CHESTER A. WINN, M.D. This young gentleman, who was graduated from Rush Medical College in Chicago, and who added to his professional knowledge by observation in leading hospitals, has built up a large and lucrative practice, its center being Loami. He may well be styled a self-made man, and bravely has he fought the battle of life. He was born September 27, 1869, his father being Dr. J. V. Winn, who was born in Ohio in 1824. His mother, who was his father's second wife, was also born in the Buckeye state, the year of her birth being 1840.

After obtaining a rudimentary education in the common schools Mr. Winn prepared himself for the profession of teaching, which he followed in Christian County, this State, for several years. Carefully hoarding his means, he accumulated enough to begin a course in college, whence he went to Kansas in 1878, to return to this State a few months later and resume teaching in Illiopolis. He continued to labor in that profession until abut the middle of the last decade, when he began reading medicine.

The young doctor had met an accomplished English lady, Miss Jane Laneson, whom he followed to her home across the sea. Her father is a prosperous merchant in London, and at his residence the young couple were united in marriage, July 5, 1886. During his stay in England Dr. Winn witnessed many surgical operations in the London hospitals, and by his keen observation of these and his careful study of the accompanying treatment of the patients, he derived much benefit. Returning with his bride to this State, Dr. Winn opened an office and took up the labors of life for which thought and careful judgment regarding theories and practice. Politically, he is a Democrat and an ultra free trader.