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Married Mary Hopkins Cabell in 1785. Half-brother of Alexander and Robert Breckenridge, brother of James Breckinridge, Son of Colonel Robert Breckinridge and Letitia Preston. [7] James Breckinridge (1763–1833), Virginia House Delegate 1789–1802 1806–1808 1819–1821 1823–1824, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia ...
Porter was born on July 14, 1827, in Black Rock, New York, the only son of Yale lawyer Peter Buell Porter, a military leader in the War of 1812 and United States Secretary of War from 1828 to 1829, and Letitia Breckinridge. Before his parents marriage, his mother was a widow as her first husband, whom she married in 1804, Alfred William Grayson ...
Myra Breckinridge is a 1968 satirical novel by Gore Vidal written in the form of a diary.Described by the critic Dennis Altman as "part of a major cultural assault on the assumed norms of gender and sexuality which swept the western world in the late 1960s and early 1970s", [1] the book's major themes are feminism, transsexuality, American expressions of machismo and patriarchy, and deviant ...
His mother was General James Breckinridge's daughter Letitia who ignored the matrimonial offerings of Captain Meriwether Lewis to marry Robert Gramble instead. Welaunee Plantation was established in 1826 when Robert Gamble brought his family to Florida from Virginia. Robert's brother, John Grattan Gamble, established Waukeenah Plantation next ...
The Breckinridge family exerted a powerful influence in the divided slave state of Kentucky, with Breckinridge County dating back well before its current constitution of 1799. They were viewed as southern aristocracy, counting many Confederate generals among their cousins. But family members also fought in the Union army, and supported Lincoln ...
John Breckinridge Grayson (October 18, 1806 – October 21, 1861) was a career United States Army officer and a graduate of West Point.He is well known for being a Confederate brigadier general during the American Civil War, his service during the Mexican-American War, and for his early death only three months after joining the Confederate Army of pneumonia and tuberculosis.
William Preston was born on Christmas Day in 1729, in Limavady, County Donegal, Ireland, to ship carpenter John Preston and his wife, Elizabeth.Their first born son, he ultimately had four sisters who married (Letitia married Robert Breckinridge, Margaret married John Brown, Ann married Francis Smith and Mary married John Howard), and one of his younger brothers, William also reached adulthood ...
Frances Viley Breckenridge June 21, 1848 – December 30, 1924 John Andrew Steele 3 children John Milton Cabell Breckinridge August 7, 1849 – March 18, 1850 no spouse: Died in infancy John Witherspoon Breckinridge Nickname: Owen: December 22, 1850 – May 9, 1892 Louisa A. Tevis 3 children; grandfather of Bunny Breckinridge: Mary Desha ...