Winner, John L *LINK*

Posted By: Kim Sechrist
Date: 15 June 2004

from v. 2, page 233 of the BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF DARKE CO, published in 1900 by Lewis....

JOHN LEOPOLD WINNER

Merchant, banker and legislator of Green­ville, Ohio, J. P. Winner was born in Frank­lin, Warren County, Ohio, November 19, 1816. His parents were Isaac and Mary (Powell) Winner, natives of New Jersey. They were married in Philadelphia and in 1816 came to Ohio, where they passed their lives. Mrs. Winner died in April, 1832, and her husband in October, following. For about four years subsequent to his father's death our subject worked at the cooper's trade. In April, 1836, he came to Darke county and located in Greenville, where he extensively identified himself with the busi­ness of the community and also held prominent places in the political councils of the county and state. In November, 1837, he married Miss Charlotte Clark, daughter of John Clark, Esq., of Warren county, Ohio. For some five years Mr. Winner was in the grocery business. Eight years he kept a hotel. Four years he kept a drug store. In 1853 he engaged in banking in company with the late Colonel J. W. Frizell, and thus con­tinued till May, I865, when he became a stockholder in the Farmers National Bank of Greenville, and in January, 1866, he was made cashier of that institution, which po­sition he held until January, 1872. In April, 1873, he opened the Exhange Bank of Greenville and conducted the business of that flourishing institution. His wife died August 12, 1863. She possessed in a high degree those noble qualities of mind and heart so essential to a true wife, and was revered in the community for her sweetness of disposition and sympathizing charity for the poor and unfortunate. She left an only daughter, Hattie, who inherited the sterling qualities of her mother, but the death of her mother so affected her that she survived her but a few weeks, dying at the of fifteen years. On April 1, 1867, Mr. Winner married Mrs. Jane Crider, of Greenville, daughter of John W. Porter, of the same place. In 1863 Mr. Winner became a member of the firm of Moore & Winner, which for a long time was one of the leading dry-goods firms of the county. In 1846 he was appointed auditor of Darke county from 1857 to 1861 he represented Darke County in the legislature of the state, from 1867 to 1871 he served in the state senate. In 1874 he was elected mayor of Greenville and served two years. In politics he was a Democrat. Although his school advantages were very meager his active mind grasped a knowledge of men and things that fully compensated the loss. During the years1861-63 he was treasurer of the committee to secure a county fund to encourage enlistments in the Union army and gave the subject much attention. He died several years ago.

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