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Washburn, William Drew

surveyor, manufacturer, congressman, United States senator, was born Jan. 14, 1831, in Livermore, Maine.

He was appointed surveyor-general of Minnesota by President Lincoln in 1861, and held the office for four years. He has been actively engaged in various manufacturing industries in the city of Minneapolis since that time; was a director and large owner of the Minneapolis Water Power company; was the projector and afterwards president of the Minneapolis and St. Louis railroad; and organized and built the Sault line of railway from Minneapolis to Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., of which he was the chief projector, and remained president until his election to the United States senate in 1889. He was elected to the legislature in 1858 and 1871; was elected to the forty-sixth, forty-seventh, and forty-eighth congresses; and was elected to the United States senate as a republican, and served during 1889- 95.

WASHBURN, WILLIAM TUCKER, lawyer, author, was born in 1841 in Massachusetts. He is a lawyer and novelist of New York city, and the author of Fair Harvard; The Unknown City, a story of New York; and Spring and Summer, a collection of verse.