Brown County Biographies
From "The Annals of Brown County", Grant Harrington, 1903
Isaiah P. Winslow.
Most everybody in Brown county
knows Squire I. P. Wilson of Padonia. He was one of the Maine
pioneers who came to Kansas in 1857
to help make this a free state. The
Squire was born in Caso, Maine,
Jan. 23, 1825. He worked on a farm
summers and attended school winters until he was seventeen years of
age when he learned the trade of a
tanner and currier which he followed
until he came to Kansas. In 1857 he
became interested in the Kansas
struggle and determined to come and
help make Kansas a free state and
so became a Member of the Saco
association which had been organized for that purpose. He pre-empted the land adjoining the town
of Padonia where he now lives and
has increased his holdings until now
he has 200 acres, in 1858 he was elected
justice of the peace and served continuously in this office for thirty-two
years when his mantle fell upon his
son James for a two years term at
which time it was returned again.
He has been a stalwart Republican
all his life and has been frequently
honored by his party. He has been
township trustee and county commissioner and has held various other
minor offices. For forty-one years
he has been the clerk of the Padonia
school board. Squire Winslow is
one of the oldest masons in length of
membership, if not the oldest, that
there is in Brown county. He was
made a Master Mason in 1845 and
affiliated with the Hiawatha, lodge
soon after its organization. He is
also a member of the Mount Horeb
Chapter and Hiawatha Commandry
No. 13, K. T. Mr. Winslow was
married in 1856 to Hanna S. Leavitt,
of Parsonsfield, Maine. Their family
consists of two sons and three
daughters; James, a prosperous
farmer of Padonia township, Mary,
wife of H. G. Wilson of Padonia,
Julia, wife of Albert Vaughn, now
deceased, Carrie, wife of Clinton
Longfellow of Padonia and George
who lives at Cook, Neb., where he
has been a railroad operator for the
last twelve years.
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