Joseph Winterbotham
Joseph Humphrey Winterbotham, was a Chicago manufacturer, bank director, Chicago Art Institute benefactor and Michigan state senator.Joseph Humphrey Winterbotham was born in Columbus, Ohio, in 1852.Career
Winterbotham "organized no fewer than eleven corporations, including cooperage manufacture, moving and transfer, and mortgage financing".He married Genevieve Baldwin of New Haven, Connecticut, and they had four children, including Rue Winterbotham Carpenter.
Their sons John and Joseph, Jr. were educated at Yale University, and their daughters, Rue and Genevieve, travelled to Europe.