. Kentucky politicians. Sketches of representative Corncrackers and other miscellany. es back to the Reformation. The ancestors of this sj)len-did clan of people took part in the memorable defense of Londonderryin the seventeenth century. They were, on the paternal side of thehouse, what was then called Scotch-Irish—that is, they were Pres-byterians from the North of Ireland then, but originally from the restoration of Charles II. they were hotly persecuted in Ayre-shire, their original seat, and were driven thence into the highlands ofBraedlabane, where they spent half a centur
. Kentucky politicians. Sketches of representative Corncrackers and other miscellany. es back to the Reformation. The ancestors of this sj)len-did clan of people took part in the memorable defense of Londonderryin the seventeenth century. They were, on the paternal side of thehouse, what was then called Scotch-Irish—that is, they were Pres-byterians from the North of Ireland then, but originally from the restoration of Charles II. they were hotly persecuted in Ayre-shire, their original seat, and were driven thence into the highlands ofBraedlabane, where they spent half a century. Thence they removedto Ireland, and thence early in the last century into Virginia. Theywere a persecuted remnant of tlie Scotch Covenanters, who sufferedlong and heroically in defense of liberty and reformed religion, andtheir courage, intelligence, and fidelity they left as birthrights to theirdescendants, than which they could not hold greater or nobler pos-sessions. i«i!l!lll!l^ >iii ]\^^ p|:|{i|;;ii;{i;|i|r^|P J^^Vv:^ IfS^y^^^SE ^PmP>4^^ ^:;£^:k^<^ ^^^^JSPhj Il. JUDGE ELI H. BROWN. The county of Meade was formed in 1823, and named in lionor ofCaptain James Meade, who fell in die battle of the river Raisin. Andit was in this county that Eli H. Brown was born on the 13th ofNovember, in the year of our Lord 1S41. He is the fifth son of JohnMc. Brown, Esq., who was born in Nelson county, Ky., in 1799, andhis mother was Miss Minerva Murray, of Washington county, Ky.,the daughter of Colonel John Murray, of that county. She was bornin the year 1808. Their ancestry were among the early settlers ofVirginia and Pennsylvania, distinguished for valor, intrepidity, andintellectual superiority. Eli Brown was educated at the academy ofHawesville, Hancock county, Ky. He studied law with George , Esq., then a resident of that town, but now residing inOwensboro, Ky. He could not have been in better training, for was regarded at that time as the ablest ch
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