The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . RESIDENCE OF JESSE P. TABER, 198 PARK Charles Francis Washburn* was born in Harrison, Cumberland county,Maine, August 23, 1827. His father, Charles Washburn, born in Kingston,Massachusetts, was of a good, old colony family, and in direct line of descentfrom Governor William Bradford. His mother, whose maiden name wasBlake, belonged to one of the best and most respected families in Maine. Charles Washburn, the father, a practising lawyer in Harrison, Maine,came to • Worcester in 1835 to engage in the wire business with his t
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . RESIDENCE OF JESSE P. TABER, 198 PARK Charles Francis Washburn* was born in Harrison, Cumberland county,Maine, August 23, 1827. His father, Charles Washburn, born in Kingston,Massachusetts, was of a good, old colony family, and in direct line of descentfrom Governor William Bradford. His mother, whose maiden name wasBlake, belonged to one of the best and most respected families in Maine. Charles Washburn, the father, a practising lawyer in Harrison, Maine,came to • Worcester in 1835 to engage in the wire business with his twinbrother, Ichabod. His son, Charles, then a boy eight years old, attendedthe schools in Worcester, and was subsequently graduated from theLeicester Academy. He was, however, prevented by ill health from goingto college, and went into his fathers mill, where he learned the wirebusiness, in which he continued for over fortv-five vears until his death. See portrait on page 459. The Worcester of 1898. 781 He was a director in and vice-president of the Washburn &
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