|
Forty-year-old Charles Winslow and his wife, thirty-nine-year-old Lizabeth
"Lizzie" Boehm Winslow, married in Brainerd, Minnesota in 1883.
The couple's only child, Carl Winslow, was
sixteen years old in 1903, and the family lived
in Thief River in northwest
Minnesota.
Called Thief River or TRF, Thief River Falls is
seventy miles south of the U.S./Canada border at the
juncture of two rivers, Red Lake and Thief. The
town's unusual name comes
from a property dispute in the 1800s between the
Dakota and Ojibwe Indian tribes. By 1903 the town
was bustling with the business of wheat shipping
and lumber mills. As a salesman and assistant
manager for wholesaler Thief River
Falls Lumber company, Charles was in the thick of
it.
A native of Wisconsin, Charles was the
oldest child of Jay Burt Winslow (1832-1881), a
civil war veteran in the Union infantry, and
Clarinda Agnes Allen Winslow (1836-1924).
|
 |
A founding member of the Thief River Masonic fraternal organization,
Charles' fellow Masons turned out for his
funeral. It was held in Milwaukee and
he was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery in LaCross, WI.
In the years after the fire
Elizabeth E. "Lizabeth" "Eliza" and "Lizzie" Boehm Winslow (1861-1937),
Charles's wife, was born in Minnesota. By 1920 Lizabeth had remarried, to Fred J. Rosenthal
(1860-1924). They lived in Decorah, Iowa. At his
death, widowed again, Lizabeth rented a room at the
Walter Mall household in Decorah.
Carl Henry Winslow (1887-1961), Charles's son, was
born in Wisconsin. He married a Wisconsin native
named Florence M. Winslow and tried his hand at real
estate and accounting. By 1920 Carl lived in
California and had become a rancher in Yuba. He and
Florence had one son named Samuel (b. 1919) and were
divorced before 1930.
|
|
Discrepancies and addendum
* Edward Browne (1850-1924)
worked in the wholesale lumber industry with
Charles. The 1900 U.S. Census, reported
Edward's occupation as "lumber burner." Based
on other newspaper references I suspect he was in
mid-level management or sales. He was married
to Ella Chapin Browne (-1936). His
father-in-law, dentist Dr. Marvin Chapin, claimed to
have delayed death from consumption for forty years
by consuming crude oil while working in Ohio oil
fields.
|
