Louis Winston
The subject of this sketch, Louis Winston, in honor of whom the
county of Winston and town of Louisville are named, first appears in the records of
Mississippi Territory as attorney-general for the Tennessee river
country when it was organized as Madison county. In that region
there was a vigorous planting of the Winstons, already noted in
the affairs of Virginia and North Carolina, where a town is named
for Joseph Winston, a famous patriot partisan during the Revolution.
A grandson of one of the original Winstons in Madison
county became a well-known governor of Alabama. Louis Winston evidently became a resident of western Mississippi, as he was
secretary of the constitutional convention of 1817, and in January,
1821, was elected judge of the Second circuit and of the supreme
court, to succeed Judge Taylor, deceased, Bela Metcalf being his
unsuccessful opponent. This office he held for four years. He was
afterwards a circuit judge under the constitution of 1832.
Source: Encyclopedia of Mississippi History, Volume 2, Planned & Edited by Dunbar
Rowland, LL. D.,
Madison, WI., Selwyn A. Brant, 1907
|