Introduction
Born: January 18, 1847, Montville, Connecticut.
Died: March 24, 1920.
Buried: Indian Hill Cemetery, Middletown, Connecticut.
Born: January 18, 1847, Montville, Connecticut.
Died: March 24, 1920.
Buried: Indian Hill Cemetery, Middletown, Connecticut.
Caleb was the son of Rev. George Hubbard Winchester. He married twice, to Julia S. Smith and Alice G. Smith.
A member of the Methodist Episcopal denomination, he graduated from Wesleyan University (AD 1869, MA 1872).
He became Professor of English Literature there in 1873, and lectured at Amherst, Princeton, Johns Hopkins, and other universities. He received an honorary Doctor of Literature degree from Dickinson College in 1892.
He edited the Wesleyan Alumni Record, Addison’s Roger de Coverley Papers, and The Athenaeum Press Series.
He was living in Middletown, Connecticut, in 1915.
If you know Winchester’s place of death,