P. G. Wynegar, a pike contractor, Richwood, was born in Highland County, Ohio, March, 18, 1826, and is a son of David and Catharine (Grim) Wynegar, natives of Virginia, of Dutch descent.  He was raised on the farm, receiving a common school education, and followed farming until twenty-one years of age, when he engaged in the manufacture. of brick, which he followed four years in Springfield.  He then came to Richwood, and for eight years followed farming and brick-making.  In 1876, he commenced taking contracts for building pikes, and, now has a contract for $19,000 worth of work.  He usually employs about thirty teams, and has employed as high as eighty-two.  He owns 100 acres of land in Leesburg Township, where his father settled in 1838.  He was married in 1850 to Elizabeth Ross, a native of Muskingum County, Ohio, and a daughter of Dr. J. N. Ross.  This union has been blessed with nine children, four living, viz.: William C., Ida J., Philota and Estelle.  Mrs. Wynegar died February 9, 1874.