W. H. WINFIELD. This gentleman represents an English family who have acquired an enviable reputation as skilled musicians, of which art he is also a devotee. William Winfield (the grandfather) was a native of England, being born at Woodville, in Leicestershire. He was a potter by trade, and spent the earlier part of his life in Stafford, a city largely engaged in the manufacture of white ware. He was married May 29, 1830, to Mary Harvey, at Ashby De La Zouch, and emigrated to America in 1842. They had children as follows: Thomas, Rosanna, William, Levi, Jonah, Albert, Harvey and Sarah. After the birth of their fifth child, Jonah, Mr. and Mrs. Winfield sailed with their family to America, where their three youngest children were born. They first landed in New York, thence proceeded to Zanesville, Ohio, thence to East Liverpool, afterward moving to Pittsburgh, Penn., where they remained several years, and finally settled in the village of Granville, Washington Co., Penn. Mr. Winfield was an expert performer on various musical instruments, excelled also in vocal music, and he organized an instrumental band at California, Penn., known as "Winfield's California Brass Band." In religious connection he was a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and in political opinion he was a Democrat. He died June 4, 1866. Thomas Winfield, son of William and Mary (Harvey) Winfield, was born in England and emigrated with his parents to America. He learned and followed the pottery trade with his father at Granville, where his father built a pottery as soon as he settled there. He was first married to Martha Imlay, who died leaving two children, W. H., and John (deceased). For his second wife Thomas Winfield was married to Margaret Pester, who has borne him six children, two only of which (Mary and Annie) are living. In 1862 the family moved to Canada, where he is now engaged in the grocery business. While a resident of this country he affiliated with the Democratic party in politics; in religion he was a Cumberland Presbyterian while in the United States, but united with the Methodist Church since moving to Canada.
W. H. Winfield, son of Thomas and Martha (Imlay) Winfield, was born December 12, 1854, in Granville, Washington Co., Penn., and received his early education in the common schools and at the Southwestern State Normal School at California, Penn. He then attended Eastman Nation Business College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., graduating in 1883, paying his own expenses by teaching music. In 1884 he opened his present drug store in California, in which he has met with well-merited success. Since 1884 Mr. Winfield has managed the finances of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church at Coal Centre, Penn., with which he is identified, and was one of the building committee that attended to the erection of their present house of worship; he has also been trustee and treasurer of the church, and has been director of the choir for fifteen years. In political opinion he is a Democrat, was elected to the position of township clerk, and is now serving as a member of the school board and secretary of the same. On August 19, 1889, Mr. Winfield was married to Donnetta Newkirk, daughter of Henry and Olive J. (Richardson) Newkirk, of Bentleyville, Washington Co., Penn. Miss Newkirk graduated at the Southwestern State Normal School at California, Penn., in 1877. Besides being a teacher of marked ability, Mrs. Winfield is also a musician, and is a lady of many other accomplishments, and of excellent family. Since his marriage Mr. Winfield has resided at corner of Third and Union streets, California, Penn., where his drug store is also located.
Text taken from page 1466 of:
Beers, J. H. and Co., Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893).Transcribed February 1997 by Neil and Marilyn Morton of Oswego, IL as part of the Beers Project.
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