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Windsor Brathwaite was born in Barba-
does, and was educated in the West In-
dies. As a young man, he came to
Connecticut and attended the Berkley
Divinity School, where he was ordained
to the ministry. Subsequently he was
assigned to St. Andrew's Episcopal
Church, of Stamford, being the first rec-
tor of the church, and he continued his
labors there throughout his lifetime. During
his rectorship the present church and
rectory were erected and they are among
the most beautiful edifices in the State.
Rev. Mr. Brathwaite represented a type
of churchmanship which is peculiar to
Connecticut ; he was a very high churchman
and exalted the authority and
jurisdiction of his church. To all his
ecclesiastical dignities and ceremonies he
attached great importance, and was be-
loved by his congregation. A great stu-
dent of literature and the arts, Rev.
Brathwaite collected a very fine library.
Rev. Mr. Brathwaite married, in 1865,
Mary Elizabeth Woolsey, daughter of
Commodore Melancthon Lloyd Woolsey.
The latter was born June 5, 1780, and died
in Utica, New York, May 19, 1838. At
the age of twenty years he entered the
United States navy and fought under
Commodore Decatur in the Tripolitan
War. In the War of 1812 he was an active
officer under command of Commodore
Chauncey. Commodore Woolsey
was in command in Oswego when the
British were repulsed there. Subsequently
he was transferred to the ocean
service and was successively in command
of the West Indies Station, Pensacola,
Florida, and the Brazilian Squadron.
Commodore Woolsey was a descendant of
Rev. Benjamin Woolsey, born November
19, 1687, in Jamaica, Long Island. Commodore
Woolsey married, November 3,
1817, Susan C. Treadwell, born December
8, 1796, died March 13, 1863, daughter of
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James Treadwell, of New York. Their
daughter, Mary Elizabeth, born April 16,
1831, married, in 1865, Rev. F. Windsor
Brathwaite, as above mentioned.
Frederick G. Brathwaite, son of Rev. F.
Windsor and Mary Elizabeth (Woolsey)
Brathwaite, was born March 9, 1868, in
Stamford, Connecticut. He was educated
in St. Paul's School, Concord, New
Hampshire, and in 1890 was graduated
from the College of Physicians and Sur-
geons, of New York. Thence Dr. Brath-
waite went into the United States navy as
assistant surgeon. He remained there
for nine years, and then became medical
officer for the New York Life Insurance
Company. Subsequently he was appointed
general manager in the department
of Australia with headquarters in
Sidney, New South Wales. Later, Dr.
Brathwaite became assistant medical di-
rector for Europe, with headquarters in
Paris. His next ofifice was as medical
director for Europe for the Equitable
Life Assurance Society, with headquar-
ters in Paris.
Dr. Brathwaite was occupied with these
duties at the time of the World War, and
was then transferred to the United States
as associate medical director for this
country. When the United States entered
the conflict. Dr. Brathwaite gave valuable
service as an ambulance surgeon in the
American Hospital in Paris and served
in that capacity during the first battle of
the Marne. Thence Dr. Brathwaite was
sent to Russia, where he spent the winter
of 1914-15, and in the spring of the latter
year returned to France. He was all over
Germany and was arrested at Sasnitz.
Since the close of the war. Dr. Brathwaite
has been located in New York City, as
associate medical director of the Equitable
Life Assurance Sociecy. He has made
some remarkable and unique as well as
valuable studies along the line of selec-