Herbert Winslow


Herbert Winslow was a rear admiral in the United States Navy.

Biography

He was born in 1848 in Roxbury, Massachusetts to John Ancrum Winslow. He entered the United States Naval Academy in July 1865 and graduated four years later. He married Elizabeth Maynard, daughter of Lafayette Maynard, in 1876. He commanded the USS Fern at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba on July 3, 1898. His wife died in 1899. He retired on September 22, 1910 on account of his age and moved to Cherbourg, France.
He was a hereditary companion of the Massachusetts Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States by right of his father's service in the Union Navy during the American Civil War.
He died in Florence, Italy on September 25, 1914.