S. T. Winslow Biography


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	Co., Chicago, 1899. Pages 385-386

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HON. S. T. WINSLOW, a well-known farmer residing on section 21, Warren 
township, Sanborn county, is numbered among the self-made men of this 
section of the state, his accumulations being the result of his own 
industry, economy and enterprise, and the exercise of a naturally good 
judgment, both in regard to agricultural pursuits and business matters. 
He came to South Dakota in 1883, and since that time this has been the 
field of his operations, the center of his interests and hopes. 

Mr. Winslow was born in Franklin county, Maine, in 1842, and on the 
paternal side traces his ancestry back to a Winslow who came to this 
country in the "Mayflower" in 1620. The family is -noted for longevity, 
his great-great-grandfather living to the extreme age of one hundred 
years; his great grandfather to the age of eighty; and his grandfather 
to the age of seventy-five. The father of our subject was a mason by 
trade, but the later years of his life were devoted to farming. He and 
his father were both preachers. 

Our subject is the fifth in order of birth in a family of eight 
children, and was reared in much the usual manner of farmer boys. At 
the age of nineteen, he responded to the President's call for 
volunteers to aid in putting down the rebellion and enlisted in Company 
C, Twelfth Maine Volunteer Infantry, which was assigned to the Army of 
the Gulf under General Benjamin Butler. He was with General Banks on 
the Red river expedition, participated in the siege of Port Hudson, and 
later was with General Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley until 
honorably discharged in 1864. Returning to his home, he -worked at the 
mason's trade, which he had learned prior to entering the service, and 
subsequently was for eleven years superintendent in the sugar refinery 
of Havemeyer & Elder, having charge of the repairs on their buildings. 

In 1873, Mr. Winslow married Miss Alice Caldwell, who was born in New 
York city, of English parents. Her father was a baker by trade. Six 
children were born of this union. In 1883, Mr. Winslow and his family 
came to Sanborn county, South Dakota, and the first summer lived in a 
little shanty, 10 x 10 feet, on the southwest quarter of section 21, 
Warren township, where he took up land. His first crops were wheat and 
oats and for two winters he burned hay as fuel. On locating here he had 
two horses, a wagon and a little money, but is now the owner of three 
hundred and twenty acres of valuable land, of which two hundred acres 
is under a high state of cultivation and well improved with good 
buildings and about fourteen acres of forest trees. Until 1896 he 
engaged largely in raising grain, but the total failure of crops in 
1894 and other dry seasons has convinced him that cattle raising is 
more profitable, and he now keeps fifty head of the same besides a 
great many hogs. In 1894 he only harvested from four to eight bushels 
of wheat per acre. 

Mr. Winslow is a recognized leader in the ranks of the Republican party 
in his section of the state, and he takes quite a prominent and 
influential part in public affairs. He has held several township 
offices, and in 1889 was elected to the first general assembly of the 
legislature in South Dakota. So acceptably did he fill the position, 
that he was re-elected in 1890, and in 1896 he was elected to the state 
senate. He has been a delegate to nearly every state convention held by 
his party in South Dakota, and was an active member of the Farmers 
Alliance when that organization existed and has been president of the 
same. His public and private life are alike above reproach, and he has 
a host of warm friends throughout this section of the state who 
appreciate his sterling worth and many excellencies of character.