The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-06-01
DR.. W. G. BBB IS DEAD
END CANE AT ILLS LAST
MIGHT.
He Had Been Prominent Physician
Of Montgomery and Was Mann
Der Of Distinguished Ala
bama Family.


DIR. william @. Bibb breathed his last
at Has o'clock last night at his home
on Madison Avenue. He had been i'll and
confined to his room for three years and
the end was not unexpected. The change
for the worse came suddenly last night
at $50 o'clock and within two hours he
was dead.
DIR. Bibb was one of the foremost physi-
clans of Alabama. He was splendidly
equipped by nature for high calling and
be obtained In America and Europe. He
was an enthusiastic lover Of his profess
sion and he achieved the success in IL
that comes to but few. He was no less
esteemed as public spirited citizen and
q consistent member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church. He stood high In the
esteem of all classes of the people of
Montgomery. His was strong and kind
" nature that won and kept friends and
these friends. acquired in an active and
useful life, feel keenly the grief that
his death has brought.
he was for many years member Of
the montgomery Medical and Surgical
society and he was at one time a men,
DR.. Bibb Is survived by his venerable
mother. Mrs. Martha cambridge Bibb.
his wife, who was Miss Susie Dunlap
Porter, a daughter of former Governor
James o. Porter Of Tennessee. three sons
and one daughter. His children are Miss
Martha Gilmer Bibb. Porter Bibb, George
Bibb and Fred Bibb the latter being the
Youngest and years of age
DR.. Bibb was of distinguished ances-
try. His grandfather. Judge B. g. Bib,
was brother ,lf the first two Governors
of Alabama, William Wyatt Bibb and
Thomas Bibb, who succeeded his brother
at his death. DIR. Bibbs father was Col
Joseph +. Bibb, prominent attorney Of
Montgomery, before the war between the
states. who played an important part in
the great struggle. With Colonel Beck he
raised the 23rd Alabama Regiment. be-
coming Lieutenant Colonel of that organ
of the regiment upon the death Of Col
onel Beck. He served with distinction
throughout the most trying campaigns Of
the Southrn armies.
DR.. Bibb was born in this city June
Is, 1854. He received his literary educaA
ton at the University Of Georgia and at
the University of Alabama, from which
latter institution he was graduated in
III. He began the study of medicine in
1874 and attended one course In 1876 at
the University of Virginia. He then went
70 Nashville in 1877. and was valedicto-
rian in his class and graduated as a
medical doctor from the University Of
Nashville and Vanderbilt University. He
France, visiting the hospitals there. and
upon his return went TO New York City,
and In 1873 graduated from the Bellevue
Hospital Medical College.
tAI pC6aH III MdTCH. 1915, L0e practice
OF medicine. In this city and continued
until 1881. when he removed to Nashville,
having In that year been elected Profes-
sor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics
versity Of Tennessee and Nashville Medi-
cal College. During his life In Tennessee
DR.. Bibb married Miss Susie Dunlap Por-
ter, who was member of an honored
and distinguished family of Tennessee
as he was Of family equally prominent
In Alabama
After remaining a few years In Ten
nessee DIR. Bibb returned to Montgomery
and continued In this city the practice OF
his profession with marked success NJ
man stood higher in it or In the esteem
OF the people among whom he lived than
did DR.. BIB. He was for years a prom
inent member Of the Montgomery Medi-
cal and Surgical Association and he was
also a member OF the County Board Of
Health. DR.. Bibb was Mason, a Knight
Templar, a Mystic Shriner, a Knight of
Pythias. a member OF the woodmen of
the World. and Of the Knights Of Macca-
bees.
DR.. Bibb's health failed him in
1887, when he was exhausted by
his labor during the yellow fever
epidemic of that year. He con-
profession until the summer of 1899 when
he went to Waukesha. Wis. in the hope
of regaining his health. While at Wau-
ksha. he was stricken with paralysis
From this stroke he never recovered. III ,
was never able to again take UP his work
as a physician. He returned home ard
waited patiently for the end, nursed for
and cared for bv his devoted and faithful
wife. In the illness that overshadowed
his last days he received the sincere sym
patty of his people, who had esteemed
him so highly. While is loved one and
his friends were not unprepared FOR the
end his death brings no less of sorrow
TO his wide circle Of friends.
The funeral will take place tomorrow
afternoon at 4:30 o'clock from the Court
Street Methodist Church. DR.. Bibb's
brother, Captain Peyton Bib, who lives
at Stylesboro, Ga, has been notified of
DR.. Bibbs death and is expected to ar
rive in Montgomery today. Hon. Charles
Bib. Is also expected tonight.