so shown on the older Plat Books of Champaign County. It is now known as Yankee Ridge Subdivision and built up with streets and houses.