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dren were: Susannah, born May 29, 1749;
Mary (or Moll v), born June 8, 1751; Eunice,
born Sept. 5, 1753; Asa, born Oct. 9, 1756;
Joshua, born Sept. 24, 1759; Olive, born Mav
26, 1765; and Keziah, born Oct. 16, 1769. Of
these, Susannah married in 1772 James Hooper,
Jr.; and Keziah married Andrew Conant.
Benjamin Washburn, the father, died in 1812,
aged ninety-four years.
(VI) Joshua Washburn, son of Benjamin
(2), was born Sept. 24, 1759, in Bridgewater,
and died there May 14, 1832. He married in
1786 Lovisa Rickard, born Feb. 16, 1763, died
Dec. 10, 1831, daughter of Seth and Susanna
(Packard) Rickard, and their children were:
Susannah, born Dec. 14, 1787; Marsena, born
Dec. 8, 1789; Joshua, born Dec. 10, 1791;
Benjamin, born April 30, 1796; Isaac, born
July 13, 1799; Eunice, born Nov. 4, 1801; and
Charles, born March 7, 1807.
(VII) Marsena Washburn,
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son of Joshua
and Lovisa (Rickard), was born Dec. 8, 1789,
in the town of Bridgewater, Mass., where he
attended school. At the age of fifteen years
he went to Roxbury, Mass., where he learned
the trade of carpenter, and he later located at
Troy, N. Y., where he followed his trade. The
region at that time was but sparsely settled.
He subsequently, about 1820, came to New
Bedford, where he spent the remainder of his
life, following his trade and also making
candle boxes and ship bellows, etc. A natural
mechanic, he could make almost anything from
wood with tools. He built a home on Third
street, in New Bedford, when that street was
in the choice residential section, and later re-
a man and a citizen he was useful in every relation
of life. On Dec. 3, 1823, Mr. Washbum
married Lucy, born Sept. 28, 1802,
daughter of Elihu and Mary (Polly) (Gifford)
GifFord. Mrs. Washburn died Sept. 30, 1853,
and was buried in the Rural cemetery. They
were the parents of five children, namely: (1)
Caroline E., born Oct. 7, 1824, married Feb.
7, 1855, Charles C. Saver, who died March
17, 1883, Mrs. Sayer dying Oct. 7, 1908; they
had two children, Caroline Mather, born Aug.
3, 1856, and Frederic Lincoln, born May 6,
1867, the latter of whom died in Brooklyn, N.
Y., Nov. 23, 1906. (2) Mary Gifford, born
Oct. 24, 1826, died July 19, 1906. She was
a school teacher in New Bedford. (3) Lucy
Merritt, born Oct. 12, 1830, died June 27,
1903. (4) Frederic Augustus was born Jan.
5, 1834. (5) Annie Morton, born April 23,
1838, resides in New Bedford.
(VIII) Frederic Augustus Washburn, only
son of Marsena and Lucy (Gifford) Washburn,
attended the public schools of his native city
until the age of seventeen years, when he entered
the employ of the Merchants' National
Bank in New Bedford, and for twenty years
continued in its service, during the later years
of that period as cashier. He left this institution
in 1870 to become assistant treasurer of
the New Bedford Institution for Savings, tak-
ing the place of the late Charles H. Pierce
(who at that time succeeded the late William
C. Coffin as treasurer), a relation he sustained
to the bank for thirty-seven years, completing
the long service of fifty-seven years in the
employ of the two institutions. Mr. Washburn
has been accorded high praise by his as-
sociates in both banks. He was most faithful
to the trusts imposed on him, his many high
qualities winning for him the respect and esteem
of those who came to know him inti-
mately.
• Aside from his duties as bank official Mr.
Washburn was active along many lines. In
his early life he was a member of the Fourth
Street Methodist Episcopal Church, but for
many years before his death he had been prominently
identified with the Trinitarian Church,
and he served the church well in many capaci-
sided on Grinnell street. On account of failing
eyesight he withdrew from active work
about the middle fifties and spent the remainder
of his life in retirement. He died at the
home of his son Frederic A. Washburn, where
he spent his declining years, April 13, 1876, at
the age of eighty-six years, and was buried in the
Rural cemetery at New Bedford. An esteemed
and respected citizen, he was a member of the
Trinitarian Church .at New Bedford; he was
a Whig and later a Republican in ties; was a member of the board of trustees,
deacon and senior deacon, and for years superintendent
of the Bible school. As a teacher
politics. As
in the Bible school through a long period he
came in close contact with both the younger
and older people of the church, and the association
was highly treasured by all. He had
also held some of the minor positions in the
church, and in all of them he displayed that
quality of fidelity that made his contribution
of work highly effective. He, too, had been
prominently identified with the Y. M. C. A.,
of New Bedford, serving it both as treasurer
and president. He was treasurer of the Tabor
Academy Corporation, and Washburn Dormitory,
connected with the academy, at Marion,
Mass., built in 1905-06, was named in his
honor. The building was dedicated March
5, 1906, the speaker on the occasion being
Eev. M. C. Julien, who, in an address and