Lacrosse-Dane County WI Archives Biographies.....Winston, Horace A. 1828 - 
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HORACE A. WINSTON, proprietor of the Eagle Hotel, corner of Gould and North 
Third streets, North La Crosse; has been a resident of La Crosse since May, 
1858. He was born in Broome Co., N. Y., at Chenango Forks, in 1828. His 
father, Dr. Reuben Winston, practiced medicine in Broome Co. over thirty 
years; he came from there to Wisconsin in 1847; was in Madison till 1857, then 
came to La Crosse, where he resided till his death, in 1865. H. A. Winston 
came to Wisconsin in 1848; he had been engaged in the mercantile business at 
Chenango Forks, N. Y., two years previous to that, and carried on the same 
business at Pheasant Branch, Dane Co., Wis., from 1848 till he came to La 
Crosse, in 1858, and held the office of Postmaster the last six years of the 
time. He commenced the manufacture of mineral water when he first came to La 
Crosse, continued it three years, and then sold out. He also sold goods the 
first two years of the time. He was Chairman of the town of Campbell two years 
when he first settled in the place, and was Deputy Sheriff of the county from 
1868 to 1872, and from that time to 1873 was Chief of Police in the city of La 
Crosse, and has been City Constable since that. He has owned the Eagle Hotel 
since 1860, and has kept it fifteen years of the time. He was married in his 
native place, in 1846, to Miss Isabel Roos, has two children - William B., 
assistant yard-master at La Crosse, and Arabel, now the wife of Stephen F. 
Clinton, of La Crosse.

Additional Comments:
From History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 808.

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