My Genealogy Hound

JAY WINCH, the proprietor and manager of the Clymer butter and cheese factories, is a son of John S. and Sarah (Schulster) Winch, and was born in the town of Marilla, Erie county, New York, November 3, 1867. The Winches and Schulsters are both of English ancestry. The paternal grandfather of Jay Winch was William Winch, who was a soldier of the war of 1812, and died in Erie county; while his maternal grandfather, Mr. Schulster, was a resident for some years of Wyoming county, in which he died. John S. Winch (father) was born in the State of New Jersey, and in 1835 removed to Erie county, where he died in 1869. He was a farmer by occupation, a republican in politics, and a Presbyterian in religious faith. He served as supervisor of his town for a number of years, married Sarah Schulster, and reared a family of five sons and three daughters. The sons are Martin, Frank, Alfred, Andrew and Jay, and all reside in Wyoming county, New York, except the last named one.

Jay Winch was reared on the farm, obtained a good academic education at Franklinville, Cattaraugus county, and commenced life for himself as a clerk in a store of East Aurora, Erie county, New York. After some time spent at the latter place he received an advantageous offer and went to Charleston, the metropolis of South Carolina, where he was a clerk for eighteen months in a large store. From Charleston he returned to his native State where he was employed as a clerk in a mercantile establishment of Warsaw until 1886, when he went to Sherman, where he occupied a position for five years in the employ of Mr. Edmund’s butter and cheese factories. During the time spent in the factory office he learned all the details of the successful manufacture of butter and cheese, and in the spring of 1890 he came to Clymer where he established his present butter and cheese factories, the one at Clymer, and the other at North Clymer. The Clymer factory has an annual output of ninety thousand pounds of butter, while the North Clymer factory turns out sixty thousand pounds per year. Mr. Winch makes a very fine article of butter which finds a market in the larger cities of the United States.

In politics Jay Winch is rather independent and supports the man or the measure more than the party or the nominee. In religious matters he is a presbyterian, and has been a member of the church of that denomination at East Aurora for several years. Mr. Winch’s present enterprise has added much to the business prosperity of his village, and from its present prosperous condition promises to be an assured success in the future.