Escambia County AlArchives Biographies.....Wiggins, Cilbey L. July 5 1847 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   CILBEY L. WIGGINS, one of the leading lumber manufacturers of West Florida,
was born July 5, 1847, in Pike county, Ala., and is the son of Daniel and Sarah
Wiggins. At the death of his father, which occurred in 1849, he went to live in
the family of Mr. William Emmons of Escambia county, and at the age of fourteen
began the battle of life upon his own responsibility, but remained with and took
care of the widow of his benefactor, Mrs. Emmons, until attaining his
twenty-fifth year. He then married, March 24, 1872, in Escambia county, Miss
Martha Hamac, daughter of George W. and Mary Hamac, and shortly thereafter
engaged in the mercantile business at Pollard, in partnership with Neil
McMillan, and the firm thus continued about one year, when Mr. Wiggins withdrew.
In partnership with A. M. McMillan, he subsequently embarked in the lumber
milling and mercantile business, a short distance east of Pollard, but in 1881
the mill was sold, when they moved to Pine Barren, Fla., where the firm now owns
a valuable plant and 44,000 acres of fine timbered land with over twenty-six
miles of ditching. The mill, which is one of the largest and best of the kind in
the lumber region, has a capacity of 60,000 to 75,000 feet per day, and the
kilns and planing-mill machinery are supplied with the latest improved
appliances. Mr. Wiggins has met with success, such as few attain, and his great
personal popularity attests the standing he occupies in the estimation of his
fellow-citizens of Escambia county. He is a member of the Methodist church and
the Masonic order; also the K. of H. and K. of P. fraternities, in some of which
he holds important official positions. The parents of Mr. Wiggins were Daniel
and Sarah Wiggins, natives of Alabama. Daniel Wiggins was born about the year
1820; was a farmer by occupation and departed this life as already stated, in
1849. He was married in 1841 in Alabama, to Sarah Nobles, daughter of William
Nobles, and raised a family of four children, namely: William, member of the
Twenty-third Alabama infantry in the late war, captured at Big Black Creek,
Miss., and died in prison; John; Cilbey L., and Kinard Wiggins.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 1008
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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