Weld County, History of Colorado, BIOS: WINBOURN, Robert E. (published 1918)
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"History of Colorado", edited by Wilbur Fisk Stone, published by The S. J. 
Clarke Publishing Co. (1918)  Vol. II

p. 123-124



HON. ROBERT E. WINBOURN.

	Hon. Robert E. Winbourn, a member of the Colorado bar, practicing 
at Greeley, was born in Weld county, near where Peckham now stands, on 
the 2d of July, 1882, a sun of Thomas C. and Emma J. (Jackson) 
Winbourn, the former a native of Alabama, while the latter was born in 
Petersburg, Virginia. The father came to Colorado with his parents in 
1863, the family home being established on the Platte river at Fort 
Lupton. The mother came to this state when a young maiden, in 1872, the 
Jackson home being established in connection with the Green City 
colony. Her father took up land and devoted his attention to ranching 
and to the raising of horses. Thomas C. Winbourn also devoted his 
attention to ranching and live stock interests and was thus busily and 
actively engaged until about 1908, when he retired and now resides at 
Fort Lupton, Colorado. He has been a very prominent and influential 
citizen of his community. He was the first mayor of Fort Lupton, which 
town his father had incorporated, and through all the intervening years 
the family has been actively associated with its development and 
progress. The death of Mrs. Thomas C. Winbourn occurred at Fort Lupton, 
March 15, 1916.

	Hon. Robert E. Winbourn of this review was reared and educated in 
this state. He attended the Greeley high school and for a short time 
was a student in the Denver University Law School, after which he 
entered the George Washington University at Washington, D. C. In 1908 
he was graduated from the law department of the last named institution 
and atferward acted as private secretary to Hon. Robert W. Bonynge, who 
was for four years Congressman from Denver. He later spent one year as 
prosecutor for the government on public land frauds and in 1910 he 
began the practice of law in Greeley, where he has since remained. In 
the intervening period of eight years he has won for himself a very 
creditable position at the bar of Weld county, his persuasive 
eloquence, the logic of his arguments and the strength of his position 
being potent factors in winning notable success. He is faithful to his 
clients, fair to his adversaries and candid to the court, and in the 
trial of various cases which he has handled he has exhibited the 
possession of every faculty of which a lawyer may be proud-skill in 
presentation of his own evidence, extraordinary ability in cross-
examination, persuasiveness before the Jury, strong grasp of every 
feature of the case and ability to secure favorable rulings from the 
judge, combined with unusual familiarity with human nature and untiring 
industry. For two years he filled the office of county attorney of Weld 
county. He has also been called upon for other public service, acting 
for one term as a member of the state senate to fill a vacancy in that 
body. Aside from his profession he is interested in farming in Weld 
county and is the owner of a ranch.

	On the 28th of November, 1913, Mr. Winbourn was married to Miss 
Catherine Kehl, of Savannah, Illinois. Fraternally he is identified 
with the Knights of Pythias, the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks 
and the Masonic lodge. Politically he has always been a republican. He 
stands for all those forces which work for the uplift of the individual 
and the betterment of the community at large and is a progressive, 
public-spirited citizen whose activities In behalf of Weld county have 
been far reaching and resultant.