George P. Winston Biography


	This biography appears on pages 725-726 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. I (1904) and was scanned, 
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	GEORGE P. WINSTON is owner of one of the largest and best 
improved ranches in Brown county, the same being located seven miles 
west of Frederick, and he is also known as one of the extensive farmers 
and stock growers of this section of the state, being also engaged in 
the buying and shipping of live stock, while he is known as a 
progressive business man and a loyal and sterling citizen of the state 
in which he has maintained his home for more than a score of years. 

	Mr. Winston claims the Badger state as the place of his nativity, 
having been born in Evansville, Rock county, Wisconsin, on the 29th of 
June, 1857, and being a son of Nelson and Eliza A. Winston, both of 
whom were natives of the state of New York. They were numbered among 
the pioneers of Wisconsin and the father of the subject was for many 
years one of the prominent merchants and influential citizens of 
Evansville. Our subject received his early educational training in the 
schools of his native town and later supplemented this by a course of 
study in the Wisconsin State University, at Madison. He thereafter was 
engaged in contracting in Evansville until 1881, on the 19th of June of 
which year he came to Frederick, South Dakota, and took up a pre-
emption claim south of the pioneer village. There he turned his 
attention to farming and stock-raising, eventually augmenting the area 
of his farm, and there continued to reside for the ensuing fifteen 
years, within which period he became quite extensively engaged in the 
buying and shipping of cattle and sheep. In 1900 Mr. Winston purchased 
his present magnificent ranch, which is located on Elm creek and which 
comprises fifteen hundred and sixty acres, all in one body, the place 
having been previously known as the McAlpine ranch. He keeps an average 
herd of about two hundred head of cattle, and is making a specialty of 
breeding the Aberdeen Angus cattle, having the best herd of black 
cattle in the county and, having done much to improve the grade of 
stock raised in this locality. He still continues to ship live stock 
and also wool, in which latter line he handled a quarter of a million 
pounds in 1902. Mr. Winston is a staunch Republican, but has never 
desired public office, preferring to he known as primarily and 
essentially a business man. He is prominently identified with the 
Masonic fraternity, in which he has attained the thirtieth degree of 
the Scottish Rite, being identified with the consistory at Aberdeen. 

	In Madison, Wisconsin, on the 10th of June, I877, Mr. Winston was 
united in marriage to Miss Florence E. Yager, who was born and reared 
in that state. Of this union have been born three sons, namely: Roy N., 
who is engaged in the meat business in Frederick; Earl G., who is 
employed in the drafting department of the Westinghouse Electrical 
Company in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania; and Paul G., who remains at the 
parental home and who is giving much time and study to the breeding of 
barred Plymouth Rock poultry.