Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky, by H. Levin, editor, 1897. Published
by Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago.  Reprinted by Southern Historical
Press.  p. 208.  Franklin County.

MASON BROWN, son of John Brown, was a lawyer of eminence and influence at
Frankfort.  He was born November 10, 1799, at Philadelphia, while his
parents were on a visit there, and died in Frankfort, Kentucky, January
27, 1867.  He was carefully educated at home and by private tutors, and
entered Yale College, graduating in the class of 1820. He devoted himself
to the practice of law, in which he was very successful.  He accepted an
appointment to the circuit bench in 1839, serving until 1849, when he
resigned and resumed active practice.  From 1855 to 1859 he was secretary
of state under the administration of Governor Charles S. Morehead, and
thereafter relinquished the more arduous labors of his profession.
     He wrote with Charles S. Morehead a digest of the statute of
Kentucky.  He was fond of literature and science, and eschewing politics,
devoted himself assiduously to his profession and was rightly regarded
as one of the most scholarly and able lawyers in the state.  He was
married twice, his first union being with Miss Judith A. Bledsoe, daughter
of Hon. Jesse Bledsoe, and his second wife was Mary Yoder, daughter of
Captain Jacob Yoder, of Spencer county.

Brown Morehead Bledsoe Yoder
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Spencer-KY PA

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