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Below is a family biography from the book, History of Kentucky, Edition 7 by J. H. Battle, W. H. Perrin and G. C. Kniffin and published by F. A. Battey Publishing Company in 1887. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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WALLER OVERTON, cashier of the German National Bank, of Newport, Ky., is a native of Fayette County, Ky., and was born November 17, 1838, a son of Dabney Caw and Eliza (Harris) Overton, who were natives, respectively, of Fayette County, Ky., and Louisa County, Va. Waller Overton, the grandfather of our subject, settled near Lexington, Ky., very early in the history of the State. The family is of English and Welsh origin. Dabney C. Overton was a graduate of both law and medicine, but was a farmer by occupation. He took a great interest in his son’s education, who was reared on the farm, but who, after a four-years’ course at Bethany College, West Virginia, graduated at that institution. He served in the Confederate Army as adjutant of the Second Kentucky Battalion Cavalry, all through the war. He settled in Newport in 1868, and in 1882 assisted in organizing the German National Bank, successor to James Taylor & Sons, of which bank Samuel Show is president and Mr. Overton is cashier. The bank has a capital of $100,000, with $22,000 surplus, and an average deposit of $350,000. In 1870 he married Miss Alice Winston Pendleton, of Louisa County, Va., who died in 1877. Mr. Overton is a Royal Arch Mason, and a gentleman of rare business attainments.
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This family biography is one of 41 biographies included in the Campbell County, Kentucky section of the book, The History of Kentucky, Edition 7 published in 1887 by F. A. Battey Publishing Company. For the complete description, click here: History of Kentucky, Edition 7
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