Biography-Ernest Bainbridge Lipscomb; Demopolis, AL., then Richland Parish, Louisiana 
as written in A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 255, by Henry E. Chambers.  
Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925. 



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 Ernest Bainbridge Lipscomb is assessor of Richland Parish, having been 
elected in 1920 and reelected in 1924.  His service as deputy assessor 
under John M. Ferguson from 1916 to 1920 gave him an intimate acquaintance 
with the details and duties of the office.  He has had in addition an 
extensive experience in business and banking.

Mr. Lipscomb was born at Demopolis, Alabama, April 26, 1884, son of Millard 
and Betty (Armstrong) Lipscomb.  His father died in 1919 at the age of 
fifty-five, and his mother still resides in Demopolis.  Millard Lipscomb was 
a planter in the Alabama black belt, but in addition to the growing of cotton, 
specialized in the raising of pedigreed saddle horses and jersey cattle.  He 
and his family were Baptists.  There were three sons:  Ernest B.,  M. E., 
shipping clerk in a wholesale grocery house at Demopolis; and  Henry, who was 
born in 1886 and died in 1917 during the influenza epidemic, being an accountant.

Ernest B. Lipscomb attended the Marengo Military Academy at Demopolis, studied 
stenography in the Massey Business College in Montgomery, and for several years 
remained in his home town, employed one year by Mayer Brothers and two years in 
the office of John C. Webb.  Being desirous of seeking new opportunities in a 
new field, and having heard of an opening as assistant cashier in the Richland 
State Bank at Rayville, Louisiana, he made application for the position and was 
appointed February 9, 1906.  After two years in the bank he engaged in the general 
insurance business and so continued until he entered the assessor's office.  He is 
vice president of the Glover's Hardware and Furniture Company of Rayville.

Mr. Lipscomb married Miss Myrtle Balfour, daughter of C. P. Balfour.  They have 
two sons:  Millard, born in 1913, and  Ernest, Jr., born in 1915.  Mr. Lipscomb 
and wife are Baptists.  He is master of R. F. McGuire Lodge No, 209, Free and 
Accepted Masons, and has been a delegate to the Grand Lodge; is a member of Rayville 
Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.  His recreation 
is hunting and he makes a yearly pilgrimage to the coast during the duck hunting season.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 255, by Henry E. Chambers.  Published by 
The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.