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
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Henderson-KY Louisa-VA

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