Georgia   Biographies   William Wyatt Bibb
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http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm Georgia Table of Contents:
Adiel Sherwood, A GAZETTEER OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA, Washington City,
Printed by P. Force, 1837, pp. 258.
                        HON. WILLIAM WYATT BIBB
     Hon. William Wyatt Bibb was born in Prince Edward County, Va.  While
at the Medical College in Philadelphia, he wrote a disseration on the
"mous operandi" of medicine, which was published.  He settled himself as a
physician at Petersburg, in Elbert County, when he first came to Georgia,
and ably represented this county in our Legislature a number of years. 
Afterwards he removed into Wilkes, and was sent to our National
Legislature, in which body he was an able advocate of the late war.
     When Alabama was erected into a State, he was elected its first
Governor, and died there in July, 1824.
     Mr. Bibb was appointed Governor in 1817, and elected in 1819.


Rev. George White, M. A., HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GEORGIA, New York,
Pudney & Russell, Publishers, 1854, pp. 269-276.
                               BIBB COUNTY
     Laid out in 1822; part taken from Twiggs in 1833; part from Jones in
1834; lot 78 and fraction 79, in Old Baldwin, now Jones, added to Bibb,
1835.  Organized in 1822, and named in honour of Dr. William W. Bibb.
     MACON, named after the Hon. Nathaniel Macon, is the seat of justice.
     Among the first settlers were: Roland Bevins, Geo. B. Wardlaw, B.
Bullock, C. Baitman, John Douglass, James Henderson, Jonathan Wilder, John
Loving, Thompson Bird, Jeremy Stone, Thomas Howard, Leonard Sims, Benjamin
Mariner, Henry Bailey, Jeremiah Burnett, Anson Kimberly, John Lamar, B. B.
Lamar, Daniel Wadsworth, Jordan Witcher, Jeremiah Baugh, Timothy Matthews,
James W. Allston, A. Meriwether, J. Bates, C. McCardell, S. Rose, James
Fitzgerald, Henry Williams, Thomas House, H. G. Ross (who has been Clerk
of the Superior Court for twenty-four years); Thomas Moody, N. W. Wells,
C. Bullock, and Wm. Cummings.
     Fort Hawkins was built for protection against the Indains about the
year 1805-06, and was a place of considerable importance during the war of
1812 and the subsequent Indian wars.

(Submitted by Barbara Walker Winge, barbarawinge@yahoo.com)

Note:
Adiel Sherwood, A GAZETTEER OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA, Washington City,
Printed by P. Force, 1837,  pp. 255-256.
APPENDIX:  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
   "The author conceived that a short biographical sketch of the
individuals after whom the several counties were named, would furnish an
instructive and pleasing appendage to his topographical work...
   Acquainted with the intimate friends of some of the 'venerable dead,'
he has been furnished with sufficient materials to enlarge on their
character...
   There are in the State ninety counties (book printed in 1837, presently
in 2001, there are 159 counties)..."


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