William Winsor (banker)

William Winsor (1819–1904) was a philanthropist, town treasurer, bank officer, farmer, supporter of education, and co-founder of the Greenville Public Library.

[1] William Winsor was born in Greenville, Rhode Island in 1819 and grew up working on the family's farm.

Winsor was a direct descendant of some of the early settlers who purchased Smithfield from the Native Americans and who built the Waterman–Winsor Farm.

During the American Civil War Winsor was appointed to a committee to provide bounties to Smithfield men who enlisted to fight for the Union cause.

[3] Winsor was an active member of Greenville Free Will Baptist Church and donated greatly to Free Will Baptist educational organizations including the Lapham Institute in Scituate, Bates College in Maine, and Storer College, a school for freed slaves in West Virginia founded after the Civil War.