When Benjamin Franklin Winters was born on 5 October 1872, in Carroll, Ohio, United States, his father, Frederick Winters, was 40 and his mother, Mary Jane Hunt, was 36. He married Mary Elizabeth Long on 22 December 1895, in Carroll, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Rose, Carroll, Ohio, United States for about 10 years and Cleveland, England, United Kingdom in 1947. He died on 17 December 1947, in Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Sandy Township, Stark, Ohio, United States.
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In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
The Euclid Avenue Opera House was the most popular theater in Cleveland at the time. It was home to a 1,638-seat auditorium and was constantly filled. In 1922 the building was demolished to make room for a Kresge store. The original chandelier hangs in the shop that now occupies the site.
The May Day Riots were a series of violent demonstrations that occurred throughout the city on May 1. The riots were caused after Cleveland's unemployment rate increased dramatically during the Panic of 1893, causing panic among the unemployed against the city leaders. The most rioters at one time was recorded as a crowd of 5,000 men.
Dutch and German: patronymic from Winter .
English: variant of Winter , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
Irish: adopted for Mac Giolla Gheimhridh ‘son of the lad of winter’, from geimhreadh ‘winter’. Compare Winter 4.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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