WI BIO - Richland Co - WINN, John

History of Crawford & Richland Cos, Wisconsin. Springfield, IL: Union, 1884, 
p 1191

John WINN, a prosperous farmer of Richland County, Wisconsin, resides just 
west of the village limits of Richland Center, where he owns a farm of 160 
acres. He purchased his farm in 1865, at which date it was but little 
improved, but he now has an excellent farm, a neat frame house, and good 
barns. He is engaged in dairying and manufacturing creamery butter. His cows 
are all full blood, or high grade Shorthorns.

Mr. [John] WINN was born in York County, Maine, and resided in his native 
State until nineteen years of age. He then went to Massachusetts and worked 
in cotton mills, and for ten years was overseer in the weaving department of 
the Essex Corporation mills.

In 1848 at Newburyport [Essex County, Massachusetts], John WINN was married 
to Elizabeth J. McNEAL [a maiden name?], and it was on account of his wife's 
failing health that he came to Wisconsin. She [Elizabeth J. WINN] died in 
1856, leaving two children: John S. and Elizabeth J., now the wife of J. W. 
HOUSTON. After the death of his wife, John WINN returned to New Hampshire, 
and there married Elizabeth J. FIFIELD [a maiden name?], and by this union 
[of John and Elizabeth J. WINN] there is one daughter, Hattie A.

Mr. WINN is one of the pioneers of Richland County, Wisconsin, as his 
residence dates from 1855. In the fall of 1855 he located on Section 33, of 
Buena Vista [Township], where he was engaged in farming until he settled on 
his present farm. He opened a fine stone quarry on his farm in 1866, from 
which large quantities of the best building stone are obtained. Mr. WINN is 
not a member of any civic society.

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