Frank Aylmer Winne

Frank Aylmer Winne (sometimes spelled Winnie) was born on July 31, 1850, in Perinton, Monroe, New York. His parents were Christopher Winne and Electa L. Henry. According to Frank Winne's great-granddaughter, Lise, Frank  Aylmer was distantly related to cinema actors Henry, Peter, and Jane Fonda, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. 

Frank A. Winne began his studies at the Brockport Normal School, where he was one of the early members of the Gamma Sigma Society. Frank was part of a group of students who relocated to Geneseo to form a new normal school. 

At Geneseo, 21-year-old Winne became a founding member of the Delphic Society and in 1873 was one of the first Geneseo State Normal School graduates. He then became a mathematics teacher in Gowanda and the normal school in Geneseo, but his tenure as a teacher was short. 

Frank Winne later became a homeopathic physician, receiving his medical degree in 1878 from the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia, known today as the Drexel University College of Medicine. He owned a farm and was a prominent doctor first based in Spencerport and then in Brockport, New York. Frank was married to Alice Parley Nichols in 1888 and they had one son, Robert Frank Winne. 

Dr. Frank A. Winne died at the age of 55 from a cerebral hemorrhage on November 12, 1905, in Brockport. His obituary noted that Winne, “endeared himself to all with whom he came in contact by his kind deeds and lovable character.”