Winslow
Winslow names 4 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Winslow FORBES BENIGNUS, an English alienist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
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.
Winslow JOHN ANCRUM, JM, an American naval officer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
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.
Winslow EDWARD, a Mayflower emigrant and governor of Plymouth Colony
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
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.
Winslow WILLIAM COPLEY, an American archæologist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
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.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
These four biographies still stand as written, but the language and the evidence around them have moved. Collier's calls Forbes Benignus Winslow an "alienist" — a word for a specialist in mental illness that has been wholly displaced by "psychiatrist", and his first book, on the application of phrenology to insanity, belongs to a system of skull-reading that medicine abandoned entirely. The sea fight Collier's describes in detail acquired physical evidence in 1984, when the wreck of the Alabama was located in French waters off Cherbourg, and objects raised from it — including a gun and parts of the ship — have since been conserved and displayed. Of Edward Winslow, the one Pilgrim among the four, more survives than of any of his shipmates: his 1651 portrait is the only known contemporary likeness of a Mayflower passenger, and the ship's 400th anniversary was marked on both sides of the Atlantic in 2020.
Written for this edition, 2026.