BIOS: William T. Rigg, Mason Co., KY

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Submitted by: Diana Flynn (ivie@tima.com)
Date: 4-22-98
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#1690: Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, ed. 8-B, 1887
Robertson County

WILLIAM T. RIGG, circuit clerk of Robertson County, and a resident of Mt. Olivet, was
born June 9, 1836, and is a son of Alexander M. and Elizabeth (Fielder) Rigg, natives,
respectively, of Mason and Nicholas Counties, Ky. His grandfather, Clement Rigg, came
from Pennsylvania to Mason County, Ky., about 1800, was a miller, and settled near
Maysville, where he erected a mill. Alexander M. Rigg was born in 1805, was a farmer,
and died in 1874.  George Fielder, maternal grandfather of William T. Rigg, was from
Fairfax County, Va., and was of Irish and English descent. William T. Rigg was reared
in his native county of Robertson, was educated in the common schools of the county
and a select school at Carlisle; in 1866 he engaged in the leaf tobacco trade and
general mercantile business. In 1880 he was elected circuit clerk, was re-elected in
1886, and is the present incumbent. He was married in 1859 to  Miss Matilda Dayton, of
Robertson County, who died in 1873, the mother of four children: Anna, George, William
and Osmer. In 1880 he took for his second wife Mrs. Matilda King, of Mason County. Mr.
Rigg is a Freemason and a Republican.