Where and when was Jonathan Dibble born?
Five sources have been found for the birthdate of Jonathan Dibble. One of them, “Jonathan Dibble.doc”, a geneological report derived from the Lynn J. Bernhard website and provided by George A. Dibble III, gives the date as December 15, 1833, and while no birthplace is given, one of the original sources Bernhard cited was “Stamford, CT vital records”. (Bernhard’s other source is the infamous “Jessup Geneology”.) This would seem an unimpeachable source, except the same Stamford records are also cited in that document for the birth of Jonathan’s younger brother, Sylvanus, in 1840 in Indiana. It is, of course, unlikely that Stamford, CT officials would have recorded, or even known about, a son born in Indiana to a Stamford expatriate who had left at least three years earlier. Therefore, the citation for Jonathan’s birth in 1833 is also suspect. Three of the other four sources give 1837 as the year of birth, and one of them, Jonathan’s obituary in the Cannon Falls (MN) Beacon, gives his bir
