"An Illustrated History of the Big Bend Country; Embracing Lincoln, Douglas, 
Adams  and Franklin Counties; State of Washington". Spokane, Western Historical
Publishing  Company, Publishers, 1904. p. 831.

GEORGE M. WINN is a man of much experience in traveling and is well acquainted
with frontier life. He resides at the present time about three miles south from
Delight where he has three-fourths of a section, all in a high state of
cultivation and provided with good buildings, fences and other improvements. He
gives his attention largely to wheat raising and has made a real success in this
line of industry.
     George M. Winn was born in Charlottsville, West Virginia, November 13,
1854, the son of Thomas and Hannah M. (McChesney) Winn, natives of Virginia.
Their first home after their marriage was in Virginia and in 1884, they came to
Washington, settling in Pasco, where they remained until their death. They were
the parents of seven children. Our subject received his education largely in the
common schools of Jackson county, Texas, and wrought with his father until
twenty-one years of age. Then he started our for himself, going first to New
Mexico where he took charge of a large stock ranch. Three years were occupied
thus and we see him then in Petaluma, California, where one year was spent on a
fruit farm. After that he came to Washington and settled on the Snake river and
remained there for seven years. Next he came to Pasco, which was his home for
six years. It was 1888 when Mr. Winn took a timber culture where he resides at
the present time. For some years thereafter he worked in Pasco, spending four
years in the employ of the Northern Pacific. Then he returned to his claim and
after that journeyed to Texas, where he remained three years. From Texas, he
came again to his present place, which he has increased to four hundred and
eighty acres and since that time has given himself to farming and stock raising.
     In 1887, Mr. Winn married Miss Lula Spann. She is the daughter of Col. J.
R. and Anna Spann, natives of North and South Carolina, respectively. They
settled in Texas in 1850 and there spent the balance of their lives. To them
were born eleven children. To Mr. and Mrs. Winn two children have been born,
John R. and Hannah M. They also have one adopted child Francis W.
     Mr. Winn has always been pleased with the principles of the Democratic
party and is a very active worker in that field. He has frequently held offices
and is also actively interested in educational matters. Mr. Winn is a member of
the Presbyterian church and his wife belongs to the Roman Catholic denomination.


Submitted by: Georgia Harter Williams, georgiahw@earthlink.net