William Crapon Sibley

[1] He received his education at private schools, and was prepared for college at the Richmond County Academy, Augusta, but decided to forego a collegiate course.

[2] Although prepared for college at the age of sixteen, he clerked in the general store of his father, at Hamburg, South Carolina, continuing in that capacity for five years, when he was made a partner.

Then joining the Oglethorpe artillery, he was made quartermaster sergeant, and six weeks later, commissary, with the rank of captain, of Gen. John K. Jackson's brigade.

[1] In November, 1865, at New Orleans, Louisiana, he formed the shipping and commission firm of Sibley, Guion & Co., which was dissolved in 1867, Mr. Sibley doing business there alone until the spring of 1870, when he returned to Augusta, Georgia, to accept the presidency of the Langley Cotton Manufacturing company of South Carolina, with its main office in Augusta, Georgia; also forming the cotton firm of Dunbar & Sibley of Augusta, which was dissolved in 1877.

In 1889, he resigned the presidency of the Langley Manufacturing company in order to devote his entire attention to the Sibley mills.