Family History

Brief Breckinridge Family History & Portrait Gallery.

General John C Breckinridge (50 % & gif format)

Democratic Vice Presidential Candidate, 1856.

Map of Breckinridge County, KY, 1894

Attorney General John Breckinridge

Reverend John Breckinridge

Samuel Miller Breckinridge & Family

Breckinridge Biographies

Alexander Breckinridge ( - )

Hon. John Breckinridge (December 1760 - December 1806)

Hon. Joseph Cabell Breckinridge (July 1788 - September 1823)

Rev. John Breckinridge (July 1797 - August 1841)

Rev. William Lewis Breckinridge (July 1803 - December 1876)

Gen. John Cabell Breckinridge (January 1821 - May 1875)

Robert Jefferson Breckinridge (September 1834 - )

William Campbell Preston Breckinridge (August 1837 - November 1904)

Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge (April 1866 - July 1948)

Desha Breckinridge (August 1867 - )

LONG, [Samuel Miller] Breckinridge (May 1881 - September 1958)

Henry Breckinridge (May 1886 - May 1960)

Some Interesting Breckinridge Links

http://www.civilwarhome.com/breckinridgechickamauga.htm

http://www.vmi.edu/~arcsmith/64may10B.html

http://www.reunionnet.com/military/usn/dd-178.htm

http://www.mcu.quantico.usmc.mil/www/archives/breckrdg.htm

http://thebook.com/verlangieri/buch_breck.html

http://planet.net/pgymnotac/csa/Breckinridge.html

Library of Congress - Marvin Breckinridge Patterson, Photographer:

http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/wcf0009.html

About the surname 'Breckinridge':

http://extra.entisoft.com/B/r/Breckinridge.HTM

Bibliography of printed material for the descendants of

James and Ann (Seldon) Breckinridge

The Descendants of John and Mary Hopkins (Cabell) Breckinridge.

1. Breckinridge, Mary (1952) Wide Neighborhoods, a Story of Frontier Nursing Service. The University Press of Kentucky, Lexington Ky. 40506-0024, 400 pages, ISBN 0-8131-1453-5; -0149-2.

2. Brown, Alexander (1st ed. 1899; 2nd ed. 1939) The Cabells and Their Kin, (a comprehensive family history including many Breckinridge family members) Garret and Massie Publishers, 708 pages.

3. Davis, William C. (1974) Breckinridge; Statesman Soldier Symbol, Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, ISBN 0-8071-0068-4, Library of Congress #73-77658.

4. Doman, John Frederick (1982) The Prestons of Smithfield and Greenfield in Virginia, Filson Club Publications ISBN 0-9601072-1-5 , Library of Congress Catalog #80-2841. Filson Club, 118 West Breckinidge St. Louisville, KY 40203.

5. Harrison, Lowell H. (1969) John Breckinridge: Jeffersonian Republican Filson Club Publications, Louisville KY. Library of Congress Catalog number 71-76319. 242 pages.

6. Heck, Frank H. (1976) Proud Kentuckian: John C. Breckinridge, The University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 165 Pages.

7. Hess, Stephen (1966) American Political Dynasties from Adams to Kennedy, Doubleday and Company, (a well written chapter on Breckinridge political achievements), Library of Congress number 66-17141, pages 239-272.

8. Keith, Charles P. (1893) The Ancestry of Benjamin Harrison, J. B. Lippincott co. publishers, Philadelphia, PA.

9. Klotter, James C. (1986) The Breckinridges of Kentucky 1760-1981, The University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. 40506-0024. ISBN-0-8131-1553-1.

10. Stoner, Robert Douthat (1962) Seed-bed of the Republic, Radford Va. 1962.

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