Israel Washburn, Jr.
(1813-1883)
Maine
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In Memoriam. Israel Washburn, Jr.: born June 5,
1813, died May 12, 1883
(Portland: Stephen Berry, Printer/Privately printed, 1884)
George Bancroft Griffith (ed.), The Poets of Maine
173 (Portland, Maine, Elwell, Pickard & Co., 1888):
[Israel Washburn, Jr.] [w]as born in Livermore, Me., June 6,
1813, and died in Philadelphia, May 12, 1883. His early education
was obtained at the public schools, but after his fourteenth year
he was in charge of private tutors at home. He studied law, was
admitted to the bar in 1834, and practiced with fair success in
Orono, Me. During the years 1842-50, he served in the State Legislature,
and in 1850 was elected to Congress as a Whig. He was re-elected
in 1852, 1854, 1856, and 1858. He served in Congress continuously
from Dec. 1, 1851, to Jan. 1, 1861, when he resigned, having been
elected the year previous Governor of Maine. He was re-elected
in 1861, but declined a third term. Subsequently, he was appointed
Collector of Customs at Portland, Me., and removed to that city.
He published, in 1874, "Notes Historical," etc., of
Livermore, Me.
Israel
Washburn, Jr.
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
Governor
Israel Washburn
Israel Washburn, Notes, Historical, Descriptive, and Personal,
of Livermore, in Androscoggin (formerly in Oxford) County, Maine
(Portland: Bailey & Noyes, 1874) [online text]
E.C. Bolles & I. Washburn (eds.), Hymns for the Church and
the Home: With a Selection of Psalms (Boston: Universalist Publishing
House, 1870) [online text]
Bibliography
In Memoriam. Israel Washburn, Jr.: born June 5, 1813, died May 12, 1883 (Portland: Stephen Berry, Printer/Privately printed, 1884) [online text]
Research Resources
Washburn Correspondence
New York Historical Society
Washburn Norlands Library
Livermore Falls, Maine
Washburn
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