Winfield Scott Lovecraft

Winfield Scott Lovecraft (26 Oct 1853-19 Jul 1898) was the father of Howard Phillips Lovecraft and the husband of Sarah Susan Phillips Lovecraft.
Winfield was born October 26, 1853, in Rochester, New York, the son of George Lovecraft and Helen Allgood Lovecraft.https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/24744016/winfield-scott-lovecraft
Winfield was a traveling salesman for Gorham & Co., a manufacturer of silverware based in Providence, Rhode Island. In 1893, when Howard was three, Winfield became acutely psychotic in a Chicago hotel room while on a business trip, caused by neurological symptoms of syphilis, a sexually transmitted disease. He was brought back to Providence and placed in Butler Hospital, where he remained until his death in 1898. Lovecraft was falsely informed that his father was comatose during this period.HPLovecraft.com: "Howard Phillips Lovecraft:
The Life of a Gentleman of Providence," by S. T. Joshi
He died July 19, 1898, in Butler Hospital, from complications of syphilis. He is buried along side Sarah and Howard at Swan Point Cemetery in Providence.
Fear of insanity and tainted blood are major themes in H. P. Lovecraft's writings.Snyder, Phillip J., "Dreadful Reality: Fear and Madness in the Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft" (2017). Honors Theses. 540.
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