- REUBEN WINSTON, merchant, Evansville; born in New York Nov.
17, 1826; he came to
- Wisconsin the fall of 1841, and located in Porter, Rock Co.,
at that time under Territorial Government. Mr. WINSTON's father,
John WINSTON, engaged in farming in the fall of 1855. Mr. Reuben
WINSTON, with his father and his brother Nelson, engaged in mercantile
business in Evansville, under the firm name of J. WINSTON &
Sons; continued until 1861, when the firm dissolved, and Mr.
Reuben WINSTON and his father started in business under the name
of J. WINSTON & Co.; continued until 1864, when Mr. WINSTON
bought out his father, and continued the business with several
changes. In 1875, he took into partnership Mr. WOODBURY, since,
his dry-goods business has been conducted under the name of WINSTON
& WOODBURY. Mr. WINSTON, in the spring of 1873, also established
a lumber business - still continued. He has a farm rented.
He has been the past nine years Treasurer of Evansville. He
married, in Union, Rock Co., Nov. 27, 1853, Miss Mary H. NICHOLAS,
a native of Ohio. Has two children living, one having died.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 869.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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