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Honorable.
Horace S. Winslow The
subject of this sketch is one of the prominent lawyers residing in Newton,
Jasper County. He was born in Pittsford, Rutland County, VT, July 18, 1837, and
is a son of Elhanan S. and Elmina (Kingsley) Winslow.
His father, also a native of Pittsford, was born January 27, 1808. The
Winslow name is historic, and the family in this country dates back to the
landing of the "Mayflower." It
is a large family, and as the "Winslow Memorial," an exhaustive
genealogy, has been published, no attempt will be made to trace the record back
to Colonial days. The
father of Judge Winslow was of the seventh generation from the landing of the
Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock, belonging to what is known as the Pittsford branch of
the family. His ancestors were
early settlers in the state, but the exact time is not known.
He was a man of limited education, but possessed strong mental
characteristics, personal independence, and a world of push and energy.
He removed from Vermont to Iowa in 1855, and so became identified with
the early history of the section of the state in which be found his new home. He was one of the first Deacons in the Congregational Church
at Newton, and died in the faith of that denomination in February 1887. The
mother was also of Puritan stock, the Robinsons of Massachusetts.
On the maternal side, and the Kingsleys of Connecticut on the other side.
She was born in Pittsford, January 10, 1811, and is now living with her
daughter at Ord, NE. In
the parental family there were ten children, two of whom died in childhood. The
living are: Charles T., a farmer residing near Ord, NE; Clara M., wife of J. M.
Stone, of Ord; Horace S., who was the third in the order of birth; Willard G., who
lives at Newton, and who during the Civil War served in the Fifth lowa Infantry;
Lucy, wife of Samuel Failor, also of Newton; and Mary Helen, who married William
Whitcomb, a resident of Kellogg. Upon
his father's farm, the subject of this sketch grew to manhood, meantime
receiving a good education in the public schools of his neighborhood and in the
seminaries of that locality. At the age of sixteen years he moved to Ohio, and
for one year clerked in the store of his father's brother, who was engaged in
the mercantile business in Hartford. Returning
to Vermont, he taught in the schools of Goshen and Brandon until the spring of
1855, when he went to Poughkeepsie, NY, and entered the law school at that
place. After remaining there one year, he again went to Hartford, Ohio, where he
taught a country school, boarding around with different families. In
the spring of 1856 Mr. Winslow entered a law school at Poland, Ohio, conducted
by Judge Hayden, formerly of Poughkeepsie Law School, and from that institution
be was graduated in July 1856, with the degree of Bachelor of Law. Immediately
after completing his studies he came to Newton, whither the family had preceded
him the previous year. He at once
commenced the practice of his profession at this place, and in October 1862, he
was elected District Attorney for the Sixth Judicial District, and held that
position for four years. In 1868 he was elected Judge of the Second Circuit of
the District Court of the Sixth District for a period of four years, at the end
of which time he resumed practice, in which he is still engaged and with marked
success. Generous
to a fault, most worthy causes receive assistance from the purse of Judge
Winslow, and the poor and needy always find in him a helpful friend.
A member of the Congregational Church, he is at present serving as one of
its Trustees and as Superintendent of the Sunday school. He was a member of the
building committee having charge of the erection of the new church edifice
recently built, and he not only gave his personal attention to the matter, but
also contributed generously of his means to the undertaking. As
a Freemason, he is prominent in the order. He was elected M. E. Grand High
Priest of the Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons in 1877, and was chosen R. E.
Grand Commander of the Grand Commandery of Iowa in 1880. He is now W. Grand
Patron of the Grand Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star
(ladies masonry). In the A.
A. Scottish Rite he has received the thirty-second degree. Judge
Winslow has a large and lucrative clientage, his retainers taking him to all
parts of the state. At the present
time he is employed as the local and special attorney for the Chicago, Rock
Island & Pacific Railroad Company. The
marriage of Judge Winslow, which occurred on the 7th of November 1858, united
him with Miss Sarah E., a daughter of Silo and Elizabeth Dunklee, of Pittsford,
VT. They are the parents of two children; Kate E., who was born
March 14, 1860, and Jessie L.., who was born March 21, 1862. Portrait and Biographical Record, Jasper, Marshall and Grundy Counties, IA, Biographical Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, 1894, p. 171. |
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