Clay Co., KS AHGP-Portrait and Biographical Album of Washington, Clay and Riley Counties-A. Wingrove
Portrait and Biographical Album of Washington, Clay and Riley Counties Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1890
A. WINGROVE, one of the early settlers of
Clay Center, came to the county as early
as 1870, and is at present engaged as a loan
broker in that city. He is descended from
an honorable ancestry, his great-grandfather, John
Wingrove, having emigrated from England during
the year in which the colonies began to rebel against
the oppressions of the mother country. He was
then but a youth of sixteen years and ran away
from home to embark for America. His father was
a General in the British army and spent his entire
life on his own Continent.
John Wingrove landed in Boston whence he made his way to Virginia and joined the Continental Army, fighting on the side of the Colonists
until their independence had been established.
After the close of the war he married and settled
in the Shenandoah Valley where he prosecuted
farming for a time, then went into Buchanan,
Va., where he opened up a farm from the
wilderness, reared a family and there spent his last
days. His son, William, the grandfather of our
subject, was born there and reared to manhood.
He followed agricultural pursuits, was married and
became the father of a family of two children
�Harrison, the father of our subject and Mrs. Dean,
now of Sedalia, Mo.
Harrison Wingrove, the father of our subject,
was born at Leetown, Va., in 1816. When a young
man he went with the family to Buchanan and was
there married to Miss Maria Tibbles. There were
born to them two sons and two daughters, and
three of the children are living, namely, Marshall,
of West Virginia; Emma, (Mrs. Lay Barrett) of
Sedalia, Mo., and Otis P., of Idana, Clay Co., Kan.
The mother of these children died in middle life
and Mr. Wingrove was subsequently married to
Miss Frances Phillips. They became the parents
of five children, three of whom are living. Harrison
Wingrove has been a resident of Upshur County,
W. Va., for the past forty-eight years. His wife is
also living and both are members of the Presbyterian
Church. The father votes the straight Republican
ticket and was a stanch Union man during
the late Civil War.