6                   HISTORY ORY OF CLAY COUNTY

born March 20, 1840, son of Philip and Rosana (Keyser) Winklepleck.
The father was born in Virginia and died in Coshocton county, Ohio, in
1853, at the age of sixty-eight years, while the mother, a native of Penn-
sylvania, passed away at Rowville, Ohio, a decade later, but at the same
age of life, They were married in the Buckeye state, and became the
parents of twelve children.
    Emanuel L. Winklepleck remained on the home farm until his
father’s death, which occurred when the boy was about thirteen years
of age. He worked on the farm in summer and attended the district
school in winter, the common lot of those in his station, but when nineteen
years of age he had made such progress in his studies that he removed
to Owen county, Indiana, for the purpose of teaching others. He con-
tinued his work there as a teacher from the fall of 1859 until the com-
mencement of the Civil war. Soon after its outbreak he enlisted in Com—
pany C, Fifty—first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and in that connection
served from July, 1861, to September, 1864. After his honorable dis-
charge from the military service Mr. Winklepleck returned to his home
in Coshocton county. Shortly afterward he located near Warsaw, Indi—
ana, where he taught school during the fall of 1864, continuing to be
thus employed in that locality in the spring and fall of the succeeding year.
In the spring of 1866 he taught school in Kosciusko county, Indiana,
continuing his educational career in Clay county, near Middlebury, from
1866 to 1869.
    From the latter year until the present time, or for a period of nearly
forty years, Mr. Winklepleck has been engaged in various fields of busi-
ness and finance. In 1869 he located in the mercantile business at Knights—
ville, Indiana, later adding coal mining, having two mines, and operated
these in connection with his store interests. In 1890 he removed to Brazil,
which has since been his residence city and the center of his mercantile
operations, which have expanded into his present large business as a fur-
nisher of everything required by the most fastidious householder. His two
sons constitute the other members of the firm. Mr. Winklepleck was one
of the organizers of hboth the Brazil Trust Company and the Citizens
National Bank, having served as president of the former since its found-
ing, and as a member of the board of directors of the latter since its estab-
lishment. In 1895 he erected a fine modern residence in Brazil on the
corner of Walnut and Logan streets. In all, he has erected three valuable
buildings in the place, one known as the Winklepleck Block, completed in
1905, being the headquarters of the house—furnishing business of Wink-
lepleck and Sons.
    In his political views Mr. Winklepleck is a firm believer in Repub-
licanism, and has always cast his vote in support of its principles. Like
many other modern business men and progressive citizens, he is an
enthusiast in the furtherance of fraternal relations through the well estab—
lished orders, and his membership in them includes affiliation with Lodge
No. 264, A. F. & A. M.. at Brazil; Ben Hur Court, No. 8, and I. O. O. F.
Lodge 215. In the month of October, 1869, he was married to Miss Mary
A. Sayer, like her husband born in Coshocton county, Ohio. She is
the (daughter of Stephen D. and Sarah A. (Morgan) Sayer, her parents
being natives of New York who migrated to Ohio at an early day. In
that state the father was a prosperous farmer, served as county commit-
teeman and director of the county infirmary, and otherwise was a man
of practical influence and progressive tendencies. He became the father