Frank M. Kibbe, a Meriden druggist, who has been actively identified with the drug trade since 1884, was born in Hampden, Massachusetts, April 28, 1866, a son of Corydon L. and Angeline (Kibbe) Kibbe. The latter was a direct descendant of General Ethan Allen of Revolutionary War fame.

  There is much definite knowledge of the Kibbe family to be obtained in the records of Hartford county. The village of Kibbe in Tolland county was named after an ancestor of Frank M. Kibbe. The first representative of the family in the paternal line left England for the colonies in 1619. As this antedated the arrival of the Mayflower, the ancestor must have gone to Virginia or the Carolinas. No definite information was heard of him from that time. The New England family of Kibbe, of whom Corydon L. Kibbe was a descendant, was founded in Massachusetts in 1643 by Edward Kibbe, who came from England and was one of the founders of the town of Braintree, Massachusetts[.] The family prospered as the years passed on and some of its members removed to Connecticut. The first white child born in Enfield, Connecticut, was a Kibbe and one of the ancestors of  Frank M. Kibbe. Members of the family have always been prominent in political and social life of northern Connecticut.

  Frank M. Kibbe was educated in the public schools of Kibbe, Connecticut, also Suffield, Connecticut, and of East Windsor in this state. He worked at farm labor both during and after his school days and subsequently he was employed for a time in a rule shop. He became identified with the drug business in 1884 at Litchfield, Connecticut, but after two and a half years devoted to the trade in that town he sold out and later was employed in a drug store in Hartford, Connecticut, through the succeeding five years. He then removed to Meriden, where in 1891 he established his first drug store in this city. He was located originally at No. 40 West Main street and later removed to his present place of business at 75 West Main street, where he has a store twenty-two by one hundred and ten feet. It is supplied with the latest fixtures and accessories and his business has reached extensive and gratifying proportions, furnishing employment to three clerks.

  On the 2d of October, 1895, Mr. Kibbe was united in marriage to Miss Anna Elizabeth Webb and although they have no children of their own, they have reared Mr. Kibbe’s brother’s child, Florence M. Kibbe, since she was five months old and have given her a splendid classical and musical education.

  In his political views Mr. Kibbe is a republican but has never been an office seeker. Fraternally he is connected with the Order of United American Mechanics, with the Masons, the Modern Woodmen of America and the Royal Arcanum. He is truly a self-made man and one whose life has been a useful and active one. He has always been an earnest worker, putting forth every effort to promote his interests along the legitimate lines of trade, and whatever success he has achieved is attributable to his persistency of purpose and intelligently directed labor.