KIBBIE is indeed a brickwall for us. Family legend has it that my husband's ggrandfather b.between 1860-1865 in Bridgeport, Fairfield, Connecticut took the KIBBIE surname when he couldn't find employment because of his Irishness. If true, birth name would not be KIBBIE. He married Mary Elizabeth BANNON, a New Yorker, (somewhere) and they went to Maine. He died in a logging accident in July of 1889 in Maine as a man in his 20's leaving a widow and my husband's grandfather (George Harold KIBBIE b. 25 Dec 1887 Bangor, Penobscot, Maine) who was then only 18 months old. His widow returned to New York City, married again (and again) but Grandfather George Harold KIBBIE was not adopted and, in fact, went West to Idaho as a very young man.
He traveled with a man by the name of Lawrence HEAGLE (perhaps the surname is spelled differently) who is believed to be a relative of his mother. Upon arriving in Idaho he stayed with a family named AVERY. When he married he named one of his sons (my husband's father) George Avery KIBBIE after this family that took him in.
The Kibbie Dome on the University of Idaho campus is named for his other son.
http://www.idahoptv.org/buildingbig/domes/kibbie.html This KIBBIE of unknown origin has quite a posterity.
Char Kibbie in Kent, Washington