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Portrait and Biographical Album of
Huron County, Michigan
Pub. Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1884

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           ROBERT WINTERBOTTOM, proprietor of the hotel at Port Hope, was
        born May 30, 1828, in Lancashire, Eng. His parents, ROBERT and
        ELIZABETH (SPENCER) WINTERBOTTOM, were born and passed their entire
        lives in the same shire. Their family numbered 13 children, four of
        whom were twins and died in early life. All the others grew to
        maturity and married. The father died at the age of 74 years; the
        mother was 72 years of age when her demise occurred.
           The youngest in the above family, the subject of this sketch,
        came to the United States in 1848, landing in New York. He first
        obtained employment in a ship yard and engaged in whip-sawing,
        where he remained 14 months. At the end of that time he went to
        Brantford, Canada. He worked there thiee years as a carpenter, and
        in 1851 came to Port Huron. In 1855 he came to Willow Creek (now
        Huron), where he engaged as a sawyer in a saw-mill, and also worked
        at shingle-making, continuing in that employment between six and
        seven years.
           He then became interested in the hotel business at Willow Creek,
        where he conducted a house for the accommodation of the traveling
        public. During the great fire of 1871 he lost all his property,
        having to send his children to his friends in Port Austin to get
        them clothed. Having to commence life anew, he went to Grindstone
        City and kept boarding-house for WORTHINGTON Brothers for two years
        and then moved back to Huron and kept hotel, and in the year 1876
        moved to Port Hope, where he has since continued in the hotel
        business.
           MR. WINTERBOTTOM was an adherent of the Republican party until
        1879, when he adopted the principles of the Greenback element. He
        has been Supervisor of Huron and Rubicon Townships several terms.
        After the fire of 1881 he was appointed local State Commissioner
        for building bridges in the township of Bloomfield. In November,
        1884, he was elected Sheriff on the Fusion ticket.
           He was married in 1860 to FLORA McKINNON, and they have had six
        children, born as follows: IDA, ELIZABETH (deceased), CHRISTINE,
        JOHN, JANE and ELLA. MRS. WINTERBOTTOM was born in July, 1831, on
        the Isle of Skye, Scotland, and is the daughter of ALEXANDER and
        MARY (KENNEDY) McKINNON. Her father died in Iowa. Her mother, who
        came to Port Huron in 1851, died afterward in London, Canada. MRS.
        WINTERBOTTOM came to Huron County in the year 1855, to the village
        of Port Austin.

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