From "History of Wheeling City and Ohio County, West Virginia and  
Representative Citizens," by Hon. Gibson Lamb Cranmer, 1902. 
 
Typed by E. J. Heinemann. 
 
p. 650 
 
ALBERT WINTER, a prosperous farmer of Marshall county, West Virginia,  
living a few miles south of Elm Grove, Ohio county, was born August 27,  
1857, in Germany.  He came to this country at the early age of eighteen  
years, and came directly to Ohio county, West Virginia, where he  
secured work for a short time at a Fulton stone-quarry.  Subsequently  
he hired out on a farm for Nicholas Schrader, and worked for him five  
years, until he married his daughter, Mary Schrader. 
     Nicholas and Catherine Schrader, parents of Mrs. Winter, were natives  
of Germany.  Nicholas came to America in early boyhood, made a success  
of farming, and lived to the age of sixty-four years.  His wife,  
Catherine, has been in America for over fifty years, and is now  
eighty-three years of age. 
     Seven children were born to Albert Winter and his wife, namely: John,  
born January 24, 1880, who is employed at Elm Grove; Nicholas, born  
September 27, 1886, who lives at home with his parents, as do also  
Lorette, born August 8, 1889; Carl, born December 11, 1891; Annie, born  
August 25, 1894; Ruth, born April 17, 1896; and Amy, born June 21,  
1898. 
     Mr. Winter has improved his mother-in-law's farm by building a solid  
brick farmhouse of six rooms, with dimensions of 20 by 20 feet, and two  
stories high, to which he will fall heir on her death. 
In religious worship he united with the German Evangelical Lutheran  
church.  He is independent in politics, and has been a trustee of  
schools for three terms.  He has been a member of K. of P., Mystic  
Lodge, No. 24, of Elm Grove, for nine years.