“The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin”, published: Chicago:  
Western Historical Company.   1879.


DR. JOSEPH WINSLOW,  Fort Atkinson; born in Windsor, Windsor 
Co., Vt., Feb. 23, 1810; son of Joseph and Rebecca (Fish) Winslow; was 
educated at Windsor Academy; about 1829 he commenced to study 
medicine with his cousin, John Winslow, at Berlin, Vt.; attended 
Woodstock Medical College two terms; in 1832, he entered Berkshire 
Medical College, at Pittsfield, Mass., and graduated in 1833.  Moved to 
Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and remained one year, teaching school and 
practicing.  In the fall of 1835, he came to Michigan, making a short visit 
there, and came to Racine, where he remained one year; thence to 
Milwaukee, remaining there two years; in 1837, he located in Fort 
Atkinson and made a claim of Sec. 25, entire section, and a half-section 
besides, and commenced farming; broke the first ground in the summer 
of 1838; continued farming for ten years, when, finding a great demand 
for his medical services, he opened practice once more.  Married, Aug. 
20, 1840, Miss Sarah Bingham, who died May 9, 1846.  August, 1847, 
married Eliza Traver, who died, February, 1858; went to California in 
1849, and returned in 1851; married again, Oct. 9, 1860, Miss Matilda B. 
Rice; his children are Rush, born Nov. 7, 1843; Adolphus, April 10, 
1846, died at the age of 6 months, children of first wife; children of his 
third wife - Erle, May 17, 1864; Lynn, May 18, 1866.  Dr. Winslow had 
been President of the village for several terms; member of the 
Legislature one term, 1868-69.  His family attends Universalist Church; 
he is a member of Masonic Fraternity and I.O.O.F.; a Democrat.


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