History of the great Northwest and its men of progress : a select list of biographical sketches and portraits of the leaders in business, professional and official life . Congregational church. He is alsointerested in fraternal societies, being a •em-ber of the Royal Arcanum, of the ModernWoodmen, and of the Iron Chain. In 1887he was married to JIamie A. Kinne, of Knox-ville, Iowa. They have three children—twohoys and a girl: Carroll Morris, Earl Kinne,and Ila/.el Marie Powers. WINTERER, Edwaid.—The struggle foran education, owing to a lack of means, al-though generally regarded by the young m
History of the great Northwest and its men of progress : a select list of biographical sketches and portraits of the leaders in business, professional and official life . Congregational church. He is alsointerested in fraternal societies, being a •em-ber of the Royal Arcanum, of the ModernWoodmen, and of the Iron Chain. In 1887he was married to JIamie A. Kinne, of Knox-ville, Iowa. They have three children—twohoys and a girl: Carroll Morris, Earl Kinne,and Ila/.el Marie Powers. WINTERER, Edwaid.—The struggle foran education, owing to a lack of means, al-though generally regarded by the young manas a hindrance, is, like the training of analhletc, of incalculable service in after career of Mr. Winterer, llic well knownattorney of Valley City, N. D., is a fair illnstration of this truth. He was born July 11,1861, in Kelso township, Sibley county, father was a (icrmau, born in Etlenheim,(Irand l>uchy of IJadcn. lie learned the lock-smitlfs trade, and came \\ lien a young manto Ihiladelphia, where he secured employ-ment as a machinist in a loconuitive the Civil War he came to Minnesota HISTORY OF THE GUKAT NoKTUW KDWAUD WINTEKEU. and took up land in Sibley county. Whileopening- up his farm he secured employmentin the mill at St. Peter. The Indian uprisingdrove his family away for a time. In 1807he bought another farm at Lake Prairie,Nicollet county, to which the family movedand continued to live. He died in 1SS9 andleft a large family. Edwards mother wasFranciska Kolifrath. a native of the sameplace as his father. She was married inPhiladelphia. Edwards education began inthe country schools near the first farm. Heworked on the farm summers, attendingschool only winters. Later he went to theLake Prairie school, held in a log schoolhouse, fitted with benches made of hewn was called a loud school because thepujjils studied out loud, making a babel ofvoices. During part of the winter of 1871)and 18S0, he walked three or fo
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