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CHARLES WINSLOW, son of the Rev. Miron Winslow, D.D., LL.D., a missionary of
the American Board, and his wife, Annie Spiers, an English lady, was born in Madras, India,
June 5, 1839. His mother died in 1843, and not long after Charles Winslow, with his brother
Miron, was sent to England to be educated, and the brothers were placed in charge of Rev.
Mr. Byers, an Episcopal minister, at Lamprey, near Pembroke, Wales. In 1848 they took
passage to this country under the care of the Rev. and Mrs. Poor, returning missionaries.
Not long after their arrival in New York the brothers were sent to the Rev. Mr. Hemenway's
boarding school at Suffield, Connecticut. In 1856 they entered Phillips Academy, Andover,
Massachusetts, and there completed their preparation for college, and in 1859 entered the
Freshman class at Yale College. At the close of the first term the brothers removed to
Williams and joined our Class at the beginning of the second term of Freshman year, in
January, 1860. Charles remained with us through the college course, receiving an
appointment of an oration on the Commencement program, while Miron went into the army
in 1861, and never returned to complete his collegiate course. Charles Winslow was a
member of the 'Technian Literary Society and one of its vice-presidents during Senior year,
and of the Mills Society. Soon after graduation he entered the Episcopal theological
seminary that had just been established at West Philadelphia, but soon realizing that he was
not suited for the ministry, he commenced the study of medicine in the University of
Pennsylvania. In the summer of 1864 he spent three months as a nurse in the service of the
sanitary commission, and was in the neighborhood of the battlefields of the Army of the
Potomac, from the Wilderness to Petersburg, in attendance upon the wounded. Upon his
return to Philadelphia he resumed his medical studies. In 1865 he was appointed medical
cadet in Fort Schuyler Hospital, New York Harbor, and in July passed the examination
before the regular army medical board in New York, and was appointed by President
Johnson, August 18, 1865, assistant surgeon, and was assigned to the Sixty-second Regiment
Colored Infantry, being ordered to Texas, where his regiment was then stationed. On duty
at Fort McIntosh, Laredo, Texas, until March, 1866, and afterwards at Jefferson Barracks,
St. Louis, Missouri, when he resigned, returned to Philadelphia, and was graduated July 3,
1866, receiving his degree of M.D. from the university in which he had commenced his
medical studies three years before. After a short traveling tour and a few weeks of medical
practice in Philadelphia, in September, 1866, in company with Dr. H. M. Stille, Winslow
returned to Laredo, Texas, and there forming a partnership with Dr. Stille, they began the
practice of medicine. In January, 1867, Dr. Winslow removed to the city of Guerrero,
Mexico, about seventy-five miles below Laredo, on the Rio Grande River, and there
continued his medical practice during the remainder of his life. In connection with his
medical practice he managed a drug store, and held various offices under the United States.
For two years he was commercial agent, and for several years vice-consul, of the United
States. He died at Guerrero, September 30, 1888.
In June, 1867, Winslow married Ynes Trevano, daughter of Don Domingo Trevano
and his wife, Donna Bernada Gonzales, of Guerrero. They had three children: Anna
Spiers, born September 10, 1868; a graduate of the Academy of the Ursuline Convent,
Laredo, Texas. Maria, born October 28, 1870; died in infancy. Charles Miron, born August
29, 1871.
Source:
Class of Sixty-Three Williams College Fortieth Year Report, by
the Class Historian, Thomas Todd Printer, Boston, 1903
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