Office of the President, John H. Washburn Office of the President, John H. Washburn 1895-1932

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Office of the President, John H. Washburn Office of the President, John H. Washburn 1895-1932

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The Records of the President, John H. Washburn, consist of several biographies of Washburn, as well as a reprint of Acts of Congress relating to agricultural and mechanical education, and a letter to Washburn regarding the telephone system of Rhode Island State College.

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University of Rhode Island Library Special Collections and Archives Unit

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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 wo...