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HISTORY OF CASS COUNTY ILLINOIS - 1915

Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co.

Page 983

WINKLE, ALBERT C. - The demand for first class automobile service is constantly increasing, and there are a number of well equipped garages to be found throughout Illinois where experts are to be found and supplies secured. Among the leading concerns doing business along this line in Cass County, none stand higher than that operated under the firm name of Beard & Winkle, at Virginia, owners of a garage and dealers in automobile supplies.

Albert C. Winkle, the junior member of the firm, was born at Springfield, Mo., August 26, 1888, a son of Ferdinand and Anna (Walkenhorf) Winkle. The father is in the meat business. Mr. Winkle was educated in the public schools of Guthrie, Okla., and became traveling dealer for J. R. Johnston, a hide, fur and wool dealer of Wichita, Kas., continuing with him for four years. In 1910 he went to St. Louis, Mo., and worked for the Overland Sales Company for six months, then went with the Pope Hartford garage and spent another six months. His next connection was with the Vonark Brothers garage, but after six months with his concern, in 1912, he came to Virginia, and in 1914, formed a partnership with William W. Beard, for the purpose of operating the Virginia garage. Mr. Winkle had an experience of two years on a ranch in Oklahoma. he is a man of broad ideas, in politics a Democrat, and fraternally belongs to the Odd Fellows and the auxiliary order of the Rebekah. He is a member of the German Lutheran Church.

William W. Beard, the senior member of the firm, was born in Cass County, Ill., September 16, 1862, a son of John C. and Mary A. (Batis) Beard, natives of the state of Virginia, who came to Cass County, Ill., in 1856. They were farming people, and both are now deceased. William W. Beard was educated in the Cass County schools, and assisted his father in operating the homestead until he was eighteen years old, when he took charge of the farm for his mother. Until he was thirty-two years old, he remained at home, he and his brother, Lee, doing the farm work. After marriage he purchased what was known as the Jim Allen Davis farm near Virginia, and there resided until 1914, when he moved to the county seat and formed his present partnership. He is an Odd Fellow and a Woodman, and belongs to the Presbyterian church.

On November 29, 1894, Mr. Beard was married to Lizzie Zigelmiser, born in Cass County, and they have one son, Franklin Z., who was born November 2, 1895. He is a graduate of the Virginia High School, and is planning to prepare himself for teaching. Mr. and Mrs. Beard have reared Hattie May Etchison since she was eleven years old. She was born at Virginia, July 25, 1896, and is also preparing to be a teacher.


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