Untitled - citizen hylbom blog

874 SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS
speaking for the trustees, said: "As their
spokesman I am authorized to announce that
it has been agreed to name this building in
honor of one whose personal character, as well
the degree of A. B. Entering Harvard Medical
School he was graduated in 1896 with the
degree of M. D., after which he became house
physician at the Children's Hospital, also
house surgeon in the Massachusetts General
Hospital, Boston. In 1898 he served in the
Spanish-American war, as first lieutenant and
assistant surgeon of the 6th Massachusetts U.
as his fidelity to the interests of this institution,
merits our public recognition. The ancient
philosopher of China, Mencius, gave to
the world the saying : 'The great man is lie who
does not lose his child's heart.' It is this element
of greatness which has made us feel the
fitness of the name chosen for this home of
the young people of Tabor Academy. And we
are confident that, to those who know him best,
our choice will seem most wise."
The words of Rev. M. C. Julien were apt in
his reference to Mr. Washburn as a man who
had not lost his child's heart. Throughout
his connection with the Trinitarian Church
this trait in the character of Mr. Washburn
was most prominent. Those who came to
know him when they were yet young people
will always appreciate the association. Mr.
Washburn died suddenly frdm a stroke of apoplexy
Jan. 23, 1908, at his home on Maple
street, New Bedford, Massachusetts.
On Sept. 13, 1864, Mr. Washburn was married
in New Bedford to Mary Jane, who was
born March 25, 1842, daughter of Perez
Wheeler and Almeda A. (ShurtlefE) Swan, the
former of Stonington, Conn., the latter of
Rochester, Mass. Mr. and Mrs. Washburn
had a family of five children: (1) Mabel, born
Nov. 21, 1865, married April 27, 1899, James
Graham Whitelaw, of New York, and has one
son, Graham, born Feb. 13, 1900. (2) Helen,
born July 9, 1867, married (first) Feb. 9, 1892,
Lyman Elliot Montague, who died Nov. 7,
1892, and (second) Dec. 24, 1898, Dr. Henry
Smith Mathewson, of Pomfret, Conn., a surgeon
in the marine hospital* service. Her children
are Hope (born Oct. 20, 1899), Marion Chandler
(born Jan. 15, 1903), Allen Hunt (born
Nov. 14, 1904), and Jane Washburn (bom
June 25, 1908). (3) Frederic Augustus is
mentioned below. (4) Charles Swan, born
S. Volunteers. In 1899 he became captain
and assistant surgeon of United States Volunteers
and served in the Philippine islands dur-
ing the insurrection. In 1901 he became surgeon,
with the rank of major, and served as
such until 1903, with duty in the Philippine
islands, to which he made two trips during his
army service. Returning to Massachusetts in
1903, he became assistant administrator of the
Massachusetts General Hospital until 1908,
when he took his present position as administratot
of the hospital. Dr. Washburn is a
member of Columbian Lodge, A. F. & A. M.,
Boston, of the Massachusetts Medical Society,
Boston Medical Library and American Medical
Association, of the University Club of Boston,
of the St. Botolph Club, and of the Society of
Mayflower Descendants.
On Jan. 10, 1911, Dr. Washburn was married
to Amy Silsbee, daughter of Gen. Fran-
cis Henry Appleton, of Boston.
GiFFORD. The Gifford family, from which
the late Mr. Frederic Augustus Washburn was
descended on the mother's side, traces back to
the Conquest of England by William, Duke of
Normandy. From the English book of heraldry
we take the following genealogy of the
family back in Great Britain.
The family of Gifford is of
and was seated at Honfleur,
high antiquity
in Normandy,
three hundred years before the Conquest of
England by
William the Norman. At the
Nov. 16, 1873, resides in New Bedford, where
he is engaged as a cotton broker. He married
Bessie Clifton Gould, of Vineyard Haven,
Mass. (5) Ethel Allerton, born Dec. 30,
1883, married Sept. 9, 1907, Arthur Clinton
Swift, of New Bedford, and has one child,
Frederic Washburn, born March 14, 1910.
(IX Frederic Augustus Washburx, M. D.,
)
was born in New Bedford Nov. 22, 1869.
He received his early education there in the
public schools, going through the battle of Hastings (1066)
high school,
after which he took a course at Amherst, from
which college he was graduated in 1892, with
Sire Randolph de
Gifforde was one of the Conqueror's standard
bearers, and was rewarded by him with land in
Somersetshire and Cheshire, which was created
into a barony from which his descendants had
summons to Parliament. In the reign of
Henry II., Sir Peter Gifford married Alice,
daughter and heiress of Sir Guy de Corbuchin,
with whom he had the lordship of Chillington
in Cheshire, which was the seat of the Duke
of Buckingham of this family. Sir Stephen
Gilford was one of the barons accompanying
Richard Coeur de Lion to the Holy Land and
was killed at the siege of Jerusalem. His son
Sir Stephen was wounded there. The family
enjo3'ed great distinction in the English court
for several centuries, having no less than five