Washburn, Emory
educator, lawyer, jurist, governor, author, was born Feb. 14, 1800, in Leicester, Mass. He was a member of the general court from 1825 to 1827, and in 1838; was judge of the court of common pleas from 1844 to 1847; and was governor of Massachusetts in 1854 and 1855. He became a professor of the Cambridge Law school in 1855, and so continued for many years. He was the author of Sketches of the Judicial History of Massachusetts; History of Leicester, Massachusetts; Treatise on American Law of Real Property; American Law of Easements and Servitudes; Testimony of Experts; and Lectures on the Study and Practice of the Law. He died March 18, 1877, in Cambridge, Mass.