NIBLETT, H. M., VA., then St. Martin Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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H. M. NIBLETT, M. D., BREAUX BRIDGE.--Dr. Niblett was born in Petersburg,
Virginia, in 1838.  He is the son of Mr. Sterling Niblett and Anne (McFarland)
Niblett, both natives of Virginia.

Dr. Sterling Niblett was prominent in political affairs of the State, though
he never held an office.  Prior to his death he had accumulated an immense
fortune of over a million of dollars.  He was interested in many of the banks
of Louisiana before the war.  Professionally he was one of the most
distinguished surgeons in the State. 

The object of this sketch is one of a family of eight children, viz:  William, 
Robert,  Sterling,  James,  Collins,  Norman and  Nannie, of whom the Doctor
is the sixth in order of birth.  He received his primary education in the
schools of his native county.  At the age of eighteen he entered the
University of Virginia, where he remained four years.  Three years of this
time he devoted to literary studies, and the fourth year to the study of
medicine.  He subsequently attended the Jefferson Medical College at
Philadelphia and graduated from there in 186r.  The same year he enlisted in
the Confederate service as assistant surgeon of the Ninth Virginia Cavalry. 
With this division he was in the battles of Fredericksburg, Williamsburg, Five
Forks and many others.  He was twice wounded.  Three days before the surrender
he was taken prisoner and sent to Washington, where he was kept for about a
month, when he was sent to Johnston Island, where, after being confined for
five weeks, he was paroled.  After the war he returned to Virginia, where he
practised [sic] his profession until 1868.  He then removed to St. Martin
parish, where he took charge of his father's plantation near this place, and
on the death of his father he became heir to 1200 acres of valuable land. 
Since that time he has devoted his chief attention to planting and stock
raising.  His plantation is well improved and he has a large sugar mill, which
manufactures a capacity of ten hogsheads of sugar a day.  Dr. Niblett was
married in 1870 to Miss Annie Wilkins, daughter of Benjamin Wilkins, a noted
physician of Virginia, and Sadie Overton.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 343. 
Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing
Company.