roath, Forfar, Inverbervie
and Montrose to return one member to parliament.
Edzell (pronounced Edyell, and, locally, Aigle) lies about 6 m. north of
Brechin, with which it is connected by rail. It is situated on the North
Esk and near the West Water, which falls into the Esk 2 m. south-west.
Edzell is on the threshold of romantic Highland scenery. The picturesque
ruins of Edzell Castle lie a mile to the west of the town. Once the seat
of the Lindsays the estate now belongs to the earl of Dalhousie. The
church of the parish of Farnell, 3-1/2 m. south-east of Brechin, was
erected in 1806 after the model, so it is stated, of the famous Holy
House (Casa Santa) of Loreto in Italy. It was here that the old
sculptured stone giving a version of the Fall was found. Between Farnell
and Brechin lies Kinnaird Castle, the seat of the earl of Southesk.
BRECKINRIDGE, JOHN CABELL (1821-1875), American soldier and political
leader, was born near Lexington, Kentucky, on the 21st of January 1821.
He was a member of a family prominent in the public life of Kentucky and
the nation. His grandfather, John Breckinridge (1760-1806), who revised
Jefferson's draft of the "Kentucky Resolutions" of 1798, was a United
States senator from Kentucky in 1801-1805 and attorney-general in
President Jefferson's cabinet in 1805-1806. His uncles, John
Breckinridge (1797-1841), professor of pastoral theology in the
Princeton Theological Seminary in 1836-1838 and for many years after
secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, and Robert
Jefferson Breckinridge (1800-1871), for several years superintendent of
public instruction in Kentucky, an important factor in the organization
of the public school system of the state, a professor from 1853 to 1871
in the Danville Presbyterian Theological Seminary at Danville, Kentucky,
and the temporary chairman of the national Republican convention of
1864, were both prominent clergymen of the Presbyterian Church. His
cousin, William Campbell Preston Breckinridge (1837-1904), was a
Democratic representative in Congress from 1885 to 1893. Another cousin,
Joseph Cabell Breckinridge (1842- ), served on the Union side in the
Civil War, was a major-general of volunteers during the Spanish-American
War (1898), became a major-general in the regular United States army in
1903, and was inspector-general of the United States army from 1899
until his retirement from active service in 1904.
John Cabell Breckinri
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