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Title: Forty immortals of Worcester & its county. A brief account of those natives or residents who have accomplished something for their community or for the nation
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Worcester Bank & Trust Company, Worcester, Mass Walton Advertising and Printing Company, Boston
Subjects: Worcester (Mass.) -- Biography Worcester County (Mass.) -- Biography
Publisher: (Boston, Mass. : Walton advertising & printing company)
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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an were made times of greatcelebration by his friends, and flowers, messages, and congratulationswere showered upon him. On the occasion of his eighty-seventh birth-day. Browning sent him by cable this verse:— Bancroft, the message-bearing wireWhich flashes my all-hail to-dayMoves slower than the hearts desireThat what hand pens tongues self might say. EMORY WASHBURN Governor of Massachusetts, i8§^-§41800-J8 Emory Washburn was elected Governor of Massachusetts by the votesof the Whig party in the fall of 1853. Mr. Washburn was then in Europeand had no knowledge of his election until his steamer touched Halifaxon the return passage. Though his service in this office was brief, Gover-nor Washburn gave to his duties the same care and forethought thatcharacterized every act of his life. He was born of an old New England family—of yeoman stock. Hisgrandfather, Seth Washburn, the grandson of that John Washburn whowas the first Secretary of the Massachusetts Bay Company, married the 35
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FORTY IMMORTALS of WORCESTER & ITS COUNTY grand-daughter of Mary Chilton, said to have been the first member ofthe Pilgrim company to step on Plymouth Rock. Both John and SethWashburn and Seths son Joseph (father of Emory) served their countryin innumerable ways. Emory Washburn, the sixth son of Joseph, wasborn in Leicester, February 14, 1800. His father died when he was sevenyears old. It was to the careful direction of his mother, who survivedher husband for twenty years, that much of the later success of her sonwas due. He was fitted for college at Leicester Academy, and at the ageof thirteen entered Dartmouth College. In 1815, when a valued pro-fessor at Dartmouth became president of Williams College, he took youngWashburn with him. Emory Washburn was graduated from Williamsin 1817 in a class of seven, and immediately began the study of law withJudge Dewey and later under Asahel Stearns, then the sole resident pro-fessor of law at Harvard University. He was admitted to the bar

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