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Washburn, Emory 1800-1877

Jurist; born in Leicester, Mass., Feb. 14, 1800; graduated at Williams College in 1817; admitted to the bar in 1821; practised in Leicester, Mass., in 1821-28; settled in Worcester in the latter year and was there prominent in his profession for about thirty years; judge of the court of common pleas in 1844-48; elected governor of Massachusetts in 1853 and 1854; Professor of Law [138] at Harvard University in 1856-76. He was the author of Judicial history of Massachusetts; History of Leicester; Treatise on the American law of real property; Treatise on the American law of Easements and Servitudes, etc. He died in Cambridge, Mass., March 18, 1877.

Harper and Brothers Publishers. . New York. 1902.

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