page lx (with photo) He has been a member of the Board of Investment of the Worcester County Institution for Savings since 1871, and trustee and treasurer of the Memorial Hospital since 1872. He has been director of the Merchant's and Farmer's Insurance Company since 1862, ad succeeded the Hon. Isaac DAVIS as president since 1883. His large humanitarian instincts and tastes, taking hold on all matters that have to do with education and intellectual advancement, have made for him a congenial field where associates have warmly welcomed him in the numerous relations he has sustained to our higher institutions and learned societies. Since 1871 hehas been a councilor and secretary of the American Antiquarian Society, and is a councilor of the Massacusetts Historical Society. He is also anoriginal member of the American Historical Association, and has been since 1884, a corresponding meber of the Georgia Historical Society. It is much to say of one that he stands high with his own Alma Mater. Colonel WASHBURN is a member of the overseers' committee on the government of Harvard University, and one of the directors of he Alumni Association of the same institution. He is one of the Board of Trustees and secretary of the new Clark University of Worcester. This is agood record for any man to have won in the middle life, and opens a field of service worthy of the best ripened powers, such as promises to give the subject of this sketch many years of useful citizenship. Colonel WASHBURN is a man of commanding presence, with a kindly dignity always open to approach. He married in 1860, Mary F., daughter of Charles L. PUTNAM, Esq. (Dartmouth College 1830), and has one daughter, Edith, who married in 1884, Richard Ward GREENE, Esq. of Worcester. THE END