artist; born Winifred Bonnewitz in Van Wert, Ohio, as a young woman she acted on Broadway before marrying Marcus C. Ford (1873-1941) about 1904. The couple moved in 1933 to Madison, where Mr. Ford had spent his childhood. After her husband died in 1941, Winifred worked as an artist and draftswoman in the engineering department of Gisholt Machine Company, and painted a number of historic structures in and around Madison. She spent the last few years of her life in Atlantic City, New Jersey. An online gallery of her paintings is available at Wisconsin Historic Images.

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[Source: WHI]