Biography:

Dr. Hugh Edwin Winter was born in Upper Canada in 1830.

On the 7th of February, 1854 Dr. Winter married Sarah Jane Culp.  Mrs. Winter was born in Milton, Ontario on the 16th of August, 1833.  Mrs. Winter was the 8th of 9 children born to Joshua Culp and the former Mary Ann Kline.  Mrs. Winter’s siblings were; Catherine, Adam, Jonas, John, Susan, Betsy, Ann and Hiram.

Dr. Winter graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1865.  His preceptor was listed as Dr. J. M. Smith of Morpeth, Ontario.  After completing medical college Dr. Winter settled in Dresden in 1865.

Dr. and Mrs. Winter had 11 children; Mary Ann Winter, Edwin N. Winter, Margret Catherine Winter, Washington Nicholas Winter, Raymond Joshua Winter, Ida Rachel Winter, Estella Mary Winter, Lillie Ann Winter and her twin brother William Andrew Winter, Harry “Henry” Clifton Winter and Edith Violet Winter.

Dr. Winter advertised in the 1869 Province of Ontario Gazetteer and Directory and also in the 1875 and 1880 Kent County Directory’s.  In each directory his medical practice is listed under the subtitle of Dresden, Ontario.  Dr. Winter was appointed as a Coroner.

Dr. Winter died at his son’s Raymond’s home in Dresden on April 2nd, 1880. He was buried at the Dresden Cemetery. His wife Sarah Jane Winter, continued to reside in Dresden after the death of her husband.  Her children grew up and moved out of the family home.  According to the 1891 census she was living with her son Henry who was an apprentice tailor and her daughter Edith who was a milliner.  By 1901 Mrs. Winter was living in Chatham with her daughter Edith and Edith’s husband Frank Hayes and their 2 year old daughter Ethel Violet Hayes.

Sarah Jane Winter died at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Chatham, Ontario on the 25th of December, 1924.   She was buried beside her husband at the Dresden Cemetery.

*The editor/webmaster of the Chatham-Kent Physician Tribute Website, is grateful to Cort and Lesley Winter for the pencil sketch photo of Dr. Winter.

**Dr. James Martin Smith of Morpeth also appears on the Chatham-Kent Physician Tribute website.