Charles Frederick Winslow (1811–1877) was a physician, diplomat, and world traveler. He received his medical degree from Harvard in 1834. He is the author of "Force and Nature", an early work on atomic theory

Atomic theory

In chemistry and physics, atomic theory is a theory of the nature of matter, which states that matter is composed of discrete units called atoms, as opposed to the obsolete notion that matter could be divided into any arbitrarily small quantity...

. He served as a physician in Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii from 1844 to 1847, and also in Nantucket, Massachusetts. He was appointed U.S. Consul at Payta, Peru, a noted whaling port, in 1862. He died July 7, 1877. After his death, he was cremated in Salt Lake City, Utah

Utah

Utah is a state in the Western United States. It was the 45th state to join the Union, on January 4, 1896. Approximately 80% of Utah's 2,763,885 people live along the Wasatch Front, centering on Salt Lake City. This leaves vast expanses of the state nearly uninhabited, making the population the...

, on July 31, 1877. This was the second recorded cremation

Cremation

Cremation is the process of reducing bodies to basic chemical compounds such as gasses and bone fragments. This is accomplished through high-temperature burning, vaporization and oxidation....

in U.S.history. His heart is buried in Nantucket, in the Newtown Burial Ground. His ashes are buried with his wife's remains in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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• http://12.46.127.86/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll?AC=GET_RECORD&XC=/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll&BU=http%3A%2F%2F12.46.127.86%2Fdbtw-wpd%2FCemeteriesQuery.htm&TN=CEMETE~1&SN=AUTO10783&SE=119&RN=15&MR=20&TR=0&TX=1000&ES=0&CS=1&XP=&RF=WebDisplayBrief&EF=Data+input&DF=WebDisplayExp&RL=0&EL=1&DL=0&NP=2&ID=&MF=&MQ=&TI=0&DT=&ST=0&IR=2186&NR=0&NB=0&SV=0&SS=0&BG=&FG=800000&QS=CemeteryQuery&OEX=ISO-8859-1&OEH=ISO-8859-1Charles F. Winslow's grave marker, Newtown Cemetery, Nantucket] from the Nantucket Historical Association Cemetery Inscription Database