A biographical history of Fremont and Mills Counties, Iowa . so a tax 1849, when a single man, WyattT. Winkler, the father of our subject, leftPennsylvania and removed to Glasgow, Mis-souri, ^^•here he operated a ferry and alsoconducted a general store until 1861, whenhe removed to Holt county, Missouri, andthence to eastern Kansas. There he alsoengaged in merchandising and farming,and continued to make his home in thatstate until called from this life June 18,1885, ^t the age of fifty^eight years. Hewas one of the old free-state Democrats, andwas a man highly respected by all
A biographical history of Fremont and Mills Counties, Iowa . so a tax 1849, when a single man, WyattT. Winkler, the father of our subject, leftPennsylvania and removed to Glasgow, Mis-souri, ^^•here he operated a ferry and alsoconducted a general store until 1861, whenhe removed to Holt county, Missouri, andthence to eastern Kansas. There he alsoengaged in merchandising and farming,and continued to make his home in thatstate until called from this life June 18,1885, ^t the age of fifty^eight years. Hewas one of the old free-state Democrats, andwas a man highly respected by all who knewhim. He wedded Miss Mary J. Thrailkill,a native of Missouri, who is now living ona farm in Oklahoma. By this union wereborn ten children, all of whom are still liv-ing. ]Mrs. Winklers grandparents wereWilliam and Polly (Ish) Thrailkill. Will-iam Thrailkill was born in Tennessee anddied in California, and his wife was born inScotland and died in Missouri. Reared onhis fathers farm and in the village wherehis father was engaged in business, Alpheus. TR¥ Kl^ TOKtPUBllC LIBRART ^Ivl *.»<» BIOGRAPHICAL IIISTORY. 347 H. Winkler was principally educated in thedistrict schools, but he attended high schoolfor a time, and in iS8j was graduated atBryants Commercial College, of St. Joseph,Missouri. lie was married on the 22d ofOctober, 1885, to Miss Margaret Culwell,a native of Nemaha county, Nebraska, andthey have become the parents of three chil-dren: Ada M., Albert H. and Ethel May,all born in Hiawatha, Kansas. Henry Culwell, the father of Mrs. Wink-ler, was born in Tennessee, of which state hisparents, Samuel H. and Margaret (Mayber-ry) Culwell, were also natives, wdiile thelatter was a daughter of James H. Culwell died in Nebraska at theage of sixty-eight years, and his wife passedaway in the same state at the age of sixty-nine. The Culwells followed agriculturalpursuits principally and were also businessmen. In 1855, in company with his parentsand the
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