Identifier: kentuckypolitici00mca (find matches)
Title: Kentucky politicians. Sketches of representative Corncrackers and other miscellany
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: McAfee, John J
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Publisher: Louisville, Ky., Press of the Courier-Journal job printing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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, intellectually brilliant, and possessing the most charming vivacityof manner, she adorns society wherever she appears. Mrs. Grainger,the widow of General Gordon Grainger, is an elder sister of Mrs.Owsley, and Governor R. P. Letcher was her great-uncle. Theirsocial status is the highest in the State. Judge Owsley himself is every inch the gentleman, both inappearance and address. He is easy and graceful, and most captivat-ing in his conversational powers, which are absolutely unrivaled. Heis warm hearted and generous to that degree that it amounts almost toa fault. Although defeated in his gubernatorial aspirations, I venture theprediction that Buckner and Owsley would make a winning team for the next candidacy for that office. They would sweep the Statewith the force of a typhoon. The very brooks in the mountain passeswould sing their praises, and the stars of Heaven would brighten intheir vigils to insure their election. Let that be the next gubernatorialticket, Buckner and Owsley.
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HON. P. BOOKER REED. In Frankfort, Ky., that natural mosaic of sylvan beauty set amongthe gloomy and rugged hills, P. Booker Reed was born on the 7th dayof October, 1842. His father, William D. Reed, was the secretaryof State under Governor Owsleys administration, and he was theDemocratic elector for die State at large in the year 1855—thatmomentous time of Know-Nothingism which marked its era by theblood that dyed the streets of Baltimore, by the indelible stain setupon the political escutcheon of Louisville, and by the sorrowful mem-ories that cluster in many cities of the Union, until that time united ininterest and prosperity. Mr. Reeds mother was Miss M. Jane Sharp,the daughter of Colonel Solomon P. Sharp, the progenitor of theNew Court party, and the victim of the assassin Beauchamp at thecapital of the State in 1825. Colonel Sharp was a lawyer of greatversatility and power, and at the time of his sudden and cruel takingoff was probably one of the most prominent men in the Sta

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