Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 5th ed., 1887,
Franklin Co.

PHILIP S. FALL is a native of Brighton, Sussex County, England, and was
born September 8, 1798, the eldest son of James Slater Fall, an officer in
the English Army.  The family arrived in New York, May 1, 1817, and in 1818
Philip came to Franklin County, Ky., took charge of an academy about four
miles from Frankfort, began his ministerial career in the same year, and
remained in the Baptist Church until 1831.  He married, May 1, 1821, Miss
Ann Apperson Bacon, eldest daughter of John Bacon, of Franklin County, a
descendant of Nathaniel Bacon of Virginia, a lineal descendant of Sir
Nicholas Bacon of Queen Elizabeth's reign.  Mrs. Ann A. Fall was born in
1800 in Franklin County, and is still living.  She is the mother of four
children, viz.: Rev. James S., a minister in the Christian Church; Mrs.
Mrs. E. H. Taylor, of Frankfort; Miss Caroline, and William Robeson, of
Texas.  In 1823 Mr. Fall removed to Louisville, opened an academy, and had
the patronage of the principal citizens of the city.  Gen. William Preston
was one of his pupils.  He administered the first baptism witnessed in
Louisville, in Grayson's Pond, on the site of which St. Paul's Church now
stands.  His health failed him in the summer of 1825, when he returned to
Franklin County, but in 1826, removed to Nashville, Tenn., entered the
female academy as vice-president, and also preached in the Baptist Church,
which in 1827 adopted the principles now recognized by the Christian
Church.  In 1828 he established an independent literary institution at
Nashville, remained there until the middle of 1831, when, his health
having again failed, he returned to his pleasant home "Poplar Hill," three
miles north of Frankfort, and established the Female Eclectic Institute,
which he conducted with unexampled success for twenty years.  This school
was one of the first in Kentucky to advance young ladies to a higher
education, and was supplied with philosophical and scientific apparatus
from England and France, at a cost of $10,000.  In 1853 he removed the
institute to Frankfort, where he remained until 1858, meeting with the
same success, when he again removed to Nashville in November, and preached
for the Christian Church until 1877.  During the war, the public schools
being suspended, he opened a private academy, which was soon filled with
pupils, and which he conducted until the close of the war, when, without
opposition and with his knowledge, he was elected a member of the
educational board, and, at its first meeting elected its president.  In
1877 he finally returned to Frankfort and retired from his labors, being
probably the oldest educator in the county, and, doubtless, the oldest
Christian minister in the State, if not in the United States.

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