WINER, PAUL

Paul Winer was born in 1791 at Alsace, Lorraine, Germany and died in 1877. He married Christina Mallet.

He served in the German Army, and also with Napoleon in his Moscow campaign and in the Battle of Waterloo.

The family left Germay in 1817, and came to New York State. They left for Ontario in February 1828, with two yoke of oxen and two selighs. They crossed Lake Ontario on the ice, and at Kingston, traded one yoke of oxen and a sleigh for a wagon. They arrived in Puslinch in August, in a Jumper (long sleight) drawn by a yoke of oxen. They took up 100 acres, rear of Lot 33 Con 7 and with the help of his sons, he cleared the farm.

They built a shelter for the first winter, and built a log house the next summer. It was still standing in 1982. They took their wheat to be ground at the closest mill, Dundas.