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672 WINONA WINSLOW other cattle, 3,287 sheep, and 6,278 swine ; 3 manufactories of agricultural implements, 6 of bricks, 13 of carriages and wagons, 2 of iron castings, 1 of lightning rods, 6 of sash, doors, and blinds, 13 flour mills, 4 breweries, 4 planing mills, 5 saw mills, and 2 railroad repair shops. I..A, a city and the county seat of Wi- nona co., Minnesota, the third city in size in the state, on the W. bank of the Mississippi river, 96 m. S. E. of St. Paul ; pop. in 1855, 813; in 1860,2,464; in 1870, 7,192 ; in 1875, 10,737. It is on a level prairie, surrounded by lofty bluffs, and has wide streets. The business portion is compactly built of brick and stone. The Winona and St. Peter, the St. Paul and Chicago, the Chicago and Northwestern, and the Green Bay and Minnesota railroads meet here. It is one of the most important lumber distributing points on the upper Mississippi, the sales in 1875 amounting to about $1,400,000. As a grain-shipping point it ranks among the first in the northwest, the shipments of wheat First State Normal School. having increased from 1,203,161 bushels in 1862 to 3,159,71(5 in 1870, and to 5,890,645 in 1875. The manufactories include three large saw mills, five sash and door factories, six flouring mills, two fonnderies, several factories of agricultural implements, six of carriages, one of blank books, one of confectionery and vine- gar, one of crackers, four of barrels, and a tan- nery. There are four national banks and a savings institution. The assessed value of prop- erty in 1875 was $4,852,594, about 60 per cent, of the real value. The city has excellent public schools. The high school building cost $55,- 000. The first state normal school has a fine building costing $145,000. There are a daily and three weekly newspapers and 14 church- es. Winona was settled in 1851, laid out as a town in 1852, and chartered as a city in 1857. WINSLOW, Edward, governor of Plymouth colony, born at Droitwich, Worcestershire, England, Oct. 19, 1595, died at sea, May 8, 1655. He joined the church of the Rev. John Robinson at Leyden in 1617, was a passenger in the Mayflower, and in the first conference with Massasoit offered himself as a hostage, and won the attachment of the Indian chief, which he increased in 1623 by curing him of a severe illness. In 1628-'4 he made two voy- ages to Europe as agent for the colony, lie- was chosen its governor in 1633, 1636, and 1644. In 1635 he visited England again as agent for the colony, and Archbishop Laud imprisoned him for 17 weeks on the charges of teaching in the church, being a layman, and performing marriage as a magistrate. In 1649 he went to England again, and aided in forming the so- ciety for propagating the gospel in New Eng- land. In 1655 Cromwell appointed him one of three commissioners to superintend an ex- pedition against the Spaniards in the West In- dies, but he died before its completion. He was the author of several works, of which " Good Newes from New England" (London, 1624), "Hypocrisie Unmasked" (1646), and " The Glorious Progress of the Gospell among the Indians" (1649) have been republished in the collections of the Massachusetts historical society (vols. viii., 1st series, ix., 2d series, ii., 3d series, and iv., 3d series). WIKSLOW, Forbes Beaignw, an English phy- sician, born in London in August, 1810, died there, March 8, 1874. He commenced his pro- fessional studies in New York, passed the royal college of surgeons, London, in 1835, and graduated M. D. at Aberdeen. He devoted himself exclusively to the treatment of insan- ity from 1840, and opened a private asylum at Hammersmith, of which he was resident super- intendent for several years till his large con- sultation practice called him to London. In 1848 he established the "Quarterly Journal of Psychological Medicine and Mental Pathology." In 1851-'2 he was Lettsomian lecturer to the medical society of London. In 1857 he was made president of the association of the medi- cal officers of hospitals and asylums for the in- sane, and in 1859 a commissioner of lunacy. Between 1831 and 1835 he published a "Man- ual of Osteology," a " Manual of Practical Mid- wifery," and " Physics and Physicians ;" after- ward, "The Anatomy of Suicide" (1840); "Pres- ervation of Health of Body and Mind " (1842) ; " Plea of Insanity in Criminal Cases" (1843); " Act for the Cure and Treatment of Lunatics " (1845); "Lettsomian Lectures on Insanity" (1854); "Obscure Diseases of the Brain and Disorders of the Mind "(1860); and "Light: its Influence on Life and Health" (1867). WUfSLOW, Jacques Benlgne, a French anato- mist, born in Odense, Denmark, in 1669, died in Paris in 1760. He studied medicine and settled. in Paris, where he became lecturer at the jardin du roi (afterward the jardin des planfes). His name is given to the "foramen of Winslow," an opening or passage behind the right-hand edge of the gastro-splenic omentum, by which the general cavity of the peritoneum communicates with a posterior cavity included between the stomach and transverse colon.