Background of Florence: Edmund Winchester, born in Boston 16 Feb 1811, d there Nov 1845. He married in Boston 12 Nov 1833 Harriet Henchman Mears, born in Boston 26 Jan 1816, died there 2 July 1868, daughter of Elijah and Catherine Marshall (Raymond) of Boston. Shortly after her husband's death she sailed for Italy with her four young daughters, and spent the greater part of the rest of her life in Florence. She married secondly, at Leghorn, Itlay, in 1847 the Chevalier Nicholas Theodore de Karajan, a gentleman whose family was originally from Athens, Greece, but had lived some years in Germany; and by this second husband she had two daughters, Florence Winchester de Karajan ... and Harriet Winchester de Karajan, now the widow of Charles Walter Swan of Boston A.B. (Harvard 1860) A.M. and M.D. (Harvard 1864). She married, thirdly, at the American Legation in Paris, France in 1858, Guiseppe Carlo Matteini of Florence and previously of Rome, where he had been a member of the Noble Guards of Pope Pius IX. Edmund Winchester was in the wholesale dry-goods business in Boston, Baltimore and New York City.
The four older daughters were:
1) Marion, born in New York City 30 July 1836, died in Boston 14 Jan 1902, m in Boston 30 Dec 1858 George Henry Kingsbury of Boston, lawyer, A.B. (Bowdoin 1845)....5 children, Florence Winchester Kingsbury, died 1876, Fanny Winchester Kingsbury, died in 1919, Edmund Winchester Kingsbury of Framingham, architect and artist, Marion Kingsbury, died in 1919 married Charles Brooks Appleton of Brookline, and Maud Lincoln Kingsbury, died in 1921
2) Fanny, born in Boston 9 Oct 1838, died at New Haven CT 24 Jan 1912, married at New Haven 9 May 1866, Justus Street Hotchkiss of New Haven, LL.B. (Yale 1893 as of 1877), born in 1831, died in 1915. Mr Hotchkiss was one of the wealthiest men in New Haven, and left, besides handsome legacies to his own and his wife's relatives and to charities, nearly a million dollars to Yale University. Mrs. Hotchkiss was an enthusiastic genealogist, spent much time working on the ancestry of her family, with all its collateral relatives. (She wrote 'Winchester Notes)
3) Susan, born in Boston 29 Jan 1840, married there 19 Oct 1865 Hon Simeon Eben Baldwin of New Haven, CT B.A. Yale (1861), M.A. Yale (1864) LL.D (Harvard 1891, Columbia 1911, Wesleyan 1912, Yale 1916)...professor of constitutional and internation law at Yale 1872-1919...Governor of Connecticut for two terms, 1911-1914, being elected as a Democrat.
4) Charlotte born in Boston 12 Feb 1846, died suddenly unmarried at the summer home of her sister Mrs. Hotchkiss in the Adirondeck Mountains 18 Aug 1904. ... for many years presided over the household of her brother-in-law Hon Simeon Eben Baldwin, during the illness of his wife.