Waller Overton
 

Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 7th ed., 1887,
Campbell Co.


Waller Overton, cashier of the German National Bank, of Newport, Ky., is a native of Fayette County, Ky., and was born November 17, 1838, a son of Dabney Caw and Eliza (Harris) Overton, who were natives, respectively, of Fayette County, Ky., and Louisa County, Va. 

Walter Overton, the grandfather of our subject, settled near Lexington, Ky. very early in the history of the State.  The family is of English and Welsh origin.  Dabney Caw Overton was a graduate of both law and medicine, but was a farmer by occupation.  He took a great interest in his son's education, who was reared on the farm, but who, after a four-years' course at Bethany College, West Virginia, graduated at that institution.  He served in the Confederate
Army as adjutant of the Second Kentucky Battalion Cavalry, all through the war. 

He settled in Newport in 1868, and in 1882 assisted in organizing the German National Bank, successor to James Taylor & Sons, of which bank Samuel Show is president and Mr. Overton is cashier.  The bank has a capital of $100,000, with $22,000 surplus, and an average deposit of $350,000. 

In 1870 he married Miss Alice Winston Pendleton, of Louisa County, Va., who died in 1877.  Mr. Overton is a Royal Arch Mason, and a gentleman of rare business attainments.


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