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those who were present, heard events described very similar to those men- tioned in "Lightfoot's Confession."

Dr. Wilson married a Brattleboro lady, the daughter of Seleh Chamberlain, who secured a divorce from him on the ground of cruelty, and she is reported to have said she would not live with a robber. The last of his life was passed in seclusion with a young son, on the banks of the Connecticut River. A marble slab marks his grave in the Brattleboro Cemetery.

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Wilson, Thomas Bellerby (1 807-1 85).

He was born in Philadelphia, January 17, 1807, and educated there, afterwards settling there and acquiring a practice which became one of the most extensive in the city. In his later years he retired from the practice of medicine and devoted himself wholly to ornithology and kindred branches of natural science. He made an extensive collection of birds, including nearly every known American species, which for size and variety is said to have ranked third in the world at the time. He presented it to the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. He be- came a member of the Academy in 1832, and its president in 1863, and partici- pated actively and enthusiastically in all its affairs, contributing extensively to its Hbrary, and securing numerous gifts from others. Dr. Wilson, although a tireless student of nature and the author of several letters and monographs, left little or nothing in published form. He died in Newark, Delaware, March 15,

1865.

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Winslow, Caleb (1824-1895).

He was born in Perquimans County, North Carolina, January 24, 1824. His father was Nathan Winslow, of that county, his mother, Margaret Fitz Randolph, of Virginia, both Quakers.

When about twenty he graduated from Haverford College, Pennsylvania, and in

1849 took his M. D. from the University of Pennsylvania, settling in Hertford the same year, becoming widely known as a skillful surgeon. His work consisted largely of amputation of limbs, breast excisions, cataract operations, trephining and removal of external tumors.

In the operation of lithotomy he be- came especially ex])ert and his record of ninety-nine operations with but one death was for a long time the best in the world. A report of these cases is ])ub- lished in the "Maryland Medical Journal" for February 23, 1884 (vol. x). It is stated that he had never seen an opera- tion for stone until after he had performed many himself. He also did a trephining for epilepsy and cured the patient.

In 1866 he removed to Baltimore, Maryland, where, finding the surgical field already occupied, he developed a large general practice and died on June 13, 1895. His widow and three children survived him. Two sons, John R. and Randolph, became medical men in Balti- more. H. A. R.

North Carolina Medical .Journal, Aug., 1»)2. Personal communications from R. Winslow.

Winthrop, John, Jr. (1606-1676).

This scholar, statesman and sometime doctor was born at Groton, Suffolk, England, on February 12, 1606, and prepared for college in the Free Grammar School at Bury St. Edmunds and com- pleted his education at Trinity College, Dublin. Subsequently he studied law and was admitted as a Imrrister of the Inner Temple, but a thirst for travel and adventure sent him seaward as secre- tary to Capt. Best of the ship of war. Repulse in the fleet under the Duke of Buckingham. After the failure of the expedition of this fleet to relieve the French Protestants of La Rochelle, Winthrop sjjent the next fourteen or fifteen months in European travel, visiting, during that time, Italy, especi- ally Padua and Venice, Constantinojile and Holland. He followed his father to this country in 1631 and shortly there-