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Edwin (aka Edward in IL military records) W. Winter, whose residence was Chicago IL, enlisted on 5/14/1864 as a Private and on 5/31/1864 he mustered into "C" Co. IL 134th Infantry. He was Mustered Out on 10/25/1864 at Chicago, IL.
Sources include:
* Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War Graves National Registration Database www.suvcw.org
* Historical Data Systems, Inc., which used:
- Illinois: Roster of Officers and Enlisted Men
(c) Historical Data Systems, Inc. @ www.civilwardata.com
Contributor: Gary Carlberg (50690535)
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Birth: 5th of six known children in Bloomfield, Essex county, Vermont.
~ NOTE: Middle name of Wheeler is also questionably found undocumented for Edwin's father, Jonathon W Winter, on two different Worldconnect trees and some Ancestry.com trees as well as his daughter, Edwinia W Winter, on a Worldconnect tree. It might belong(?).
A vast amount of Winter family historic information is found within first paragraph 415 Summit Avenue.
Additional information including biography received 12/4/2013 from Dennis, thank you.
Source: Minnesota Historical Society
Edwin Wheeler Winter was born on November 18, 1845 in Bloomfield, Vermont. Sometime prior to 1848 his family moved to Compton(sic), New Hampshire, where they remained until their 1856 move to Wauconda, Illinois. There Winter attended both the Wauconda and Lake Zurich academies. At age fifteen he left home and found employment on area farms for nearly two years. He then attended Dyrengurth's School of Trade in Waukegan, Illinois and became an assistant teacher when the school moved to Chicago. He also worked as a wagon driver and bookkeeper at Chicago's Mechanical Bakery and as a bookkeeper at several shipping warehouses before he became an office boy in the Chicago American Express Company office in 1862. Except for a short period of service with an Illinois regiment during the Civil War, he remained with American Express until 1866. In that year he joined the newly organized Merchant's Union Express Company, but left in 1867 to join the Union Pacific Railway Company (UP). He was employed in the UP's construction department, serving in several capacities, including paymaster, in Chicago, Wyoming, and Utah. ~ [The original company, before merging with the Central Pacific Railroad, was incorporated on July 1, 1862 under an act of Congress entitled Pacific Railroad Act of 1862. The act was approved by President Abraham Lincoln, and it provided for the construction of railroads from the Missouri River to the Pacific as a war measure for the preservation of the Union.] ~ In 1870 he left the UP and returned to Chicago where he became a general agent for the American Art Association in the Cincinnati, Ohio area. In 1871 he again returned to Chicago and became a bookkeeper with the railroad construction firm of Seymour, Wallace and Company. He served at construction sites in Moberly (Missouri), Atchison (Kansas), and Marinette (Wisconsin). In 1873 he left the construction firm to become the general claim agent of the Chicago and North Western Railway Company (C&NW) in Chicago. He moved to Hudson, Wisconsin in 1876 when he became general superintendent of the West Wisconsin Railway Company. In 1878 the West Wisconsin Railway Company was acquired by the Chicago, St. Paul and Minneapolis Railway Company (CSPM), and Winter was named general superintendent the following year. In 1880 the line became the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway Company (the Omaha) and Winter was made assistant president in 1881. In that same year he moved to St. Paul. In 1885 he was named the Omaha's general manager, a position he held until he became president of the Northern Pacific Railway Company (NP)in July 1896. His resignation the following April took effect on August 31 and was attributed to a conflict over the railroad's ownership. He was also president of the Chicago Transfer and Clearing Company in the late 1890s.
Winter moved to New York City in 1899 where he became known as a builder of "sick" railroads, participating in the reorganization of the Cleveland, Lorain and Wheeling Railway Company and the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT). He served as president of the latter from 1903 through 1911.
Winter married Elizabeth(sic) Cannon of Louisville, Kentucky in 1870. He fell ill at his summer home in Little Compton, Rhode Island, and died at nearby Truesdale Hospital in Fall River, Massachusetts on June 28, 1930.
Census: 1850, age 5 Campton, Grafton county, New Hampshire with parents & three older siblings.
Census: 1880, age 34 in St Paul, Ramsey county, Minnesota with wife and 4 kids.
~ Edwin Wheeler Winter is documented as living in the home at 415 Summit avenue, built, but never lived in, by Governor William Rainey Marshall, from 1882 until around seven years following wife's 1892 death when he removed to New York. Their first born daughter, Laura (1871-1968) & son-in-law, William John Dean (1869-1941) Wm Blake Dean, 1838-1922), added a porch in 1907 and are of record residing there with children until at least the 1940 census.
~ Lost his wife to pneumonia in 1892 along with her mother, see newspaper article at right.
Census (Minnesota): 1895, age 49 in St Paul, Ramsey county, Minnesota without wife, with 4 kids.
~ View article in New York Times of 1897.
Census: 1900 age 52(sic) Chicago, Cook county, Illinois widowed, with two children at 469 Elm street, president of a Railroad.
A railroader since starting in 1867 at Union Pacific.
Death: at summer home in Little Compton, Newport county, Rhode Island.
Grandfather: Deacon Otis Winter b: 10 JUL 1792 Croydon, Sullivan county, New Hampshire, (a tanner) then a "dirt" farmer who had farmed his children out to others according to a 3rd g,granddaughter. Death NOV 1850, Grafton county, New Hampshire with widow, Delia, surviving till after 1880.
Father: Johnathon W Winter b: 1816 New Hampshire, from 1840 & 1850, (shoemaker). Federal census records, death AUG 1850, ~ some believe given name is Charles, his 1st son, their 2nd known child, was Charles Otis whom their paternal grandmother, "Dilly", (Delia), lived with at Barrington, Cook county, Illinois in census of 1870, along with Charles' mother, Delia's daughter-in-law, E (Elmira) B Payne in 1880 census.
Mother: Almira or Elmira, Burbank Goodhue b: 31 May 1816 Vermont, 2nd marriage, Seth Paine or Payne, around 1851 having two daughters.
Sister: Phimelin Winter b: 1833 Grafton county, New Hampshire, Edwin's 1st known sibling, died in 1834, some seven or so years later, another sibling was given same name, married twice before death.
Nephew: Otis W Sargent, & younger brother Edward R, with maternal grandmother "Dilly" (Delia) in 1850 census at Campton, Grafton county, New Hampshire, then "Dilly" is within household of Rachel A Sargent & Edward at Barrington, Cook county, Illinois in 1860 census.
Marriage: Elisabeth "Libby" F Cannon b: 1846 Louisville, Jefferson county, Kentucky
Married: 16 FEB 1870 Cook county, Illinois.
Known Children
Laura Cannon Winter b: 28 FEB 1871 in Kentucky
Wallace Charles Winter b: 8 AUG 1872 in Marinette, Marinette county, Wisconsin.
Edwinia W Winter b: 8 OCT 1875 in Illinois
Elisabeth "Bessie" Winter b: JUL 1878 in Hudson, Saint Croix, county, Wisconsin
Everett Payson Winter b: 22 AUG 1888 in St Paul, Ramsey county, Minnesota
~ ~ Revised: 01/21/14.
Prepared in part by Bill Boggess, with assistance from a 2nd g,granddaughter.
Edwin (aka Edward in IL military records) W. Winter, whose residence was Chicago IL, enlisted on 5/14/1864 as a Private and on 5/31/1864 he mustered into "C" Co. IL 134th Infantry. He was Mustered Out on 10/25/1864 at Chicago, IL.
Sources include:
* Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War Graves National Registration Database www.suvcw.org
* Historical Data Systems, Inc., which used:
- Illinois: Roster of Officers and Enlisted Men
(c) Historical Data Systems, Inc. @ www.civilwardata.com
Contributor: Gary Carlberg (50690535)
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Birth: 5th of six known children in Bloomfield, Essex county, Vermont.
~ NOTE: Middle name of Wheeler is also questionably found undocumented for Edwin's father, Jonathon W Winter, on two different Worldconnect trees and some Ancestry.com trees as well as his daughter, Edwinia W Winter, on a Worldconnect tree. It might belong(?).
A vast amount of Winter family historic information is found within first paragraph 415 Summit Avenue.
Additional information including biography received 12/4/2013 from Dennis, thank you.
Source: Minnesota Historical Society
Edwin Wheeler Winter was born on November 18, 1845 in Bloomfield, Vermont. Sometime prior to 1848 his family moved to Compton(sic), New Hampshire, where they remained until their 1856 move to Wauconda, Illinois. There Winter attended both the Wauconda and Lake Zurich academies. At age fifteen he left home and found employment on area farms for nearly two years. He then attended Dyrengurth's School of Trade in Waukegan, Illinois and became an assistant teacher when the school moved to Chicago. He also worked as a wagon driver and bookkeeper at Chicago's Mechanical Bakery and as a bookkeeper at several shipping warehouses before he became an office boy in the Chicago American Express Company office in 1862. Except for a short period of service with an Illinois regiment during the Civil War, he remained with American Express until 1866. In that year he joined the newly organized Merchant's Union Express Company, but left in 1867 to join the Union Pacific Railway Company (UP). He was employed in the UP's construction department, serving in several capacities, including paymaster, in Chicago, Wyoming, and Utah. ~ [The original company, before merging with the Central Pacific Railroad, was incorporated on July 1, 1862 under an act of Congress entitled Pacific Railroad Act of 1862. The act was approved by President Abraham Lincoln, and it provided for the construction of railroads from the Missouri River to the Pacific as a war measure for the preservation of the Union.] ~ In 1870 he left the UP and returned to Chicago where he became a general agent for the American Art Association in the Cincinnati, Ohio area. In 1871 he again returned to Chicago and became a bookkeeper with the railroad construction firm of Seymour, Wallace and Company. He served at construction sites in Moberly (Missouri), Atchison (Kansas), and Marinette (Wisconsin). In 1873 he left the construction firm to become the general claim agent of the Chicago and North Western Railway Company (C&NW) in Chicago. He moved to Hudson, Wisconsin in 1876 when he became general superintendent of the West Wisconsin Railway Company. In 1878 the West Wisconsin Railway Company was acquired by the Chicago, St. Paul and Minneapolis Railway Company (CSPM), and Winter was named general superintendent the following year. In 1880 the line became the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway Company (the Omaha) and Winter was made assistant president in 1881. In that same year he moved to St. Paul. In 1885 he was named the Omaha's general manager, a position he held until he became president of the Northern Pacific Railway Company (NP)in July 1896. His resignation the following April took effect on August 31 and was attributed to a conflict over the railroad's ownership. He was also president of the Chicago Transfer and Clearing Company in the late 1890s.
Winter moved to New York City in 1899 where he became known as a builder of "sick" railroads, participating in the reorganization of the Cleveland, Lorain and Wheeling Railway Company and the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT). He served as president of the latter from 1903 through 1911.
Winter married Elizabeth(sic) Cannon of Louisville, Kentucky in 1870. He fell ill at his summer home in Little Compton, Rhode Island, and died at nearby Truesdale Hospital in Fall River, Massachusetts on June 28, 1930.
Census: 1850, age 5 Campton, Grafton county, New Hampshire with parents & three older siblings.
Census: 1880, age 34 in St Paul, Ramsey county, Minnesota with wife and 4 kids.
~ Edwin Wheeler Winter is documented as living in the home at 415 Summit avenue, built, but never lived in, by Governor William Rainey Marshall, from 1882 until around seven years following wife's 1892 death when he removed to New York. Their first born daughter, Laura (1871-1968) & son-in-law, William John Dean (1869-1941) Wm Blake Dean, 1838-1922), added a porch in 1907 and are of record residing there with children until at least the 1940 census.
~ Lost his wife to pneumonia in 1892 along with her mother, see newspaper article at right.
Census (Minnesota): 1895, age 49 in St Paul, Ramsey county, Minnesota without wife, with 4 kids.
~ View article in New York Times of 1897.
Census: 1900 age 52(sic) Chicago, Cook county, Illinois widowed, with two children at 469 Elm street, president of a Railroad.
A railroader since starting in 1867 at Union Pacific.
Death: at summer home in Little Compton, Newport county, Rhode Island.
Grandfather: Deacon Otis Winter b: 10 JUL 1792 Croydon, Sullivan county, New Hampshire, (a tanner) then a "dirt" farmer who had farmed his children out to others according to a 3rd g,granddaughter. Death NOV 1850, Grafton county, New Hampshire with widow, Delia, surviving till after 1880.
Father: Johnathon W Winter b: 1816 New Hampshire, from 1840 & 1850, (shoemaker). Federal census records, death AUG 1850, ~ some believe given name is Charles, his 1st son, their 2nd known child, was Charles Otis whom their paternal grandmother, "Dilly", (Delia), lived with at Barrington, Cook county, Illinois in census of 1870, along with Charles' mother, Delia's daughter-in-law, E (Elmira) B Payne in 1880 census.
Mother: Almira or Elmira, Burbank Goodhue b: 31 May 1816 Vermont, 2nd marriage, Seth Paine or Payne, around 1851 having two daughters.
Sister: Phimelin Winter b: 1833 Grafton county, New Hampshire, Edwin's 1st known sibling, died in 1834, some seven or so years later, another sibling was given same name, married twice before death.
Nephew: Otis W Sargent, & younger brother Edward R, with maternal grandmother "Dilly" (Delia) in 1850 census at Campton, Grafton county, New Hampshire, then "Dilly" is within household of Rachel A Sargent & Edward at Barrington, Cook county, Illinois in 1860 census.
Marriage: Elisabeth "Libby" F Cannon b: 1846 Louisville, Jefferson county, Kentucky
Married: 16 FEB 1870 Cook county, Illinois.
Known Children
Laura Cannon Winter b: 28 FEB 1871 in Kentucky
Wallace Charles Winter b: 8 AUG 1872 in Marinette, Marinette county, Wisconsin.
Edwinia W Winter b: 8 OCT 1875 in Illinois
Elisabeth "Bessie" Winter b: JUL 1878 in Hudson, Saint Croix, county, Wisconsin
Everett Payson Winter b: 22 AUG 1888 in St Paul, Ramsey county, Minnesota
~ ~ Revised: 01/21/14.
Prepared in part by Bill Boggess, with assistance from a 2nd g,granddaughter.
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Edwin (aka Edward in IL military records) W. Winter, whose residence was Chicago IL, enlisted on 5/14/1864 as a Private and on 5/31/1864 he mustered into "C" Co. IL 134th Infantry. He was Mustered Out on 10/25/1864 at Chicago, IL.
Sources include:
* Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War Graves National Registration Database www.suvcw.org
* Historical Data Systems, Inc., which used:
- Illinois: Roster of Officers and Enlisted Men
(c) Historical Data Systems, Inc. @ www.civilwardata.com
Contributor: Gary Carlberg (50690535)
***********************
Birth: 5th of six known children in Bloomfield, Essex county, Vermont.
~ NOTE: Middle name of Wheeler is also questionably found undocumented for Edwin's father, Jonathon W Winter, on two different Worldconnect trees and some Ancestry.com trees as well as his daughter, Edwinia W Winter, on a Worldconnect tree. It might belong(?).
A vast amount of Winter family historic information is found within first paragraph 415 Summit Avenue.
Additional information including biography received 12/4/2013 from Dennis, thank you.
Source: Minnesota Historical Society
Edwin Wheeler Winter was born on November 18, 1845 in Bloomfield, Vermont. Sometime prior to 1848 his family moved to Compton(sic), New Hampshire, where they remained until their 1856 move to Wauconda, Illinois. There Winter attended both the Wauconda and Lake Zurich academies. At age fifteen he left home and found employment on area farms for nearly two years. He then attended Dyrengurth's School of Trade in Waukegan, Illinois and became an assistant teacher when the school moved to Chicago. He also worked as a wagon driver and bookkeeper at Chicago's Mechanical Bakery and as a bookkeeper at several shipping warehouses before he became an office boy in the Chicago American Express Company office in 1862. Except for a short period of service with an Illinois regiment during the Civil War, he remained with American Express until 1866. In that year he joined the newly organized Merchant's Union Express Company, but left in 1867 to join the Union Pacific Railway Company (UP). He was employed in the UP's construction department, serving in several capacities, including paymaster, in Chicago, Wyoming, and Utah. ~ [The original company, before merging with the Central Pacific Railroad, was incorporated on July 1, 1862 under an act of Congress entitled Pacific Railroad Act of 1862. The act was approved by President Abraham Lincoln, and it provided for the construction of railroads from the Missouri River to the Pacific as a war measure for the preservation of the Union.] ~ In 1870 he left the UP and returned to Chicago where he became a general agent for the American Art Association in the Cincinnati, Ohio area. In 1871 he again returned to Chicago and became a bookkeeper with the railroad construction firm of Seymour, Wallace and Company. He served at construction sites in Moberly (Missouri), Atchison (Kansas), and Marinette (Wisconsin). In 1873 he left the construction firm to become the general claim agent of the Chicago and North Western Railway Company (C&NW) in Chicago. He moved to Hudson, Wisconsin in 1876 when he became general superintendent of the West Wisconsin Railway Company. In 1878 the West Wisconsin Railway Company was acquired by the Chicago, St. Paul and Minneapolis Railway Company (CSPM), and Winter was named general superintendent the following year. In 1880 the line became the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway Company (the Omaha) and Winter was made assistant president in 1881. In that same year he moved to St. Paul. In 1885 he was named the Omaha's general manager, a position he held until he became president of the Northern Pacific Railway Company (NP)in July 1896. His resignation the following April took effect on August 31 and was attributed to a conflict over the railroad's ownership. He was also president of the Chicago Transfer and Clearing Company in the late 1890s.
Winter moved to New York City in 1899 where he became known as a builder of "sick" railroads, participating in the reorganization of the Cleveland, Lorain and Wheeling Railway Company and the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT). He served as president of the latter from 1903 through 1911.
Winter married Elizabeth(sic) Cannon of Louisville, Kentucky in 1870. He fell ill at his summer home in Little Compton, Rhode Island, and died at nearby Truesdale Hospital in Fall River, Massachusetts on June 28, 1930.
Census: 1850, age 5 Campton, Grafton county, New Hampshire with parents & three older siblings.
Census: 1880, age 34 in St Paul, Ramsey county, Minnesota with wife and 4 kids.
~ Edwin Wheeler Winter is documented as living in the home at 415 Summit avenue, built, but never lived in, by Governor William Rainey Marshall, from 1882 until around seven years following wife's 1892 death when he removed to New York. Their first born daughter, Laura (1871-1968) & son-in-law, William John Dean (1869-1941) Wm Blake Dean, 1838-1922), added a porch in 1907 and are of record residing there with children until at least the 1940 census.
~ Lost his wife to pneumonia in 1892 along with her mother, see newspaper article at right.
Census (Minnesota): 1895, age 49 in St Paul, Ramsey county, Minnesota without wife, with 4 kids.
~ View article in New York Times of 1897.
Census: 1900 age 52(sic) Chicago, Cook county, Illinois widowed, with two children at 469 Elm street, president of a Railroad.
A railroader since starting in 1867 at Union Pacific.
Death: at summer home in Little Compton, Newport county, Rhode Island.
Grandfather: Deacon Otis Winter b: 10 JUL 1792 Croydon, Sullivan county, New Hampshire, (a tanner) then a "dirt" farmer who had farmed his children out to others according to a 3rd g,granddaughter. Death NOV 1850, Grafton county, New Hampshire with widow, Delia, surviving till after 1880.
Father: Johnathon W Winter b: 1816 New Hampshire, from 1840 & 1850, (shoemaker). Federal census records, death AUG 1850, ~ some believe given name is Charles, his 1st son, their 2nd known child, was Charles Otis whom their paternal grandmother, "Dilly", (Delia), lived with at Barrington, Cook county, Illinois in census of 1870, along with Charles' mother, Delia's daughter-in-law, E (Elmira) B Payne in 1880 census.
Mother: Almira or Elmira, Burbank Goodhue b: 31 May 1816 Vermont, 2nd marriage, Seth Paine or Payne, around 1851 having two daughters.
Sister: Phimelin Winter b: 1833 Grafton county, New Hampshire, Edwin's 1st known sibling, died in 1834, some seven or so years later, another sibling was given same name, married twice before death.
Nephew: Otis W Sargent, & younger brother Edward R, with maternal grandmother "Dilly" (Delia) in 1850 census at Campton, Grafton county, New Hampshire, then "Dilly" is within household of Rachel A Sargent & Edward at Barrington, Cook county, Illinois in 1860 census.
Marriage: Elisabeth "Libby" F Cannon b: 1846 Louisville, Jefferson county, Kentucky
Married: 16 FEB 1870 Cook county, Illinois.
Known Children
Laura Cannon Winter b: 28 FEB 1871 in Kentucky
Wallace Charles Winter b: 8 AUG 1872 in Marinette, Marinette county, Wisconsin.
Edwinia W Winter b: 8 OCT 1875 in Illinois
Elisabeth "Bessie" Winter b: JUL 1878 in Hudson, Saint Croix, county, Wisconsin
Everett Payson Winter b: 22 AUG 1888 in St Paul, Ramsey county, Minnesota
~ ~ Revised: 01/21/14.
Prepared in part by Bill Boggess, with assistance from a 2nd g,granddaughter.
Edwin (aka Edward in IL military records) W. Winter, whose residence was Chicago IL, enlisted on 5/14/1864 as a Private and on 5/31/1864 he mustered into "C" Co. IL 134th Infantry. He was Mustered Out on 10/25/1864 at Chicago, IL.
Sources include:
* Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War Graves National Registration Database www.suvcw.org
* Historical Data Systems, Inc., which used:
- Illinois: Roster of Officers and Enlisted Men
(c) Historical Data Systems, Inc. @ www.civilwardata.com
Contributor: Gary Carlberg (50690535)
***********************
Birth: 5th of six known children in Bloomfield, Essex county, Vermont.
~ NOTE: Middle name of Wheeler is also questionably found undocumented for Edwin's father, Jonathon W Winter, on two different Worldconnect trees and some Ancestry.com trees as well as his daughter, Edwinia W Winter, on a Worldconnect tree. It might belong(?).
A vast amount of Winter family historic information is found within first paragraph 415 Summit Avenue.
Additional information including biography received 12/4/2013 from Dennis, thank you.
Source: Minnesota Historical Society
Edwin Wheeler Winter was born on November 18, 1845 in Bloomfield, Vermont. Sometime prior to 1848 his family moved to Compton(sic), New Hampshire, where they remained until their 1856 move to Wauconda, Illinois. There Winter attended both the Wauconda and Lake Zurich academies. At age fifteen he left home and found employment on area farms for nearly two years. He then attended Dyrengurth's School of Trade in Waukegan, Illinois and became an assistant teacher when the school moved to Chicago. He also worked as a wagon driver and bookkeeper at Chicago's Mechanical Bakery and as a bookkeeper at several shipping warehouses before he became an office boy in the Chicago American Express Company office in 1862. Except for a short period of service with an Illinois regiment during the Civil War, he remained with American Express until 1866. In that year he joined the newly organized Merchant's Union Express Company, but left in 1867 to join the Union Pacific Railway Company (UP). He was employed in the UP's construction department, serving in several capacities, including paymaster, in Chicago, Wyoming, and Utah. ~ [The original company, before merging with the Central Pacific Railroad, was incorporated on July 1, 1862 under an act of Congress entitled Pacific Railroad Act of 1862. The act was approved by President Abraham Lincoln, and it provided for the construction of railroads from the Missouri River to the Pacific as a war measure for the preservation of the Union.] ~ In 1870 he left the UP and returned to Chicago where he became a general agent for the American Art Association in the Cincinnati, Ohio area. In 1871 he again returned to Chicago and became a bookkeeper with the railroad construction firm of Seymour, Wallace and Company. He served at construction sites in Moberly (Missouri), Atchison (Kansas), and Marinette (Wisconsin). In 1873 he left the construction firm to become the general claim agent of the Chicago and North Western Railway Company (C&NW) in Chicago. He moved to Hudson, Wisconsin in 1876 when he became general superintendent of the West Wisconsin Railway Company. In 1878 the West Wisconsin Railway Company was acquired by the Chicago, St. Paul and Minneapolis Railway Company (CSPM), and Winter was named general superintendent the following year. In 1880 the line became the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway Company (the Omaha) and Winter was made assistant president in 1881. In that same year he moved to St. Paul. In 1885 he was named the Omaha's general manager, a position he held until he became president of the Northern Pacific Railway Company (NP)in July 1896. His resignation the following April took effect on August 31 and was attributed to a conflict over the railroad's ownership. He was also president of the Chicago Transfer and Clearing Company in the late 1890s.
Winter moved to New York City in 1899 where he became known as a builder of "sick" railroads, participating in the reorganization of the Cleveland, Lorain and Wheeling Railway Company and the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT). He served as president of the latter from 1903 through 1911.
Winter married Elizabeth(sic) Cannon of Louisville, Kentucky in 1870. He fell ill at his summer home in Little Compton, Rhode Island, and died at nearby Truesdale Hospital in Fall River, Massachusetts on June 28, 1930.
Census: 1850, age 5 Campton, Grafton county, New Hampshire with parents & three older siblings.
Census: 1880, age 34 in St Paul, Ramsey county, Minnesota with wife and 4 kids.
~ Edwin Wheeler Winter is documented as living in the home at 415 Summit avenue, built, but never lived in, by Governor William Rainey Marshall, from 1882 until around seven years following wife's 1892 death when he removed to New York. Their first born daughter, Laura (1871-1968) & son-in-law, William John Dean (1869-1941) Wm Blake Dean, 1838-1922), added a porch in 1907 and are of record residing there with children until at least the 1940 census.
~ Lost his wife to pneumonia in 1892 along with her mother, see newspaper article at right.
Census (Minnesota): 1895, age 49 in St Paul, Ramsey county, Minnesota without wife, with 4 kids.
~ View article in New York Times of 1897.
Census: 1900 age 52(sic) Chicago, Cook county, Illinois widowed, with two children at 469 Elm street, president of a Railroad.
A railroader since starting in 1867 at Union Pacific.
Death: at summer home in Little Compton, Newport county, Rhode Island.
Grandfather: Deacon Otis Winter b: 10 JUL 1792 Croydon, Sullivan county, New Hampshire, (a tanner) then a "dirt" farmer who had farmed his children out to others according to a 3rd g,granddaughter. Death NOV 1850, Grafton county, New Hampshire with widow, Delia, surviving till after 1880.
Father: Johnathon W Winter b: 1816 New Hampshire, from 1840 & 1850, (shoemaker). Federal census records, death AUG 1850, ~ some believe given name is Charles, his 1st son, their 2nd known child, was Charles Otis whom their paternal grandmother, "Dilly", (Delia), lived with at Barrington, Cook county, Illinois in census of 1870, along with Charles' mother, Delia's daughter-in-law, E (Elmira) B Payne in 1880 census.
Mother: Almira or Elmira, Burbank Goodhue b: 31 May 1816 Vermont, 2nd marriage, Seth Paine or Payne, around 1851 having two daughters.
Sister: Phimelin Winter b: 1833 Grafton county, New Hampshire, Edwin's 1st known sibling, died in 1834, some seven or so years later, another sibling was given same name, married twice before death.
Nephew: Otis W Sargent, & younger brother Edward R, with maternal grandmother "Dilly" (Delia) in 1850 census at Campton, Grafton county, New Hampshire, then "Dilly" is within household of Rachel A Sargent & Edward at Barrington, Cook county, Illinois in 1860 census.
Marriage: Elisabeth "Libby" F Cannon b: 1846 Louisville, Jefferson county, Kentucky
Married: 16 FEB 1870 Cook county, Illinois.
Known Children
Laura Cannon Winter b: 28 FEB 1871 in Kentucky
Wallace Charles Winter b: 8 AUG 1872 in Marinette, Marinette county, Wisconsin.
Edwinia W Winter b: 8 OCT 1875 in Illinois
Elisabeth "Bessie" Winter b: JUL 1878 in Hudson, Saint Croix, county, Wisconsin
Everett Payson Winter b: 22 AUG 1888 in St Paul, Ramsey county, Minnesota
~ ~ Revised: 01/21/14.
Prepared in part by Bill Boggess, with assistance from a 2nd g,granddaughter.
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