- GEORGE WINTER, whose standing among the older and more prominent
farmers of Green
- county is secure, has a fine farm in the town of Brooklyn.
He was born in County Suffolk, England, Jan. 12, 1827, a son
of John and Sarah (PECK) WINTER, both natives of England. Twelve
children were born to them, of whom four are now living: George;
James, of Evansville; Catherine, the wife of John WEBB, of Australia,
and Emma, wife of Thomas MOORE, of London, Eng. The father was
a farmer and died in England at the age of eighty-three years;
the mother died when she was seventy-nine years old. He was a
member of the Established Church, but she was allied with the
Dissenters. The paternal grandfather died at an advanced age
in England, having reared a small family. The maternal grandfather
of George WINTER was James PECK; he was a farmer and died in
England when quite advanced in years, leaving a family of several
children.
- George WINTER was reared on a farm, and had his education
in the English schools. In 1854 he
- came to America and made his location on trackless prairie
in Rock county, Wis. The next year he came to Green county, and
bought 160 acres of land in both the towns of Union and Brooklyn,
with his residence in the last town.
- Mr. WINTER was married Nov. 12, 1855, to Elizabeth, daughter
of William and Elizabeth
- (WOOD) WINTER. To them were born the following children:
Fred Williams, who died when he was six months old; Albert George,
who married Sophia KEEPINS, and is the father of two daughters,
Ethel and Ava Fern; Walter William, unmarried, and lives at home;
Ellen Mary, who married J. C. ELLIS, and lives in Union township,
where they are rearing a family of four children, Verne, Eddie,
Arthur and Clifford; Ernest Edward, who wedded Mary POPE, and
lives in Union township, and has one son, Merlin. Mr. and Mrs.
WINTER belong to the Methodist Church, where he was elected honorary
class leader, having acted in that position many years. He was
also trustee and Sunday School superintendent for many years.
In his politics Mr. WINTER is strictly independent, although
he cast his last vote for William J. Bryan.
- Mrs. WINTER's parents were both natives of England. They
came to America in 1856, and
- located in Brooklyn township, Green county, where he died
in 1858, at the age of fifty-four years. His widow lived to be
seventy-two years, and died in 1889. They were the parents of
seven children, of whom four are now living: George W., of Durand,
Ill.; Charles, a resident of Wisconsin; Elizabeth, Mrs. WINTER,
and Louisa Sarah, widow of Thomas DORMAN, lives in Footville.
The father and mother were Episcopal communicants of the church
in England. After the death of her father, her mother married
for her second husband, Jacob KERSHER, who died in 1884. Her
paternal grandfather was John WINTER, a farmer, who died in England
when eighty years old, the father of five children. Her maternal
grandfather was John WOOD, a hotel keeper of England, and a prominent
man, and at one time quite wealthy. He had six children.
- Frederick WINTER, the brother of George, was at one time
mayor of Stratford-on-Avon. He
- was a Sunday School teacher in the Congregational Church,
and a prominent man. At his death a monument was erected by the
Sunday School and the citizens generally in attestation of his
good life.
-
- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin,"
(c)1901 Union Publishing; pp. 652-653.
-
- Courtesy of Carol.
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