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For the past four years Mr. Winship has occupied an influential position in the realin of literature as editor of the " Journal of Education." lle is president of the New England Publishing Company of Boston. Hle is the author of " Methods and Prin- ciples," " Essentials of Psychology," " The Shop," etc., and is a well-known and popu- lar lecturer upon educational and philo- sophic themes and travels.
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August 24, 1870, he was married to Ella R., daughter of Stillman E. and Lavinia (Lathe) Parker, of Reading. Their chil- dren are : George Parker (born July 29, 1871), Edith Annette (born March 17, 1875), Luella Parker (born May 31, 1880), and Edna Eliot (born February 8, 1882).
WINSLOW, FRANK LESLIE, son of Charles and Elizabeth (Gould) Winslow, was born in Topsfield, Essex county, Octo- ber 5, 1855.
He received a common school education, such as could be gleaned between the ages of five and twelve years.
In 1876 he entered business life as book- keeper for Charles Herrick, shoe manufac- turer, Topsfield, where he has remained to the present time.
Mr. Winslow was married in Charles- town, November 27, 1880, to Carrie Little- field, daughter of Albert and Violette (Littlefield) Simonds. Of this union is one son : Leslie Marmion Winslow.
Mr. Winslow has been secretary of the Republican town committee since 1881, a member of the district committee (7th Essex), and chairman (1887-'88), and sec- retary of the school board from 1881 to '87.
He was town auditor in 1886, '87, and '88. He is a member of the A. O. U. W. and I. O. O. F., and has been a represent- ative to both grand lodges. He was treasurer of the trustees of the Methodist Episcopal church in 1887-'88, and secre- tary of the Chautauqua literary society in 1885.
WINSLOW, SAMUEL, son of Eleazer R. and Ann (Corbett) Winslow, was born in Newton, Middlesex county, February 28, 1827.
He received his early education in the schools of that town. On leaving school he was employed in the manufacture of cotton machinery, and in this occupation displayed great industry and inventive skill. So rapidly did he advance, that at the age of twenty he was made foreman in the shop, with fifty men under his charge.
Mr. Winslow removed to Worcester in 1855, and in April of that year formed a co-partnership with his brother, Seth C. Winslow, and started a machine shop. In 1857 they began the manufacture of skates, and with this industry he is still identified.
At the death of his brother in 1871, he assumed control of the business and con- tinued it alone until the formation of the
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Samuel Winslow Skate Manufacturing Company, in May, 1886, in which com- pany Mr. Winslow retained the major part of the stock, and has since served the cor- poration as president and treasurer.
Mr. Winslow began his public career in Newton Upper Falls, in 1848, as a mem- ber of the prudential committee for the employment of teachers, and the oversight of the schools of the village. He was clerk of the corporation which organized the Boston & Woonsocket division of what is now the New York & New Eng- land Railroad ; was a member of the Worcester common council in 1864 and '65 ; a representative from the roth Worces- ter district in the state Legislature in 1873 and '74 ; was elected an alderman in 1885, to fill a vacancy ; was elected mayor of Worcester in 1885, to serve the ensuing year, and has since been repeatedly called to the mayoralty, serving in this position for the years 1887, '88, and '89.
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He was a trustee for the Worcester County Mechanics' Association for 1868, '69, '70, and '71 ; its vice-president from 1884 to '86 ; president in 1886, and de- clined a re-election, on account of his duties as mayor.
In 1888 he was a director in the Citizens' National Bank, and in 1889 was elected
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president, which office he still holds. He is also a trustee of the Peoples Savings Bank.
Mr. Winslow was married in Newton, November 1, 1848, to Mary, daughter of David and Lydia Robbins. His family consists of two children : Frank Ellery and Samuel Ellsworth Winslow.
WINSLOW, WILLIAM COPLEY, son of Rev. Hubbard Winslow, D. D., and Susan Ward (Cutler) Winslow, was born in Bos- ton, January 13, 1840. His father was successor to Dr. Lyman Beecher, pastor of the Bowdoin Street church, and widely known as an author and educator. His mother was the daughter of Hon. Pliny Cutler and Phoebe Ward, daughter of Rev. Ephraim Ward.
Mr. Winslow prepared for college in the Latin school, and as his father removed to Geneva, N. Y., he entered Hamilton Col- lege, Clinton, N. Y., where he was gradu- ated in 1862, at the semi-centenary of that institution. While in college, he was in- strumental, with Joseph Cook and W. G. Sumner of Yale, in founding the " Univer- sity Quarterly Review ; " he was also asso- ciate editor of the "Hamiltonian." In 1862-'63 he was on the staff of the " New York World," and later, with Rev. Dr. Tyng, edited the "Christian Times." In 1865 he was graduated from the General Theological Seminary, New York. He then spent four months of study in Italy, particularly on Roman archæology and arts, and in preparing lectures, and articles for reviews.
Mr. Winslow, from 1867 to '70, while rector of St. George's church, Lee, Mass., was chairman of the school board ; vice- president of the county Bible society ; twice orator on Decoration Day, and was prominent in educational and diocesan matters in western Massachusetts. He utilized his summer vacations in exploring the Adirondacks, making maps of some then unknown waters. Of these he has contributed sketches to the press, and has frequently lectured on the " Adirondacks " before lyceum courses.
In 1870 Dr. Winslow removed to Boston. For four years he ministered at St. Luke's Home for Convalescents, as its chaplain ; he has been executive secretary in the free-church movement ; has preached in more than one hundred Episcopal churches in the State; and his lectures and ad- dresses have aggregated two hundred and twenty-five annually for the past ten years. His contributions to the " Church Review " and the weekly journals of the Episcopal
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church are familiar to the members of that communion, and leading Congregational and Presbyterian journals frequently pub- lish his articles. He has written much for the Boston press, notably the " Transcript," "Post," and "Advertiser." Connected with the New England Historic Genealog- ical, the American Oriental, Webster His- torical, Bostonian, and other societies of research, he has officially and otherwise delivered addresses and contributed papers that have been published in permanent form. He is a prominent Mason, and has been prelate of the St. Bernard Comman- dery the past decade.
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But it is in archæological research and in Oriental exploration that Dr. Winslow has won his wide reputation in Europe as well as America. In 1880 he spent four months of study in Egypt and Syria, and soon after the "Egypt Exploration Fund " was founded, he became its vice-president for the United States, and is now recognized as an advanced authority in Egyptological research. In 1886 St. Andrew's Univer- sity, Scotland, conferred upon him the degree of L.L. D., and Columbia College, at its centenary in 1887, conferred the de- gree of L. H. D. In (889 St. John's Col- lege, Annapolis, at its centenary, conferred Sc. D. "in recognition of the learning and
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ability with which he had conducted vari- ous scientific investigations."
Through Dr. Winslow's efforts, various objects of great interest and value have been presented to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, notably the colossal statue of Rameses II., the Pharaoh of the Oppression, and the head of Hathor, the Egyptian Ve- nus. Dr. Winslow's services in research have been so valuable, that he has been declared by archæologists to have done more than any man, save Sir Erasmus Wilson, to advance the cause of explora- tion. King's College conferred upon him the degree of D. C. L., and the Royal Archæological Institute elected him its only honorary fellow in this country. The German Government presented him with the costly volumes of the great "Book of the Dead," and in 1886 the University of Leyden invited him to contribute an article to the splendid album, commemorating the semi-centenary of Dr. Leeman's director- ship of the museum. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries, of Edin- burgh; honorary correspondent of the Phil- osophical Society of Great Britain ; corre- sponding member of the Society of Natural History, Canada, besides being honorary or corporate member of other historical and antiquarian bodies of England and the United States. His alma mater conferred upon him the honorary degree of Ph. D .; Griswold College, Iowa, and Amherst Col- lege both conferred the degree D. D. In- deed, few Americans are connected with as many learned foreign societies, or have received as many honorary titles. Savants and universities have repeatedly recognized his services and literary labors.
Dr. Winslow paternally descended from the Pilgrims, and is a lineal descendant on the maternal side from Dr. Colman, first pastor of Brattle Street church, Boston, and Joseph Pemberton, from whom Pem- berton Square derived its name. He was married in Boston, June 20, 1867, to Har- riet S., daughter of Joseph Hayward, and niece of the eminent surgeon, Dr. George Hayward. He has one child : Mary Whit- ney Winslow, born November 14, 1873.
WINSOR, JUSTIN, son of Nathaniel and Ann T. H. Winsor, was born in Bos- ton, January 2, 1831.
His early educational training was re- ceived at the Boston Latin school, where he fitted for Harvard College, class of 1853, and subsequently studied in Paris and in Heidelberg, Germany. In 1868 he became superintendent of the Boston public library, where he remained until 1877. He is now
librarian of Harvard College, which posi- tion he has held since 1877.
From 1876 to '86 he was president of the American Library Association ; has been president of the American Historical Association, and is now corresponding sec- retary of the Massachusetts Historical So- ciety. In 1886 he received the degree of L.L. D. from the University of Michigan. Mr. Winsor is a voluminous writer ; his ad- dresses and magazine articles are chiefly on subjects connected with American history. He has written "History of Duxbury " (1849) ; "Songs of the Unity" (1858), in editing which he co-operated with the Rev. George H. Hepworth ; "Bibliography of the Original Quartos and Folios of Shake- speare " (1876) ; " Reader's Hand-Book of the American Revolution, 1761 to 1783," published in 1879; "Was Shakespeare Shapleigh ? A Correspondence in Two En- tanglements" (1886) ; several pamphlets, among which are "Governor Bradford's Manuscript History of Plymouth Plan- tation," "Arnold's Expedition against Quebec, 1775-'76," "The Manuscript Sources of American History," and " Notes on the Spurious Letters of Montcalm." He edited the " Memorial History of Bos- ton " (1880-'82) ; " Narrative and Criti- cal History of America" (1883-'89) ; "Harvard University Bulletin " (since 1877), and "Library of Harvard Univer- sity ;" "Bibliographical Contributions," beginning the latter work in 1877. To these he has contributed " Shakespeare's Poems," " Pietas et Gratulatio : Inquiry in- to the Authorship of the Several Pieces," "Halliwelliana," "Bibliography of Ptol- emy's Geography," "The Kohl Collection of Early Maps," and a "Calendar of the Sparks Manuscripts in Harvard College Li- brary." He also edited the "Record of the 250th Anniversary of the Founding of Harvard College " (1887).
Mr. Winsor was married in 1855 to Caro- line T., daughter of Ebenezer and Sally Fuller Barker. He has one daughter.
WINTHROP, ROBERT CHARLES, son of Thomas Lindall and Elizabeth Bowdoin (Temple) Winthrop, was born in Boston, May 12, 1809.
His father was lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts for seven years, and a lineal descendant of Governor John Winthrop, who was born near Groton, England, in 1587, was chosen governor of the Massa- chusetts Company in 1629, and brought over the colony charter in the following year. Next to the first governor in the line of his ancestors stands the name of
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John Winthrop, Jr., who was scarcely less conspicuous in the history of Connecticut, and who in 1662 obtained from Charles II. the grant of a charter for that colony.
His mother was the daughter of Sir John Temple, Bart., and grand-daughter of James Bowdoin, governor of Massachu- setts, 1785 and '86.
Robert C. Winthrop was prepared for college in the Boston public Latin school, and entered Harvard College at the age of fifteen. He was graduated one of the first three in the class of 1828.
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On Icaving college he studied law three years in the office of Daniel Webster, and was admitted to the bar of Suffolk county in 1831. In 1834 he was chosen one of the representatives of Boston in the Legis- lature, and after three years of distin- guished service on the floor, he was elect- ed speaker of the House. He retained the speakership for three years, acquiring a reputation as a graceful and dignified presiding officer.
In 1840 he was elected the representative of Boston in the Congress of the United States, and was re-elected for four succes- sive terms. In 1847 he was speaker of the national House of Representatives, and occupied that eminent position until March 4, 1849. In July, 1850, Mr. Winthrop was
transferred to the United States Senate, to fill the vacancy occasioned by Mr. Web- ster's acceptance of the office of secretary of state under President Fillmore.
In 1851 Mr. Winthrop was the Whig candidate for governor of Massachusetts. He received 64,000 votes, while the two opposing candidates had 43,000 and 28,000 respectively. The constitution of Massa- chusetts then required a majority to elect. The election was therefore thrown into the Legislature, where one of the minority candidates was chosen by the coalition of Democrats and Free Soilers. In 1852 Mr. Winthrop was placed at the head of the Whig electoral ticket in Massachusetts, and was made president of the electoral college which gave the vote of the State for General Winfield Scott. Since that time he has declined all nominations and appointments to political offices, both in the State and nation, and has withdrawn from political life.
But he has not been unmindful of the duties which every citizen owes to the community, and has been largely interested in historical, literary, and philanthropic pursuits. In 1855 he was made president of the Massachusetts Historical Society, which office he held for thirty years, and to its collections and proceedings he has made numerous and important contribu- tions. He has also been an efficient mem- ber of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ; for twenty-five years he was president of the Boston Provident Associ- ation, and was three years chairman of the overseers of the poor of Boston, taking a prominent part in the re-organizing of the system of public charities. From its or- ganization he has been president of the board of trustees of the Peabody Southern Education Fund. He has also been presi- dent of the trustees of the Episcopal The- ological School at Cambridge. These are only a few of the many positions of honor and trust to which Mr. Winthrop has been called by his appreciative countrymen.
He is a ripe scholar and eloquent public speaker. On the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, he delivered in that town an address which must always hold a foremost place in American oratorical efforts. On the centennial celebration of the Declar- ation of American Independence he deliv- ered in Boston an address equally worthy of preservation.
He delivered the centennial oration at Yorktown, Virginia, in 1881, by appoint- ment of Congress, after which a portrait of
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him was presented by citizens of Massa- chusetts to the speaker's gallery in the Capitol at Washington. Congress also appointed him, in 1885, to deliver the ora- tion on the completion of the great Wash- ington Monument, in laying the corner- stone of which he had delivered the oration in 18.47.
In 1852 he published a volume of ad- dresses and speeches, followed in 1867 by a second, and in 1879 by a third, and in 1886 by a fourth volume. Taken as a whole, they are not surpassed by any similar collection in our literature. In 1864 he published the first volume of "Life and Letters of John Winthrop." The second volume appeared in 1867.
Mr. Winthrop has received the honorary degree of LL. D. from the University of Cambridge, England, from Harvard Uni- versity, and Bowdoin College.
Mr. Winthrop was married in Boston in March, 1832, to Eliza Cabot, daughter of Francis and Marianne (Cabot) Blanchard. Of this union were three children : Robert C., John, and Eliza C. Winthrop.
His present wife is a daughter of the late Hon. Francis Granger, of Canandai- gua, N. Y.
WITT, CHARLES T., son of Thomas and Rachel L. (Porter) Witt, was born July 18. 1848, in Norway, Oxford county, Me.
He received his educational training in the common schools and high school of Norway. He came to Boston in March, 1868 ; worked two years in the milk business ; then went into the same busi- ness for himself, and has followed it ever since.
Mr. Witt was married in Norway, Me., October 18, 1874, to Ella F., daughter of Hiram and Marantha (Pray) Hathaway. Of this union were four children : Althea E., Alice H., Charles H. (deceased), and Edith M. Witt.
Mr. Witt served five years on the ward and city committee, Boston ; represented the Ist Suffolk district in the Legislature in 1888 and '89, serving on the com- mittee on banks and banking in '88, and in '89 on the committee on street rail- ways.
He has held various offices in Masonic bodies ; served as master of Baalbec Lodge, F. & A. M., two years ; thrice illus- trious master of East Boston Council, Royal and Select Masters, for three years, and is now holding offices in chapter and com- mandery. He is treasurer of the Masonic board of directors, and a director in the Union Masonic Relief Association of Mas-
sachusetts. He is a member of the I O. O. F., and past regent of Maverick Coun- cil, Royal Arcanum, and was the collector
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for six years. He is a member of various other benevolent orders. His residence is East Boston.
WOOD, HENRY, son of Elijah and Elizabeth Farmer Wood, was born in Concord, Middlesex county, August 17, 1825.
The common schools of his native town furnished his early mental training. This was supplemented by a course of study in the Concord Academy.
He began the manufacture of shoes in 1848, in company with his father. In 1850 he changed his business, in favor of agri- cultural pursuits, also the raising of stock, dealing in cattle, and the general business of a large stock farm owned by him in West Bedford, where he still resides, a farmer.
Mr. Wood was married in Concord, No- vember 25, 1848, to Lydia Augusta, daugh- ter of Howard and Lydia Hadley Willis. Of this union were two children : Lizzie F. and Charles H. Wood.
Mr. Wood has been called to serve his town in nearly every office, and also rep- resented the 18th district in the House of Representatives in 1885. He was enroll-
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ing officer during the civil war. He was a director in the Middlesex Central Rail- road Corporation, president of the free public library of Bedford, and has been a trustee from the date of its incorporation. He has held the office of trustee of the Middlesex Agricultural Society for twenty- five years.
WOOD, NATHAN MONTGOMERY, son of Colonel Haile and Mary Howard Wood, was born in Swansea, Bristol county, Janu- ary 16, 1825. He is a descendant of Wil- liam Wood, who came from England, and after spending some time in the new colo- nies, returned to England, and in 1634 published in London the famous work en- titled "New England's Prospect. "
His education was obtained at the com- mon schools of his native town. His father was a farmer and miller, and he was brought up to the same business, and with the ex- ception of about one year passed in Maine, has always resided at the homestead in Swansea, which has been in the family for so many generations.
On November 7, 1848, he married Abby M., daughter of Elisha and Mary (Mason) Kingsley, of Swansea. She is descended on the maternal side from Samson Mason, who was an Englishman and an officer in the army of Oliver Cromwell until the lat- ter was made lord protector of England. Ile has had five children : Nathan Howard (who died in infancy), Abby Isabel, Mary R. P., Angeline H., and Eloise K. Wood.
Mr. Wood is a Republican in politics, and has held various official positions, including nearly all the principal town offices, having held some of them for more than twenty years. He was a representative to the Legislature in 1875. He is a member of the Christian church, and is also a member of Washington Lodge No. 3, F. & A. M., and Webb Council, Warren, R. I. ; Royal Arch Chapter, Fall River, and Calvary Commandery, Knights Templar, Provi- dence, R. 1.
Mr. Wood is one of Swansea's most prom- inent and prosperous men, and aside from his farming and milling business, is largely interested in a manufacturing business in Fall River.
WOODBRIDGE, SAMUEL FRANCIS, son of Samuel and Nancy (Russell) Wood- bridge, was born in Reading, Middlesex county, August 13, 1818.
He is a lineal descendant in the eighth generation from Rev. John Woodbridge, of Wiltshire, England, who came to New England in 1634. Rev. John Woodbridge
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is the progenitor of all the American Woodbridges. His brother, Benjamin Woodbridge, a clergyman, came to New England in 1639, and entering Harvard, was the first graduate of that university, but returned to England, where he died November 1, 1684.
His education was obtained in the public schools of those days. When he was three years old his father removed to Andover. At twelve years of age he went to Med- ford, and found employment in a grain store, where he remained seven years. He then left home, and walked to " the foot of the rocks," West Cambridge, where he hired out to work in a grain and spice
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mill for one year. He then worked five years for Charles Muzzey in a wholesale and retail grocery store, after which he started in business for himself, July 1, 1842, in Medford, opening a market, and slaugh- tering his own stock.
In 1846 he sold out his retail business and confined himself to wholesale beef business in Boston. Later he went into business with Horatio Locke, adding a retail department. These relations con- tinued nine years, the business being ex- tended to trade in live cattle.
Having sold out his interest to Mr. Locke, for two years he engaged in west-
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ern live cattle trade, then bought a stall in Faneuil Hall market, and took his son into partnership. He moved to Cambridge in December, 1860. He is now selling agent for P. D. Armour & Co., of Chicago, at III Clinton Street, Boston, still retaining his retail business in Faneuil Hall market.
Mr. Woodbridge was married in West Cambridge (now Arlington), April 5, 1843, to Hannah Monroe, youngest daughter of William Locke. Of this union are three children : William Francis, Ellen Emeline, and Warren Samuel Woodbridge.
The last named was graduated from Tufts College in 1874, and from the divinity school in 1877. He was ordained the same year, and called to the First Universalist church, Orono, Me. In 1880 he was settled in charge of the Universalist church in Adams, where he remained until 1889, when he accepted a call to the First Uni- versalist church in Medford, where he is now stationed.
Mr. Woodbridge was five years select- man in West Cambridge, two years a member of the common council of Cam- bridge, and an alderman three years. He was one of the committee of three sent to Chicago with the money (eight thousand dollars) raised in Faneuil Hall market to aid the sufferers in the great fire in that city. He was one of the trustees of the Arlington Savings Bank during his resi- dence there ; was president of the Fourth National Bank, Boston, three years ; has been president of the North Avenue Sav- ings Bank, Cambridge, since its incorpora- tion in 1872, and is now one of the directors of the Faneuil Hall National Bank of Boston.
His religious connections are with the Universalist church. He was chairman of the building committee of the Third Uni- versalist church, Cambridge.
WOODBURY, CHARLES LEVI, son of Levi and Elizabeth Williams (Clapp) Woodbury, was born in Portsmouth, Rock- ingham county, N. H., May 22, 1820, the family having descended from John Woodbury, one of the early pioneers who settled on Cape Ann in 1624, whose history has been traced and written up, and privately printed by C. Levi Woodbury.
He removed with his father's family, in 1831, to the city of Washington, in which vicinity he obtained his early educational training. He was admitted to the bar in the district of Columbia ; practiced after- ward in Alabama, and then returned to Boston. His practice has been in the courts of the State, but chiefly in the cir-
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