Milton J. Winget
The ancestors of the Wingcts of Shelby County were from England and Scotland. The date of their emigration to the United States is not known, but was prior to the Revolutionary war, for we find that both his grandfathers were in that struggle. They first settled in Pennsyl vania. About the year 1800 they removed to Ohio and located, orrather stopped at Red Bank—now Cincinnati—where they remained during the Indian hostilities which were then going on along the borders of the Olno. From there they removed to Tucker Station, Warren County, and from there to Greene County, O. Here the subject of our sketch was born in the year 1826. In the year 1829 his father, Wm. Winget, moved with his family to Champaign County, O., and remained there till 1831, when they came to Shelby County and located in Perry Townshllps on a piece of land he had entered in section 18. Here In April, 1831, he moved with his family into his cabin without a door, window, floor, or chimney, and commenced in the green woods without money or means. They made their start, undergoing all the privations and hardships of the early pioneer. It was here in the woods and in the cabin school-house that young Milton received a few months of school instruction. His father died when Milton was but thirteen years of age. The support of the family fell upon him and an older brother, who cleared the farm and maintained their mother and the younger children. In the year 1851 Mr. W. married Miss Elizabeth A. Thompson, and the following year, 1852, he bought the old Hathaway farm at Port Jefferson, where he now lives. He lived with his wife seventeen years, when she died in 1868. The following year he married Isabel Grossman, who died in 1873. In 1875 he married Elizabeth Middleton. From this marriage there are two children, viz., Minnie A. and Alice M. The mother of Mr. Winget is now living with him, in her eighty-second year, being born at Red Bank Station in 1800. Mr. Winget is well and favorably known through out the county. He has filled the offices of County Commissioner and Infirmary Director, and various oflices of the township in which he lives.
From History of Shelby County, Ohio; R. Sutton & Co, Philadelphia PA, 1883