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William Wirt Winchester

William Wirt Winchester

Male 1838 - 1881  (43 years)    Has 16 ancestors and one descendant in this family tree.

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  • Name William Wirt Winchester 
    Birth 1838 
    Gender Male 
    Death 1881 
    Siblings 1 Sibling 
    Person ID I302506  Geneagraphie
    Last Modified 24 Jan 2002 

    Father Oliver Fisher Winchester,   b. 30 Nov 1810   d. 11 Dec 1880 (Age 70 years) 
    Mother Jane Ellen Hope   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Family ID F121318  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Sarah Lockwood Pardee,   b. 1837   d. 1922 (Age 85 years) 
    Marriage 1862 
    Children 
     1. Annie Pardee Winchester,   b. 1866   d. 1866 (Age 0 years)
    Family ID F121320  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 13 Sep 2001 

  • Notes 
    • only son and main heir of New Haven shirt manufacturer turned armorer Oliver Winchester. He joined the Winchester Repeating Arms Company of which he became president following his father's death in 1880. His tenure was short as he died of tuberculosis just a few month later, about fifteen years after death had sought his infant daughter with a similar disease. After his death, the Winchester estate was left to his widow, the former Sarah Lockwood Pardee, of another prominent New Haven family, whom he had married in 1862. Sarah Winchester established the William Wirt Winchester Hospital for treatment of tuberculosis in New Haven and funded it with almost 2 million $.



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