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H. A. WINTER, M. D., Saybrook; was born in Niles, Cayuga Co., N. Y., Nov. 9, 1843; his father dying when he was an infant, he resided until he was 9 years of age with his grandfather, and afterward with his uncle at Kelloggsville, N. Y., where he attended school for five years, and afterward Cortland County Academy, in Homer, N. Y., and also the High School, in Berlin City, Wis. At the breaking out of our late civil war, he enlisted at the age of 18, as a private in Company “B,” 11th Wisconsin Volunteers; and, after serving one year, was discharged on account of disability following typhoid fever; he, however, again enlisted in Co. B, 72nd Regiment Indiana Volunteers, of Wilder’s Brigade of Mounted Infantry, and served until close of the war, and helped bring into camp Jefferson Davis, President of ex-Confederate States, and was in active service during Gen. Sherman’s campaign. After his discharge, Mr. Winter studied medicine in the office of Dr. F. M. Hiett, of Williamsport, Ind., and came with him to Saybrook, and continued his studies there up to 1866; and, in the years 1867-68, attended a course of lectures at Rush Medical College; he then returned to Saybrook and continued the study of medicine with Dr. Hiett, and also taught school during the winter for five years; in 1871, he commenced the regular practice of his profession, and carried on a drug store under the firm of Roberts & Winter; having sold out in the fall of 1872, he returned to Rush Medical College, graduating Feb. 19, 1873, and has since that time been in active practice in Saybrook. He married Miss Delia Atkinson (daughter of Rev. William Atkinson, of New Brunswick), Sept 25 1867; they have one child — William A., born July 9, 1868.