JOHN W. WINSLOW
John W. Winslow one of the prominent as well as pioneer business men of Atlantic, is a native of Ohio, being born in Wyandott county, December 12, 1833. His early life was spent upon a farm in Ohio, and when nineteen years of age was engaged as clerk in a dry goods store, where he remained until June 4, 1855, when he came to Iowa, locating in Washington county. In April 1860, he took a trip to Missouri and Kansas to look up a new location, but finding nothing to suit, returned in the fall, located in Wapello county, remained there until 1862 and returned to Washington county, remaining there until August, 1864, he removed to Des Moines, where he remained until July 16, 1868, when he removed to Grove City, engaged in the mercantile business with W. W. Moore, after which he came to Atlantic, February, 1869, remaining in company with W. W. Moore, until April, 1870, at which time he purchased the interest of W. W. Moore and sold it to W. W. Parker. The style of the new firm being Winslow and Parker, which continued in the mercantile trade until September, 1881, at which time they sold to A. L. Bostedo and Son. Afterward engaging in the banking business. His time is mostly confined to this interest, although somewhat interested in city property and real estate. His present wife was Lottie R. Danforth, a native of southern Illinois, to whom he was married January 2, 1873, in Atlantic. There was a daughter by his former wife, who is now the wife of J. A. Hayden. Mr. Winslow is a member of the Masonic Order. His residence is on the corner of Fourth and Maple streets.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pp. 869-870.
