Winslow, Charles Frederick – Winston, John Anthony
Winslow, Charles Frederick
physician, author, was born in 1811 in Nantucket, Mass. He was the author of Cosmography; The Cooling Globe; and Force and Nature. He died in 1877.
Winslow, Edward
governor, author, was born Oct. 18, 1595, in England. He was a notable member of the Plymouth colony who succeeded Bradford as governor of that colony in 1633. He was the author of Good Newes from New England; Hypocrisy Unmasked; New England's Salamander; and The Glorious Progress of the Gospel Among the Indians of New England. He died May 8, 1655, at sea.
Winslow, Edward
governor of New Brunswick, was born in 1746 in Plymouth. He settled in New Brunswick, was a member of the first council of that colony, and, successively, surrogate-general, judge of the supreme court, and governor of the province. He died in 1815.
Winslow, Edward Francis
soldier, railroad president, was born Sept. 28, 1837, in Augusta, Maine. He was elected president of the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway company in 1880. He was also for several years president of the New York, Ontario and Western Railway company, and formed an association for the purpose of building the West Shore railway, which he completed in about three years.
Winslow, Miss Helen M
author, poet, was born April 13, 1851, in Westfield, Vt. She was one of the founders of the New England Woman's Press association, and has been its treasurer since its foundation. She has done journalistic work on many of the leading Boston publications; and is the author of The Shawsheen Mills; Jack; A Bohemian Chapter; and other novels; and her poems have been a valuable acquisition to current literature.
Winslow, Homer
artist, was born Feb. 24, 1836, in Boston, Mass. His Prisoners to the Front, exhibited in the Paris exposition, was one of the few American pictures which French artists would recognize, and made his name famous.
Winslow, Horace Spencer
lawyer, jurist, was born July 18, 1837, in Pittsford, Vt. He received his education in the common schools and academies of Vermont; and graduated from the State and National Law school of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and the Ohio State and Union Law school of Poland, Ohio. He has attained success as one of the foremost lawyers of Iowa at Newton. He has served as district attorney of the sixth district of Iowa; has been judge of the second circuit of the sixth district of Iowa, and judge of the same district. He was appointed code commissioner by the supreme court, under act of the twenty-fifth general assembly of the Iowa state legislature.
Winslow, Hubbard
clergyman, author, was born Oct. 30, 1799, in Williston, Vt. He was a presbyterian clergyman who held charges in Boston and other localities, and among whose writings are Hidden Life; Moral Philosophy; Doctrine of the Trinity; Controversial Theology; Christian Doctrines; Young Man's Aid to Knowledge, a very popular work; and Intellectual Philosophy. He died Aug. 13, 1864, in Williston, Vt.
Winslow, John
soldier, was born Oct. 29, 1753, in Boston, Mass. In 1799 he was elected brigadier-general of the Boston brigade, and in 1809 chosen by the legislature major-general of the militia.
He died Nov. 29, 1819, in Boston, Mass.
Winslow, John
soldier, a descendant of Governor Winslow, of Pilgrim fame, was born May 27, 1702, in Marshfield, Mass. He was founder of the town of Winslow, in Maine, and principal actor in the expulsion of the Acadians from their homes in 1755. He died April 17, 1774, in Hingham, Mass.
He
Winslow, John Ancrum
naval officer, was born Nov. 19, 1811, in Wilmington, N. C. He was commander of the Kearsarge, which on June 19, 1864, encountered and sunk the confederate cruiser Alabama off the coast of France. died Sept. 29, 1873, in Boston, Mass.
Winslow, John Bradley
lawyer, jurist, was born Oct. 4, 1851, in Livingston county, N. Y. In 1871 he graduated from the Racine college of Wisconsin; and in 1875 graduated from the law department of the university of Wisconsin. In 1883 he was elected circuit judge of the first judicial circuit; and was re-elected and served until 1891. He was then appointed associate justice of the supreme court; and in 1895 was reelected for a full term. In 1889 he was appointed special lecturer on criminal practice in the college of Law of the university of Wisconsin.
Winslow, John Flack
manufacturer, railroad president, was born Nov. 5, 1810, in Bennington, Vt. In 1833 he , 1810, in Bennington, Vt. In 1833 he engaged in the production of pig-iron in Bergen and Sussex counties, N. J., and in 1837 he formed a connection with Erastus Corning of Albany which lasted under various firm names for thirty years. The United States government contracted with his firm for the construction of the Monitor, which was begun in 1861 at Greenpoint, Long Island, and was launched in 1862. He has been president of the Poughkeepsie and Eastern railway, and of the company for constructing the Poughkeepsie bridge over Hudson river. He died March 10, 1892, in Poughkeepsie.
Winslow, Josiah
governor, born in 1629 in Plymouth, Mass. Two years after his father's death he was made assistant governor of Massachusetts, which post he filled till his election in 1673 as governor, which office he held till his death. He died Dec. 18, 1680, in Marshfield, Mass. was
Winslow, Miron
missionary, author, was born Dec. 11, 1789, in Williston, Vt. He was a presbyterian missionary in Ceylon and Madras; and the author of Hints on Missions to India; Sketch of the Missions; and Comprehensive Tamil and English Dictionary. He died Oct. 22, 1864, at Cape of Good Hope, South Africa.
Winslow, Neva Elizabeth
artist, poet, was born Aug. 4, 1873, in Centralia, Wis. In 1882 she moved to Iowa; and is financial secretary in the I. O. G. T. lodge of Bailey. She is an artist of ability, and has received a medal; is a correspondent for various publications; and her poems have appeared in several standard works.
Winslow, Stephen Noyes
journalist, author, was born April 14, 1826, in nalist; and the author of Biographies of Hartland, Vt. He is a Philadelphia jour- Successful Philadelphia Merchants.
Winslow, Warren
lawyer, state senator, congressman, governor, was born Jan. 1, 1810, in Fayetteville, N. C. In 1854 he was appointed a confidential agent to Madrid on business connected with the Black Warrior affair; and during his absence abroad was nominated for the senate of North Carolina. He was elected a member thereof, and placed in the chair of speaker; and while in that position Governor Reid was elected to the United States senate, and the duties of governor devolved upon him. He was elected to the thirty-fourth congress; and was reelected to the thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth congresses. He died June 11, 1862, in Fayetteville, N. C.
Winslow, William Copley
clergyman, author, was born Jan. 13, 1840, in Boston, Mass. In 1862 he graduated from Hamilton college, and three years later from the Protestant Episcopal General Theological seminary of New York city. He has since been engaged in preaching, lecturing, and writing for the press; was assistant editor of the New York World in 1862- 63, and of the Christian Union in 1864. Since 1870 he has resided in Boston, and through his efforts the Boston Museum of Fine Arts received a colossal statue of Rameses II. He is the vice-president for the United States of the Egypt exploration fund; is its honorary secretary; and is regarded as an authority on biblical and particularly Egyptological explorations. He is the author of Israel in Egypt; The Store City of Pithom; A Greek City in Egypt; and The Pilgrim Fathers in Holland.
Winsor, Justin
librarian, author, was born Jan. 2, 1831, in Boston, Mass.
He is librarian of Harvard university. He has edited The Memorial History of Boston; and Narrative and Critical History of America. His original works include Reader's Handbook of the American Revolution; Cartier to Frontenac; Geographical Discovery in the Interior of North America in Its Historical Relations, 1534-1700; Christopher Columbus; The Mississippi Basin: the Struggle in America between England and France; Was Shakespeare Shapleigh?; and History of Duxbury.
Winstandley, John B
legislator, was born in 1812 in Baltimore, Md. In 1847 he was elected to the Indiana legislature from Floyd county. He was reelected the succeeding year, and in 1849 was elected to the senate, and served in that capacity three years. He was elected to the city council of New Albany in 1856, 1868, 1870, and 1875, having had in all eight years' experience in that body.
Winston, George Taylor
educator, college president, was born Oct. 12, 1852, in Windsor, N. C. During 1875-91 he filled the chair of Latin in the university of North Carolina; and from 1891-96 he was president of that institution; and since 1896 has been president of the university of Texas.
Winston, John Anthony
legislator, governor, was born Sept. 4, 1812, in Madison, Ala. In 1840 and 1842 he was chosen to the lower branch of the Alabama legislature, and in 1845 he was elected to the state senate, of which he was president for several years. He was governor of Alabama in 1853-57. He died Dec. 21, 1871, in Mobile, Ala.