Elisha Baxter (–)
Elisha Baxter, a Unionist leader during the Civil War and a jurist, is best remembered as Arkansas’s last Republicangovernor during Reconstruction. The attempt to overthrow him became known as the Brooks-Baxter War. Baxter’s victory resulted in the end of Reconstruction and the adoption of the Constitution of
Elisha Baxter was born on September 1, , in Rutherford County, North Carolina, to William Baxter and his second wife, Catherine Lee. She was the mother to five sons and three daughters out of William Baxter’s twenty children. His father had emigrated from Ireland in and prospered in Rutherford County in western North Carolina, acquiring land and slaves. Baxter received a limited education and sought to better himself by obtaining an appointment to the military academy at West Point. However, his father, who was nearly ninety years old, forced him to decline the appointment because he wanted this son to stay at home.
In , he entered into a successful general mercantile business with a brother-in-law, Spencer Eaves. Baxter married Harriet Patton of Rutherford County, North Carolina, on August 16, They had six children. His youngest brother, Taylor A. Bax
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William Meade Fishback was the 17th Governor of Arkansas and U. S. Senator-Elect for Arkansas.
Background
William Meade Fishback was born in Jeffersonton, Culpeper County, Virginia, son of Frederick and Sophia Ann (Yates) Fishback. His paternal ancestor, John Fishback, brought a colony from Germany and settled in Virginia about A descendant named Frederick moved into Maryland and acquired a farm where the town of Frederick, named for him, now stands. The family soon moved back into Virginia, where William was born.
Education
He was graduated at the University of Virginia in , taught school for a while, and then studied law in Richmond.
Career
In he moved to Springfield, where he had business relations with Abraham Lincoln. The next year he moved to Arkansas and settled at Fort Smith, Sebastian County. When secession was being agitated Fishback made strong speeches against it, and was elected to the state convention of as an opponent of disruption; but after the bombardment of Fort Sumter he introduced a resolution to the effect that any effort to coerce a
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