Lapeer County MI Archives Biographies.....Winn, Jeremiah 1838 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

JEREMIAH WINN is a general farmer on a fine place comprising one hundred acres
of land on section 36, Arcadia Township, Lapeer County. He was born in the
township of Alexander, Jefferson County, N. Y., November 23, 1838. His father,
Peter Winn, was a native of the same State and was born about 1800. His decease
occurred about 1881. He was a farmer and came to Michigan in 1857, at which time
he purchased a tract of wild land in Goodland Township and cleared a portion of
it. He was an ardent Republican in his political creed. Our subject's mother,
Eliza Slayter, was a native of the same State as was her husband and was also
married there. She came to Michigan with her husband and is still living at the
advanced age of eighty-three years.

  Until nineteen years of age our subject attended the district school and
filled in the odd moments with work on the farm until he was twenty-six years
old and at the same time learned the trade of a carpenter and joiner. When in
his twenty-sixth year he was married to Miss Agnes Orr of the village of Almont.
She is a daughter of Hugh Orr, a retired farmer. One child was born from this
marriage, Albert J., whose natal day was March 27, 1867. He is now a farmer and
lives at home. Mr. Winn's first wife died in 1873 and two years later he was
married to Miss Aurah Fuller, who was born October 6, 1847, in the town of
DePeyster, St. Lawrence County, N. Y. She is a daughter of Jonathan and Lucinda
(Day) Fuller. They were farmers in New York and moved with their family to
Michigan in 1857, settling in Oregon Township, Lapeer County, where they
purchased and cleared a tract of wild land.

  Mrs. Winn's maternal grandfather was David Day, a farmer and a native of New
York. Betsey Day, his wife, and the grandmother of our subject was born in 1791
at Sandgate, Vt., and went to DePeyster Township, N. Y., as a pioneer. We give
extracts from a newspaper clipping which shows Mrs. Betsey Day to have been a
remarkable old lady. She is one of the oldest if not the oldest resident of St.
Lawrence County and went with her family there in 1802, making the trip around
through Canada, there being no roads at that time through what was known as the
Great Chateaugay woods. She has resided in DePeyster seventy-seven years and has
ten children now living. Her eldest daughter is seventy years old. She has
seventy grandchildren and thirty-five great-grandchildren. Her marriage with Mr.
Day proved to be the first wedding of a white couple residing in what is now the
town of DePeyster. Mr. Day always told his children that he married the
prettiest girl in DePeyster and when they pressed their mother to know if it was
true she replied that she thought it was, for she was the only girl in the town
at that time. She is now living with her son, .Joshua Day. Her faculties are
wonderfully preserved and her memory perfect.

  The first three years of the married life of Mr. Winn were spent in Lapeer
where he was engaged in a sash, door and blind factory. He then purchased his
present farm which was nearly new. He has placed many valuable improvements upon
the tract and has a good house and barn. The latter is 32x44 feet in dimensions
and has sheds for stock. Since coming here he has set out many fruit trees and
by his thrifty ways and industry has become one of the most prosperous farmers
in the township. He and his wife are supporters of the Methodist Church of
Arcadia. He is a strong Republican in politics.


Additional Comments:
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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