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WINALL, Samuel Smith
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WINALL, Samuel Smith (Cincinnati, OH, Mar. 29, 1834--Dubuque, IA, Mar. 30, 1901). In 1843 Winall and his parents came to Galena, Illinois.
Samuel moved to Dubuque in 1864 and entered into partnership with George H. Ballou in the printing firm of Ballou & Winall. This business did not last long. He then joined Joseph Biden, William A. PALMER and Christopher H. BERG in the firm of PALMER, WINALL & CO., blank-book manufacturers, printers and book-binders, on the corner of Sixth and Iowa STREETS. This business lasted until Winall's death.
Winall was the treasurer of the Eleventh Street Elevator Company. He was also involved in the DUBUQUE BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATION. He served many years as a member of the finance committee and trustee of St. Luke's Methodist Episcopal Church later ST. LUKE'S UNITED METHODIST CHURCH.
Ella Lavinia Bird, 1841-1870, was S.S. Winall's first wife - picture attached of both her and S.S., ca. 1859, the year they were married. They had two daughters: Jennie Vincent Winall and Jessie Bird Winall. Ella died of tuberculosis in 1870, and is buried at Linwood Cemetery. S.S. married Sarah Jane Wallis, daughter of James WALLIS and Ann Bell Wallis, in 1875.
Their house was originally 60 Chestnut Street. It was later renumbered 604 Chestnut Street. S.S. Winall (1834-1901) and his second wife, Sarah Jane Wallis (1844-1932), daughter of James and Ann Bell Wallis, lived there with their two children: Mary Beatrice "Bea" Winall, and James Wallis "Wallis" Winall.
After Sarah Wallis Winall's parents died (1898, 1900), and then her husband in 1901, Sarah and her children, Mary Beatrice Winall and James Wallis WINALL, moved back to her family home at 96 Chestnut Street, now 632 Chestnut. By this time, S.S. Winall's children with his first wife, Ella Bird Winall, were married with families of their own. Beatrice Winall died in 1920, and Wallis Winall married Catherine Liebfried in 1936. They had no children. Catherine remained in the home after Wallis's death in 1962; she died in 1996.
Winall was a member of the I.O.O.F. for twenty-five years and served as Grand Master of the State and Grand Patriarch. He was a charter member of the Order of Workmen and also of the LEGION OF HONOR.
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Source:
"S. S. Winall Dead," Dubuque Daily Telegraph, March 30, 1901
