Charles G. Wineteer is one of the young members of the legal profession now practicing in Springfield, who have already made a name and a place for themselves among the many able lawyers of this city, and he is thought to have a brilliant future before him. He is a native of this State, born in Woodford County, December 22, 1864. He is son of Robert F. and Henrietta (Rogers) Wineteer, natives respectively of Ohio and Indiana. His paternal ancestors originated in Germany, as the name indicates. His grandfather, John Wineteer, came from that country to the United States early in this century and is still living in Woodford County at a venerable age. It is a remarkable fact that the grandparents of our subject on both sides of the house are all living and all residents of Woodford County, where they are chiefly employed in farming.

Robert F. Wineteer is the proprietor of the celebrated Flowing Well Farm, so named because of a fine well on the premises. This is a noted stockfarm and Mr. Wineteer is extensively engaged in raising stock of high grades. He and his wife have a commodious home that is replete with every comfort. They are the parents of two children ---- Flora E., wife of J. W. Dodd, a farmer and grocer at Auburn, Ill., and Charles G.

The subject of this biography passed his boyhood days in attending school, and by close study laid the solid foundation of a liberal education. He was graduated from the classical course of Wesleyan University, of Bloomington, Ill., in the class of '84, with high honor. He subsequently began to prepare himself for the legal profession, for which he seemed to have a special aptitude. He read law with Senator M. L. Newell, of Minonk, and was admitted to the bar at Ottawa, Ill., in the spring of 1886. He issued with triumph from the searching examination of the court, presided over by able lawyers, making a record of one hundred, which has never been equaled but once in Illinois, ex-Judge Prendergast, of Cook County, obtaining the same rank in 1876.

In 1888 Mr. Wineteer came to Springfield and opened an office here and since then has practiced in the local and other courts. In 1890 he was elected Justice of the Peace while absent at Cincinnati, Ohio, on business. He is well fitted for this office, as he is well read in law, is especially competent to decide upon the merits of the cases tried before him, and is fair and judicial in his decisions. He is an eloquent speaker and is influential in politics, taking his stand with the Democrats, and during the last Presidential campaign he was on the stump for two months in the northern part of the State and proved very efficient help to the Democrats of that part of Illinois in carrying on their work. He is identified with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, is a Knight of Pythias and also a Mason.