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 HKRRINUSHAW'S LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Breckenridge, John Cabell, soldier, vicepresident of the United States, was born Jan. 16, 1821, near Lexington, Ky. He served as a major of infantry in the war

with Mexico; and also while in that country distinguished himself as the counsel of Major-general Pillow during the famous court martial. On his re-

turn from Mexico he

was elected to the Kentucky state legisIn 1851-55 he was a representative from Kentucky to the thirty-second and thirty-third congresses. In 1857-61 he was vice-president of the United States. In 1860 he was nominated by the southern democratic party as their candidate for president. In 1861-63 he was United States senator. He took part in the civil war as a general; and in 1865 was appointed secretary of war of the confederacy. He died May 17, 1875, in Lexington, Ky. Breckinridge, Clifton Rhodes, soldier, cotton planter, congressman, was born Nov. 22, 1846, in Lexington, Ky. He served as a private soldier and midshipman in the confederate service. He engaged in cotton planting in Arkansas and aslo in the commission business at Pine Bluff, Ark. In 1883-93 he- was a representative from ArKansas to the fortylature.

promoted

to major-general of volunteers in served in the Santiago campaign. Breckinridge, Robert Jefferson, clergyman, author, was born March 8, 1800, in Cabell's Dale, Ky. He was «, noted presbyterian clergyman of Lexington, Ky. and in 185371 was a professor in the new theological seminary at Danville. He was the author of Popery; Internal Evidence of Christianity; Memoranda of Foreign Travel; Travels

1898.

He



in

France and Germany; and The Knowl-

edge of God, Objectively and Subjectively Considered. He died Dec. 27, 1871, in Danville,

Ky.

Breckinridge, Robert Jefierson, soldier, lawyer, jurist, statesman, was born in September, 1834. He was a representative in the confederate congress; and was a colonel He of cavalry in the confederate service. was judge of the court of common pleas; was a member of the state senate of Kentucky; and served as attorney-general of

Kentucky. Breckinridge, William Campbell Preston, soldier, journalist, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Aug. 28, 1837, in Baltimore,

Md.

In 1862 he entered the confederate army as captain of cavalry; rose to the

rank of colonel; and at the time of the sur-



was in comof a brigade of the Kentucky cavalry. He was editor of the render

mand

eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty-first, fiftysecond and fifty-third congresses as a democrat. In 1894-97 ister to Russia.

Observer Lexington and Reporter in 186668 was county attor-

he was United States min-

Breckinridge, H. M., lawyer, jurist. He of the United States district court sometime prior to 1884. Breckinridge, John Robert, soldier, legislator, was born in Botetourt county, Va. He was a captain in the continental army of the revolution; and was a charter member of the society of Cincinnati. In 1784-92 he was a member of various Kentucky conventions; and in 1792-96 was speaker of the house of representatives of the general assembly of Kentucky. He died in Kentucky. Breckinridge, Joseph Cabell, soldier, legislator, was born in 1789. He was a major in the war of 1812-15; was a representative from Fayette county to the Kentucky state legislature; and was speaker. He was also secretary of state of Kentucky. He died in 1823, at the age of thirty-four years. He was the father of John Cabell Bre'ekinridge, vice-president of the United States. Breckinridge, Joseph Cabell, soldier, was bom- Jan. 14, 1842, in Baltimore, Md. In 1861 he entered the union army; was on the staff of Generals Nelson and Thomas; and was given an appointment in the regular army for gallantry at Mill Springs, Ky. He filled every grade; was major in 1881; became brigadier-general in 1889; and was

was judge

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in 1866-70; and of the city council of Lexington in 1870-79; and professor of equity, jurisprudence and pleadings in the law department of the Kentucky university in 1872. He was presidential elector in 1872; and was a delegate to the democratic national conventions of 1876 and 1880. In 1885-95 he was a representative from Kentucky to the forty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty-first, fiftysecond and fifty-third congresses as a democrat. He died Nov. 19, 1904, in Lexington, Ky. Breckons, Joseph Allison, journalist, author, was born Nov. 27, 1857, in St. Clair, Pa. He is the author of Water Right Problems on Bear River.

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Breed, John Howard, businessijian, genewas born May 27, 1849. He is superintendent of the safe deposit vaults of the Real estate trust company of Philadelphia, Pa. He is the author of The Breed Family Record. Breed, Robert S., educator, biologist, scientist, was born Oct. 17, 1877, in Brooklyn, Pa. Since 1902 he has been professor of biology and geology at Allegheny college of Meadville, Pa. alogist,