Washburn, John H.

John Hosea Washburn was born in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, June 5, 1859. He entered the Massachusetts Agricultural College in 1874 and graduated after four years. He had taught for a year and a half in Massachusetts public school, when he became head of the Rhode Island Reform School in Providence. During that year he studied chemistry in the laboratories of Brown University.

In the fall of 1881, he returned to the Massachusetts Agricultural College for post graduate work. In 1893, Washburn was appointed Professor of Chemistry at the Connecticut Agricultural College in Storrs. He resigned in 1887 to study at the University in Gottingen from which institution he was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy in 1889.

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