Shelby is “Connected”
Joseph Orville Shelby was born in Lexington, Kentucky and was raised by a stepfather, Benjamin Gratz, a hemp merchant and perhaps the richest man in Kentucky. One of Shelby’s neighbors in Lexington was John Hunt Morgan. His first cousins included Montgomery Blair (Lincoln’s Postmaster General) and Montgomery’s kid brother, Congressman and CW Major Genl. Frank [...]
