PoliticalGraveyard.com
The Political Graveyard: A Database of American History
Kibbe family of Somers, Connecticut

Note: This is just one of 1,164 family groupings listed on The Political Graveyard web site. These families each have three or more politician members, all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption.

This specific family group is a subset of the much larger Four Thousand Related Politicians group. An individual may be listed with more than one subset.

These groupings — even the names of the groupings, and the areas of main activity — are the result of a computer algorithm working with the data I have, not the choices of any historian or genealogist.

  Amariah Kibbe Jr. (1780-1840) — of Somers, Tolland County, Conn. Born in Somers, Tolland County, Conn., February 14, 1780. Member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Somers, 1820-24, 1827. Died in Somers, Tolland County, Conn., June 23, 1840 (age 60 years, 130 days). Interment at North Cemetery, Somers, Conn.
  Relatives: Son of Amariah Kibbe and Hannah (Kibbe) Kibbe; married to Charlotte McKinney; granduncle of Allerton Cushman Kibbe; first cousin once removed of Aretas Frederick Kibbe; fourth cousin once removed of John Adams Dix.
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Roosevelt family of New York; Weeks-Bigelow-Andrew-Upham family; Kibbe family of Somers, Connecticut; Lockwood-Lanning family of New Jersey (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  John Adams Dix (1798-1879) — also known as John A. Dix — of Cooperstown, Otsego County, N.Y.; Albany, Albany County, N.Y.; New York, New York County, N.Y. Born in Boscawen, Merrimack County, N.H., July 24, 1798. Democrat. Secretary of state of New York, 1833-39; member of New York state assembly from Albany County, 1842; U.S. Senator from New York, 1845-49; postmaster at New York City, N.Y., 1860-61; U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 1861; general in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S. Minister to France, 1866-69; Governor of New York, 1873-75; defeated, 1848, 1874; candidate for mayor of New York City, N.Y., 1876. Died in New York, New York County, N.Y., April 21, 1879 (age 80 years, 271 days). Interment at Trinity Cemetery, Manhattan, N.Y.
  Presumably named for: John Adams
  Relatives: Son-in-law of John Jordan Morgan; son of Col. Timothy Dix, Jr. and Abigail (Wilkins) Dix; married to Catharine Waine Morgan; first cousin thrice removed of Roger Sherman; second cousin once removed of Nathan Read; third cousin once removed of Roger Sherman Baldwin, Sherman Day, Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, William Maxwell Evarts, George Frisbie Hoar, John Hill Walbridge and Henry E. Walbridge; third cousin twice removed of Aaron Kellogg and Charles Kirk Tilden; fourth cousin of Simeon Eben Baldwin, Rockwood Hoar, Sherman Hoar, Maxwell Evarts and Arthur Outram Sherman; fourth cousin once removed of Abel Merrill, Samuel Laning, Orsamus Cook Merrill, Amariah Kibbe Jr., John Lanning, Timothy Merrill, Daniel Putnam Tyler, Chauncey Mitchell Depew, John Frederick Addis, Henry de Forest Baldwin and Roger Sherman Hoar.
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Murphy-Merrill family of Harbor Beach, Michigan (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Fort Dix (established 1917 as Camp Dix; later Fort Dix; now Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst), a U.S. Army post in Burlington County, New Jersey, is named for him.  — Dix Mountain, in the Ardirondack Mountains, Essex County, New York, is named for him.  — The World War II Liberty ship SS John A. Dix (built 1942-43 at South Portland, Maine; sold 1947, scrapped 1968) was named for him.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Aretas Frederick Kibbe (1850-1917) — also known as Aretas F. Kibbe — of Kibbe, Somers, Tolland County, Conn. Born in Connecticut, September 6, 1850. Republican. Postmaster at Kibbe, Conn., 1901; member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Somers; elected 1902. Died in Somers, Tolland County, Conn., May 6, 1917 (age 66 years, 242 days). Interment at North Cemetery, Somers, Conn.
  Relatives: Son of Frederic Kibbe and Naomi Elvira (Cooley) Kibbe; married 1874 to Ida Luetta Cooley; first cousin once removed of Amariah Kibbe Jr.; second cousin once removed of Allerton Cushman Kibbe.
  Political family: Kibbe family of Somers, Connecticut (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Allerton Cushman Kibbe (1874-1956) — also known as Allerton C. Kibbe — of Ellington, Tolland County, Conn. Born in 1874. Democrat. Member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Ellington; elected 1902; defeated, 1906. Died in 1956 (age about 82 years). Interment at Ellington Center Cemetery, Ellington, Conn.
  Relatives: Son of Horatio Kibbe and Alice (Phelps) Kibbe; married to Mary Winifred Dimock; grandnephew of Amariah Kibbe Jr.; second cousin once removed of Aretas Frederick Kibbe.
  Political family: Kibbe family of Somers, Connecticut (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
"Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard."
Henry L. Clinton, Apollo Hall, New York City, February 3, 1872
The Political Graveyard

The Political Graveyard is a web site about U.S. political history and cemeteries. Founded in 1996, it is the Internet's most comprehensive free source for American political biography, listing 320,919 politicians, living and dead.
 
  The coverage of this site includes (1) the President, Vice President, members of Congress, elected state and territorial officeholders in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories; and the chief elected official, typically the mayor, of qualifying municipalities; (2) candidates at election, including primaries, for any of the above; (3) all federal judges and all state appellate judges; (4) certain federal officials, including the federal cabinet, diplomatic chiefs of mission, consuls, U.S. district attorneys, collectors of customs and internal revenue, members of major federal commissions; and political appointee (pre-1969) postmasters of qualifying communities; (5) state and national political party officials, including delegates, alternate delegates, and other participants in national party nominating conventions; (6) Americans who served as "honorary" consuls for other nations before 1950. Note: municipalities or communities "qualify", for Political Graveyard purposes, if they have at least half a million person-years of history, inclusive of predecessor, successor, and merged entities.  
  The listings are incomplete; development of the database is a continually ongoing project.  
  Information on this page — and on all other pages of this site — is believed to be accurate, but is not guaranteed. Users are advised to check with other sources before relying on any information here.  
  The official URL for this page is: https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0356.html.  
  Links to this or any other Political Graveyard page are welcome, but specific page addresses may sometimes change as the site develops.  
  If you are searching for a specific named individual, try the alphabetical index of politicians.  
Copyright notices: (1) Facts are not subject to copyright; see Feist v. Rural Telephone. (2) Politician portraits displayed on this site are 70-pixel-wide monochrome thumbnail images, which I believe to constitute fair use under applicable copyright law. Where possible, each image is linked to its online source. However, requests from owners of copyrighted images to delete them from this site are honored. (3) Original material, programming, selection and arrangement are © 1996-2023 Lawrence Kestenbaum. (4) This work is also licensed for free non-commercial re-use, with attribution, under a Creative Commons License.
Site information: The Political Graveyard is created and maintained by Lawrence Kestenbaum, who is solely responsible for its structure and content. — The mailing address is The Political Graveyard, P.O. Box 2563, Ann Arbor MI 48106. — This site is hosted by HDL. — The Political Graveyard opened on July 1, 1996; the last full revision was done on March 8, 2023.

Creative 
Commons License Follow polgraveyard on Twitter [Amazon.com]