Winnipeg (Lake of Canada in the Province)
a lake of Canada, in the Province of Manitoba ; length, about 250 miles; breadth, from 5 to 70 miles. It receives the surplus waters of Lakes Winnipegoos and Manitoba, besides the Winnipeg river , but its chief tributaries are the Saskatchewan and Red rivers. Its surplus water is discharged by the Nelson river into Hudson Bay. The river of the same name, which flows into Lake Winnipeg, rises in the Lake of the Woods, and has a length of about 250 miles. Its navigation is interrupted by falls.
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Winnipeg River
a river that rises in Minnesota, and flows to Lake Winnipeg. Its course, though serpentine, It passes through is generally to the N. Rainy Lake and the Lake of the Woods, which are thus connected with Lake Winnipeg. Though its length is only 250 a very large basin, and miles, it drains diseharges an immense volume of water into Lake Winnipeg.
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Winona
a city and county-seat of Winona co., Minn.; on the Mississippi river, and on the Winona and Western, the Burlington Route, the Green Bay, Winona and St. Paul, the Chicago, Mil waukee and St. Paul, and the Chicago and Northwestern railroads; 104 miles S. E. of St. Paul. Here are a United States Government building, court house, State Normal School, Winona Seminary, St. Mary's Academy, commercial colleges, library, hospital, street railroad and electric light plants, waterworks, National, State, and savings banks, and several daily and weekly newspapers. A fine railroad bridge crosses the Mississippi river at this point. The city has flour mills, sawmills, foundries, gas works, carriage factories, tannery, barrel factories, and manufactories of sashes and doors, farming implements, etc. Pop. (1910) 18,583; (1920) 19,143.
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Winslow
FORBES BENIGNUS, an English alienist; born in London, of a Massachusetts family, in August, 1810; was educated in Scotland and near Manchester, and, after studying medicine at New York and the London University, passed the College of Surgeons (1835), and took his M. D. at Aberdeen. With his earliest practice he combined the duties of a "Times" reporte "Times" reporter, but having after 1830 paid special attention to the study of insanity, he opened a private asylum at Hammersmith (later another in London), and rose in time to be the supreme authority on all relating to diseases of the brain. Founder and editor of the "Quarterly Journal of Psychological Medicine and Mental Pathology" (1848) and of the "Medical Critic" (1861), vice-president of the Juridical and president of the Medical Society (1853), president of the Association of Medical Officers of Asylums (1857), and a Commissioner of Lunacy (1859), he was besides a member of numerous scientific bodies, a frequent contributor to the press, and the great "expert" in medico-legal cases. He published "The Application of Phrenology to the Elucidation and Cure of Insanity" (1831); "Anatomy of Suicide" (1840); "Plea of Insanity in Criminal Cases" (1843); "Notes on the Lunacy Act" (1845); "Softening of the Brain" (1849); "Lettsonian Lectures on Insanity" (1854); "Obscure Diseases of the Brain and Disorders of the Mind" (1860; 4th ed. 1868); "Light, Its Influence on Life and Health" (1867); etc. He died in Brighton, England, March 3, 1874.
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Winslow (EDWARD a Mayflower emigrant)
EDWARD, a Mayflower emigrant and governor of Plymouth Colony; born in Droitwich, England, Oct. 19, 1595. He was a hostage to Massasoit, his account of which was in George Morton's "Relation" (1622). He was the author of "Good Newes from New England," etc. (1624), printed in full in Young's "Chronicles of the Pilgrim Fathers" (1841); "Brief Narration: or Hypocrisie Unmasked," etc. (1646), reissued as "The Danger of Tolerating Levellers in a Civil Civil State," etc. (1649, printed in part in Young's "Chronicles"); "New England's Salamander," etc. (1647); "The Glorious Progress of the Gospel Amongst the Indians of New England" (1649); and "A Platform of Church Discipline in New England" (1653). He died at sea, between Santo Domingo and Jamaica, May 8, 1655.
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Winslow (II)
JOHN ANCRUM, JM, an American naval officer; born in Wilmington, N. C., Nov. 19, 1811; entered the navy about 1827, became a lieutenant in 1839, and commander in 1855. In 1862 he served under Captain Foote on the Mississippi river. He obtained command of the steamer "Kearsarge," of seven guns, and was ordered to the coast of Europe, to watch Confederate cruisers, in the early part of 1863. On June 19, 1864, he met the "Alabama," Captain Semmes, near Cherbourg. When the vessels were about a mile apart, the "Alabama" began to fire rapidly and wildly, but the guns of the "Kearsarge" were directed with coolness and precision. The vessels fought in circles, swinging steadily around an ever-changing center. After they had described seven circles and had diminished their distance to about a quarter of a mile, the "Alabama" began to sink, and raised a white flag. Captain Winslow lost only three killed and wounded out of 163 officers and men. He took 65 prisoners. He was promoted commodore in 1865 and rear-admiral in 1870. He died in Boston, Mass., Sept. 29, 1873.
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Winslow (III)
WILLIAM COPLEY, an American archæologist; born in Boston, 1840. He was an Episco- Mass., Jan. 13, 13, pal clergyman; assisted in founding the "University Quarterly," 1861; edited the "1862; was assistant editor "Hamilton," 186 of the New York "World" 1862-1863, and editor of the "Christian Times" 1863- 1865; vice-president, secretary, and treasurer for many years of the Egypt exploration fund for the United States; lecturer on archæological subjects and col- "Israel in tion He nishistorie Store City of Pithom" Eρv ; "he Greek City in Egypt" (1887); in Boston (1890); The Pilgrim Fathers "The Egyptian Collection in Holland" (1891); "Governor Edward Winslow"; "The Winslow Memorial"; and others.
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Winsor
JUSTIN, an American historian; born in Boston, Mass., Jan. 2, 1831. He was superintendent of the Boston Public Library in 1868-1877, and librarian of Harvard University in 1877-1897. He published: "Bibliography of Original Quartos and Folios of Shakespeare" (1875); "Reader's Handbook of the American Revolution" ory of Boston" (188 (edited, 1880-1882); "Narrative and Crit- "Memorial ical History of America" (edited: 8 vols. 1884-1889); "Christopher Columbus" Cartier to Frontenac" (1891); "From Ca "; and (1894); "The Mississippi Basin"; "The Struggle in America Between England and France" (1895). He was the highest authority on the early history of North America. He died in Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 22, 1897.
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