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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Judge William Brockenbrough. (search)
Judge William Brockenbrough. An Address delivered by Prof. Benjamin Blake Minor, Ll. D., on the occasion of the Presentation of a portrait of Judge Brockenbrough to the circuit Court of Essex county, July 17, 1899. There would be a great deficiency in any gallery of portraits appropriate for the circuit court room of Essex county, if it did not embrace one of such a man as Judge William Brockenbrough. The promoters of the collection have felt the truth of this, and have tried to obtaEssex county, if it did not embrace one of such a man as Judge William Brockenbrough. The promoters of the collection have felt the truth of this, and have tried to obtain a portrait of so distinguished a son of old Essex. But, for various reasons, their efforts were fruitless. A: length a few of those who cordially approved of getting together such galleries and of placing a likeness of Judge Brockenbrough where it so justly belonged, determined that this too long deferred honor should be paid him, even in a modified form. They have the pleasure of presenting to the circuit court of Essex an enlarged photograph of him, taken from an oil portrait belonging t
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), A noble life. (search)
y, Va., July 17, 1899, presenting to Essex Court a portrait of Judge William Brockenbrough. by John P. McGUIRE. Ladies and Gentlemen: A Virginian in a Virginia assembly is always among friends; but for myself, and here in this county of Essex, as a wanderer returned to his home again, I stand among you and respectfully salute you all. In the far dawn of human history, the blind old bard of Chios, with mental vision doubly clear, surveyed the course of human life, and this true pictnor where honor is justly due—knowing that the generation so paying its debt of honor to those that have gone is guiding in paths of honor generations yet unborn. For that reason rejoicing thus to aid the work of founding here, in our county of Essex, and for our State of Virginia, this ennobling memorial institution, and praying that your children may prove worthy to guard your precious things—to this Court I present this portrait; to bench and to bar, to counting house and farm, to pew and