OBIT: Franklin Gorin, 1877, Barren Co. Submitted by Sandi Gorin NOTE: I do have further information. "Hon. Franklin Gorin. With the death of the venerable gentleman whose names heads this article almost the last of the first inhabitants of the county have passed away. Franklin Gorin was the son of Gen. John Gorin, one of the first settlers of this part of Kentucky, and was born in this place on the 3rd of May, 1798. Around him clustered many memories of the past, as he was the first white child born in Glasgow, if not in the county, and the best part of his long and eventful life was spent among the scenes of his boyhood and friends of his youth. When he reached the years of maturity and assumed the responsibilities of life he chose the profession of law, and soon by his diligence, backed by his native brightness of intellect, won for himself an enviable name and fame in those days when no man of mere ordinary ability could hope to make much mark in the State, and when Kentucky was in her palmy days of great lawyers and intellectual men. He for awhile lived in Nashville, and while there entered into a partnership with Judge Bell, who afterwards ran for the presidency of the United States on the celebrated Bell-Everett ticket, and was by many thought to be even the sounder and abler lawyer of the two. In the couse of his long career at the bar he measured swords in the forensic debate with some of the ablest of Kentucky's lawyers and never with discredit to himself, and formerly was the peer of any lawyer in the State. He represented this 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 and 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. While he was a man of great and varied knowledge of all branches of his profession, he was also a lover of society, and wealth had no higher purpose with him than to minister to the wants of his family and friends. His tastes were emphatically of the cultivated and social order, and no one can say aught against his charity, while many will remember with pleasure his plenty and lavish hospitality. He was once the owner of the world renowned curiosity, the Mammoth Cave, and of such years ago was numbered among the wealthy as well as brilliant men in the district. A man of bright intellect, cultivated and polished by continual asssociation with the highest classes of society he adorned the circle of his friends and associates, and was looked up to and respected by all. Many will hear of his death with regret and drop a tear of sympathy and remembrance of the times of long ago when he was in the zenith of power, and many who have long since been laid to rest were playing their part on life's checkered board. He was buried at the old family burying ground at this place, verging at the time of his death upon the close of his four-score years. Few men have been more prominently before the people and sustained a more unblemished character for a longer period than Franklin Gorin. Originally buried at the Gorin Family Cemetery on West Washington Street in Glasgow, reinterred to Glasgow Municipal Cemetery. Before his death he wrote a series of newpaper articles for the Glasgow Weekly Times, entitled "Times of Long Ago." These were put into print by his nephew, Louis Jefferson Gorin, Sr., and are now published in book form by the local historical society. He died 8 Dec 1877. Glasgow (KY) Weekly TImes, 13 Dec, 1877. ************************************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************