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Winslow, Mrs. Celeste M. A – Winslow, Josiah

Winslow, Mrs. Celeste M. A

author, poet, was born Nov. 22, 1837, in Charlemont, Mass. She is the author of a volume of poems; and her contributions of both prose and verse have appeared in Scribner's, Lippincott's and other leading publications.

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, 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.

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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, 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