I84866: Edward Carrington FISHER Dr. (16 Nov 1809

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Edward Carrington Fisher((5)) (George Fisher((4)), Jaquelin Ambler((3)), Richard Ambler((2)), Edward Jaquelin((1))), b. November 16, 1809; d. January 12, 1890. Married (1832) Lavinia Anderson Page, b. at Locust Grove, Cumberland County, Virginia, June 20, 1809, Dr. E. C. Fisher Superintendent Insane Asylum, Staunton, Virginia.

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HISTORY OF KENTUCKY AND KENTUCKIANS, E. Polk Johnson, three volumes, Lewis Publishing Co., New York & Chicago, 1912. Common version, Vol. III, pp. 1205-06. [Franklin County] "ARCHIBALD WALLER OVERTON--The standing of Archibald Waller Overton, cashier of the Framers' National Bank of Frankfort, both as a private citizen and a man of affairs is unimpeachable throughout that section of the Blue Grass state which was the scene of his birth and where for so many years he has made his home. Nowhere does true patriotism and state loyalty bloom more brightly than in the breast of the Kentuckian, and Mr. Overton may be pardoned for an unusual amount of pride in his state and in his family, for his paternal grandfather, Waller Overton, came to Kentucky from his native Louisa county, Virginia, only three years later than the celebrated Daniel Boone, who began to exploration of her fair acres in 1769.

Mr. Overton was born November 11, 1846, on his father's farm in Fayette county, his parents being Dabney Carr and Eliza (Harris) Overton. This was also his father's birthplace, but his mother had come from Louisa county, Virginia. The father followed the honorable vocation of agriculture and was also one of the early magistrates of his county at a time when that office was an elevated and important one and when its incumbent was the recipient of high esteem and many honors. He was the father of nine children, only three of whom survive at the present day.

When Mr. Overton was a lad about eleven years of age he removed to Virginia with his guardian, General D. B. Harris, who lived in Louisa county, where he was engaged in the manufacturing of tobacco, and in the cultivation of the soil. General Harris was a son of Frederick Harris, of Louisa county, Virginia, the first president of the old Virginia Central Railroad, now a part of the C. & O.Railroad, and it was the first railroad built in the South, and one of the first in the United States. Frederick Harris was also a captain in the war of 1812. There in Virginia Mr. Overton grew to manhood, receiving his rudimentary education in the public schools and later entering the Virginia Military Institute. Like most young men of his period he was familiar with agriculture in all its departments and could no doubt have made of it a successful life vocation had he so chosen.

At the beginning of the Civil war he was a cadet in the Virginia Military Institute and like his fellow students enlisted in the army of the Confederacy. He saw some hard fighting and participated in the battle of New Market, when the forces of General John C. Breckinridge met those of General Sigel of the Union army.

He subsequently resumed his studies and was graduated from the Institute in 1866. From 1866 to 1871 Mr. Overton was engaged in the manufacture of tobacco in Louisa county, Virginia. He had ever been attracted by the idea of his native state, and in 1871 he concluded again to cast his fortunes with it, locating in Frankfort. Six months later the Framers' Bank of Kentucky engaged his services as bookkeeper in the branch bank at Henderson, and this position he held for three years. Mr. Overton was made general bookkeeper in the mother bank at Frankfort, to which city he changed his residence. In 1888 Mr. Overton was called to the position of assistant cashier of the Farmers' Bank of Kentucky, and in 1898, upon the death of the cashier, he was promoted to the cashiership of the bank. This bank went into liquidation in 1900 and was succeeded by the new and present institution, known as the Farmers' Bank of Frankfort, and Mr. Overton has held the office of cashier since its organization.

On March 11, 1877, Mr. Overton laid the foundations of a happy home by his union with Miss Laura Ellen Harris, a native of Louisa county, Virginia. They had but one child, a son, named Waller Bullock Overton.

In the matter of politics Mr. Overton gives his allegiance to the Democratic party and takes a keen interest in the solution of all problems pertaining in any way to the public welfare. He is a Knight Templar Mason and a member of the Episcopal church, having been a vestryman of his church for years."
Overton Harris = Henderson-KY Louisa-VA

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Names in the directory of Newton Township in the History of Newton and Ransom Townships by J.B. Stephens, Montrose, PA: JB Stephens, ©1912:
Swartz, Elmer G. (Edith Shaw) truck and dairy farmer.

My Southern Family

Dr. Edward Carrington FISHER

16 Nov 1809 - 12 Jan 1890

ID Number: I84866

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Robert LANGBORNE

ABT 1790 - ____

ID Number: I102090

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Eleanor MCCUBBINS

11 May 1795 - 9 Dec 1858

ID Number: I88187

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Waller OVERTON C.S.A.

11 Nov 1846 - ____

ID Number: I59662

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Edith SHAW

ABT 1863 - ____

ID Number: I36887

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Martha TERRELL

ABT 1794 - ____

ID Number: I51037

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Mary WOODSON

ABT 1740 - ____

ID Number: I34517

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