Charles Joel Winton was a lumberman and businessman born in Chicago, Illinois. He spent his childhood in Addison, NY and graduated from Princeton University in 1884. After graduation, Winton moved to Wisconsin and settled in Wausau where he entered the lumber business.

He was one of the organizers of the Wisconsin Valley Land Company, and with his father-in-law, J. M. Smith, he organized the electric company that later became the Wausau Street R.R. Company. One of the original stockholders in the Marathon Corporation, Winton was vice-president of that firm in 1909, and was a member of the board of directors until his death. He was a stockholder in the Mosinee Paper Mills and the Tomahawk Kraft Paper Company, and in 1891 was one of the organizers of the Wausau YMCA. In 1909 he moved to Minneapolis and concentrated his lumbering interests in Canada and the Far West. 

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