California Biographies, San Joaquin Valley

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm

Source:
History of the state of California and biographical record of the San Joaquin 
Valley, California. An historical story of the state's marvelous growth from 
its earliest settlement to the present time.
Prof. James Miller Guinn , A. M.
The Chapman Publishing Co., Chicago 1905
Notes: Missing Page: 865-866,983-984,1175-1176


 JOHN BIBBY. Actively identified with the agricultural interests of Merced county is John Bibby, 
who owns a valuable ranch of fifty acres in Volta. and in addition to managing that also carries 
on the farm belonging to his father, Nicholas Bibby, Sr., of whom a brief biographical sketch 
may be found on another page of this volume. He is a man of energy and integrity, well 
informed, with a mind broadened by observation and travel, and is deservedly esteemed 
throughout the community in which he resides. In his industrial operations he has met with 
excellent success, his well-cultivated and well improved land yielding good annual crops. Of 
Welsh ancestry on the paternal side, he was born in Solano county, Cal., and there spent the 
first seven years of his life. 

Coming to Merced county in the days of his boyhood, John Bibby received such educational 
advantages as were afforded by the district school. He subsequently obtained a wide and 
varied knowledge of places, men and events by traveling, visiting Arizona, Oregon, Nevada, 
Wyoming and the Hawaiian Islands. When ready to settle permanently in life, Mr. Bibby 
selected the independent occupation to which he was reared, and assuming possession of his 
present ranch of fifty acres on the Bibby road at once began its improvement. In addition to this 
he has, since 1901, engaged in stock-raising on the parental homestead, which adjoins his own 
estate, and in the care of both farms has been exceedingly prosperous, his skill and systematic 
methods bringing him much success. 

Taking an intelligent interest in local affairs. Mr. Bibby is a stanch Democrat, and uniformly casts 
his vote with that party. Fraternally he is a member of the Woodmen of the World.