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 WA I'ERHOUSE. WATERHOUSE. 635 senator from the city of Worcester in 1884, rendering excellent public service. His association lias always been sought in corporate and financial affairs. From 1S66 to '80 he was a director of the Citi- zens' National Bank. He has been a member of the board of investment of the Worcester County Institution for Savings since 1S71, and trustee and treasurer of the Memorial Hospital since 1872. He has been a director of the Merchants' and Farmers' Insurance Company since 1862, and succeeded the Hon. Isaac Davis as president in 1883. His native kindly instincts and tastes have brought him into intimate connection with all matters that have to do with educational and intellectual advancement. Since 1871 he has been a councilor and secretary of the American Antiquarian Society, and is a councilor of the Massa- chusetts Historical Society. He is also an original member of the American His- torical Association, and since 1884 has been a corresponding member of the Geor- gia Historical Society. He is a member of the overseers' committee on the gov- ernment of Harvard University, and one of the directors of the Alumni Association of the same institution. He is one of the board of trustees, and secretary of the new Clark University of Worcester. In 1889 he was appointed minister resident and con- sul to Switzerland by President Harrison. Colonel Washburn was married in i860, to Mary F., daughter of Charles F. Put- nam (Dartmouth, 1S30), and has one daughter : Edith, who married, in 1884, Richard Ward Greene, of Worcester. WATERHOUSE, FRANCIS ASBURY, son of Francis Asbury and Emeline (Newman) Waterhouse, was born in Scar- borough, Cumberland county, Me., Janu- ary 27, 1835. He attended the public schools in Hallo- well, Me., passing at an early age through the primary, grammar and high school grades ; was fitted for college at the Hal- lowell Academy; entered Bowdoin College in 1853, and was graduated in the class of 1857. Three years later he received the degree of A. M. Shortly after graduation he went South to teach in a boarding-school near Natchez, Miss. This position he held one year, when he resigned to take the position of tutor in a planter's family. He returned to Hallowell in the spring of 1859, and was elected principal of the Hallowell Academy. In the spring of 186 1 he was elected to the position of principal of the Augusta high school. He remained here until 1868, when he resigned to accept the principalship of the high school in New- ton. He continued in charge of this school till December, 1880, when he re- signed, to become head-master of the English high school, Boston, a position he now holds. Mr. Waterhouse was married in Win- chester, August 23, 18S1, to Mary Isabel, daughter of Joel Fernald and Martha (Swan) Hanson. Of this union are three children : Francis Asbury, Annie Isabel, and Paul Waterhouse (deceased). When about fourteen years of age, young Waterhouse went on a sea-voyage for his health. This having been com- pletely restored, and having become, after the manner of boys, bewitched with the sea, he shipped for a second voyage as a forecastle sailor. From this voyage he FRANCIS A WATERHOUSE. returned an able seaman, thus putting un- wittingly in practice an idea which he afterwards entertained, — that one should learn some trade or craft, though intend- ing to engage in a profession, in order to have in reserve a means of gaining a livelihood in case of failure in the chosen calling. But nature did not intend Mr. Water- house for a sailor. His career as a teacher