History of Loudoun County Virginia United States of America

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John Breathitt, governor of Kentucky, was born in Loudoun county, Va., Sept. 9, 1786. His father removed to Kentucky in 1800 and John was a surveyor and teacher there. He was admitted to the bar in 1810 and practised in Frankfort, Ky. He was for several years a representative in the state legislature, elected as a Jacksonian Democrat; and was Heutenant-gover-nor of Kentucky, 1828-'32, was inaugurated governor June 1, 1832, holding the office at the time of his death in Frankfort, Ky., Feb. 21, 1834.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Warwick Hough, jurist, was born in Loudoun county, Va., Jan. 26, 1836; son of George W. and Mary C. (Shawen) Hough and grandson of Cornelius and Mary (Maine) Shawen. He was prepared for college in private schools in Jefferson City, Mo., and was graduated from Missouri State university, A.B., 1854; A.M., 1857. In his senior year he invented a figure illustrating the gradual acceleration of the stars, which was used many years after he left college. In 1854 he was appointed to make barometrical observations for Professor Swallow, then in charge of the state geological survey, and the following year he was made assistant state geologist. Before attaining his majority he was chief clerk in the office of the secretary of state; and he was secretary of the state senate, 1858-59, 1859-60 and 1860-61. He was admitted to the bar in 1859, was commissioned 1st lieutenant in the governor's guards in 1860, and in 1861 was appointed by Governor C. F. Jackson adjutant-general of Missouri, with the rank of brigadier-general, holding the position until the death of Governor Jackson, when he was appointed secretary of state by Thomas C. Reynolds, the Confederate governor. He resigned this office in 1863 to enter the Confederate military service and was assigned to the command of the Department of Northern Mississippi and in January, 1864, He was commissioned captain in the inspector-general's department. He served on the staffs of Generals Leonidas Polk, S. D. Lee and Richard Taylor. After the war he practised law in Memphis, Tenn., 1865-67, and then removed to Kansas City, Mo. He was a judge of the state supreme court, 1874-84, being chief-justice, 1882-84. He removed in 1884 to St. Louis, Mo., where he established a large law practice. He was married in 1861 to Nina E., daughter of Benjamin F. and Maria (Withers) Massey, and had three daughters and two sons. The eldest son, Warwick Massey Hough, was graduated with honors from Central college, Fayette, Mo., in 1883, became a lawyer in St. Louis, Mo., and was for several years assistant U.S. district attorney; the second son, Louis, was graduated at the Missouri Medical college, St. Louis, in 1891, and became chief surgeon of the St. Geronimo railroad. Judge Hough attained the thirty-second degree in Masonry; and was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences, St. Louis, in 1856. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from the State University of Missouri in 1883.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Lucien Lee Kinsolving, first bishop of the Brazilian Episcopal church, and the third consecrated in America for foreign churches, was born in Loudoun county, Va., May 14, 1862; son of the Rev. Dr. Ovid A. and Lucy Lee (Rogers) Kinsolving; grandson of Col. George W. and Ann (Barksdale) Kinsolving, of Albemarle county, Va., and of Gen. Asa and Eleanor Lee (Orr) Rogers; and a descendent of Col. Richard Lee through Thomas Ludwell Lee. He was graduated from the Theological Seminary of Virginia in 1889; was ordained deacon by Bishop Whittle in June of that year, and advanced to the priesthood, August, 1889. He sailed for Brazil, which mission was under the Episcopal charge of the bishop of West Virginia, and where he was dean of convocation, member of the standing committee and where he worked for nine years as a missionary. He was elected bishop of Brazil, in October, 1898, "to be subject to the jurisdiction of the American church until there shall be three bishops in Brazil," and he was consecrated, Jan. 6, 1899, by Bishops Dudley, Deane, Scarborough, Peterkin, Potter, Walker, Talbot, G. H. Kinsolving, Wells, Lawrence and McVickar. He received the degree of S.T.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1899.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Armistead Thomson Mason, senator, was born in Loudoun county, Va., in 1787; son of Stevens Thomson Mason. He was graduated at the College of William and Mary in 1807, and was colonel of cavalry in the war of 1812, and subsequently brigadier-general in the state militia. He was a representative in the Virginia legislature, and on March 8, 1815, was elected to complete the unexpired term of Senator William B. Giles, resigned, which expired March 3, 1817. He was a candidate in 1818 for representative in the 16th congress, 1819-21, but was defeated in the election by Charles F. Mercer. The political feeling engendered by the canvass was very bitter and led to a duel between Senator Mason and his brother-in-law John M. McCarty, in which Mason was killed, at Bladensburg, D.C., Feb. 6, 1819.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

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