Tipton County IN Archives Biographies.....Austin, Winser 
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Author: Charles Blanchard, Editor (1883)

   WINSER AUSTIN, physician, is a native of West Virginia, and is the eldest of
four children born to John and Margaret Austin; his father was a native of West
Virginia, and of French and English descent; his mother was born in Maryland, of
English and Welsh parentage. Our subject lived at home on the farm until he was
fifteen years of age, after which he worked out as a farm hand three years; he
obtained a good common school education, and read medicine for several years at
intervals. At the age of nineteen, he enlisted in Company A, Third Regiment
Indiana Volunteer Infantry, as Hospital Steward, serving four years on detached
duty; he then veteranized in Company E, Sixth Regiment West Virginia Cavalry, a
part of the Eighth Army Corps. They were in battle at McDowell, Va., at Cross
Keys, Slaughter Mountain, and the second battle at Bull Run. They were on a raid
through Virginia under Gen. Averill, after which they were mounted on fresh
horses, and Mr. Austin was taken prisoner in West Virginia; he was taken to
Libby Prison and there held sixty, days, and then paroled by being a member of
the Medical Department. He was sent to Washington, and participated in the
capture of Booth, the assassin; he was then sent to the Army of the West,
remaining on the frontier until he was discharged, November 13, 1865; he then
returned home, and subsequently engaged in the practice of medicine at
Grandville, Ind., for three years. In the fall of 1869, he located at Windfall,
where he has now a large, lucrative practice; he has attended different medical
colleges, and has contributed to Indiana medical literature in the way of
reports and essays; he has always been an active Republican, and is now Health
Officer. Mr. Austin was married, December 14, 1865, to Miss Naoma Jacobs, who
was born in West Virginia March 6, 1841. This union was blessed with five
children- Hattie, Harry, Ray, Winser and Clarke. Mr. Austin and family are
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

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COUNTIES OF HOWARD AND TIPTON, INDIANA.

HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL.
ILLUSTRATED.

CHARLES BLANCHARD. EDITOR.
CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO.
1883.

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