Edwin R. Winans Biography


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				EDWIN R. WINANS. 

	Edwin R. Winans, one of the leading representatives of the bar in 
Sioux Falls, was born in Albany, Illinois, November 4, 1874. He is a 
son of Aaron and Mary (Provine) Winans, the former a native of Seneca 
Falls, New York, who was a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi river for 
a number of years and died in Vermont, Illinois, in 1885. He had 
survived his wife six years, her death having occurred in 1879. Of 
their children two are yet living: Edwin R., of this review; and Ralph 
L., a manufacturer in Chicago. 

	Edwin R. Winans acquired his preliminary education in the public 
schools of Vermont, Illinois, and afterward entered the Illinois 
Wesleyan University at Bloomington, graduating in law in 1900. In 1901 
he came to Sioux Falls and in the same year entered the law office of 
the late United States Senator A. B. Kittredge, for whom he acted as 
private secretary for some time. In 1903 he was taken into partnership, 
the firm name being Kittredge, Winans & Scott. This existed until Mr. 
Winans entered into partnership with P. J. Rogde, who afterward served 
as postmaster of Sioux Falls, and is now deceased. The latter firm was 
dissolved in 1911 and since that time Mr. Winans has been engaged in 
practice alone. He has a large and representative patronage and has 
made a notable reputation as a strong and forceful practitioner 

	On the 26th of October, 1904, at Sioux Falls, Mr. Winans married 
Miss Maud R. O'Loughlin and they have a daughter, Elizabeth. Mr. Winans 
gives his political allegiance to the republican party. He was judge 
advocate general for the South Dakota State Guard for one year and is 
very well known in fraternal circles, having been initiated into the 
Masonic order according to both the Scottish and York Rites. He is past 
master of Unity Lodge, No. 60, F. & A. M., of Sioux Falls; is past high 
priest of Sioux Falls Chapter, No. 2, R. A. M.; and holds membership 
also in the Shrine. He belongs to the Benevolent Protective Order of 
Elks and is past exalted ruler of the local lodge. He has become widely 
known as a man of more than ordinary ability, having attained an 
enviable degree of success in a profession where advancement comes only 
as a result of individual merit.