Madeline Yale Wynne

Madeline Yale Wynne (September 25, 1847 − January 4, 1918) was an American artist, teacher, writer, and philanthropist. She became the first President of Deerfield Society of Arts and Crafts, and a founding member of the Chicago Arts and Crafts Society. She was also a member of the Social Register of Chicago.

Early life

Madeline was born in Newport, New York, the daughter of Linus Yale, Jr., and Katherine (Catherine) Brooks, members of the Yale family. Her brothers were John B. Yale and Julian L. Yale, both members of the Union League of New York.

Her brother John was married to Marie Louise, daughter of U.S. Treasury Secretary Hugh McCulloch, who was the main financier of the American Civil War for Abraham Lincoln. Her uncle was Congressman Halbert S. Greenleaf, and her aunt was Jean Brooks Greenleaf, president of the New York State Woman's Suffrage Association.

In 1865, when she was 18, Madeline married to Senator Henry Winn, son of Senator Reuben Winn. Henry Winn was a graduate from Yale, then Harvard, and had been previously Major during the Civil War, assistant Attorney General, then personal Secretary to Senator George Sumner, before becoming Senator, and his father was a postmaster.

In the early 1860s, her husband, Senator Winn, founded with his in-laws Linus Yale Jr. and John Brooks Yale, the Yale & Winn Manufacturing Company, which became a successful enterprise, and received an award from Napoleon III's Universal Exposition of Paris in 1867. He tried to do business in South America, but his venture proved unsuccessful, and his ship the Caribbean was wrecked in the ocean and uninsured. He later established a law practice in Massachusetts when he became Senator in 1877, and became Mayor of Malden in 1892.