Rufus B. Tebbetts

Rufus B. Tebbetts (c. 1828–) early settler of San Diego.

Tebbetts was born c. 1828 in New Hampshire and was living in Belknap County, New Hampshire in 1850.

By 1860 he was living in San Bernardino, California, but moved the same year to San Diego. Tebbetts was on the San Diego County Board of Supervisors during 1860–1862. Tebbetts was also president of the San Diego's Board of Trustees during 1860–1862, when San Diego did not have a Mayoral form of government. Tebbetts brother George was the last mayor before the office was abolished in 1852, and was also on the County Board of Supervisors.

In 1870 Tebbetts was living in Merrimack, New Hampshire and in 1880 he was living in Cameron, Missouri. Rufus B. Tebbetts was related to the Tebbit family of England, of which Norman Tebbit was also a politician.

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