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Excerpt from Some Account of the Early Generations of the Winthrop Family in Ireland Any of the genealogical notices of the Winthrops, which from time to time have found their way into print, contain errors and discrepancies and the same may be said of much of the genealogical material in possession of different branches of the family. In 1874 the undersigned privately printed a few copies of an unfinished Winthrop pedigree, in order to facilitate cer tain enquiries then about to be made in England. At that time comparatively little was known about the three Win throps who settled in Ireland early in the reign of James I and as a number of facts have since been ascertained con cerning them, this little account has now been prepared for the convenience of those interested in the subject, and with a View to further researches. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Robert Charles Winthrop, Sr. was born on May 12, 1809, in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Lieut. - Gov. Thomas Lindall Winthrop and Elizabeth B. Temple, and the descendant of John Winthrop.
After an active three years at Harvard College he was graduated in 1828 and studied law in Daniel Webster's office.
He was admitted to the bar in 1831. Somewhat of a dandy, he led subscription balls and used unspent energy in the state militia. Elected to the General Court in 1834, he served as speaker for three out of his six years there. He was handsome and eloquent, with the prestige of a famous family to aid him. Elected to Congress, he served from November 9, 1840, to May 25, 1842, when he resigned to be with his wife until she died on June 14. Reelected he served from November 29, 1842, to July 30, 1850, as speaker in the Thirtieth Congress, 1847- 1849. As speaker he antagonized the more ardent anti-slavery men and in 1849 was defeated for a second term by Free-Soilers. In the Senate, to which he was appointed on the resignation of Webster in 1850, he faced immediately the Fugitive Slave Bill, which was passed over his rather reluctant opposition. He had promised to vote for "a just, practicable and constitutional mode of diminishing or mitigating so great an evil as slavery. " At home he was defeated in 1851 for the Senate by Charles Sumner, an advocate of no quarter with the slavery interests. He held aloof from the newly formed Republican party, an outgrowth of the dying Whig party, but took a hand in the Kansas controversy in 1856, suggesting that General Scott be sent there. His plan was killed by the Democrats. In the Frémont-Buchanan-Fillmore fight for the presidency he opposed Frémont and agreed with Fillmore that the candidate would be elected by the "suffrages of one part of the Union only to rule over the whole United States". In the McClellan-Lincoln campaign of 1864 he opposed Lincoln's reelection, contending that McClellan had made his own platform and did not stand on the declaration that the war was a failure. He devoted fully half of his long life to the activities of a scholarly gentleman of leisure. His addresses on great occasions - especially the Oration on the Hundredth Anniversary of the Surrender of Lord Cornwallis (1881), by invitation of both houses of Congress - continue to be important in the history of American oratory. He served on the vestry of Trinity Church in Boston for sixty years. In old age, wearing a broadcloth overcoat with velvet collar and a cape, he went regularly to St. Paul's in Brookline. The Peabody Education Fund gave him, as chairman of the board, an opportunity to improve education in the South. He also wrote incessantly for its publications and lent hospitality to its many gatherings.
Robert Charles Winthrop, Sr. died on November 16, 1894, in Boston and was interred in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Quotations:
"Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education. "
"There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism. "
"Our country - whether bounded by the St. John's and the Sabine, or however otherwise bounded or described, and be the measurements more or less; - still our country, to be cherished in all our hearts, and to be defended by all our hands. "
Robert C. Winthrop, Sr. was a member of the U. S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts's 1st district and of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. In addition, he was a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society from 1839 to 1894.
On March 12, 1832, Robert Charles Winthrop, Sr. married Eliza Cabot Blanchard, the daughter of Francis Blanchard of Boston. They had three sons and a daughter.
On October 15, 1859, Winthrop, Sr. married Laura Welles, who died on April 26, 1861.
On November 15, 1865, he married for the third and final time, to Adele Granger.