SOLON ROBINSON, 1848 163 



the state,) Duncan F. Kenner,^ and of General H. B. 

 Trist,^ brother to the much celebrated "Don Nicholas,"^ 

 of Mexican treaty memory. General T. is not one of 

 those who think it useless to read agricultural works, be- 

 cause they happen to be printed at the north ; but, on the 

 contrary, his library is well stored with such publications 

 as it is for the interest of the sugar planter to consult. 



Solon Robinson. 



Agricultural Tour South and West. — No. 6. 



[New York American Agriculturist, 8:177-79; June, 1849] 



[December 28, 1848] 



The Ormond Plantation. — This is the name of the 

 Messrs. McCatchon's place.* It is the custom of the coun- 



' Duncan F. Kenner, born in Louisiana, 1813. Half owner with 

 his brother, George R. Kenner, of Ashland plantation, and later 

 sole owner. Elected to the Confederate Congress. Minister to 

 France from the Confederate Government to induce recogni- 

 tion for the seceding states. Vice-president of the Louisiana Agri- 

 cultural and Mechanics' Association, 1844. Probably the largest 

 slaveholder in the South. He died in 1887. Nashville Agricultur- 

 ist, 5:17 (1844); Arthur and Kernion, Old Families of Louisiana, 

 159-60. George R. Kenner was born in 1812. After selling his in- 

 terest in Ashland, he purchased a Kentucky estate opposite Cin- 

 cinnati. He later moved to Texas, and died in 1853. 



' General Hore Browse Trist, of Bowdon, Ascension Parish. Born 

 in Washington, D. C, March 19, 1802; died November 16, 1856. 

 He and his elder brother, Nicholas Philip Trist, were wards of 

 President Jefferson and were reared at Monticello. Commander in 

 chief of the state troops of Louisiana. Ibid., 429. 



' Nicholas Philip Trist, lawyer, born June 2, 1800, at Charlottes- 

 ville, Virginia; died at Alexandria, Virginia, February 11, 1874. 

 Educated at United States Military Academy. First clerk of 

 Treasury Department, 1828. Private secretary to President Jack- 

 son, 1829. United States consul at Havana, 1834-1836. Assistant 

 secretary of state, 1845. Peace commissioner to Mexico, 1848, 

 where he negotiated and signed the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. 

 Translated a treatise on "Milch Cows" from the French, 1857. 

 Appletons' Cyclopiedia of American Biography, 6:161. 



* James W. and Stephen D. McCutcheon. The house, in St. 

 Charles Parish, is illustrated and described in Saxon, Old Louisi- 

 ana, 45, 295-97. See also Champomier, Statement of the Sugar 



