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664 WIN SLOW. WINSLOW. president, which office he still holds. He is also a trustee of the Peoples Savings Bank. Mr. Winslow was married in Newton, November i, 184s, to Mary, daughter of David and I.vdia Robbins. His family consists of two children : Frank Ellery and Samuel Ellsworth Winslow. WINSLOW, William Copley, son of Rev. Hubbard Winslow, I). I)., and Susan Ward (Cutler) Winslow, was horn in I'.os- ton, January i t ;, 1.S40. 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 lion. Pliny Cutler and Phoebe Ward, daughter of Rev. Ephraim Ward. Mr. Winslow prepared for college in the Latin si hool, and as liis father removed to Geneva, N. Y., he entered Hamilton Col- lege, Clinton, V , where he was gradu- ated in [862, at the semi-centenary of that institution. While in college, he was in- strumental, with Joseph Took and W. G. Sumner of Yale, in founding the " Univer- sity Quarterly Review;" lie was also asso date 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 rheological Seminary, New York. He then spent lour months of study in Italy, particularly on Roman archaeology 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 oi the school hoard ; 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 Ad Hum lacks, making maps of some then unknown waters. ( )f these he has contributed sketches to the press, and has frequently lectured on the " Adirondacks " before lyceum courses.

1S70 Dr. Winslow removed to Boston. 

For four years he ministered at St. Luke's Home for Convalescents, as its chaplain; he lias 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 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 turn al, liostonian, 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. WILLIAM C WINSLOW. But it is in archaeological research and in Oriental exploration thai Dr. Winslow has won Ins 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 I lilted 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 11.. D., and Columbia College, at its centenary in 1887, conferred the de- gree of L. H. D. In 18S9 St. John's Col- lege, Annapolis, at its centenary, conferred Sc. D. "in recognition of the learning and