Builder of the Historic Judge Gideon Frisbee House.

Gideon was the first son of Philip Frisbie, a fifth-generation descendant of Congregationalist Puritans who settled in the New World during the early seventeenth century. His mother was Phoebe Hendricks Frisbee, ( 1740- 1779).

Gideon Frisbee emigrated from Brandford, Connecticut, to Canaan, Columbia County, New York, in 1770. The town was founded in 1772 as "Kings District", but the name was changed to "Canaan" in 1788. One of the oldest sections of the town is Frisbie Street, which fronts what was once the Albany-Boston stagecoach route.

In 1788 Gideon Frisbie moved from Canaan, Columbia County, New York, to the Delaware River Valley in what is now Delaware County, where he bought a large tract of land on the west branch of the Delaware River and established his homestead on a beautiful and commanding site at the junction of Elk Creek with the river, two miles above the present village of Delhi. Here he lived till his death, August 14, 1828, in his seventy-first year.

In the early days of the settlement, he was Captain of Militia and Justice of the Peace. On the formation of Delaware County in 1797, he was appointed county treasurer and at about the same time an Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas. Both these positions he held with fidelity and honor till within a few years of his death, when he resigned them on account of impaired health and strength. He was a Vestryman, also Churchwarden, of St. John's Episcopal Church in Delhi; and was a member of the first board of trustees of Delaware Academy, established at Delhi in 1820, holding the office till his death. He acquired a handsome property by honest industry and frugality. He was respected and honored by all who knew him for his sound and impartial judgment, for his sterling integrity, and for the fidelity with which he discharged all his obligations in private and public life.