| 1. |  Dr. Robert Jefferson Breckenridge was born on 8 Mar 1800 in Cabell Dale, Iron Works Pike, Lexington, Kentucky; died on 27 Dec 1881 in Danville, Kentucky; was buried in Lexington Cem, Lexington, Fayette Co, Kentucky. Notes:
Robert Jefferson Breckinridge (March 8, 1800 ? December 27, 1871) was a politician and Presbyterian minister. He was a member of the Breckinridge family of Kentucky, the son of Senator John Breckinridge.
A restless youth, Breckinridge was suspended from Princeton University for fighting, and following his graduation from Union College in 1819, was prone to engage in a lifestyle of partying and revelry. Nevertheless, he was admitted to the bar in 1824 and elected to the Kentucky General Assembly in 1825. A serious illness and the death of a child in 1829 prompted him to turn to religion, and he became an ordained minister in 1832.
Breckinridge accepted the call to pastor the Second[a] Presbyterian Church of Baltimore, Maryland in 1832. While at the church, he became involved in a number of theological debates. During the Old School-New School controversy within the Presbyterian Church in the 1830s, Breckinridge became a hard-line member of the Old School faction, and played an influential role in the ejection of several churches in 1837. He was rewarded for his stances by being elected moderator of the Presbyterian Church's General Assembly in 1841.
After a brief stint as president of Jefferson College in Pennsylvania, Breckinridge returned to Kentucky, where he pastored the First Presbyterian church of Lexington, Kentucky and was appointed superintendent of public education by Governor William Owsley. The changes he effected in this office brought a tenfold increase in public school attendance and led to him being called the father of the public school system in Kentucky.[1] He left his post as superintendent after six years to become a professor at Danville Theological Seminary in Danville, Kentucky.
As the sectional conflict leading up to the Civil War escalated, Breckinridge was put in the unusual position of being a slaveholder who opposed slavery. His support of Abraham Lincoln for president in the election of 1860 put him at odds with his nephew, John C. Breckinridge. The tragic scenario of brother against brother literally played out in Breckinridge's family, with two of his sons joining each side during the war. Following the war, Breckinridge retired to his home in Danville, where he died on December 27, 1871.
Robert Breckinridge was born March 8, 1800 at Cabell's Dale near Lexington, Kentucky. He was the third son born to John and Mary Hopkins (Cabell) Breckinridge. Senator Breckinridge died in 1806, leaving his wife to tend the family's large plantations. Robert soon earned a reputation of misbehaving. In one instance, he and his brother John had a physical altercation because Robert put salt in a blind cousin's coffee; in another, his mother gave him a "tremendous whipping" for beating an old slave.[2]
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Robert married Anna Sophonisba Preston on 11 Mar 1823 in Abingdon, Washington Co, Virginia. Anna (daughter of General Francis Smith Preston and Sarah Buchanan Campbell) was born on 09 Apr 1803 in "Salt Works," Washington Co, Virginia; died on 20 Dec 1844 in Baltimore, Maryland; was buried in Lexington Cem, Lexington, Fayette Co, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Robert married Virginia Hart in Apr 1847 in Kentucky, and was divorced in Sep 1856 in Kentucky. Virginia was born about 1800; died in 1859 in Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Robert married Margaret Falkner-White on 5 Nov 1868 in Kentucky. Margaret was born about 1710 in of, Kentucky; died after 1871. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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1800 - 1881 (81 years)
(1.Robert1) was born on 06 Apr 1828 in Cabell Dale, Iron Works Pike, Lexington, Kentucky; died on 13 Jan 1902 in Lexington, Kentucky. 