Obituary: Winnebago County, Wisconsin: Gorman P. VINING

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Daily Northwestern March 25, 1895 p.1

Death of G.P. Vining

Well Known Resident of the Town of Neenah Succumbs to Paralysis

Gorman P. Vining, a pioneer of the town of Neenah, died Saturday night at
his home of paralysis.  The funeral will be held on Tuesday afternoon at 2
o'clock.

Mr. Vining was born in Medford, Mass., in 1819, and consequently he was 76
years old at the time of his death.  In his boyhood days he was a
schoolmate of Gen. Benjamin F. Butler.  In 1845 he came to Wisconsin.  He
first examined the country around Fond du Lac, but on account of its
flatness he decided to locate elsewhere.  Hearing of Winnebago Rapids, now
Neenah, he started for the place, reaching there in August, 1845.  The
first winter thereafter he was engaged with George Harlow in running the
old government mill.  About this time he obtained from the government the
land upon which he lived and had his home to the time of his death.  Mr.
Vining was a man of wide reading and keen intelligence.  He held many town
offices, and was for many years a member of the county board, where he
proved himself to be a most faithful servant of the people.  He was married
twice.  His first wife was a sister of Henry E. Huxley, at present a
supervisor, and his second wife, who still survives, is a cousin of the
first.  He leaves five children, William Vining, who lives in Colorado;
Mrs. Sorley, who lives at Weyauwega; Byron Vining, who lives at Miss Fannie
and Gorham P. Vining at home.