Surnames within this posting: WASHBURN, Miller [Not of my known WASHBURN line] Obit of: John Hosea WASHBURN Microfilm - Easton Public Library, Easton, PA Obit from "The Easton Express", Easton, Northampton Co., PA Thursday 4 August 1932 Page # 5 [Heading] J.H. WASHBURN DIES [Heading] Identified With the Farm School, Doylestown, 14 Years John Hosea Washburn, 73, former director of Rhode Island State College, died yesterday at Dotlestown. Dr. Washburn left Rhode Island state in 1902 to become identified with the National Farm School. He spent 14 years at the Farm School and then went to New York where he was active in agricultural education work. He was a member of the American Clinical Society and secretary-treasurer of the American Association of Agricultural Colleges and Experimental Stations. He was a graduate of Massachusetts Agricultural College and attended Brown University and University of Gottingen, Germany. He is survived by a son, John M. Washburn of Hartford, Conn., and a daughter, Mrs. Fred I. Miller, at whose home he died.