Surgeon Edgar Winchester

Surgeon Edgar Winchester

   Listed in the 1857 Elgin Directory as a Physician living on DuPage St.

   Listed in the 1859-1860 Elgin Directory as a Physician living on DuPage St.

       From the 1860 Census #274/2063
Name - Edgar Winchester
Aged - 40 Years
Born - Canada
Home in 1860 - Elgin, Kane Co., Ill.
Occupation - Physician


       From the Elgin Reserved Militia Rolls

1861 Elgin Class II Reserve Militia

   Signed the roll July 27, 1861.

        From the Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Illinois

Field        52nd Ill. Vol. Inf.

Three Years Service

The Lincoln Regiment

   Enlisted March 15, 1862.
   Home of record listed as Elgin, Ill's.
   Commissioned March 25, 1862.
   Resigned April 23, 1864.
              Known Actions;
Fort Donelson, Tenn. Feb. 17, 1862
Shiloh, Tenn.         April 6, 1862
Iuka, Miss.         Sept. 19, 1862
Corinth, Miss.         Oct. 3, 1862

   Elgin Registered Voter in 1866.

       From the 1870 Census #237/302
Name - Edgar Winchester
Aged - 48 Years
Born - Canada
Home in 1870 - Elgin, Kane Co., Ill.

       Obit: Feb. 28, 1877 issue The Elgin Daily News.
   The funeral services of the late Dr. E. Winchester will be held to-morrow afternoon from the residence of Dr. D.E. Burlingame, on Center street, at 1:30 and at the Baptist church at 2 o'clock.  Friends invited.

   Buried in Elgin City Cemetery.

       From the 1956 Kane Co. Honor Roll
Soldier - Surg. Edgar Winchester
Unit - 52d Ill. Inf.
Died - July 17, 1877
Re-Interred at - Bluff City Cemetery in Elgin, Ill. when the Elgin City Cemetery closed in 1908.
Location - Lot 200, Section 11

Used with permission Elgin Area Hist. Soc.
Militia forms filed for Elgin in 1861

Used with permission Elgin Area Hist. Soc.