Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 
1886.  Barren County.

HON. FRANKLIN GORIN was a son of Gen. John Gorin, a soldier in the 
Revolutionary war and an officer in the war of 1812, who at the age of 
thirteen entered the Continental Army as a private soldier, serving with 
distinction until the close of the Revolution.  During the second war 
for independence he recruited a regiment, and was its first colonel; 
afterward receiving a general's commission.  After the Revolution, and 
soon after his marriage, he immigrated to Kentucky, settling in what is 
now Barren County, where he was among the pioneers, and where he entered 
a large body of land, including that upon which the town of Glasgow has 
since been built, and which he donated to the county for that purpose.  
His education was principally received in his native State.  After 
coming to Kentucky he was mainly engaged in mercantile pursuits until 
his death.  His parents were natives of France, but immigrated to the 
colony of Virginia about the middle of the eighteenth century. Franklin 
Gorin was born in Barren County, Ky., the 3d of May, 1798, and was the 
first white child ever born in that county.  Here he grew to manhood, 
and at the age of twenty-two was admitted to the bar, and soon took a 
leading position with such men as Judge Joseph R. Underwood, Richard A. 
Buckner, Brents, Craddock, and others, giants in their profession, whom 
he had to meet, and with those great powers he had to contend.  Backed 
by his native brightness of intellect he won for himself an enviable 
name and fame in those days when no man of mere ordinary ability could 
hope to make such mark in the State, and when Kentucky was in her palmy 
days of great lawyers and intellectual men.  He practiced with much 
success in his own and the surrounding counties, and was recognized as a 
man of profound ability, and safe in the leadership and conduct of any 
cause.  In the zenith of his success upon the fields of his nativity, he 
moved to Nashville, Tenn., and there further distinguished himself as an 
able lawyer and advocate.  There he was an associate and peer at the bar 
of John Bell, Foster, Fogg, Ewing, and others, lawyers of the first rank 
in any age.  He entered into a partnership with John Bell (who 
afterwards ran for the presidency of the United States on the celebrated 
Bell and Everett ticket), the style of the firm being Gorin & Bell, and 
was by many thought to be even the sounder and abler lawyer of the two.  
After a number of years he returned to Glasgow, Ky., where he remained 
several years and then removed to Louisville and practiced his 
profession with the same unvarying success for a long time.  He was here 
the partner at different times of Judge John Sampson and A. M. Gazlay, 
Esq.  In his life, and with the weight of years upon him, he turned his 
way again to his native hills, and returned and settled upon the play-
grounds of his youth.  He died in Glasgow on the 10th of December, 1877, 
in his eightieth year.  In the course of his long career at the bar 
Judge Gorin measured swords & forensic debate with the ablest of 
Kentucky's lawyers, and never with discredit to himself, and was the 
peer of any lawyer in the State. He represented Barren County in the 
legislative halls more than once, and could have done so oftener had he 
wished, as he was at one time the most popular man in the district, as 
well known as any in Kentucky, and always until his retirement from 
active life took a leading position in the political struggles of the 
day.  He was a man of great and varied knowledge of all the branches of 
his profession, and his tastes were emphatically of the cultivated and 
social order.  He was generous, open-hearted, kind to the poor, liberal, 
candid and just.  Mr. Gorin was at one time the owner of the world-
renowned curiousity, the Mammoth Cave, which he sold to Dr. Croghan, to 
whose heirs it now belongs.  Franklin Gorin was married three times; 
first to Miss Underwood, a sister of Judge Joseph R. Underwood; his 
second wife was Mrs. Boardman, and his third wife was Deborah Putnam 
Campbell.  His last wife was a great-granddaughter of Col. Samuel 
Campbell, a distinguished officer in the Continental Army, and one of 
the most prominent men in New York during the Revolutionary War.  She 
belongs to the clan Campbell, of Scotland, and is a lineal descendant of 
Robert Bruce, and is distantly related to the present Duke of Argyle, 
the head of the clan Campbell.  She is able to trace her lineage back to 
the Emperor Constantine and Arthur of the Round Table.

Bell Boardman Brents Bruce Buckner Campbell Craddock Croghan Putnam 
Everett Ewing Fogg Foster Gazlay Sampson Underwood
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