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Robert BRECKINRIDGE
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Letitia PRESTON
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Col. Joseph CABELL
(1732-1798)
Mary HOPKINS
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John BRECKINRIDGE
(1760-1806)
Mary Hopkins "Polly" CABELL
(1769-1858)
Joseph Cabell BRECKINRIDGE
(1788-)

 

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Mary Clay SMITH

Joseph Cabell BRECKINRIDGE

  • Born: 14 Jul 1788, Albemarle County, Virginia, USA
  • Marriage: Mary Clay SMITH

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Taken from the Biographical Encyclopaedia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century. Published by J. M. Armstrong & Company, Cincinnati, Ohio 1878.

Hon. Joseph Cabell Breckinridge (July 1788 - September 1823)
Hon. Joseph Cabell Breckinridge* lawyer, was born July 14, 1788, in Albemarle County, Virginia, and was the second child and first son of Hon. John Breckinridge and his wife, Mary Hopkins Cabell. His mother was the daughter of Col. Joseph Cabell, of Buckingham County, Virginia. At the age of fourteen he was placed under the tutelage of Dr. Archibald Alexander, afterwards a distinguished professor of theology at Princeton; in 1804 entered Princeton College, remaining until the death of his father in 1806; returned to Princeton in 1808 and graduated with honor in 1810; after graduating, studied law, and entered upon its practice at Lexington, Kentucky; served as major on the staff of his relative, Gen. Samuel Hopkins, during the war of 1812; in 1816, was elected to the lower house of the Legislature, without opposition; in 1817 was re-elected and chosen speaker; in 1818 was again a member and speaker, and at the age of thirty, occupied a most enviable position as a lawyer, orator and politician; in 1820 was appointed secretary of state under Governor Adair, and removed to Frankfort, engaging, at the same time, in the practice of his profession. He died September 1, 1823, a victim to an epidemic fever and thus was lost to his family, friends and country before the prime of life. Joseph Cabell Breckinridge, a man, who, from his first appearance in public life, had steadily grown in the affection and estimation of the people, and whose noble character and genuine talents promised in any sphere, to reflect honor upon the state. In person, he was about middle height, with a symmetrical form, his whole appearance being graceful and manly. For a number of years he had been connected with the Presbyterian Church and was one of the founders and ruling elders of the second church of that denomination in Lexington. Mr. Breckinridge was married to Mary Clay Smith, daughter of Rev. Samuel Stanhope Smith, president of Princeton College. She was a granddaughter of John Witherspoon and a lineal descendant of John Knox, and with five children, four daughters, Letitia, Mary, Frances, Caroline, and one son, John Cabell, survived her husband. Letitia died without children; Mary married Dr. Thomas Satterwhite, a well-known physician of Lexington, who was killed by being thrown from his horse, and their child, Dr. Thomas P. Satterwhite, became a leading physician in Louisville; Frances married Rev. John C. Young, who was for twenty-seven years president of Centre College, and left four daughters; Caroline married Rev. Joseph J. Bullock, and died leaving a large family. Their son is Gen. John Cabell Breckinridge, whose sketch, with portrait, is given on following pages.


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Joseph married Mary Clay SMITH.


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