Frederick H. Winston Dead
Chicago Lawyer, ex-Minister to Persia,
Dies in Florida
Special to the New York Times

Chicago, Feb. 19. – Frederick H. Winston, ex-Minister to Persia, died to-day at Magnolia Springs, Fla. He had been in ill health for two years, and the end was expected. He had not practiced law for many years, and devoted much of his later days to his large real estate interests. He was one of the most active friends of Lincoln Park, and was Park Commissioner several years. For fifteen years he was general solicitor for the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago. In 1886, Cleveland appointed him Minister to Persia, but he only held the place two years.

Frederick Hampden Winston was born in Liberty County, Ga., on Nov. 2, 1830. He came from English ancestry, and claimed to be able to trace his descent from the Barons of Runnymede in a period as distant as the thirteenth century. While he was yet a child his parents moved to Kentucky, where he received his early education, later coming East, and studying law at the Harvard Law School, where he was graduated in 1852. He was admitted to the bar in this city the same year, but only remained here until 1853, when he removed to Chicago, and established a law practice.

For almost a quarter of a century he held an important place in municipal political and legal circles of Chicago. He was an ardent Democrat. For a number of years he was President of the Union Stock Yards Company in Chicago.

Mr. Winston was twice married. His first wife was Miss Mariah G. Dudley of Frankfort, Ky.; his second, Miss Sallie Reeves Heewees of New Orleans.

Genealogical Notes:

1860 Cook County Illinois Federal Census
Page 67: 8th Ward, Chicago
17-18
F.H. Winston: 30, Lawyer, $20,000, $3,000, Georgia
M.A. Winston: 25, Kentucky
Fredk. Winston: 4, Kentucky
Eliza Winston: 2, Illinois
Eliza Burineo: 28, Servant, Ireland
Cath'n. O'Conner: 23, Servant, Ireland

Source:
The New York Times, February 20, 1904, Page 9

Submitted by Bob Franks