Winton - William R. - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

Winton—Died on the 23d ult., at his residence in Wabash, Doctor Wm R. Winton, at the age of __ years.

The deceased was a brother of T. H. Winton, of this city. He was a man of more than usual mark in his profession, besides his active interest and effective cooperation through his long life in the educational and religious enterprises of the day. He was a native of Butler County, Ohio; commenced his course of study at Oxford, while it was yet an academy, there being no college at that time west of the Alleghenies; studied medicine with Drs. Rigdon and Dunlavy, at Hamilton, and commenced practice while still very young at Middletown. He subsequently moved to Portland, in this state, where a large practice soon sprung up, and afterwards to Crawfordsville, his home for many years, where he was identified as Trustee with Wabash College, and with the Presbyterian Church as one of its elders. For the last twenty two years he has resided in Wabash, employing himself untiringly, as long as health permitted, in the practice of his profession, to which he was characteristically devoted. Few physicians of advanced years have kept up so faithfully with the improvements in medical science. Dr. Winton did not grow old in his profession when years and infirmities crowded upon him, but was at all times ready and enthusiastic for every substantial improvement. As a man, he was remarkable for his love for truthful and open dealing, could not abide evasions and subterfuges, was plain spoken, even to bluntness, and altogether of a decisive and positive temperament in what he undertook. Many had had occasion to know that under all the promptness and force of his character he carried a sympathizing heart. For nearly two years before his death he was confined to his house by paralysis and softening of the brain, which gradually advanced till at last the victory of disease was complete.