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WINDOM, HON. WILLIAM .- The present Secretary of the Treasury, Hon. William Windom, was, during his child- hood, vouth, and carly manhood a resident of Knox county. He was a native of Belmont county, Ohio, where he was born May 10, 1827. In the autumn of 1832, his father with his fam- ily removed to Middlebury township, this county, and continued to reside there until 1848, when he removed to Illinois, Wil- liam went into the law office of Judge Hurd, of Mt. Vernon, as a law student, having previously received an academic educa- tion. He was admitted to the bar in 1850, and the next year, 1851, became a partner of Judge Hurd, who, in 1852, on being elected judge of the court of common pleas, surrendered his practice to William Windom and D. S. Norton, two young lawyers, the last named being his brother-in-law.
In 1852 William Windom was elected to the office of prose- cuting attorney of Knox county. He was the candidate of the Whig party, and succeeded by more than three hundred major- ity, although the county generally gave the Democratic ticket a larger majority than that.
Mr. Windom was a young man of excellent talents, good habits, exemplary deportment, and ranked well among the promising young lawyers of Mt. Vernon. He took a deep inter- est in the celebrated Main Law campaign, as it it was called, in 1853, making many speeches in all sections of Ohio in favor of temperance legislation. Mr. Windom was widely and favorably known as a zealous and able advocate of temperance in general and of laws prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors. He held a high position in the ranks of the temperance hosts of the State, and while yet quite young was chosen the chief officer of an order known as the Sons of Temperance, in which posi- tion he served not only acceptably but also quite efficiently, making many public addresses, and in various ways laboring to promote temperance and good morals.
In September, 1855, Mr. Windom removed from Mt. Vernon and settled in Winona, Minnesota, and there, in company with his law partner, Daniel S. Norton, esq., entered upon the prac- tice of his profession. Both gentlemen were possessed of de- cided talents, and as a law firm were successful.
Mr. Norton was elected a member of the Senate of Minnesota four times, and in 1862 was elected a member of the lower branch of the State legislature; and in 1865 he was elected a member of the United States Senate for a full term of six years, ending in 1871, but died in Washington city July 1, 186-, be- fore his term had expired.
Hon. William Windom was elected a member of the Thirty- sixth Congress in 1859, and served as a member of the com- mittee on public land, and also as a member of the special committee of thirty-three. He was also elected a member of the Thirty-seventh Congress, serving on the committee on public expenditure; and of the Thirty-eighth Congress, serving as chairman of the committee on Indian affairs, and of the special committee to visit the Indian tribes of the west in 1865.
Mr. Windom was also elected a member of the Thirty-ninth Congress, serving on the committee on the death of President Lincoln. He was again at the head of the committee on Indian affairs, and also served as chairman of a special committee on the conduct of the commissioner of Indian affairs. He was meanwhile a delegate to the Philadelphia Loyalists' convention of 1866. He was elected to congress for the fifth time in 1866, and through the Fortieth congress served on the same standing committees as in the immediately preceding years.
Hon. William Windom, after an honorable career in Congress,
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of ten consecutive years, was appointed by the Governor in 1870, to serve out the unexpired term of Hon. D. S. Norton in the United States Senate, and was soon thereafter elected to the Senate of the United States for a full term of six years, beginning March 4, 1871, and ending March 4, 1877, during which time he served as chairman of the committee on enrolled bills, and on the committee on transportation, and also served as a mem- ber of the committee on appropriations. Before the expiration of his term in 1877, he was again elected for another full term of six years, which would have terminated March 4, 1883, had he not tendered his resignation as United States senator March 1, 188r. He has thus served his State, with credit and honor, for a period of a little more than ten years, as a member of the United States Senate, making a period of more than twenty consecutive years of service in the National councils.
Hon. William Windom has taken an active part in the legis- lation of the country during the last twenty years, a period that may well be called the most eventful in its history-a period that embraced all the years of the civil war. He kept abreast of the times-took a part in all the discussions of the great war measures that demanded consideration and deliberation in the councils of the Nation. He was always patriotic-always will- ing to vote for more money and more men to put down and crush out the great rebellion-always voting like a patriot, a philanthropist, a philosopher, a statesman when questions affecting slavery, public credit, finance, currency, rebellion were acted upon and demanded the exercise of prudence, wisdom, and the highest style of statesmanship.
By selection of President Garfield, and by the unanimous vote of the members of the United States Senate, Hon. William Windom is now (April, 1881,) Secretary of the Treasury. And in that appointment the country yields general acquiescence. It was an appointment eminently fit to be made. He has many friends and few enemies. Mr. Windom was his own State's first and almost only choice as the candidate of the Republican party for President of the United States. Where best known he is most highly appreciated.
Hon. William Windom married Miss Ellen Hatch, daughter of a Congregational minister. She had been a popular and successful teacher in the Mt. Vernon Female seminary, con- ducted by the late Professor R. R. Sloan. They are the parents of three children.
WINELAND, JOHN, Pike township, farmer, post office, North Liberty, born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, in 1824. He came to Ohio in 1827, and was married in 1850 to Joannah Biddle, who was born in Wayne county, Ohio, in 1828. They have seven children-George Wineland, born in 185r; Jacob, in 1853; Sindrilla, in 1855; Clarvina, in 1857; Mary Elizabeth, in 1862; Emma Etta, in 1864; Sarah L., in 1866; Iona, born in 1869. Jacob Wineland died in 1866, in Pike township, Knox county, Ohio.
Mr. John Wineland has always resided on his present farm. He has been elected to different township offices, and has held the office of township trustee for a number of years.
WINELAND, ALONZO, barber and hair-dresser, basement of Woodward block, corner of Main and Vine streets, Mt. Vernon.
Mr. Wineland is a native born of this county. He was born January 1, 1854, being a New Year's gift from his mother to his . father. When quite young he went to Fulton county, Ohio, where he resided about sixteen years, where he was engaged in
attending school, after which he returned to Mt. Vernon and engaged in the barber business with Phil. Schwikert, where he remained a short time, and then entered the employ of Albert & Shoper, where he remained until January r, 1880, when he bought out the firm and has conducted the business ever since. He runs four chairs, and has two bath-rooms. He has one hundred and seventy-five regular customers, besides accommo- dating transient visitors, and does an average business of about forty-five dollars per week. Hair-cutting a specialty. Ile does the largest business in this line, and has the most commodious and best accommodations in the city, a place where every visitor will be comfortable, and will be waited upon in first-class style.
WING, MELVIN, was born in Warren county, New York, July 8, 1804, and came to Ohio with his parents in the fall of 1816, and located in what is now Milford township, Knox county, where they commenced in the unbroken forest to clear up a home. Mr. Wing, sr., was of rather delicate constitution and young Melvin being the oldest son, a great portion of the work fell upon his shoulders, but being energetic and of great physical endurance it was not long until the forest had given way and in its stead fine fields of grain were to be seen. They resided on this farm until 1822, when they sold and rented a farm for one year. The following year they bought one hun- dred and four acres, one mile south of Mt. Vernon, where his parents spent the remainder of their days. His father reared a family of six children, and died April 10, 1865, in his eighty- sixth year; his mother died December 25, 1867. Melvin mar- ried Miss Elizabeth H. Ash, daughter of James Ash, and reared a family of four children, one daughter and three sons. Mrs. Wing died March 17, 1874. His daughter Maria J. died March 17, 1879. His three sons, viz. W. C., James A., and W. R., are all married and live in Clinton township.
Melvin Wing is one of the pioneers of the county, and has lived to see a great many changes take place. In consequence of severe injuries, caused by a horse running away, he is now in feeble health and has retired from business to enjoy the balance ot his days in peace and quiet.
WINTERMUTE, JACOB PERRY, merchant, Mt. Liberty, Ohio, is the third in descent from George Wintermute, or Win- demuth, as originally spelled, who was an emigrant from the old country, settling in Sussex county, New Jersey, in the early part of the last century, and from whom has descended an ex- tensive family connection, now scattered over all the northern States, territories and Canada.
His son George, who died in 1837, in the ninetieth year of his age, was married to Nancy Arason, a descendant of Jeptha Arason, who was commissioned and sent over by one of the King Georges' to do some surveying, receiving for his services a large tract of land in the northern part of New Jersey.
His son George, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Sussex county, New Jersey, April 28, 1787, was mar- ried to Anne Wintermute, nee Lanterman, October 24, 1807, and at once removed to Fayette county, Pennsylvania, where he followed his trade of blacksmithing, removing from there to Trumbull county, Ohio, in 1809, where he, with an elder brother, was drafted and served in the War of 1812. After the close of his term of service, the times being very hard in that then new country, he moved back to Fayette county, Pennsyl- vania, in 1814, where he remained until the year 1825, when he again moved to Ohio, this time settling in Muskingum county,
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ten miles west of Zanesville, which place he made his permanent residence until the date of his death, January 4, 1862. His widow died February 1, 1871, at her daughter's, near the old homestead. They had a family of six sons and one daughter, as follows: Arason, John Ogden, Asahel Wells, Sarah Ann, Ashfordby, James Frey, and Jacob Perry, all of whom are liv - ing with the exception of the second son, who died in Grayville, Illinois, April 3, 1876.
The subject of this sketch, the youngest of the family, was born in Hopewell township, Muskingum county, Ohio, De- cember 15, 1852, and remained on the farm until his sixteenth year, when he went to Zanesville in the fall of 1848 to learn a trade with his brother, remaining with him four years, after which he engaged in daguerreotyping, following the business in various parts of the State about seven years.
On the last day of December, 1857, he was united in mar- riage, in Zanesville, Ohio, by the Rev. David E. Thomas, to Ettie A. Buckmaster, who was born in Muskingum county, February 7, 1837, and who was a daughter of C. W. Buekmas- ter, whose biography appears in another part of this work. This union resulted in a family of two sons and two daughters, as follows: Robert Corbin, born June 27, 1861; Nina, October 14, 1863, both in Norton, Delaware county, Ohio; William Edward, April 4, 1869, and Pearlie, April 9, 1876, both in Mt. Liberty, Knox county.
After a residence in Zanesville of a little more than one year he removed to Norton, Delaware county, Ohio, and engaged in mercantile business with his brother, remaining there five years, when he changed his location to Mt. Vernon, and became one of the firm of J. W. Purviance & Co. Just after the date of this move-May, 1864-he was called into the service of his country, being orderly sergeant of company C, One Hundred and Forty-fifth regiment, Ohio National guard. The regiment did garrison duty on Arlington Heights, Virginia, the whole term of their enlistment.
In the spring of 1867 he changed to his present location and engaged in mercantile business alone, where, by steady persist- ence and careful management, he has made his business a suc- cess.
At the present time he holds the honorable and responsible position of grand worthy patriarch of the Grand division Sons of Temperance, of Ohio, having been elected thereto October 28, 1880.
WINTERMUTE, WELLINGTON ASHFOURDBY, Mil- ford township, farmer, was born in Licking county, Ohio, June 2, 1845. The Wintermute family are of German extraction, a history of which will be found in the history of Liberty town- ship. The subject of this sketch is the son of Arason and Virenda Wintermute, nee Wayland, and was reared on a farm. He enlisted in company A, Seventy-sixth regiment Ohio volun- teer infantry at Newark, Ohio; belonged to the Fifteenth army corps, First brigade, First division, and participated in the battles of Resaca, Dallas, Kingston, Kennesaw Mountain, Peachtree Creek, Ezra Church, Atlanta, Jonesboro' Lovejoy Station, Siege of Savannah, Columbia, Fayetteville, Bentonville, Raleigh, and all the skirmishes and engagements in which his regiment participated, but one. He was discharged with his regiment at Columbus, Ohio, July 25, 1865, after serving his country faithfully, never shirking any duties that devolved upon him. After his return home he resumed farming. He is a mem- of the Methodist Episcopal church, and a good and useful
ber citizen. He married Miss Louisa Hawkins, daughter of Isaac Hawkins, of Mt. Liberty, August 6, 1871. They have two children, -Charles W. born June 5, 1872, and Mary, March 26, 1877.
WINTERRINGER, BARNETT, Union township, farmer, post office, Rossville, born in Jefferson county, Ohio, Novem- ber 29, 1804. His father came to Knox county in 1816.
Barnett Winterringer remained at home until 1827, when he was married to Sarah Workman, and settled on his present farm. His wife died April 12, 1859, leaving thirteen children, all of whom have died except three, who are living near their father and doing well. He was married the second time Janu- ary 1, 1861. He has always lived a quiet life. He contributed largely to the Presbyterian church at Millwood,, and also a handsome amount to the Wooster university, at Wooster, Ohio.
WINTERRINGER, J. S., Jackson township, was born at Fredericktown, Knox county, Ohio, February 27, 1852. He removed at an early age to Jackson township, where he resided until nine years of age, when he removed to Harrison township, where he received the first rudiments of his education. He was a student at Martinsburgh academy; also at the Ohio university, at Delaware. In the meantime, while pursuing his studies, he taught several terms of school in Knox county. On the twen- tieth of May, 1874, he commenced business at Bladensburgh in a hardware and grocery store. In the meantime he has added a general stock of dry goods, etc. Everything necessary for the household can be found in his establishment. His business is large and increasing.
Mr. Winterringer was married to Miss C. T. Hartupee, of Bladensburgh, December 21, 1874. They have had three chil- dren-Nettie A., born September 12, 1875; Warren L., July 30, 1878; and Frank R., May 4, 1880.
WISE, JOHN C., farmer, post office, Fredericktown .- He was born in Monroe county, Ohio, in 1825. In 1847 he was married to Louisa Barton, who was born in Noble county in 1824. They had six children-Edward (deceased), Richmond (deceased), Theodore B., Charles W., Felissa Jane (deceased), and Frances Louisa (deceased).
Mr. Wise located in this township in 1872. Theodore B. was married in 1876 to .\delaid Ickes. They have one daughter- Gertrude I. Charles W. was married in 1875, to Belle Merrin. They have two children-Wellington R. and Loetta B.
WITHROW, JAMES, Jefferson township, farmer, post office, Greersville, son of David and Elizabeth Withrow, born in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, May 28, 1804; was brought to Ohio in the spring of 1816, by his parents, his father locating in Columbiana county, where he received his education. In 1823, December 15th, he married Elizabeth Downs, daughter of John Downs, born in Jefferson county, Ohio, August 15, 1807. After his marriage he remained in Columbiana county until 1837. In 1836 he came to Jefferson township and entered forty acres of land, and at the same time bought eighty acres adjoin- ing him on the west. In the spring following he moved with his family to his land, where he has since remained. In 1841 he bought eighty acres adjoming him on the west, making in all two hundred acres. Mr. Withrow was elected justice of the peace in about six months after he came to Knox county, and served five terms, making in all fifteen years. He was also captain of a rifle company for seven years. In 1849 he was
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elected representative of Knox county for one term. In 1855 Mr. Withrow, in company with Mr. Beeman, established a dry goods store in the town of Jelloway, which they conducted untü 1862, when Mr. Withrow sold his interest to James Skilling, after which time the business was conducted by Beeman & Sk - ling. During the time he was engaged in this business he owned the farm now owned by John Nyhart. P. : vious to this he owned two hundred acres in Henry county, Ohio, which he sold, and bought one hundred and sixty acres in Marion county, Ohio, which he gave to his sons William and John; and they now live there.
Mr. and Mrs. Withrow are the parents of ten children, viz. : Hugh, Nancy J., Mary, William J., John W., Elizab-rh, Caro- lina B., David C., Hannah E., Fanme A., James F. Seve; children are living. William Withrow served one year in the late Rebellion. James Withrow was elected county commis- sioner in 1842, serving six years; was also elected land appraiser in 1860 and 1870.
WOLFE, CHRISTOPHER, Liberty township, pioneer of Knox county, was born in Roxbury township, Morris county, New Jersey, July 15, 1791. F.s paternal grandfather was a German Baptist minister. His father's name was . John; his mother's name prior to her marriage was Nancy Cassad, who. by descent was Irish. They were both natis , of New Jersey, farmers by occupation, and were Ingly respected citizens. They both died in New Jersey. They had eight children, all of whom grew up, and four of whom are living, viz: Mrs. Elizabeth Yauger; Mrs. David F. Hals-y, wife of Squ're Halsey, of Clinton township; Mrs. Mary Drake, of Johnston county, Iowa, and the subject of this notice.
Mr. Wolfe's early life was spent at home on the farm. His education was limited to the district schools.
May 12, 1816, he was united in marriage to Miss Phoebe Rinehart, daughter of Christian and Mary Rinehart. Until November of the same year he remained in New Jersey, when he, with the Rinehart family, emigrated to Ohio. They came by wagon, bringing with them some household goods. After five weeks of travel they landed in Morris township, near Mt. Vernon, where Mr. Wolfe remained until 1821, when he pur- chased a tract of land in Liberty township, on which there had been a small opening, and some improvements made, but it was almost entirely covered with heavy timber. He, how- ever, by persistent efforts felled the "giants of the forest," and beautiful harvests rewarded his labors. In due time the log cabin dwelling was superseded by a fine brick dwelling house, and new barns were erected for his crops. He soon became a leading citizen of the township and county.
Politically Mr. Wolfe is a Jeffersonian Democrat, and always took an active interest in political affairs. In his younger days he was widely known over Knox county as one of the leaders of the party. He served for many years as justice of the peace, and filled the office with very general satisfaction. He was also commissioner of the county for six years, and filled that office with credit. In religion Mr. Wolfe is a Presbyterian, having been a member of that denomination for many years.
Mrs. Wolfe died in April, 1868. The couple lived over a half century together, having had fifty years of happy wedlock. They were blessed with eight children, six sons and two daugh- ters, seven of whom are living, and highly respected and influ- ential citizens, showing that they impressed the same traits of character on their children that they possessed, namely, industry,
honesty, and economy. The names of the children are John D., farmer, Poweshiek county, lowa; Mary A., wife of Andrew Dalrymple, deceased, of Liberty township; George W., farmer, of Morrow county, Ohio; Lewis R., farmer and stock dealer of Oxford, Johnston county, Iowa; William, farmer and stock dealer, Johnston county, Iowa; Thomas Jefferson, farmer, Hilliar township; Fiza, wife of Jacob Myers, deceased, of Lib- erty township; and Samuel C., the youngest, who is deceased. Mr. Wolfe 15 spending the "evening of his life" with his daugh- ter, Mrs. Myers, awaiting the summons to join those "who have gone before."
WOLF, SIMON, deceased, was born in Coshocton county, Ohio, in 1816, and emigrated to Butler township, .Knox county, Ohio, when a boy. He was married to Nancy Kemmerer, October 17, 1832, by whom he has had eleven children, viz :- Samuel, Martin, Mary Ann, John, Jacob, Lydia, James, Lem- uel, Emanuel, Lorenzo, and Dorcas Ellen.
Martin served as a soldier of the late civil war, being a mem- ber of the Forty-third Ohio volunteer infantry, and died at Memphis, Tennessee.
Jacob was also a member of the Forty-third Ohio volunteer infantry, and was killed at the battle of Kennesaw Mountain.
Lemuel died October 7, 1854. Mr. Simon Wolf died June rr, 1869.
WOLFE, THOMAS J., Hillian township, farmer, was born in Liberty township, Knox county, May 20 1829. His youth was spent on his father's farm. He was married to Miss Sarah M. Hewett, of Knox county, October, 1850, who was born May 30, 1829. She is the daughter of Cyrus and Syrene Hewett. The following year after their marriage they moved to Hardin county, Ohio, where they remained four years, and then moved to Johnston county, Iowa, where they remained two years and returned to Knox county, and about two years after purchased the farm on which they reside. He has improved the farm and added largely to it.
As early as 1858 Mr. Wolf began to deal in stock and ship to the eastern markets. He continued in this for a number of years, and has been successful.
Mr. Wolfe is one of the solid men of Hilliar township. He is judicious, and consequently successful in his undertakings. His principal business as a farmer is the raising of stock. He was elected land appraiser of this township in 1879. He is re- garded as a safe counsellor, a man of sound judgment. Mr. Wolf is social in his manner, liberal in his views, and has the esteem of his neighbors, who look upon him as a man whose word is taken at par; in short, he does what he says. He takes an interest in National matters, and can not be moved from the position he takes upon the political issues of the day. He is a Democrat.
His marriage has been blessed with two children, viz .: Squire M., and Samuel F., both at home. In addition to his own family he has two orphan children, Adda Craft and Amanda E. Yough, to whom he and his estimabie wife accord the same privilege as their own family.
WOLFE, SAMUEL, Jackson township, farmer, post office, Bladensburgh, was born August 11, 1838, in Butler township, Knox county, Ohio. He removed to Jackson township in 1861, and has resided there ever since. Mr. Wolfe was married in February, 1858, to Miss Mary Jane Hayes, of Harrison township. They have had nine children, viz: Arminda, born February 14, 1859; Lovenia, January 3, 1861; Melvin, June 9,
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1863; Alma, December 10, 1864; Elfrenda, December 14, 1866; Myrtle, June 7, 1868; Ormsby, April 7, 1870; Silva, January 25, 1872; infant, born July 19, 1874, and died July 22, 1874.
Mr. Wolf was a member of the Sixth company Ohio sharp- shooters during the war of the Rebellion.
WOLF, JOHN, is a native of Butler township, born Septem- ber 13, 1843, and was married to Hannah M. Hayden may 30, 1872. They have had four children, viz: Everett L., Addie Mabel, Simon Virgil, Edith Violet.
Mr. Wolf served during the war of the Rebellion, enlisting in the Forty-third Ohio volunteer infantry, in November, 1861, at Millwood, under Captain Walker, and served in the saine until the twenty-fourth day of December, 1864, when he enlisted in the veteran service and served until the close of the war. He was engaged in numerous battles and skirmishes; among the number were New Madrid, Iuka, Corinth, Island No. 10, Re- saca, Dallas, Kennesaw Mountain, etc. He also marched with Sherman to the sea, and was present at Johnson's surrender.
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