William St. John Elliot.

About William St. John Elliot

William St. John Elliot was a businessman of the antebellum United States who owned cotton plantations in Adams County and Wilkinson County, Mississippi and Concordia Parish, Louisiana. He enslaved a large number of people, and he was described at the time of his death as one of the "wealthiest and most estimable planters" in the region. He was politically a Whig and a Unionist, and by religion a Roman Catholic, and he left a bequest for the establishment of a Catholic orphanage in his will. Considered one of the region's Natchez nabob class, he lived at the neoclassical suburban estate D'Evereux.