The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-11-29
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Governor OF Missouri.
Isl. Louis Gerresondenoe New York SUM- ]
A RLnanrn Nh. BROWN

BLooDEp Mr.. BROWN.
The personal appearance of Gratz Brown
is as significant as his personal career. His.
nghting weight with revolver In hand and
bowle-knife in belt, is, I should say, lust
about 150 pounds. In his shirt and trousers
he would turn the beam at 140 pounds.
never put him in the scales, but I have
weighed D deal of live stock in my day, and
l think that my judgment Is good on avoir-
dupols. Gratz,is about five feet and nine
inches in height, slender, 1.-the; and honest
! IN bulld. His appearance in the concrete
presents combination of the highest types
Of the Gaelic and the Teutonic. Ifyou can
lind photograph of the present Duke Of
Argyle you will have an exact picture Of
Gratz Brown. His eye is q blue gray,
keen, frank, and searching in application.
His nose is we'll developed and seems to
feel perfectly at home in the midst of his
countenance. His moustache, beard, and
hair are copious and flowing, fine in quail
ty, and of that deep auburn color which in
strong sunlight sometimes shows exceeding
red. His complexion varies from pale to
fortd, and exhibits that fine and delicate
quality which indicates purity of lineage.
CRATE BROWN THOROUGHBRED.
Nobody can take careful survey OF
GratZ Brown without perceiving that as to
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| personal presentation, whether voluntary
or involuntary, shows that he comes of good
stock, and has been subjected to ennobling
discipline. AT first glance he looks more
| like philosophical German student than q
hard-headed practical politician and man
of business; but those who are familiar
with his character and his career know that
his soft, winsome, fowery exterior rests
upon a nature of granite-that he is lion
in the guise Of alamb, an eagle in the plu-
mage Of dove.
THE BLOOD OF ROBERT BRUCE AND AN IRISH
| NAN.
The Gratz Brown genealogical tree,
which at this present time is flourishina
down in the old Kentucky home in all the
ramifylng and outrageous gorgeeusness
which water colors and family pride can
! impart, is irrigated at the root with the
strenuous fluid that flowed some centuries
ago through the veins of Robert Bruce,
King of Scotland, and which is still yigor.
Gus in the veins Of his descendants. Some
disrupted collateral branches of the family
found their way into the north of Ireland @
few hundred years ago, and there took root
1 and fourished. Thence, about the middle
of the last century, came one of the race, q
sturdy Presbyterian minister, to America,
and settled in the township of Rockbridge,
in the county of Rockingham, in the State
of Virginia. That Presbyterian minister
married Miss Preston, of the aristocratc
Prestons, of South Carolina, and that cou.
pie, thus married in the wilds Of Virginia
over 100 years ago, were the great-grand
parents of B. GratZ Brown, now the Gov.
Iernor-elect of Missouri.
JOHN BROWN.
That old Virginia couple had son born
to them called John Brown, name which,
through another branch Of the family, has
become sufficiently immortal for earthly
purposes. That John Brown married a
Miss Mason, of New York, who was sister
Of the Rev. j ohm Mason, the celebrated and
beloved old Presbyterian divine, whose
name is still cherished as household word
in many godly families throughout the land
John Brown, with his young and high-bred
New York wife, took up his abode in what
is now the State Of Kentucky, but which
was then wilderness, and a portion of the
territorial possessions Of Virginia. He was
the first territorial representative of Ken,
tucky in Congress. and its first United
States Senator. He served fifteen years
in the Senate. and was one of JEFF
terson's most trusted friends. His SOD,
Mason Brown, did not take to. poll
tics, but became noted Kentucky
Judge. He married q Miss Bledsoe,
daughter Of Jesse Bledsoe, United States
Senator from Kentucky, and man of such
| impassioned eloquence that legends of his
achievements at the bar and on the stump
are still rife In the border slave States. Oi
this couple mason Brown and Bledsoe
Brown was born Benjamin Gratz Brown,
in Lexington, ky.,- on the 26th of May,
1926; so that our Governor elect is now
just about halfway through his forty-hftt
year. -.-;a.r
Gratz, who was named for Benjamin
Gratz, maternal uncle, graduated at the
| Transylvania University, in Kentucky, al
the age Of sixteen. In 1S47 he graduated al
Yale College, and in 1S49, when he was
twenty-three years old, he graduated at the
Louisville Law School. Having thus finally
got through with his graduating, and the
time having come for him to plant his stake
for life, he formed resolution which ha:
just ultimatcd in making him the Governor
of Missouri. ..... ........--..
[We add that Frank Blair and Graf;
Brown are brothers-in-law.] a.s., /,