Hardly a name in profane history is more august than his. Hardly another character in the world's record has made so little of its opportunities. His discovery was a blunder; his blunder was a new world; the New World is his monument.

Boston: Ticknor & Co. Shortly before his birth his parents had recently moved to Boston from Duxbury Massachusetts where the Winsor family had been involved in shipbuilding for generations. 1860) who died in infancy and Constance (c.

His historical work had strong bibliographical and cartographical elements. Justin Winsor (January 2 1831 – October 22 1897) was a prominent United States writer librarian and historian. He was an authority on the early history of North America.