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Elijah Connor Phister (Mason County, KY, circuit court judge, attorney, and later? mayor)

b. 1822-10-08 d. 1887-05-16

About

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.

Details

Sex: Male
Race: White

Bibliography

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.

Citation

Phister, Elijah Connor. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32196858 (November 12, 2026).

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Documents (7)

Legal/Financial
Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Arnold Snider, Transcript
1863-12-30
Legal/Financial
Commonwealth of Kentucky v. John R. B. Watkins, Indictment
1860-11-12
Correspondence
E. C. Phister to James F. Robinson
1862-10-25
Correspondence
E. C. Phister to Thomas E. Bramlette
1863-09-29
Correspondence
J. Davidson to P. C. Phister
1862-10-15
Petition
Saml W. Owens et al. to James F. Robinson
1863-01-09
Petition
Thornton F. Mashall et al. to James F. Robinson
1863-08-26

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