Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Winterbottom, John June 30, 1842 - 
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Author: "History of Grundy County, Illinois", 1882

John WINTERBOTTOM, machinist Morris. John WINTERBOTTOM was born in Lancaster, 
England, June 30, 1842. He came to the United States in 1859, landing at 
Morris April 12. He is a machinist by trade, at which trade, together with 
engineering, he worked for several years in Morris. In 1870, he established a 
gunsmith shop on Liberty street, where he is still engaged. Mr. WINTERBOTTOM 
was married December 20, 1876, to Miss Mary WILLIAMS of Grundy County, Ill. 
She was born December 20, 1850. They have two sons - William R., born October 
3, 1877; and Russell W., born August 30, 1880. Our subject enlisted in Company 
I, Sixty-ninth Illinois Volunteers, and when his term of service expired, he 
enlisted in the One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Illinois Volunteers. Mrs. 
WINTERBOTTOM is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. WINTERBOTTOM 
was raised by Quaker parents. William WINTERBOTTOM, father of John, was born 
in England in 1821, and died in Olathe, Kan., in 1874. Martha WINTERBOTTOM, 
his mother, was born in 1821 in England, and is now living in that country. 
Jacob WILLIAMS, father of Mrs. WINTERBOTTOM, was born in Wales August 23, 
1820, and is now living in Grundy County. Anne WILLIAMS, mother of Mrs. W., 
was born in Wales August 20, 1819, and died in this county, April 21, 1873. 
Mr. WINTERBOTTOM is a Republican.

[Source: "History of Grundy County, Illinois", Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., 
Historical Publishers, Lake Side Building, 1882]

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