Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-30
MIR. WINAN'S ROMANCE
Something About Michigan's New
Democratic Governor.
LOVED AND WAS GIVEN THE MITTEN
Notable and Successful Career as a Cali
fornia Banker.
A CONSERVATIVE WOLVERINE FARMER

GRAND RAPIDS, Dec. 29.-Edwin B.
Winans, of Hamburg, Livingston county,
who will be the first simon pure Democratic
Governor the State has had in over 80 years,
and who will enter upon his duties as Chief
Executive amid an immense burst of
Democratic enthusiasm on New Years Day,
IS a cool, conservative, hard-headed old
farmer, and, with his neatly trimmed beard,
well fitting clothes and kindly eyes beam
ing over pair OF gold bowed spectacles,
does not look like one who has a romance
concealed about mis- person or as a man who
has faced nardships and death III a desper-
ate chase across the continent to satisfy a
thirst for gold.
The California gold fever in 40 ragged with
particular virulence in Livingston county,
and Michigan's next Governor was among
the first to catch it. His shrewd business
instinct asserted itself very soon after his ar
rival in the gold fields. A very little ex-
perience in the mines went long way with
the young man and he dropped the pick
ana shovel and determined to seek fortune
in an other direction. He started bank
not of the kind that was quite popular at
that time and place known as faro, but a
bank for the transaction of legitimate COM
mercial business. The young Michigan
hnancier prospered, and IN the course of
two or three years had accumulated a conf
Portable little pile. But Winans grew rest
less and longed Tor bome
The Governors Lovemaking.
Not far from, Winans' old home in Liv-
ingston county lived the Galloway girls.
There were four of them, and it was which
and tother as to which one of the
quartet was the prettiest. Young
Winans decided in his mind that
Sarah Galloway would just about come up
to his standard of an ideal wife, and before
his departure for the gold fi-lds paid his ad-
dresses to her and his kind attentions were
favorably received. ''If 1 like you as well
when YOU come back as 1 do now will
marry you" she told him with refreshing
trankness when he went away.
1t was to see if Sarah still liked him that
Wlnans was so anxious to return to civllIza-
tion. The long journey back to Michigan
was as full of danger as the first trip across
the continent. The train of prairie schoon-
ers was attacked by Indians and Winans
received bullet in the ribs, but fortunately
the wound was not fatal. He reached home
in safety, although bandaged, and was
given a royal welcome by the neighbors for
miles around But he found that his cup
of happiness had Its bitter drop. His
sweetheart loved another.
Loved Him as Sister.
Absence had not made the heart grow
fonder in her case, and she regretfulIy in
formed the future Governor that she would
be glad to be a sister TO him. Winans de-
termined to take her at her word. He was
eminently practical and sensible then as he
is to-day, and when he learned his fate he
made up to Libbie Galloway, proposed,
and was accepted. A few weeks later
they were married, and the slender,
sweet faced little woman who has made SO
admirable a wife and devoted mother ac-
companied her husband back to California.
They remained severa! years and Governor
Winans there laid the foundation OF his
present comfortable fortune.
Sarah Galloway married Mr.. Reynolds,
who conducted newspaper in a Western
town. He died not long ago, and his widow,
now an invalid, and her two children, are
living in Hamburg at the hospitable home
OF her brother-in-law, the next Governor of
Michigan.