History of Kentucky, five volumes, edited by Judge Charles Kerr,
American Historical Society, New York & Chicago, 1922, Vol. V, p. 252,
Logan Co.

     JESSE W. BIBB.  Few business men of Logan County have devoted more
years and more of their energies along one line of mercantile service
than Jesse W. Bibb.  Mr. Bibb has been a successful merchant, a citizen
who has taken a quiet and effective part in community affairs, and he
might properly count the esteem in which he is held by his fellow
citizens as one of the best rewards of his career.
     Mr. Bibb was born at Elkton in Todd County, Kentucky, October 27,
1857.  His family have been in Kentucky for more than a century.  His
grandfather, Henry Bibb, was born in Albemarle County, Virginia in 1791,
and on coming to Kentucky first settled in Logan County, later moved to
Elkton, though most of his career was spent in Russellville.  However,
he was a pioneer saddler.  He died at Elkton in 1866.  Henry G. Bibb,
father of the Russellville merchant, was born in that city in 1820 and
died at Elkton in 1866.  He achieved prominence as one of the ablest
members of the Elkton bar.  He was in the Lower House of the Legislature
from Todd County two terms, and for two terms represented the Ninth
Senatorial District in the Senate.  During the sessions of 1853-54 he
was elected by a joint ballot of both houses to fill the unexpired term
of Lieutenant Governor and was therefore the presiding officer of the
Senate during 1853-54.  He was a democrat in politics.  Senator Bibb was
married at Elkton, Kentucky, to Miss Emily Wells, a native of Mayfield,
Kentucky, who died at Elkton.
     Jesse W. Bibb, only child of his parents, was educated in the
public schools of Elkton to the age of eighteen and since then his life
has been spent at Russellville.  For seven years he clerked in a shoe
store and not only paid his way but used his opportunities to acquire a
fundamental knowledge of merchandising.  In the fall of 1884 he bought
his present business, starting with a modest capital, and has made his
enterprise one of the most important men's furnishing goods stores
between Bowling Green and Hopkinsville.  Mr. Bibb has devoted himself to
this line of merchandising for over thirty-five years.  He is also a
director of the Bank of Russellville and while the World war was in
progress he gave heartily of his means and personal influence to support
every drive for funds and other purposes in Logan County.  He owns one
of the comfortable homes of the city at 317 South Main Street.  Mr. Bibb
is a democrat and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
     In 1886 at Russellville he married Miss Attala Rizer, daughter of
E. R. and Mary B. (Harrison) Rizer, now deceased.  Her father was for
many years a shoe dealer at Russellville.  Mrs. Bibb is a graduate of
Logan College.

Bibb Harrison Rizer Wells
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Todd-KY VA

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