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570 and in the latter year became agent of the New Jersey iron company. In 1833 he engaged in the production of pig-iron in Bergen and Sussex counties, N. J., and in 1837 he formed a connec- tion with Erastus Corning, of Albany, which lasted under various firm-names for thirty years. The firm, controlling the Albany and Rensselaer iron- works, was one of the largest producers of railroad and other iron in the United States. During his visits to Europe, Mr. Winslow purchased the right to manufacture and sell Bessemer steel in this coun- try. The TJ. S. government contracted with his firm for the construction of the " Monitor," which was begun in October, 1861, at Greenpoint, Long Island, was launched, 30 Jan., 1862, and delivered to the government, 5 March, 1862. In 1867 Mr. Winslow retired from active business. In 1863-'7 he was president of Rensselaer polytechnic institute. He has been president of the Poughkeepsie and Eastern railway, and of the company for construct- ing the Poughkeepsie bridge over Hudson river.

WINSLOW, Joshua, British soldier, b. in Bos- ton, Mass., 23 Jan., 1727; d. in Quebec in 1801. He served with distinction in the capture of Louis- burg in 1745, and was commissary-general in the expedition to Acadia in 1755. His diary of the expedition to Nova Scotia in 1750 is to appear in Holton's " Genealogy of John Winslow's Descend- ants." At the beginning of the Revolution he re- moved to Halifax, became paymaster-general of the British forces in North America, and subsequently resided in Quebec. His widow returned to the United States, and died at Medford, Mass., 16 April, 1816. Two portraits, by John S. Copley, of Gen. Winslow (one taken in 1755, in the undress uni- form of a British officer) are now in the possession of J. F. Trott, Esq., of Niagara Falls. The journal of his daughter, Anna Green, b. 29 Nov., 1759; d. in 1779, during 1771-'3, in Boston, is a curiosity in its description of the customs and doings of that day. Most of it appeared in the " Bulletin of Pil- grim Record," Nos. 3, 4, and 5 (1877).

WINSLOW, Miron, missionary, b. in Willis- ton, Vt., 11 Dec, 1789; d. at Cape of Good Hope, 22 Oct., 1864. He was descended from a brother of Gov. Edward Winslow. After graduation at Mid- dlebury in 1815, and at Andover theological semi- nary in 1818, he sailed in 1819 for Ceylon, where he established a mis- sion and afterward a seminary at Oo- dooville. In 1836 he founded the mission at Madras, where he spent the remainderof his life establishing seven vernacular schools and a native col- lege. Harvard con- . His chief books are " Sketch of the Missions " (Andover, 1819) ; " Memoir of Harriet Lathrop Winslow," his wife (New York, 1835; republished in London, France, and Turkey); "Hints on Missions to In- dia" (New York, 1856); a translation of the Bible into Tamil ; and a " Comprehensive Tamil and English Dictionary," in part from manuscript materials of the late Rev. Joseph Knight (Madras, ). This great work, costing $20,000 and more than twenty years of toil, averaging three hours a day, contains 68,000 words and definitions, of which about half owe their lexicographic birth and position to the author. — His first wife, Harriet Lathrop, b. in Norwich, Conn., 9 April, 1796; d. in Oodooville, Ceylon, 14 Jan., 1833, married, 11 Jan., 1819, and sailed for Ceylon, 8 June, 1819, where she was distinguished for her educational labors in connection with her husband's work. — Their son, Charles Lathrop, b. in Oodooville, Ceylon, 12 Jan., 1821 ; d. in New York, 24 May, 1832. His memoir, first published by the Ameri- can tract society (1834), was republished in Eu- rope. It contains the well-known lines of Mrs. Sigourney on his death. — Catherine Waterbury Carman, Miron's second wife, b. in 1799; d. near Madras, 23 Sept., 1837, married Mr. Winslow, 23 April, 1835. She was one of the most accomplished women and extensive travellers in Europe in her day. The "Remains of Mrs. Winslow," edited by Rev. Jared B. Waterbury, were published (Boston, 1851). — His brother, Hubbard, author, b. in Williston, Vt., 30 Oct., 1799; d. there, 13 Aug., 1864, was graduated at Yale in 1825, studied two years at Andover, and completed his theological course at Yale. He was settled over churches at Dover, N. H., Boston, Mass., and Geneva, N. Y. At Boston he was Lyman Beecher's successor in the Bowdoin street church. From 1844 till 1853 he conducted the Mount Vernon institute in Boston, devoting himself during this period and for much of his life to the advancement of higher education in Boston and among the colleges. His published volumes are " History of the First Church, Dover, N. H." (Dover, 1831) ; " Doctrine of the Trinity " (1831) ; " Controversial Theology " (Boston, 1832) : "Philosophical Papers " (1833) ; "Christianity applied to our Civil and Social Relations " (1835) ; " Young Man's Aid to Knowledge " (1836) ; " Aids to Self-Examination" (1837); "Mental Cultivation " (1839) ; " Lectures to Sunday-School Teachers " (1839) ; " The Appropriate Sphere of Woman " (1840); " Natural Science and Revelation " (1841) ; " Design and Mode of Baptism " (1842) ; " Christian Doctrines " (1844) ; " Intellectual Philosophy " (1852); "Moral Philosophy" (New York, 1856); and "Hidden Life" (1863). The "Young Man's Aid,"- published in England also, had a sale of 100,000 copies, and more than 250,000 copies of his tract, " Are You a Christian ? " were issued. Among Dr. Winslow's minor publications are his eulogy on Daniel Webster (1853) and " History of the Presbyterian Church, Geneva, N. Y." (1858). With Jacob Abbott and Ethan A. Andrews he edit- ed the " Religious Magazine " (Boston, 1837-'8). — Another brother, Gordon, clergyman, b. in Williston, Vt., 12 Sept., 1803; d. in "Potomac river, 7 June. 1864, entered the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal church, and was settled successively at Troy and Elmira, N. Y., Annapolis, Md., and Staten island. He enlisted as chaplain of the 5th New York regiment, of which his son Cleveland afterward became colonel, and was instrumental with Dr. Henry W. Bellows and others in establishing the sanitary commission, holding the post of its inspector for the Armv of the Potomac. He was a member of scientific bodies and contributor to their published proceedings, and active in philanthropic work. New York university gave him in 1863 the - honorary degree of M. I)., both because of his distinguished service in the sanitary commission and his capabilities in caring for the sick and wounded. — His son, Cleveland, soldier, b. in Medford, Mass., in 1836 ; d. in Alexandria, Va., 7