Bio of Winter, Benjamin (b.1824) Wabasha Co., MN
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This bio comes from "HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY" 1884.
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Winter, Benjamin, a pioneer farmer of Elgin, was born near Cincinnati,
Ohio, April 15, 1824. His parents, James and Jane Winter, were natives of
Pennsylvania. When our subject was a small boy, his people moved to Ripley
county, Indiana, where he was brought up on a farm. He married Margaret
Powell, who was born in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, March 15, 1826. Mr.
Winter became possessed of a farm in Indiana, which he sold when he came
west, in 1856. In the fall of this year he settled on Section 10, where he
still dwells. He has 240 acres, of which every foot has been subdued, and
is engaged in mixed farming, with signal success. His prosperity has been
earned by his own labor, seconded by that of his faithful helpmeet. His
religious faith is that of the Christian Church, his politics democratic.
John Henry, his second child, died here at the age of twenty-four. The
rest, in order of birth, reside as follows: Eliza Jane (Mrs. John Ross),
Plainview; Ann Maria (Mrs. John Allison), Brookings, Dakota; Phoebe
Frances (Mrs. Charles Wright), Plainview; Daniel Orison, Laura, Minnie F.,
and Benjamin Franklin, at home with parents. 1336