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William Yates Gholson was born on December 25, 1807, in Southampton County, Virginia. He was of a family prominent in Southern judicial history.
His father, Thomas Gholson, Jr. , represented Virginia in Congress from 1808 to 1816, dying as the result of a wound received in the War of 1812; his mother was Ann Yates, grand-daughter of a president of the College of William and Mary.
Gholson graduated from Nassau Hall (now Princeton University), and subsequently studied law under the celebrated instructor, Chancellor Creed Taylor, near Farmville, Virginia.
In 1831, Gholson moved to Pontotoc, Mississippi, where he was admitted to the bar, and speedily acquired a considerable practise.
In 1844, he freed his slaves and moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he opened law offices and was shortly afterwards appointed city solicitor. For a time, he was in partnership with James P. Holcombe, later professor of law at the University of Virginia.
In May 1854, when the new superior court of Cincinnati was organized, Gholson, who had “achieved a professional reputation hardly second to any lawyer in the State”, was elected as one of the three jurists to occupy its bench.
After five years of service, he was appointed by the governor, November 8, 1859, to fill an unexpired term as justice of the supreme court of Ohio. He was afterwards elected for a full term, but failing health compelled him to resign, December 1, 1863, and he returned to his practise of the law.
Gholson helped to establish the University of Mississippi, and was one of its earliest trustees. He was one of the compilers of a Digest of the Ohio Reports (1867), edited several editions of A Compendium of Mercantile Law by J. W. Smith, and published addresses on the payment of the public debt and on the Reconstruction of the Southern states.
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Gholson was a member of the Confederate Congress.
Gholson demonstrated, along with the depth and range of his abilities, his intellectual integrity and courage, his lofty moral nature, and his dignified, courteous bearing.
The tribunal formed by him and his fellow judges, Bellamy Storer and Oliver M. Spencer - themselves leaders of the Cincinnati bar - is said never to have been equaled in the annals of the court.
A man of great intellectual power, cultivated, studious, keen of perception, and possessing the gift of forceful statement, he won reputation early in his career as an effective political speaker; in later life he amused himself in his leisure hours with the labors of authorship.
His judicial opinions rank high for learning and accuracy.
Quotes from others about the person
“The embodiment of clear legal logic. ”
“He knew nothing of the parties but their names on the docket; nothing of the cause but from the evidence; nothing of the result and its consequences but the judgment which the law pronounces, ” wrote a successor on the bench - an opinion shared by another distinguished contemporary at the Cincinnati bar, Mr. Justice Stanley Matthews, who, speaking further of Gholson’s kindness and patience, added, “He loved jurisprudence as a systematic science, for its logic, but never forgot that it was vitalized by the spirit of justice. ”
On his twentieth birthday, Gholson married the Chancellor’s niece, Ann Jane Taylor, and settled on his plantation near Gholsonville in Brunswick County.
Three years after his wife’s death in 1831, he moved to Pontotoc, Missisasippi.
On May 21, 1839, he married Elvira, only child of Daniel W. Wright, at one time judge of the Mississippi supreme court.
1780 - 4 July 1816
2 May 1787 - 18 June 1855
1819 - 1857
1810 - 10 December 1896
1798 - 1885
12 November 1805 - 23 December 1831
3 December 1831 - 27 October 1893
1842 - 1862
23 September 1828 - 15 January 1910
6 December 1822 - 16 July 1895
