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Author: Will T. Hale

   WILLIAM W. WINTERS, M. D. One of the representative physicians and surgeons

of the younger generation at Green Brier, Tennessee, Dr. William W. Winters is

well upholding the prestige of the honored name which he bears. It is a well

known fact that a great percentage of those who enter business life meet with

failure or only a limited measure of success. This is usually due to one or more

of several causes—superficial preparation, lack of close application or an

unwise choice in selecting a vocation for which one is not fitted. The reverse

of all this has entered into the success and prominence which Dr. Winters has

gained. His equipment for the profession has been unusually good and he has

continually extended the scope of his labors through the added efficiency that

comes from keeping in touch with the marked advancement that has been made by

the members of the medical fraternity in recent years.



   December 27, 1875, in Robertson county, Tennessee, occurred the birth of Dr.

William W. Winters, who is a son of Isaac A. and Alice Jane (Murphey) Winters,

both of whom are natives of Robertson county, where the former was born in 1850

and the latter in 1856. Mr. and Mrs. Isaac A. Winters reside at Adams,

Tennessee, in the vicinity of which place he is a successful farmer. Mr. and

Mrs. Winters have five children, of whom the doctor was the first born. In

politics Mr. Winters is an uncompromising Democrat and in religious matters he

is a Baptist. He is a son of John A. and Mary (Byrnes) Winters, the former of

whom was born in Robertson county in 1822, and the latter in 1829. Although well

advanced in years Mr. John A. Winters is still living and in good health, but

Mrs. Winters died in October, 1912. He is a farmer in Robertson county and

during the Civil war was a gallant and faithful soldier in Captain Lough's

Company, of a Tennessee Regiment. The maternal grandfather of Dr. Winters was

Robert Murphey, who passed most of his life in Robertson county.



   Dr. Winters was educated in the common schools of his native place. As a

youth he decided upon the medical profession as his life work and he immediately

began to save money for a college course. In 1900 he was matriculated as a

student in the University of Nashville, in the medical department of which well

ordered institution he was graduated in 1904, with the degree of Doctor of

Medicine. He is strictly a self-made man, his education having been obtained

through his own well directed endeavors.



   After graduation he located in Montgomery county, Tennessee, where he

practiced for two years, at the expiration of which, September 27, 1906, he came

to Green Brier. He started life with absolutely no capital except energy and a

determination to succeed and in view of that fact his splendid success in life

is the more gratifying to contemplate. He is a member of the Robertson County

Medical Society, of which he is president, in 1912, and he is likewise connected

with the Tennessee State Medical Society. He devotes all his attention to his

work as physician and surgeon and is accorded recognition as one of the best

doctors in Robertson county. His practice is an extensive one and includes

citizens of Green Brier and families in the adjacent districts.



   In October, 1905, Dr. Winters was united in marriage to Miss Cordelia Agnes

Mahoney, a daughter of Michael and Mary Mahoney, both of whom were born in

Ireland, whence they immigrated to America about the year 1825. Mr. Mahoney's

first work in this country was that of section hand, from which position he has

worked his way up to that of bridge superintendent. Mrs. Winters was reared and

educated in Nashville and she is a communicant of the Roman Catholic church. Dr.

Winters is a member of the Missionary Baptist church. There are two children in

the Winters family: Mary R. and Maude Agnes, who represent the fourth living

generation of the Winters line.



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A history of Tennessee and Tennesseans : the leaders and representative men in

commerce, industry and modern activities

by Will T. Hale

Chicago:  Lewis Pub. Co.,  1913



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