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States in 1877; settled in Chicago, and on June 2. 18S0, declined to liavo }ii.s name used before the Republican national convention as candidate for President. lie was obliged to decline the decoration of the Order of the Red Eagle from Emperor William as contrar}- to the law of the United States, but he was alloweil to accept oil portraits of the Emperor and Prince Bismark from his Majesty, who, when he learned of the death of Minister Washburn, desired that the German flag be displayed at the foot of the catafalque, which request was carried out. He was president of the Chicago Historical society, 1884-87; edited Histonj of the EiKjlish Settlement in Edwards Cotinty, Illinois (1882), and the Edwards Pajyers (1884), and is the author of: Recollections of a Min ister to France (2 vols., 1887). He .lied in Chicago. 111.. Oct. 22, 1887.

WASHBURN, Emory, governor of Mass- achusetts, was born in Leicester, Mass., Feb. 14, 1800; son of Joseph Washburn (1755-1807), an officer in the Continental army during the Rev- olutionarj' war; grandson of Seth and Mary (Chilton) Washburn, and great--grandson of John Washburn, secretary of the Plj'mouth colony in England. He attended Dartmouth college; was graduated from Williams, A.B., 1817, A.M., 1820; studied law at Harvard, and was admitted to the bar in 1821. He practised in Leicester, 1821-28; and in Worcester, 1828-56; was a representative in the state legislature, 1826-27, 1838. and 1876-77; state senator, 1841- 42, serving as chairman of the judiciary com- mittee. He was judge of the court of common pleas, 18 41 - 48; Whig governor of Massachusetts, 18.53-55; university professor of law at Harvard, 18.56-62, and Bussey professor of law there, 1862- 76. He was a trustee of Williams college, 1845- 48; an overseer of Harvard, 1855-61; fellow of the American Antiquarian society'; member of the Massachusetts Historical society, and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The honorary degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by Williams and by Harvard in 1854. He is the author of: Judicial History of Massachusetts, 10.30-75 (1840); History of Leicester (1860); Treatise on the American Law of Real Prop- erty (2 vols., 1860-62 ); Treatise on the Amer- ican Law of Easements and Servitudes (1863); Lectures on the Study and Practiceof Law (1871). He dieil in Cambridge. Mass., March 18, 1877.

WASHBURN, Israel, Jr., governor of Maine, was burn in Livt-rmf^re, Maine, June 6, 1813; son of Israel (1784-1S76) and Martha (Benjamin) Washburn; grandson of Capt. Israel and Abiah (King) Washburn, and of Samuel and Tabitha (Livermore) Benjamin, and a descendant of John Washburn, secretary of the Plymouth colony in England, who immigrated to America about

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1631, and settled in Duxbury, Mass. Captain Wasiiljurn participated in the Revolutionary war; was frequently a member of the Massachusetts legislature, and a delegate to the state convention that ratified the Federal constitution. Israel, Sr., migrated to Maine in 1806; es- tablished himself in 1808 as a ship-builder at White's Landing (Richmond) on the Kennebec river, and as a trader at Liver- more, Maine, 1809-29. Israel, Jr., attended the common schools until 1827, and con- tinued his studies under private tu- tors, 1827-31; was admitted to the bar in October, 1834,

and began practice in Orono, Maine, in the following December. He was a member of tiie state legislature, 1842, a Whig representative from the Penobscot district of Maine in the 32d, 33d congresses, and a Republican in the 34th- 36th congresses, taking his seat, Dec. 1, 1851, and resigning Jan. 1, 1861, to become governor of Maine, serving in the latter capacity. 1861-62. and as collector of customs at Portland, Maine. 1863-77. He was twice married: first Oct. 24, 1841, to Mary Maud, daughter of Col. Ebenezer and Lucy (Dudley) Webster of Orono, Maine, who died in 1873; and secondly, January, 1876, to Robina Napier, daughter of B. F. and ]\Iary (Mclntire) Brown of Bangor, Maine. The hon- orary degree of LL.D. was conferred upon him b}' Tufts college in 1872, of which college he served as president of the board of trustees, de- declining the presidency of the college in 1875. He is the author of: Xotes, Historical. Descriptive and Personal, of Livermore, Maine (1874). He died in Philadelphia. Pa., ]\Iay 12, 1883.

WASHBURN, Peter Thacher, governor of Vermont, was born in Lvun, Mass., Sept. 7. 1814; son of Reuben and Hannah Blaney (Thacher) Wa.shburn: and a descendant of John Washburn, the secretary of the Plymouth com- pany. His boyhood was spent in Chester, Cav- endish and Ludlow, Vt., and he was graduated from Dartmouth college, A.B., 1835, A.M., 1838; was admitted to the bar in 1838, and practised in Ludlow until 1844, when he re- moved to Woodstock, where he continued prac- tice in partnership with Charles P. Marsh. He was reporter of the state supreme court, 1844-52; representative in the state legislature. 18.5,3-54; chairman of the Vermont delegation to the Re-