Elmore County AlArchives Biographies.....Fitzpatrick, Phillips ? - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   DR. PHILLIPS FITZPATRICK, a prominent physician and planter of eldest
surviving son of ex-Gov. Benjamin and Sarah Terry (Elmore) Fitzpatrick. Gov.
Fitzpatrick was born in Greene county, Ga., in 1800. He had a limited “old
field” school education and when he was eighteen years old, came with his two
older brothers, Joseph and Philip, to Alabama. He read law at Montgomery and
practiced till his health failed him, when he devoted himself to agriculture and
died in 1869. While he was a resident of Montgomery, he was elected solicitor of
that circuit and was a presidential elector on the Van Buren ticket in 1840, and
in 1842 was called to the high office of governor of the state and re-elected in
1844. In 1847, he was appointed United States senator and was several times
elected, being in that office when the state seceded. He was nominated for
vice-president on the ticket with Douglas in 1860, but declined, and was
president of the constitutional convention in 1866. He was a Union man and
bitterly opposed secession, but like many good loyal men, his sympathies and
co-operations were with the state. He was a celebrated lawyer and a man whose
legal opinions ranked high among his contemporaries, and one who had accumulated
a large fortune. He was a prominent Mason, but was not connected with any
church. He was twice married, his last wife being Aurelia Blassingame, by whom
he had one son, Benjamin, a prominent lawyer of Wetumpka. Gov. Fitzpatrick was
one of six sons-Joseph, Phillips, William, Benjamin, bird and Alva, all of whom
came to Alabama, and were planters in Montgomery county. The wife of Gov.
Fitzpatrick died in 1837. She was born in what is now Elmore county, and was the
daughter of Gen. John Archer and Nancy (Martin) Elmore, natives of Virginia and
South Carolina, respectively. Gen. Elmore received a fine education and went to
South Carolina, a young man, where he married Miss Saxon, by whom he had four
children-two sons and two daughters - Hon. Benjamin Thomas, who died in Richland
district, S. C., an officer in the United States army, auditor of the state and
a candidate for governor; Hon. Franklin Harper, who died in Washington, D. C.,
while in the United States senate as successor to the illustrious John C.
Calhoun. Gen. Elmore married again in South Carolina, and in 1818, came to
Alabama and settled in the wilds of the county that now bears his name. He died
in 1834, aged seventy-two years. He was a man of great prominence in the
political, military and judicial history of his day, being general of the South
Carolina militia and one of the first judges of the state. His second wife died
in 1855. She was the mother of seventeen children-several of whom were prominent
in state and national affairs, viz.: John Archer, a prominent lawyer of
Montgomery and a former member of the legislature; Hon. William A., a prominent
lawyer of New Orleans, and superintendent of the mint under Buchanan, and has
been a circuit judge and attorney-general of the state of Louisiana. He died in
Pennsylvania in 1891; Hon. Henry M. was probate judge of Macon county, in 1855
went to Texas and commanded a regiment during the war; Hon. Rush, captain in the
Mexican war, and territorial judge of Kansas, under Buchanan; Dr. Fitzpatrick is
the second of five sons, namely: Elmore, deceased, was in Semple's battery in
the early part of the war and was then judge advocate of the military court at
Mobile till the close of the war; Philip; Maurice and James, both died young;
John, a farmer of Elmore station, served in the army of the Tennessee, as a
quartermaster. Dr. Fitzpatrick had his early educational training at Wetumpka,
Ala., and in 1849 graduated with honor from the state university, and in 1854,
graduated in medicine from the state university at New Orleans. He engaged in
planting till the war and early in 1862 he joined Semple's battery and shortly
afterward was transferred to the medical department as acting assistant surgeon,
which rank he held till the close of the war. After the war he resumed his
practice and still follows it, but he has always been a planter on a large
scale. He is a member of the State Medical association and has been president of
the County Medical society. He was married in 1858, to Mary Bethea, of Alabama,
who died in 1878 and was the mother of five children; one son and two daughters
are living. In 1882, he married Jennie, daughter of Dr. James A. Kelley, of
Alabama, by whom he has three children. Both of his wives belonged to the
Presbyterian church.




Additional Comments:
from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 934-935
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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