CHARLES WINSTON, farmer, P. O. Townville, was born July 14, 1835, in Bristol, Ontario Co., N. Y., son of Horatio and Minerva (Carpenter) Winston, natives of New York, who came to Pennsylvania in 1835, settling in Richmond Township, this county, where Horatio purchased fifty acres of land, at 18 shillings per acre. It is thought he bought this tract before moving his family to same, and came to look up a locality, on foot, in company with his brother Abram, who bought seventy-four acres adjoining in 1834,
bringing his family in sleds. The father of Horatio and Abram had settled in this county previous to this. The subject of this sketch is the eldest in a family of seven children, viz. Charles, Charlotte, Clarissa, Priscilla, Cornelia, Chloe and Alice. The father is deceased, and the mother resides on the old homestead, both members of the Baptist Church. Charles Winston had few educational advantages, and at the age of twenty-one began work for himself. In 1856 he bought a farm of 100 acres from John Reynolds, which he has improved and added to, and after selling part from time to time, has now 140 acres, with excellent buildings, including a barn 50x60 feet, and where he is making a specialty of breeding thoroughbred cattle. Our subject was married, April 21, 1861, to Jeannette, daughter of Daniel and Margaret Hopkins, and the result of this union is three children: Edith, Maud and Clyde. He is a member of the A. O. U. W.; has served in some of the minor township offices where remuneration is not considered.
