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GEORGE W. WINELAND, blacksmith, post office Wall, was born in Derry township, Westmoreland county, March 5, 1833, a son of John and Mary Louise (Robb) Wineland, of Pennsylvania. His maternal great-grand father, Gen. Arthur St. Clair, first governor of the Northwest Territory, and a revolutionary veteran, was a Scotchman, and his remains lie in the Greensburg cemetery. John Wineland was a miller in Westmoreland county; he died in June, 1888, aged seventy-seven years; his wife died a year previously, at the same age. They had seven sons and three daughters, of whom George W. is the eldest. He was reared in Derry and Unity, and attended the common school until fifteen years of age, when he began his trade. He was employed on bridge-work by the railroad company at Latrobe, and by the Cambria Iron company. On the first call for troops in 1861, he enlisted in Co. H, 10th P. V., and at expiration of three months joined Co. B, 133d P. V., remaining nine months. He took part in the battles of Fredericksburg Chancellorsville, Antietam and South Mountain. Three of his brothers were also in the service. He was employed some years in Pittsburgh, five years by the P. R. R. at Altoona, two years at Bradford division and for the last five years at Wall’s station. He is a member of the G. A. R. and A. O. U. W. He is a democrat. He and his wife attend the Methodist Church. He married, in 1856 Caroline Owens, who was born in Centre county, daughter of Henry and Sarah Owens, of Penn, and they have five children living: John Albert, Mary (Mrs. John Saylor) Wagner, Ellen (Mrs. S. B. Patterson), Winfield (a soldier in the regular army at Ft. Assiniboine) and Florence Gertrude. Dallas, Viotta and Adell died in infancy.