1436 George Graham Vest

Category: Markers

Marker reads, Established Owensboros second newspaper, The Gazette, near here in 1852, with Robert S. Triplett, an Owensboro businessman. Vest was U.S. Senator from Missouri, 1879-1903. Author of world famous Tribute To A Dog. This spontaneous oration in court in defense of a backwoodsmans dog, Old Drum, won case for the client and gained George G. Vest world fame. Back of marker reads, Tribute to a Dog - The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have the one that never deserts him and the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous is his dog. . . . He guards the sleep of his pauper master as if he were a prince. When all other friends desert he remains.-From a pleading before a jury by George Graham Vest.