Richard Dickinson Winn (Side 1)
Richard Dickinson Winn, a son of Elisha and Judith Cochran Winn, was born January 14, 1816. Gwinnett´s first county elections and court sessions were held at his childhood home near Hog Mountain. Winn served as a Justice of the Inferior Court of Gwinnett County 1841-1853. He was also a member of the Georgia House of Representatives 1851-1852. In 1861, Winn was one of three delegates from Gwinnett to the secession convention in Milledgeville where the State of Georgia resolved to withdraw from the Union. In 1873, he served on the first Gwinnett County Commission and as President of the County´s second Board of Education. Winn is also remembered for his biographical sketches of Gwinnett´s early settlers. These biographies, which he began writing in 1871, provide much of the County´s early history. Winn died January 11, 1894.
001 GWINNETT HISTORICAL SOCIETY MARKER 1987
Plaque courtesy Lat34North.com.
Original page, with additional info, here.
Photo credit: Byron Hooks of Lat34North.com.