Montezuma County CO Archives Biographies.....Winburn, S.D. 1833 - 
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     Passing the evening of life in retirement from active business, and in

peace after many conflicts, in comfort after many hardships and privations with

an estate that assures him a competence and which he wrested from obdurate

conditions and by continued and well-applied industry and frugality, S.D.

Winburn, of Cortez, Montezuma county, can look back over his long and active

career with the satisfaction of having never faltered at the call of duty or

shirked a responsibility that was properly his.  In addition to the struggles

incident to making his way unassisted in the world through the channels of

peaceful industry, he has had his share of trial and danger in the fields of

more strenuous endeavor, where in the midst of unrolling columns in the din of

battle he dared death in defense of convictions or in protection of whole

communities from the cruelty of savage fury.  For he is a veteran of the Civil

war on the Southern side and followed the flag of his section from Sumter to

Appomattox, fighting much of the time under the direct commands of the great

military leader of “the lost cause;” and afterward he was an active participant

in the wars with the Indians in this state after the strife between the sections

was ended. Mr. Winburn is a native of North Carolina, born in 1833, and the son

of Cornelius and Tabitha (Hendricks) Winburn, also natives of that state.  He

was reared and educated in his native place, and there learned the trade of a

carpenter.  When the Civil war began he followed his convictions into the

service of the Confederacy, and remained in the Southern army until the war was

over.  In 1866 he moved to Missouri, and soon afterward crossed the plains with

a mule train from St. Joseph to Denver.  In 1867 he located at Pueblo and

wrought at his trade for a few years, then bought a ranch and engaged in farming

until 1873.  At that time he returned to Pueblo and during the next two years

was again employed at his trade.  In 1875 he went back to this ranch, and after

several years of earnest application in improving and farming it, spent a year

at Rosita.  In 1884 he sold his ranch and after remaining a short time at Mancos

moved into the Montezuma valley and took up the ranch which he now owns four

miles from Cortez.  His land is very productive and yields abundant crops of

grain and hay; and on it he supports a large band of well bred horses, always

keeping the standard high and his stock in excellent condition.  In addition to

his farming land he owns one hundred and sixty acres which he took under a

timber claim.  Recently he retired from active business and turned his land and

stock over to the management of his sons, and he is now living at the town of

Cortez, respected by all his fellow citizens, and with the force of his example

and the influence of his personal presence and the wisdom acquired in his long

and active life still effective in the community. He was married in Fremont

county, this state, in 1876 to Miss Mollie Baldridge, a native of Missouri. 

They have five children all sons, Edward, Richard, Walter, Lee and George.  

Additional Comments:
From Progressive Men of Western Colorado.  Chicago:  A.W. Bowen & Co., 1905

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