WINTHROP, ROBERT CHARLES

(1809-1894), American political leader. Born in Boston, May 12, 1809; died there November 16, 1894. He graduated at Harvard in 1828, studied law with Daniel Webster and joined the bar 1831. Whig member Ma achusetts 1850; speaker 1847-1849; U.S. senate 1850, to fill unexpired term of Daniel Webster, resigned The unsucces.ful Whig candidate for governor in 1851. Author: Life and Letters of John Winand Franklin, 1876; Memoirs of Henry Clay, 1880. 1861), soldier and author; born in New Haven, Connecticut, September _ 28, 1828; died at Big Bethel, Virginia, June 10, 1861. He graduated at Yale in 1848, studied law, and was admitted to the New York bar in 1855. At the outbreak of the Civil War he joined the Seventh New York regiment, and was killed during an attack made by the Union troops at Big Bethel, Virginia. Author Cecil Dreeme, 1861; John Brent, 1862; Edwin Brother waite, 1862; The Canoe and Saddle, 1862; Life in the Open Air, 1863; Life and Poems, by this sister Laura Winthrop Johnson 1884.