Eugenius Aristedes Nisbet
b. 7 December 1803, d. 18 March 1871
- Father: James Nisbet b. circa 1768, d. circa 1832
- Mother: Penelope Cooper b. 5 November 1775, d. circa 1834
- Eugenius Aristedes Nisbet was born on 7 December 1803 in Greene County, Georgia.
- He married Amanda Malvina Fitzallen Battle on 12 April 1825 in Powellton, Hancock County, Georgia.
- Eugenius Aristedes Nisbet died on 18 March 1871 at age 67 in Macon, Bibb County, Georgia.
- The following appeared on 5 September 1871 in the Georgia Weekly Telegraph: Proceedings in the Supreme Court. In Honor of the Memory of the late Judge Eugenius A. Nisbet. Supreme Court of Georgia, Atlanta, Ga., August 29, 1871. After the delivery of opinions in cases argued last week, the Court adjourned till 3 o'clock P.M., then to hear the report of the committee appointed to prepare a memorila of the Honoralbe Eugenius A. Nisbet. . . . Turning his attention to the law, he commenced hiss studies under Judge Clayton, and subsequently became a student in the law school of the celebrated Judge Gould, at Litchfield, Conn. Having finished his professional course, he returned to Georgia, and at the early age of twenty he was addmitted to the bar by authority of a special act of the General Assembly. He opened an office at Madison, and began the practice of his profession in partnership with John W. Campbell, Esq. [who was age 29 in 1823] . . . .
- Last Edited: 14 Apr 2010