Albert G. Winter
Farming and dairying interests of Ludlow township find a
progressive and worthy representative in Albert G. Winter, who
owns and operates the Pleasant View homestead, a neat and well
improved place of eighty acres on section 1. He has been a
resident of Iowa since 1876, but was born in Dodge county,
Wisconsin, December 8, 1858. His father, Rev. H. A. Winter, a
minister in the Presbyterian church, was born in Germany and came
of America when a young man, settling in Wisconsin, where he
remained for many years.
Albert G. Winter acquired his education in the public schools of
Wisconsin, graduating from the Madison high school and later
attending Mount Carroll College. In 1876 he came to Iowa and here
turned his attention to farming, working in the harvest fields
for a few seasons and afterward renting land. Eventually he
bought the Pleasant View homestead, a property with some
improvements, to which he steadily added. He also remodeled the
house and erected in 1912 a large and commodious barn. He
installed also a wind pump and built a silo with a capacity of
ninety tons, making the property one of the finest and best
equipped in this vicinity. In addition to general farming Mr.
Winter engages in dairying and stock-raising, keeping a fine herd
of milch cows and feeding a number of high-grade hogs every
years. Both of these departments of his business are ably and
carefully conducted and under his competent supervision have
become important and profitable. The farm is today one of the
most attractive in the township, the house being set in the midst
of a fine level lawn broken here and there by groves of evergreen
and forest trees. Mr. Winter was one of the promoters of the
Ludlow Cooperative Creamery Association and served as secretary
and treasurer of that body. He is identified with the German
Mutual Fire Insurance Company, of which he was for a time
secretary and treasurer, and he aided in the organization of the
Farmers Cooperative Stock and Produce Company.
In Ludlow township, in 1883, Mr. Winter was united in marriage to
Miss Mary M. Pieper, a stepdaughter of Carl Pieper. They became
the parents of five children: Carl S., of Lexington, Nebraska,
who is married and has one son; Helen, the wife of James G.
Smith, of Lexington, Nebraska, by whom she has one son; Marion
E.; Fred B., a student in the University of Iowa; and Earl A., a
student in the Waukon high school. Mr. and Mrs. Winter are
members of the German Presbyterian church of Ludlow.
Mr. Winter is connected fraternally with the Knights of Pythias
and the Modern Woodmen of America. He is interested in everything
pertaining to the growth and progress of Allamakee county and his
labors have been forces in the agricultural development of the
township which has been his home for over thirty five years and
where he is held in high regard by reason of his business
enterprise, his integrity and his sterling personal worth.
-source: Past & Present of Allamakee County; by
Ellery M. Hancock; S. J. Clarke Pub. Co.; 1913
-transcribed by Diana Diedrich
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