History of Jeffersonton, (Culpeper County) Virginia United States of America

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William Meade Fishback, governor of Arkansas, was born at Jeffersonton, Culpeper county, Va., Nov. 5, 1831; son of Frederick and Sophie Ann (Yates) Fishback, and grandson of Martin and Lucy (Amiss) Fishback and Col. Poytriss and Elizabeth (Stith) Yates. He was graduated from the University of Virginia in 1855, and was admitted to the bar in 1858, practising at Fort Smith, Ark. He was a member of the constitutional convention of 1861. In 1863 he edited, at Little Rock, the Unconditional Union, and in the same year raised the 4th Arkansas cavalry for the Union army. He was elected to the U.S. senate May 5, 1864, before being mustered into the army, but under the reconstruction rules was not allowed to take his seat. In 1865 he was made U.S. treasury agent for Arkansas. He was a member of the state constitutional convention of 1874, from Sebastian county, and a representative in the state legislature in 1877, 1879 and 1885. In 1892 he was elected governor of Arkansas serving two years. He was married in 1867 to Adelaide, daughter of Joseph Miller of Fort Smith, Ark.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Jeffersonton, (Culpeper County) Virginia

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