Biography extracted from History of Sauk County, Wisconsin Chicago: Western Historical Company, published 1880.

Westfield:

E. A. Winter, P.O. Loganville; minister of the German Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio and other States; son of William and Henrietta (Meisner) Winter; was born in Waldeck, Prussia, Dec. 27, 1838; came with his parents to the United States in 1844; the family located in Fairfield Co., Ohio; in 1849 they moved to Fort Wayne, Ind., where Mr. Winter was educated in the seminary of the German Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio and other States. From Fort Wayne he went to Minnesota, living there four and a half years, and in 1865 came to Wisconsin; located in Westfield, Sauk Co.; was ordained a minister of the above-mentioned church in July, 1861, and on coming to Westfield, became Pastor of the Lutheran Church, on Sec. 23. He was married July 3, 1862 at Mequon River, to Christiana Posner, daughter of Augustus and Therese (Leyer) Posner; Mrs. Winter was born in Silesia, Prussia; they have six children living – August E. W., Daniel, Magdalena, Martin, Theodore and Martha. Mr. W. has a farm of 80 acres.

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