Elijah Connor Phister

Birth Date

1822-10-08

Death Date

1887-05-16

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Mason County, Kentucky, attorney and judge. Maysville, Kentucky, native. Son of Conrad Phister and Mary W. Conner Phister. Married to Jane A. Phister. Father of Anna E. Phister, Mary S. Phister, Amelia N. Phister, Thomas R. Phister. Graduated from Augusta College in Augusta, Kentucky, in 1840. Studied law with John Sargent in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Admitted to the bar in 1844. Practiced law with the firm of Payne & Waller in Mason County. Circuit court judge in Maysville in 1860. Employed two enslaved persons owned by Joseph B. Lindsey in Mason County in 1860.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, District 2, p. 172.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Salve Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, District 2, p. 21.
Paul A. Tenkotte and James C. Claypool, eds., The Encyclopedia of Northern Kentucky (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2009), 715.

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