Bio of Winters, John E. (b.1881) Wabasha Co., MN
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Winters, John E. (page 671), who is engaged in agriculture in the town of
Watopa, of which he is town clerk, was born in Whitewater Township, Winona
County, Minn., February 25, 1881, son of Adam and Christina (Peterson)
Winters. The parents came to Minnesota from Indiana and settled in Winona,
County, where they were engaged in farming until 1895. They then moved to
Wabasha County, where they farmed until 1912. In that year they moved to
Minneiska village, where Mr. Winters conducted a general store until his
death on June 4, 1918, and where his wife, who was born in Sweden, is now
living. They were members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Of their ten
children, five are now living, the full list being as follows: Lester,
Nellie, Etta, Jennie, May, John, Nora, Jessie, Arthur and Walter. Those
dceased are Lester, Nellie, Etta, May and Nora. John E. Winters was
educated in the town of Whitewater, Winona County. Until 1903 he worked
for his father and then took up telegraphy, which occupation, however, he
followed for only one year, at the end of that time going to work at the
carpenter's trade, at which he worked two years. After that for seven
years he followed the occupation of cream buyer. He then rented the farm
on which he now resides, containing 200 acres in sections 21 and 22,
Watopa Township, which he has since carried on successfully. He has become
a prominent citizen of his township, and in addition to being town clerk,
a position which he has held for three years, he is serving as treasurer
of school district No. 93. Mr. Winters was married, November 22, 1905, to
Matilda Johnson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Johnson. Her parents were
natives of Sweden who came to America in the early fifties, settling on
East Indian Creek, in Watopa Township, this county, where they did general
farming and stock raising until Mr. Johnson's death March 15, 1887. Mrs.
Johnson subsequently married Ole Chelgren, with whom she is now living in
the village of Weaver, where they operate a hotel. Mr. and Mrs. John E.
Winters are the parents of four children: Clarence A., born January 20,
1907; Harold A., September 7, 1909; Eugene E., March 10, 1912; and an
infant born May 13, 1920.