Sutter-Yuba County Biographies

EDWIN WINSHIP

Transcribed by: Kathy Sedler

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            Since starting out in life on his own account, Edwin Winship has 
been steadily advancing along the road of prosperity, and for the past quarter 
of a century has devoted his time and energy to fruit-raising in Sutter County.  
His home place, consisting of twenty acres adjacent to Yuba City, has been 
planted to almonds, peaches and prunes, and has been brought to a high state of 
cultivation.  A native son of Sutter County, Edwin Winship was born March 26, 
1858, the third eldest of six children of the late I. A. Winship, a native of 
Boston, Mass.  Edwin Winship attended the Winship district school, and while 
still in his teens started out for himself, renting land and raising wheat.  He 
owned one of the first combined harvesters in the valley during the early 
eighties, which brought him good returns for his labor.  He followed 
grain-raising until he sold his equipment and settled near Yuba City, in 1898, 
where he bought his present home place.
            The marriage of Mr. Winship united him with Miss Marie Schillig, 
also a native of Sutter County, born at Nicolaus, a daughter of the late 
pioneer, Paul Schillig.  Mr. and Mrs. Winship are the parents of five children.  
Elmer Herbert resides in the Linda Township of Yuba County.  Edna L. is now the 
wife of Mr. Wiseman; they have one daughter and reside in Marysville.  Norma is 
now Mrs. R. N. Kells.  E. G. is an ex-service man and an orchardist; he is 
married and has one daughter.  Lawrence A. is employed in the First National 
Bank of Yuba City.  For sixteen years, Mr. Winship was road-master in the 
Winship district of Sutter County.  Fraternally, he is a past officer of the 
Yuba City Camp, W. O. W., of which he has been a member for twenty years.

History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p.  588