Winchester, James
soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born Feb. 6, 1752, in Westminster, Md. He was appointed judge of the district court of the United States in Maryland in 1799. He entered the army as a colonel from Tennessee in 1812; and was made a brigadier-general in 1813. He died July 27, 1826, near Gallatin, Tenn.
WINCHESTER, OLIVER FISHER, manufacturer, was born Nov. 30, 1810, in Boston, Mass. In 1865 his company was reorganized as the Winchester Repeating Arms company in New Haven, Conn. They furnished many rifles for the French government during the war with Germany and for Turkey in the Russo-Turkish war.
He died Dec. 10, 1880, in New Haven, Conn.