Genesee County MI Archives Biographies.....Winget, David 1824 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

DAVID WINGET lives on a good farm on section 16, Flint Township, Genesee County.
  He was born in Phelps, Ontario County, N. Y., April 3, 1824, and when six
years of age was taken by his parents, Caleb and Mary (Farris) Winget to their
new home in Wayne County, N. Y. They settled in Sodus Township, where our
subject was reared and educated, remaining there until he was twenty-four or
twenty-five years of age. He was early trained in the economic principles of
agricultural life, although while living in Sodus he worked at coopering for
about three years; aside from that he has always been engaged in farming and in
breeding stock.

  After leaving Sodus, our subject settled in Huron, Wayne County, N. Y., and
lived there until the spring of 1854, when he came to Genesee County and settled
in the township of Mundy. There he purchased a farm upon which he resided until
the spring of 1883, when he sold out his place and bought where he now lives in
Flint Township. Mr. Winget has been an important factor in clearing up and
improving the land in Mundy Township, and has made valuable changes,
individually and in company with others. He has a first-class series of
buildings upon his farm, which comprises one hundred and sixty-three acres, and
each department of the place is thoroughly developed. He has fine orchards and
his stock is of the best grades.

  Our subject was married in Wayne County, N. Y., February 15, 1843, to Miss
Lucy Abbott, who was born in Galen, of the same locality, June 13, 1824. Her
parents were John and Jerusha (Babbitt) Abbott, who died in the place where the
daughter was born. Our subject's father passed away in Sodus, N. Y.; his mother
died in Mundy Township. Mr. and Mrs. Winget are the parents of nine children,
whose names are Elma, Sarah, Almira, Henry, Catherine, Frances, Jerusha, Maxwell
D. and Hattie. Elma, Sarah and Almira died at the ages respectively of fifteen,
seventeen and twenty-eight years. Almira was the wife of Albert Ives; Henry and
Catherine died in infancy; Frances is the wife of Ira F. Wright; Jerusha is the
wife of Everette Meeker; Hattie passed away when eighteen years of age; and
Maxwell D. was killed by the bursting of a balance wheel, while cutting corn
stalks.

  Mr. Winget has served as Justice of the Peace in Mundy Township for two terms,
and has also been conspicuous in school matters. He is a strong Republican
politically, and takes an active part in all local affairs. His attention
however is chiefly occupied by his farm work, and the result of his efforts is
that he owns one of the finest estates in the county. A view of his place with
its principal buildings appears on another page.


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Extracted from:

Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892


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