Clement Daniel Fishburne

Clement Daniels Fishburne
Member of the Charlottesville City Council
Electoral District	First Ward
Preceded by	W. C. N. Randolph
Succeeded by	W. C. N. Randolph
Biographical Information
Date of birth	May 26, 1832
Date of death	May 16, 1907 (aged 74)
Place of birth	Waynesboro City, Virginia
Place of death	Charlottesville City, Virginia
Spouse	Sarah Waddell Fishburne Elizabeth Nora Wood Fishburne
Children	Three
Profession	Attorney Newspaper editor

Clement Daniels Fishburne (1832 – 1907), also known as C. D. Fishburne, was a Civil War veteran, attorney and at one time edited of The Charlottesville Chronicle, a weekly paper published in Charlottesville for some years (1866-1869) after the war. For many years he was a member of the City Council (1872 to 1890).

Biography: Sketches of The Dead (1920)

Clement Daniels Fishburne, by J. N. Waddell

Clement Daniels Fishburne was born in Waynesboro, Virginia, on May 26th, 1832, and died in Charlottesville, Virginia, on May 16th, 1907. He was the son of Daniel Fishburne, of Waynesboro, and of Ann Blackwell Rodes Fishburne, of Albemarle County. In his earlier years, he attended school in Waynesboro, and afterwards entered Washington College at Lexington, Virginia, from which institution he graduated.

After leaving college he taught in Christiansburg, Virginia, for one year, and the following year entered the University of Virginia. Shortly after the opening of the session he was elected Professor of Applied Mathematics at Davidson College, North Carolina, which was at that time under the charge of Major D. H. Hill, afterwards General Hill of the Confederate army. He was afterwards elected by the trustees of that institution Professor of Greek.

In 1860 he resigned his position at Davidson College with a view to studying law, and entered the law school of the University of Virginia in the fall of 1860.

In the spring of 1861 Virginia seceded from the Union, and in June of that year he left the institution to join the Rockbridge Artillery under the captaincy of W. N. Pendleton. He served in the Rockbridge Artillery for a year or more, and was then transferred to other departments of the army. When the war closed he was First-Lieutenant in the Ordnance Department.

After the war he returned to the University of Virginia, and finished his course in law, and started practicing in Charlottesville, where he lived for the remainder of his life. While engaged in his profession, he was elected cashier of the Bank of Albemarle, which position he held until his death. He was Chairman of the Board of Supervisors of Albemarle County for many years, and was also a member of the council of the town and city of Charlottesville. He was one of the trustees of Washington and Lee University, of which he was a graduate, and on him was conferred by that University the honorary degree of M. A.

He was married while at Davidson College to Sarah Waddell of Lexington, Virginia, who died about one year later. He afterwards married Elizabeth Wood, of Albemarle County, Virginia, who, with three sons, Judge John W. Fishburne, Clement D. Fishburne, Jr., and George P. Fishburne, survives him. He was a strong and vigorous writer, and at one time edited The Chronicle, a well known weekly paper published in Charlottesville for some years after the war.

Few men in his day and generation were held in higher esteem by the people of Charlottesville and Albemarle County. Ready always to give counsel to those who sought his advice, his judgment was rarely wrong, and many to-day live to testify to the strong, lovable character of Clement Daniels Fishburne Soldier, Scholar, and Citizen!

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