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John Winger

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John Winger

Birth
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death
1912 (aged 81–82)
Wooster, Wayne County, Ohio, USA
Burial
Wooster, Wayne County, Ohio, USA GPS-Latitude: 40.7854921, Longitude: -81.9354568
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John Winger, "was married to Elizabeth Master. They resided in Berlin for a number of years then they moved to Wooster, Ohio, where they still reside. Their family consisted of several children, but names of only three have been received"

Eby, Ezra E. (1895). A biographical history of Waterloo township and other townships of the county: being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character. Berlin [Kitchener, Ont.]: [s.n.].

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The First Incubator

John Winger's pumpshop rested where George Potter's block now stands. Mr. Winger made pumps and broom-handles. In 1860 he leased part of the building to a group of American refugees for a cut-tobacco works. George Randall afterward bought the works and engaged Ralph Chamberlain as manager. Still later Wm. Oelschlager and Henry F. J. Jackson purchased the business and built a factory near the corner of Waterloo and Victoria Streets. Mr. Winger's incubator housed also Simpson & Aldous's furniture enterprise and Matthias Wegenast's sash, door, and washboard works.

A History of Kitchener, W. V. (Ben) Uttley, Kitchener, Ontario 1937, pg 169
John Winger, "was married to Elizabeth Master. They resided in Berlin for a number of years then they moved to Wooster, Ohio, where they still reside. Their family consisted of several children, but names of only three have been received"

Eby, Ezra E. (1895). A biographical history of Waterloo township and other townships of the county: being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character. Berlin [Kitchener, Ont.]: [s.n.].

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The First Incubator

John Winger's pumpshop rested where George Potter's block now stands. Mr. Winger made pumps and broom-handles. In 1860 he leased part of the building to a group of American refugees for a cut-tobacco works. George Randall afterward bought the works and engaged Ralph Chamberlain as manager. Still later Wm. Oelschlager and Henry F. J. Jackson purchased the business and built a factory near the corner of Waterloo and Victoria Streets. Mr. Winger's incubator housed also Simpson & Aldous's furniture enterprise and Matthias Wegenast's sash, door, and washboard works.

A History of Kitchener, W. V. (Ben) Uttley, Kitchener, Ontario 1937, pg 169


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