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WINSLOW, Henry M.

City: Harriman

WINSLOW, Henry M., lawyer; born in Carrollton, Ky., Aug. 3, 1850; descended on his father’s side from the Winslows and Beverleys of New Kent Co., Va., and on his mother’s side from Count Du Puy, a Huguenot refugee who fled his castle at time of the revocation of Edict of Nantes; son of William BEVERLY and M. Jennie (Woolfolk) WINSLOW; father’s occupation, lawyer; paternal grandparents William and Peggy (Mills) WINSLOW of Va., maternal grandparents Turner and Nancy Gwinn (Owen) WOOLFOLK; educated at Carroll Seminary, Carrollton, Ky.; early business occupation, lawyer, president Carrollton (Ky.) National Bank and Carrollton (Ky.) Furniture Mfg. Co.; married Lucy Ann COOPER of Shelbyville, Ky., June 4, 1884; member Chevalier Commandery No. 21, K.T., of Harriman, Tenn.; member from Kentucky Conference to General Conference of M.E. Church, South, at St. Louis, Mo., in 1886; engaged in the practice of law at Harriman, Tenn., and president Harriman Land Co.

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