In the Henry Gorin line, Henry Madison Gorin married Joanna Knott, sister of the Governor of Kentucky, the Honorable J. Proctor Knott. For those of you connected to this line, thought you might find this interesting. Sandi HON. J. PROCTOR KNOTT. The distinguished gentleman, whose name graces the head of this sketch, was descended from the Irvines as follows: Abram Irvine, a descendant of the house of Bonshaw and resident of the north of Ireland, came to this country some time before the War of the Revolution -- the exact date his descendant have been unable to learn. He settled in Virginia and there married Mary Dean. He removed from Virginia to Kentucky some time between the years 1780 and 16790, and made his home in Boyle county, near Danville, Kyk., within a few miles of Governor Shelby's residesnce. Abraham Irvine and his wife Mary Dean, had nine children. ABRAM IRVINE was the son of Rev. John Irvine. Mary Irvine, daughter of Abram Irvine and Mary Dean, his wife, married Samuel M'Elroy. Their son, William E. M'Elroy, married Keturah Cleland. Their daughter, Maria Irvine M'Elroy, married Joseph Percy Knott. Issue: Page 167: 1. William T., who married Marian Briggs M'Elroy, and after her death married Mrs. Lydia M'Elroy (nee Harrison), widow of Rev. Hugh Sneed M'Elroy. 2. Keturah Frances, married to Wells Rawlings (long since deceased). 3. Samuel Cleland, married Miss Sarah Gates, of Georgia 4. Marian Margaret, married to Robert T. Nesbit 5. Edward Whitfield, married Miss Mattie C. M'Koy (M'Coy) 6. Anna Maria, married to John Randolph Hudnell. 7. Joanne, married to Rev. Marcellus G. Gavin [note Gorin], of St. Louis, Missouri 8. James Proctor, married Sarah Rosanna M'Elroy. James Proctor Knott was born August 27, 1830; married June 14, 1858. Elected to the Missouri Legislature the following August; appointed attorney-general of the same state, August, 1859, and elected to that office August, 1860. Returned to Kentucky in 1862; elected to the fortieth Congress in 1867; forty-first, 1868; forty-fourth, 1874, and re-eledted successively to the forty-fifty, forty-sixth and forty-seventh. Elected Governor of Kentucky August 1883, and to the constitutional convention in August, 1890. Governor Knott writes: "I know very little of my father's ancestry of that name. The records were destroyed in the burning of my grandmother's residence, when I was a small boy. All I know is that my grandfather, my great-grandfather and my great-great-grandfathers were all only sons, and all of them; except my grandfather, were ministers of the Church of England; that they were of Danish extraction, and lived in Northumberland, England - I mean their forbears, down to the immigration of my grandfather's grandfather, who was a curate on that estate (In Northumberland); and that I know by tradition only. There is a tradition, also, that the last name married a daughter of Earl Percy, and in that way the name Percy, which was born by my father, grandfather and my great-grandfather came into the family, but I never thought it worth while to ascertain. "I was once assured by a painstaking antiquary that he had traced my father's side of the house to Richard de Percy in a direct line, one of the grim old barons appointed by Runnymede to see that John Lackland should observe the Great Charta of English liberty there exhorted from him, and that my coat of arms is: Or, a lion rampaart, sz. I am a Scotch-Irishman, however, and with many of the traits of that race, I inherited the sentiment "that blood is thicker than water,' and whether pleb. or patrician, I am always glad to recognize my kinfolk." In appearance, Governor Knott was of a very uncommon type of manhood. He was a little above the medium height; strongly and compactly built. At the first glance one was impressed by a strength -- mental and physical. He was not one with whom a stranger would attempt to converse uninvited, and yet those who knew him well say that he was the kindest and most gentle of men to women and children, and charitable almost to a fault. The speech of his, -- known all over the world as the "Duluth Speech," -- has been published again and again in this country, and has been translated into many languages. The school boys, by thousands, have recited it, and murdered its inimitable humor and fadeles and matachless fancies, ever since it first came before the public in 1871." Source: The Irvines and their kin: a history of the Irvine family and their descendants: also short sketches of their kindred, the Carlisles, McDowells, Johnstons, Maxwells, Gaults, McElroys, etc. from A. D. 373 to the present time. L. Boyd, Chicago, R. R. Donnelley, 1808, 471 pages. Col. Sandi Gorin - Publishing: http://ggpublishing.tripod.com/ GORIN worldconnect website: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/~sgorin