įollowing the death of his wife Julia in 1850, he married Elizabeth K. He moved his family to Baltimore, Maryland in the late 1820s and did business with the newly founded Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B. He married Julia de Kay (1800-1850) in 1820 and they had five children.
His parents were William and Mary Winans. Ross Winans was born in Vernon Township, New Jersey on October 17, 1796. Winans was related to James McNeill Whistler through marriage (Whistler's brother George married Winans' daughter Julia). At the time of his arrest, Winans was returning on a Baltimore and Ohio Railroad train from an early session of the legislature that was being held in the western Maryland town of Frederick to avoid the Union Army-occupied state capital of Annapolis in April–May 1861 to consider the possibilities of state secession during the early decisive period of the American Civil War. His outspoken anti-federal stance as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates, the lower chamber of the General Assembly, (state legislature) led to his temporary arrest on May 14, 1861.
Winans was briefly arrested after the Baltimore riot of 1861. Winans, one of the United States' first multi-millionaires, was involved in national and state politics, a southern-sympathizer and was a vehement " states' rights" advocate. He is also noted for design of pioneering cigar-hulled ships. Ross Winans (1796–1877) was an American inventor, mechanic, and builder of locomotives and railroad machinery.
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