An Illustrated History of the State of Washington, by Rev. H.K. Hines, D.D., The
Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago, IL., 1893

FRANK H. WINSLOW, a resident of Seattle, was born in Caledonia county, Vermont,
April 20, 1834. His parents, Josiah H. and Fanny (Knight) Winslow, were natives
of Massachusetts and New Hampshire, respectively, descended from Puritan stock.
Josiah H. removed to Vermont in boyhood and passed his life in agricultural
pursuits. Frank H. attended the schools of his native county until his
seventeenth year, then struck out in life for self-support, and going to Boston
secured a clerkship and followed mercantile pursuits up to February, 1860, when
he started for the Pacific coast, sailing from New York by steamer via the
Isthmus of Panama. Duly arriving in San Francisco he passed the summer and fall
in and about the city, and in January, 1861, embarked on a sailing vessel bound
for Puget Sound. He was then employed by the Port Discovery Mill Company up to
June, 1870, when he entered the customs service as United States Inspector with
headquarters at Port Townsend. Continuing in that capacity until 1883, he was
then transferred to Seattle in the performance of like duties. In 1887 he was
appointed Deputy United States Collector of Customs of the port of Seattle and
so continued up to October, 1889, when his resignation was tendered and
accepted. His period of service covered nearly twenty years, and the duties of
his office were discharged with the utmost regularity and to the entire
satisfaction of his superior officers. He was among the few Republicans who
continued to hold office through the Cleveland administration. In October, 1889,
he began dealing in real estate and platted ten acres on the Green Lake car line
known as motor No. 3 addition. In November, 1891, he became agent for Mrs. Eliza
J. Starr, and when the Starr estate was taken from probate, in January, 1893,
Mr. Winslow was appointed agent of the entire estate, as represented in the
State of Washington. Mr. Winslow was married in Seattle, in July, 1885, to Dr.
Mary Q.E. Brown, a native of Iowa, and a graduate of the medical department of
the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. They have three children: Frank E.,
Harvey C. and Ella P. Socially Mr. Winslow affiliates with the Lodge of
Perfection, ó Scottish Rite, ó F. & A. M. He is also identified with the Pioneer
society of Washington.

Submitted to the WA. Bios Project in January 2004 by Jeffrey L. Elmer

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