John N. WINDERS

Abt 1825 - 1897  (72 years)

• Name	John N. WINDERS  [1]
  Birth	Abt 1825	, Washington, Maryland, USA   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	1855	, Washington, Maryland, USA   [3]
  	Civil and Mining Engineer
  Occupation	1855	Polo, Ogle, lllinois, USA   [3]
  	grain business
  Census	3 Jul 1855	Buffalo, Ogle, Illinois, USA
  	Illinois State
  Census	1860	Wayne, Buchanan, Missouri, USA
  	federal
  article	1878	, , Colorado, USA   [4]
  	Colorado: A Historical, Descriptive and Statistical Work...
  	Found at Google Books: The Young America is located on Red Elephant mountain, just below the lower junction of the Empire and Georgetown roads and six miles from the latter place. It is owned and worked by J. N. Winders and James Kirkland. Eight years ago they worked out a rich pocket and then sunk over one hundred feet without finding anything. Nothing further was done until last spring. The old shaft was then cleared of mud, rock, and 120 feet of water, and after sinking for a short distance another ore deposit was found, which has yielded from $199 to $1,288 per ton. Seven thousand dollars was taken out before the shaft was 240 feet deep. Fifteen men have been kept at work and over $25,000 were expected to be obtained during the last month, of which the writer has no report.
  Census	1885	, Gilpin, Colorado, USA
  	Colorado State
  	Boarder
  _UID	681E06EA2FA14134A251020C1A7F9D2416C7
  Death	1897	Silver Plume, Clear Creek, Colorado, USA   [2, 3]
  Person ID	I10945	WinderWonderland
  Last Modified	9 May 2014

  
  

  Father	Samuel WINDER,   b. 11 Nov 1797, , , Maryland, USA d. 13 Nov 1873, Clear Spring, Washington, Maryland, USA (Age 76 years)
  Mother	Susan NEWCOMER,   b. 28 Jan 1805, , , Maryland, USA d. 28 May 1864 (Age 59 years)
  Marriage	9 Jun 1823	, Washington, Maryland, USA   [2, 5]
  Family ID	F3799	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Susan POWELL,   b. 18 Nov 1832, , Washington, Maryland, USA d. 28 Mar 1905, Polo, Ogle, lllinois, USA (Age 72 years)
  Marriage	14 Dec 1850	Mountain View, Washington, Maryland, USA   [2, 6]
  Marriage	24 May 1853	, , Maryland, USA   [1]
  Children	1. Thomas Jefferson WINDERS,   b. 20 Jan 1863, Nevadaville, Gilpin, Colorado, USA d. 6 Mar 1939, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA (Age 76 years)
  Family ID	F3800	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	5 Apr 2014

  
  

• Event Map

  Occupation - grain business - 1855 - Polo, Ogle, lllinois, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  From Past and present of DeKalb County, Illinois, pg 478: Thomas Jefferson Winders, editor and proprietor of the Malta Record and Creston Observer, was born in Nevada City, Colorado, January 20, 1863, a son of John N. and Susan (Powell) Winders, both of whom were natives of Washington county, Maryland, the former born in 1829 and the latter in 1834. In 1855 the parents came to Illinois, settling in Polo, but after two years removed to St. Joseph, Missouri, where they remained for a year and a half. On the expiration of that period they removed to Nevada City, Colorado. The father was both a civil and mining engineer and he opened and conducted a gold and silver mine, which he owned for some time, later disposing of it to an English syndicate. He remained in Nevada City until 1875 and then removed to Silver Plume, Colorado, where he lived until his death, which occurred in 1897. In 1871, Mrs. Winders, accompanied by her little son, returned to Polo, Illinois, and there resided until called to her final rest March 28, 1905, at the age of seventy-two years, four months and ten days. According to John H Winder: «u»«b»John N. Winders «/u»«/b» (born about 1829 in Washington County, MD and died 1897 in Silver Plume, Colorado) may well have moved west to Ogle County with his cousin Hiram in the early 1850s. The Illinois census of 3 July 1855 enumerated John N. Winders as a resident of Buffalo Township in Ogle County, in a household consisting of two males aged 20-30 (John N. and possibly Hiram?) and one female aged 20-30 (probably John's wife «u»Susan Powell «/u» (born 18 Nov 1832 in Washington County, Maryland and died 28 May 1905 in Polo, Illinois). John N. and Susan (Powell) Winders were married in Mountain View, Washington County, Maryland on 14 Dec 1850, according to the 1 Jan 1851 edition of the Hagerstown «i»Herald of Freedom«/i» newspaper. According to 'Past and Present of DeKalb County, Vol. 2'«b» «/b»they moved west to Illinois and settled in Polo, but after two years, they moved on to St. Joseph, Missouri, where they settled for a year and a half, before moving west to Nevada City (or Nevadaville), Colorado. John N. Winder was trained as an engineer and gained mining experience in Colorado, where he developed a gold and silver mine that he eventually sold to an English syndicate. He remained in Nevadaville (now a ghost town) until 1875, and then moved on to Silver Plume, Colorado, where he lived until his death in 1897. Life in the boom towns of Colorado apparently held little fascination for John's wife Susan, and within a few years of the birth of their son «u»Thomas Jefferson Winder «/u» in 1863, she and Thomas had returned to Polo, where they were enumerated in the 1870 census as residing in the household of her father, Upton Powell. She remained in Polo for the rest of her life (she died 28 May 1905) and is buried in Polo's Fairmount Cemetery. [7] (Research):Possible child Elizabeth, as in: Source: PABERKS-L@rootsweb.com From: RogerCubs@aol.com Date: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 6:46 PM 3 Daniel W. FAGER b: Abt. 1859 in Forreston, Forreston Twp., Ogle Co., IL ......... +Minnie M. MYERS b: Abt. 1861 m: March 19, 1885 in Ogle Co., IL d: May 24, 1893 Burial: Oakwood Cemetery, Mt. Morris, Ogle Co., IL Age at death: 32 est. Father: John Henry Myers Mother: Elizabeth Winders

  
  

• Sources

  [S203] Roger Cubs, Jan 2002 (Reliability: 3). [S204] Yvonne Wyrick, (15 Aug 1999 , WINDER-L mailing list). [S959] Lewis M. Gross and H.W. Fay, Past and PResent of DeKalb County, Vol. 2, (N.p.: n.p., n.d.), 477-478. (Reliability: 3). [S1030] Frank Fossett, Colorado: A Historical, Descriptive and Statistical Work on the Rocky Mountain Gold and Silver Mining Region, (Colorado: Daily tribune steam printing house, 1878.), 366. (Reliability: 3). [S81] Robert L. Winder, Winder Families (untitled), (November 1997, revised Fall 2000). [S286] Maryland Marriages, 1667-1899, (Ancestry.com). [S1017] Winder, John Hancestry.com, Winders from Washington County, Maryland Who Emigrated to Ogle County, Illinois, (http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~annieron/Winder/Library/Ogle.htm), ) (Reliability: 3).