A. C. Winterfield

WINTERFIELD, WAGNER, GLASS

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Date: 3/6/2007 at 12:20:20

Biographies from the 1914 "Past and Present of O'Brien and Osceola Counties of Iowa"

A. C. WINTERFIELD.

It is the wise foresight and enterprise of the business men of any community which is, in a large measure, responsible far its prosperity and welfare. The county which has progressive, wide-awake men of affairs is to be congratulated, for it is such men who shape and direct the varied interests which make for the welfare of their respective communities. A. C. Winterfield, although not a resident of Sibley for many years, has nevertheless shown his ability as a business man since coming to this county and while advancing his own material interests he has not failed to take his proper share of the burden of promoting the civic welfare of the county.

A. C. Winterfield, the son of Frederick and Christina (Wagner) Winterfield, was born November 1, 1862, in Waukesha County, Wisconsin. both of his parents were twice married, their first marriages occurring in Germany. Both families came to Wisconsin in the early fifties and were living in Milwaukee at the time the Asiatic cholera was prevalent in that city. While this was raging in that city both of them lost their first spouses. Mrs. Winterfield had two children by her first marriage and Mr. Winterfield had four children. After the death of their first spouses they were married in Milwaukee about 1854 and subsequently moved to Waukesha County, Wisconsin, where they lived for about ten years. In 1869 they came to Hardin County, Iowa and settled on a farm where both died, Frederick Winterfield dying in 1894 and his wife four years later. The children of Frederick Winterfield by his first wife, who are now living, are Fred, of Iowa Falls, Iowa, and William, of Radcliffe, Iowa. The two children of his wife by her first marriage are both deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Winterfield are the parents of four children: Albert and Henry, of Radcliffe, Iowa; Andrew, of Osceola County, and A. C., whose history is here presented.

A. C. Winterfield received his schooling in the country schools of his home county and later studied one year in Des Moines. In 1890 he left home and came to Sibley, but one year later returned to Hardin County and lived one year in Alden. He then located in Harris, in this county, and was engaged in the grain business from 1892 to 1904. He also conducted a lumber yard in connection with his grain business while living in Harris. In 1904 he disposed of his business in Harris and came to Sibley, where he engaged in the real estate and loan business. In 1911 he became a partner of T. S. Redmond and the firm is now doing a flourishing and prosperous real estate business in Sibley and this section of the state. He owns a fine farm of his own near Harris which yielded him eight dollars an acre on shares in 1913. He also owns four hundred and thirty acres in Osceola County and eighty acres in Minnesota. He is a stockholder and director of the Sibley State Bank, a prosperous institution of the county seat.

Mr. Winterfield was married in 1895 to Orphan M. Glass, of Harris, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Glass. Mrs. Winterfield died in December, 1910, in Harris, leaving two children, Loraine, who is now seventeen and a student in the Sibley high school, and Lenore, who is now nine years of age. Mrs. Winterfield was a woman of winning personality and her death was deeply mourned by the family and her numerous friends. She was a loyal member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and a faithful worker in that denomination.

Mr. Winterfield is a stanch Republican in politics and has always taken an active interest in public affairs. He was county supervisor from 1898 to 1902 and while a member of the county board helped to select the plan of the magnificent court house which adorns the county seat. Fraternally, he is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons and is also a member of the chapter. He is identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias.

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