Malcolm Winter and William Winter

Sept. 1889 James Winter, William Winter, Christine Wright, Mabel Wright

From the web pages of Malcolm Winter  "MABEL W. WRIGHT was born Apr 1, 1888 in California, and died Mar 2, 1964 in Los Angeles, California.She married HUGH VERNON WHITE.He was born Jan 24, 1889 in California, and died Jan 12, 1984 in Claremont, Los Angeles, California.
     
Children of MABEL WRIGHT and HUGH WHITE are:

	i.		MALCOLM5 WHITE, b. 1922, Sacramento, California.
	ii.		NINA JANE WHITE, b. Dec 5, 1919; d. Oct 4, 1986, Riverside, California

Benjamin Milton Robins

"Dr, Robins History"  by Eugene Robins  [I am keeping the grammatical but not the spelling mistakes: some of the proper name and place name spellings may be wrong]

Benjamin Milton Robins physician and surgeon, Residing in Osceola township on section fifteen (15) is a native of the state of New York.  Born in Jefferson County November 28, 1831 a son of James and Elysa Robins he was reared on the home farm, his father being engaged in agricultural pursuits, his primary education was obtained in the common school of his neighborhood.  And later he attended the academy at Mexico [a town] Oswego County N. Y. He studied medicine under Drs. Chafiss and Tenton of Pulaski Oswego County and subsequently took a full course of lectures at the Ohio Medical College of Cincinnati graduating from the institution in the class of 1854.  He then began the practice of his chosen profession in Batavia Jefferson Co. Iowa where he remained till the spring of 1869 doing his residence there he built sef [himself?] an extensive practice.  The Dr. was united in marriage to Miss Marrina Cornwell of Warren Co, Ohio and to this union was born 8 children 5 boys and three girls E.V..A.L Q.R.S.R. and E. W. Ella Haven and Mrs Stella Williams Dr. French and Breda at home. [pretty hard to make out any of that]  Dr. Robins came to Clark Co. in 1869 and settled on his farm whitch is located two and 1/2 miles east of Osceola,  At the time his farm was an open farrie [prairie?] and although the ofessing [?] of his farm was a new experience to the doctor he succeeded in bringing it to a high state of cultivation and at the same time carried on his practice of medicine.  Sometime going a distance of 20 miles to see a patient.  Of late years he [paid] considerable attention to raising stock making a specialty of Short Horn cattle and now has a well stock[ed] farm of 50 head of cattle.  The Dr. is a member of the Odd Fellow order and order is whitch he take[s] much interest.

Jane Winter Leddy passed this on to me:  she writes on the photocopy I have "I think this was wirten by my cousin Eugene as a school project."  Jane's mother was Edna Robins.  

Helene Baldwin Winter

Helene Baldwin Winter 1899-1974.  Helene was married to my grandfather James Winter.  Their joint tombstone can be seen here.  The writing on the back of this picture is in the hand of Jane Winter Leddy daughter of James and Edna Winter.  There is a Helene Baldwin Winter Memorial Scholarship at Simpson College in Indianola Iowa.

Jane Winter Leddy's village.  I believe that came in cereal boxes.  She and her roommates collected them and stuck them to the ceiling of their dorm room.

Margaret E. Leddy more information

Margaret was a teacher and retired August 6, 1964.  She had a diploma from State Normal of Los Angeles dated June 24, 1915. She was a holder of a Grammar School Certificate for Imperial County in Jan. 1919 and taught at the Brawly Grammar School there from Feb. 1918 to Dec. of 1920.  At that time she was called Margaret Forbes Charleston Eddie.  She was also a teacher in Los Angeles City in 1920.  Between 1935 and 1939 she taught in Kern County.  Kern county schools she taught at were Edison School, Hospital School, Norris School, at well as Arvin Night School. In 1939 she started teaching in Bakersfield City. When she started as a teacher then of the special evening class of the Arvin Migratory School, Arvin, California her salary was $4.00 per night, teaching Tuesday and Thursday night from seven to nine. During WWII she taught full-time from 1942-1945 at Bakersfield City Schools.  In 1954-55 she also taught full time in Bakersfield. She resigned from the Bakersfield City School District at the close of the 1954-5 school year.  She also taught at he Horace Ensign Junior High School in Newport between 1955 and 1957 as a substitute, also at Capistrano Beach.  This information is collated from drafts of letters Margaret wrote at the time of her retirement and from official documents.

In 1939  Margaret lived at 130 Oleander Ave., Bakersfield, CA. with her husband Harold, and her as many of her four boys who were living by that time (need to check). 

Margaret was called Margaret Eddie Leddy after she married.  

One of their addresses was 396 East 15th Street, Costa Mesa, CA. That's where I remember them the most.  After Grandpa Leddy died Jim Leddy moved in for a time.  

Grandma (Margaret) loved to talk.  She also enjoyed her sherry, cheese and crackers, which she shared with us when we were grown up.  Grandpa had his own study filled with books.  He was fond of book collecting and I probably caught that from him.

Edna Dell Robins

This is my grandmother (mother's mother), Edna Winters, originally Edna Dell Robins.  She does look a lot like my mother.  I really remember little about her and have only made one post about her previously, here.  I remember that we visited her in San Francisco where she lived in an apartment near the Presidio, that she was a nurse, that she had some relation to Alcatraz and showed me, or gave me, a letter stamped with Alcatraz and a pelican (perhaps she was a nurse there).

She and my grandfather divorced when my mother was a teenager.  Malcolm Winter writes this about her "I always thought a lot of my aunt Edna. She was a middle aged white haired lady when I knew her - very friendly and considerate.  However after 20 or so years of marriage to my Uncle Jim, she developed a number of delusions about him that eventually resulted in his divorcing her. After the divorce I didn't see her again, but understand that her delusions cleared.She moved to California and lived there till her death."

Edna was devoted to my mother, her only child, and would often do restaurant work near where my mom was going to school or attending summer camp.