Dr. Charles Frederick Winslow (30 June 1811 – 7 July 1877) was a

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, author, and scientist born in

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. He received his medical degree from

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in 1834. He is the author of "Force and Nature", an early work on

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. He served as a physician in Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii from 1844 to 1847, and also in

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, Massachusetts. He was appointed U.S. Consul at

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, Peru, a noted whaling port, in 1862. He died July 7, 1877. After his death, he was cremated in

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, on July 31, 1877. This was the second recorded

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in U.S.history. His heart is buried in Nantucket, in the Newtown Burial Ground. His ashes are buried with his wife's remains in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Books

''Cosmography, or the Philosophical View of the Universe (1853)'' ''Preparation of the Earth for Intellectual Races (a transcription of a lecture to the California Assembly) (1854)'' ''The Cooling Globe (1865)'' ''Forces of Nature: Attraction and Repulsion (1869)''

References

Sources

* Winslow Family Papers, collection 166, Nantucket Historical Association, Research Library and Archives * Biography of Charles Frederick Winslo

* has an unsympathetic biography. *

External links

Charles F. Winslow's grave marker, Newtown Cemetery, Nantucket
from the Nantucket Historical Association Cemetery Inscription Database
The Intriguing Seamen's Hospital
p. 122–125 1811 births 1877 deaths Harvard Medical School alumni 19th-century American diplomats Physicians from Hawaii People from Nantucket, Massachusetts {{US-physician-stub