Peter van winkle biography of william

When Peter Van Winkle was born on 14 May 1848, in Fallsburg, Licking, Ohio, United States, his father, John Van Winkle, was 27 and his mother, Mahala Varner, was 23. He married Carrie Smith on 2 October 1872, in Utica, Clearcreek Township, Warren, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Clay Township, Knox, Ohio, United States in 1880 and Morgan Township, Knox, Ohio, United States in 1900. He died on 18 July 1883, in Knox, Ohio, United States, at the age of 35.

Peter Van Winkle was a prominent lumberman and sawmill owner in northwestern Arkansas who came back from losing most of his property in the Civil War to establish a timber empire that helped rebuild much of the region after the war.

Peter Marselis Van Winkle was born in New York State on February 25, 1814. (His middle name is sometimes rendered Manelis, likely an error.) His family moved to Illinois when he was young, and he grew up there before moving to northwestern Arkansas around 1837 and establishing a business breaking prairie land in the region. He married Frances Wilcox, who apparently died, and he then married Temperance Miller on May 3, 1840; they would have twelve children.

The Van Winkles established a farm three miles west of Fayetteville (Washington County), and Peter Van Winkle augmented his prairie-plowing business by working as a blacksmith and wagon maker. Between 1850 and 1852, he moved to Rock Island, Illinois; came back to Arkansa

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