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twenty-five cents a day and board, but after
a short time he hired out to Philip Nichols, in
Dartmouth, for his clothes and board, and
there remained fourteen months. He received
but small wages until he was seventeen years
old, when he went to sea. as had his brothers.
On Nov. 27, 1843, he shipped on board the
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Miss Winslow is a warm advocate of woman
sufErage, and in defense of her principles has
gone regularly to the polls to register her vote
for the school committee. Since she lierself
has usually been the unopposed candidate her
vote has been cast for herself. At the election
in 1909 her name appeared on the Citizens'
ticket, and no other, due to the fact that she
was absent from home and could not accept
the nominations tendered by the other parties.
However, she ran far ahead of any single candidate
on any ticket, receiving 1,133 votes in
Ward Five. As an official Miss Winslow has
been exact in the performance of her duties,
and her personal conduct has been such as to
win her the affectionate regard and esteem of
the whole people. It has been determined that
a new school shall be known as the "Betsey
Baldwin Winslow school."
Miss Winslow has found time for active interest
in many good works. She is a member
of the New Bedford City Mission, and is its
president ; and she is also president of the
New Bedford Reform and Relief Association.
She attends Unity (Trinitarian) Church. A
woman of charming personality, cultured and
refined, winsome in her femininity, yet with a
strength of character and a fine mentality that
enable her to cope with the busy world with
clear brain and steady hand— she is an ideally
womanly woman, public position having but
deepened and strengthened those qualities of
heart and mind that work for the good of mankind.
HUDSON WINSLOW, to whom has been
granted a long life of more than fourscore
years, and whose activities covered that period
of New Bedford's history when the whaling
industry reached its zenith, is now living retired
at New Bedford. He was born in the
town of Dartmouth Jan. 3, 1826, son of Hudson
and Phebe (Baker) Winslow.
Mr. Winslow was but seven months old when
his father was lost at sea. He attended the
district school for only a short time, as he was
obliged to earn his own whaling
living from a tender
age. When eleven years old he began to do
farm labor for Jason Phillips, receiving twelve
cents and board per day. The next year he
worked for Edward Wilson of Fall River for
vessel "Benjamin Tucker," owned by
Charles R. Tucker, and commanded by Capt.
John R. Sands. They sailed from the Commercial
wharf of New Bedford, and were gone
for thirty-five months, cruising in the North
Pacific ocean. He shipped a second time in
that vessel and with the same commander,
going as boat steerer on a thirty-three months'
voyage to the South Pacific ocean, off New Zealand.
He next shipped as third mate on the
"Fabius," owned by Charles R. Tucker and
commanded by Peleg S. Wing, spending
thirty months in the South Pacific. He became
first mate on the same vessel the next
voyage, under Capt. John S. Smith, of Vineyard
Haven, and this voyage lasted thirty-two
montlis. On April 14, 1854, he became master
of the "Janus," owned .by T. & A. R. Nye &
Co., of New Bedford. He sailed to the Pacific
ocean and Sea of Okliotsk, and was gone for
three and a half years, returning with a cargo
valued at $100,000. He next sailed the "Jenette,"
owned by Isaac B. Richmond & Co., of
New Bedford, and was gone forty months in
the Pacific. His next whaling voyage was on
the bark "Isabella," owned by Thomas
Knowles & Co., and this time he went to the
Arctic ocean and Behring straits, where he
was overtaken by the Rebel ship "Shenandoah,"
off St. Lawrence, his ship taken and
plundered and finally burned. The captain
and crew were put on board the "General
Pike," put under bonds, together with 251
other sailors belonging to different boats captured,
and taken to San Francisco, where they
were released. When Captain Winslow reached
home he determined to give up the whaling
business, and went to his wife's home in Freetown,
where he settled down to farming. In a
short time he moved to North Dartmouth,
where he bought the Abel Snell farm of seventy
acres, at Faunce's Corners. Here he made
many improvements, and devoted himself to
general farming until the spring of 1910, when
he disposed of tbe farm and moved to New
Bedford, where he is now living retired.
Captain Winslow is still active and keenly
interested in the life that goes on around him.
In politics he is a stanch Republican, was a
member of the town committee of Dartmouth,
and also served as assessor and member of the
school committee of Freetown. He is a member
of Star in the East Lodge, A. F. & A. M.,
of New Bedford ; Adoniram Chapter, R. A.
M. ; of the Council; and of Sutton Commandery,
K. T., being one of its two living charter
members. He takes a deep interest in church
work, belonging to the Christian Church at