Background
Dibble was born in Skaneateles, New York on January 26, 1809.
Dibble was born in Skaneateles, New York on January 26, 1809.
He graduated from Hamilton College in 1827, and the Auburn Theological Seminary in October 1830, where he married Maria M. Tomlinson (1808–1837).
They arrived in the fourth company from the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in 1831 on the ship New England from New Bedford. He was one of the youngest missionaries, only 22 years old when he arrived.