Winchester, Boyd
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Sept. 23, 1836, in Ascension, La. In 1867 he was elected a Kentucky state senator. He was a presidential elector in 1868; and in that year was elected a representative from Kentucky to the forty-first congress. He was re-elected to the forty-second congress. In 1875 he became president of the Farmers' and Drovers' Insurance company, in which position he remained until 1877. In 1885 he was appointed minister resident and consul-general of the United States to Switzerland.
WINCHESTER, CHARLES WESLEY, educator, clergyman, lecturer, author, was born July 2, 1843, in Westminster, Vt.
In 1867 he graduated from the Genesee college, which institution was subsequently absorbed into the Syracuse university; and has received the degrees of A. B., A. M., and D. D. He has filled the chair of Greek and German in the Fairfield seminary; and of Latin and Greek in the Cazenovia seminary. Since 1870 he has been a clergyman of the methodist episcopal church; and also a presiding elder since that time. For eleven years he was secretary of the Genesee conference; traveled in Europe in 1890; and in 1891 was a member of the second ecumenical conference in Washington, D. C. He has lectured extensively on various themes, principally on The Eight Wonders of the World. He is the author of The Gospel Kodak Abroad; The Wells of Salvation; and other works.