Eli Huston
Eli Huston (sometimes spelled Houston; c. 1799 – June 12, 1835)[1][2] was a Mississippi lawyer who served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi in 1832.
Born in Kentucky to Joseph Huston, he was the older brother of Felix Huston.[3][4] Huston moved to Natchez, Mississippi, where he established a successful law practice. Huston was appointed to a seat on the state supreme court vacated by Justice John Black in 1832, "but was on the bench only a few months, owing to the changes of the revised constitution".[5][6]
Arkansas Governor Robert Crittenden, in an 1834 letter to his brother, described meeting Huston during a trip to Mississippi: "My reception there was most flattering, especially by Eli Huston who is one the first lawyers in the state — I had not known him before. He is an estimable man, and missconceived in character greatly".[7]
Huston died after an illness of several weeks. Following his death, the members of the Natchez Bar of Adams County held a meeting to memorialize Huston, and resolved to assist with the arrangements for his funeral.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "From the Natchez Courier and Journal", The Frankfort Commonwealth (July 11, 1835), p. 3.
- ^ "Deaths", Daily National Intelligencer and Washington Express (July 13, 1835), p. 3.
- ^ Research, Kentucky Kindred Genealogical (April 15, 2016). "Mark Elliott Huston Biography". Kentucky Kindred Genealogy.
- ^ "George W. Littlefield Southern History Collection". The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin.
- ^ "Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Mississippi". Goodspeed. November 12, 1891 – via Google Books.
- ^ Thomas H. Somerville, "A Sketch of the Supreme Court of Mississippi", in Horace W. Fuller, ed., The Green Bag, Vol. XI (1899), p. 506.
- ^ "A Letter from Robert Crittenden to John J. Crittenden", The Arkansas Historical Quarterly, Vol. 21, No. 1 (Spring, 1962), p. 25.