It was directed by Mary Marvin Breckinridge, and featured her cousin, Mary Breckinridge, who was a nurse-midwife and founded the Frontier Nursing Service.

Nurse-midwives were introduced in the United States in 1925 by Mary Breckinridge for use in the Frontier Nursing Service ( FNS ).

In 1920, Abbott and Breckinridge helped arrange the transfer of the School of Civics and Philanthropy to the University of Chicago, where it was renamed to the School of Social Service Administration.

By 1920, Breckinridge and Lathrop had convinced the Board to merge the School into the University of Chicago, forming the Graduate School of Social Service Administration.

The University of Chicago currently houses undergraduate students in Breckinridge House, named after Sophonisba Breckinridge, where students celebrate " Sophie Day " in the early spring.

Breckinridge came in third place in the popular vote, behind winner Abraham Lincoln, a Republican, and Stephen Douglas, a Northern Democrat, but finished second in the Electoral College vote.

Breckinridge continued to fight with Bragg's army, commanding a division in the Confederate assaults on the second day, September 20, 1863, of the Battle of Chickamauga, and a corps in the unsuccessful defense of Missionary Ridge in Chattanooga, November 25, 1863.

The secretary of state certified Garrard's election, though Attorney General John Breckinridge questioned the legality of the second vote and Logan formally protested it.

She was the daughter of Issa Desha Breckinridge who was the second wife of Col. William C. P.

She was the second child of five: Eleanor Breckinridge Chalkley, Desha Breckinridge, Curry Desha Breckinridge.

Breckinridge chose the nurse-midwifery model used in England and Scotland because she expected these nurse-midwives on horseback to serve the health care needs of the families living in the remote hills of eastern Kentucky.

During Crittenden's term, he gave strong support to superintendent of public education, Robert Jefferson Breckinridge, who would come to be known as the " Father of public school system in Kentucky.

Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge ( April 1, 1866 – July 30, 1948 ) was an American activist, Progressive Era social reformer, social scientist and innovator in higher education.

On November 6, 1860, Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States, beating Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, John C. Breckinridge of the Southern Democrats, and John Bell of the new Constitutional Union Party.

* 1760 – John Breckinridge, American politician and 5th United States Attorney General ( d. 1806 )

* 1821 – John C. Breckinridge, American lawyer and politician, 14th Vice President of the United States and Confederate general ( d. 1875 )

* May 17 – John C. Breckinridge, Vice President of the United States ( b. 1821 )

* November 6 – U. S. presidential election: Abraham Lincoln beats John C. Breckinridge, Stephen A. Douglas, and John Bell and is elected as the 16th President of the United States, the first Republican to hold that office.

* January 16 – John C. Breckinridge, United States Vice president and Confederate Secretary of State.

In the summer of 1862, some 2, 600 Confederate troops under generals John C. Breckinridge ( the former Vice President of the United States ) and Daniel Ruggles attempted in vain to regain control of Baton Rouge.

Following a victory outside of Saltville, Breckinridge discovered that some Confederate troops had killed scores of black Union soldiers of the 5th United States Colored Cavalry the morning after the battle, an incident that shocked and angered him.

Breckinridge feared that he would be put on trial for treason by the United States government.

The county is named for John Breckinridge ( 1760 – 1806 ), a former Kentucky Attorney General, state legislator, United States Senator, and United States Attorney General.

The Breckinridge County Archives, formed in 1984, was the first state-funded archival repository in the history of the United States and is known across the nation as an excellent resource for genealogical and historical research.

In 1888, he ran for the office of Arkansas's 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives, going up against incumbent Democrat Clifton R. Breckinridge.

Cloverport is a city in Breckinridge County, Kentucky, United States, on the banks of the Ohio River.

Irvington is a city in Breckinridge County, Kentucky, United States.

Breckinridge Center is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Union County, Kentucky, United States.

John Breckinridge ( December 2, 1760 – December 14, 1806 ) was a United States Senator and Attorney General.

General John C. Breckinridge, the fourteenth Vice President of the United States, who was also related to Senators Henry Clay and Thomas Hart Benton.

* He was a great-great-grandfather of actor Bunny Breckinridge and of John B. Breckinridge who succeeded him as Attorney General of Kentucky and as a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives and who also served in the United States House of Representatives.

The United States ’ tight immigration policies were not lifted during the Holocaust, news of which began to reach the United States in 1941 and 1942 and it has been estimated that 190, 000 – 200, 000 Jews could have been saved during the Second World War had it not been for bureaucratic obstacles to immigration deliberately created by Breckinridge Long and others.

Lane was the nominee for Vice President of the United States of the pro-slavery Southern wing of the Democratic Party, running on a ticket headed by John C. Breckinridge.

Despite the secession of the Southern states and the formation of the Confederate States of America, Breckinridge remained in the Senate until he felt threatened by the military government of his state and fled Washington to the Confederacy on October 2, 1861.

Breckinridge entered the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War as a brigadier general on November 2, 1861 and on April 14, 1862 became a major general, originally commanding the 1st Kentucky Brigade.

On February 6, 1865, Breckinridge was made Confederate States Secretary of War, a post he would hold until May 10, 1865, the day Jefferson Davis was captured at the end of the war.

However, Breckinridge received almost no support in most of the Northern states ( which Lincoln swept except for split electoral votes from New Jersey going to Douglas and Lincoln ) but, as the candidate of the Buchanan faction, did outpoll Douglas in Pennsylvania and won Delaware and received some support comparable to Douglas in Connecticut.

In 1860 he presided over the Democratic National Convention which met first at Charleston and later at Baltimore, until he joined those who seceded from the regular convention ; he then presided also over the convention of the seceding delegates, who nominated John C. Breckinridge for the Presidency.

From 1942 to 1953, Abbott taught and edited the Social Service Review, which she had co-founded with Breckinridge in 1927.

The change in tone and partisanship in the Democratic Review that Breckinridge referred to was mostly a reaction by the increasingly divided Democratic Party to the growth of the Free Soil movement, which threatened to dissolve any semblance of Democratic unity that remained.

John Breckinridge, Garrard's long-time political nemesis, tried to goad Garrard into making another impassioned plea for emancipation of slaves, which was a minority position in the state, but Garrard recognized Breckinridge's tactics and refused to express any bold emancipationist sentiments during the campaign.