Mason Brown (Frankfort attorney, sec. of state, state treasurer)
b. 1799-11-10 d. 1867-01-27
Frankfort, Kentucky, attorney. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, native. Son of John Brown and Margaretta Mason Brown. Married to Judith A. Bledsoe Brown in 1825. Father of Benjamin Gratz Brown. Married to Mary Yoder Brown in 1835. Father of John Mason Brown, Margaretta M. Brown, Knox Brown, and Eliza Brown Bailey. Privately tutored in Frankfort. Graduated from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1820. Circuit Court Judge in Kentucky from 1839 to 1849. Co-editor of A Digest of the Statute Laws of Kentucky with Charles S. Morehead in 1834. Secretary of State of the Commonwealth of Kentucky under Charles S. Morehead from 1855 to 1859. Treasurer of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1865.
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Bibliography
"Mason Brown" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 130.
KYR-0001-008-0002.
Citation
Brown, Mason. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32197602 (November 12, 2026).
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