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Robert Watson Winston (1860–1944), a lawyer and judge born in Windsor, graduated from UNC in 1879. At sixty-three he reentered the university as a freshman and spent the rest of his life studying and writing, living mostly at the Carolina Inn on the campus. His books from those years include biographies of Andrew Johnson, Robert E. Lee and Horace Williams.
Source: NCpedia: Winston, Robert Watson (William S. Powell, Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, 1996)
Also found in catalogs as Robert W. (Robert Watson) Winston.
1860–1944 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗
2 works about Robert W. Winston are indexed here, as are 2 works by Winston.
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Robert W. Winston's 1939 address on Memorial Hall at the University of North Carolina and the memorial tablets set in its walls, given when tablets honoring Colonel Robert Bingham, Ambassador Robert Worth Bingham and Senator Matt W. Ransom were accepted. Printed at Chapel Hill, it records how those tablets came to be placed in the hall.
Robert W. Winston, born in 1860, wrote this account of going back to student life at the University of North Carolina in his sixties. It appeared in the Christmas 1924 number of Scribner's Magazine, pages 608 to 614. Chapel Hill and the university of that era are its setting.
Undated portrait of Robert Winston, a single print among the portraits of Chapel Hill figures in the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Prints and Photographs Collection.
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