Note 230 — Chapter XXII · THE “NEW GYMNASTICS” OF DIO LEWIS.

George Barker Winship, born at Roxbury, Mass., January 3, 1834, and died at the same place (of heart disease) September 12, 1876. He was educated at Harvard University (A.B. 1854, M.D. 1857), and in June of 1859 gave his first lecture on physical training, with an exhibition of heavy lifting, in Music Hall, Boston, repeating these afterwards in many places throughout the northern states and Canada. In the sixties and early seventies he conducted a private gymnasium on Washington Street, Boston, next door to the Boston Theater. See his “Autobiographical Sketches of a Strength-Seeker,” in the Atlantic Monthly for January, 1862 (9, 102-115), an article on “Physical Culture” in the Massachusetts Teacher for April, 1860 (13, 126-132), and an item in the latter magazine for April, 1861 (14, 159). Among the literary announcements of Ticknor & Fields in the Atlantic Monthly for August, 1862, a book on “Health and Strength” by Dr. Winship is mentioned as “in press,” but it seems never to have been published.