Background
Winn, Thomas Clay was born on June 29, 1851 in Flemington, Liberty Company, Georgia, United States. Son of Review John (Presbyterian minister) and Mary Colton (Brown) W.
Winn, Thomas Clay was born on June 29, 1851 in Flemington, Liberty Company, Georgia, United States. Son of Review John (Presbyterian minister) and Mary Colton (Brown) W.
Knox College, Galesbugr, Illinois, 1869-1872. Bachelor of Arts, Amherst, 1873, Doctor of Divinity, 1910. Northwestern (now McCormick) Theological Seminary, 1873-1874.
Graduate Union Theological Seminary, 1877.
Ordained Presbyterian ministry, 1877. Sent as missionary to Japan, 1877. Teacher Mission School, Yokohoma, and language study, 1877-1879.
Mission work at Kanazawa, 19 years.
Removed to Osaka, 1898, to Dairen, Manchuria, 1906, and pastor Japanese Church there 4 years. Visited churches along entire line of South Manchuria Railway, now retired.
Home: 43 West. Walnut Lane, Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Married Eliza Caroline Willard, of Galesburg, Illinois, September 20, 1877 (died October 8, 1912). Married second, Kyoto, Japan, Florence Julia Bigelow, March 31, 1917. Children: Mary Cordelia (Mistress Russell T. Barr deceased), Willard Brown (deceased), George Hinsdale, Julia Kaatrina (Mistress Walter C. Erdman), Merle Clayton.