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raanded the West India squadron in 1824-'6, was a member of the board of navy commissioners in 1827-'31, again commandant of the Norfolk navy- yard in 1832-'9, member of the board of commis- sioners a second time in 1840, and president of the board in 1841. After the new organization of the navy department he was chief of the bureau of yards and docks in 1842 -'6, and of the bureau of ordnance in 1847-'51. The town that was built near the Pensacola navy-yard was named Warring- ton in his honor. Being on the government res- ervation, it was subject to the naval jurisdiction of the commandant, whose duties included those of a magistrate.

WARROCK, John, printer, b. in Richmond, Va., 4 Nov., 1774 ; d. there, 8 March, 1858. He received a common-school education, became a printer, and for forty years issued annually " War- rock's Almanac." He was chosen to the office of printer to the Virginia senate, and held that place for more than forty years.

WASHBURN, Edward Abiel, clergyman, b. in Boston, Mass., 16 April, 1819 ; d. in New York city, 2 Feb., 1881. He was graduated at Harvard in 1838, studied theology in Andover seminary and in New Haven, was licensed as a Congre- gational minister in 1842, and officiated accept- ably in several churches. Having resolved, through the influence of Bishop Clark and others, to enter the ministry of the Episcopal church, he made due preparation and was ordained deacon, in Trinity church, Boston, 12 July, 1844, by Bishop Eastburn, and priest, in Grace church, Boston, 9 Oct., 1845, by the same bishop. He was rector of St. Paul's, Newburyport, Mass., in 1844-'51, travelled in Egypt, Syria, India, and China, in 1851-'3, on returning home was rector of St. John's, Hartford, Conn., 1853-'62, and lectured on ecclesiastical polity in Berkeley divinity-school, Middletown, Conn. He received the degree of D. D. from Trinity in 1860. Dr. Washburn was rector of St. Mark's church, Philadelphia, in 1862-'o, and of Calvary church, New York, in 1866-'81. He was a contributor to theological literature, and an active supporter of the Evangelical alliance in 1871, 1873, and 1879, before which he read papers on " Reason and Faith," and on " Socialism." He was also a mem- ber of the New Testament company of revisers, an acknowledged leader among the " broad church " clergy of the Episcopal church, a true lover of scholarship in its highest sense, and an eloquent and effective preacher of the gospel. He pub- lished " Relation of the Episcopal Church to the other Christian Bodies " (1874) ; " The Social Law of God, Sermons on the Ten Commandments " (New York, 6th ed., 1884) ; and " Voices from a Busy Life," a volume of poems (1883).

WASHBURN, Emory, jurist, b. in Leicester, Mass., 14 Feb., 1800 ; d. in Cambridge. Mass., 18 March, 1877. His grandfather, Seth Washburn, grandson of John Washburn, who was the first secretary of the Massachusetts Bay company, was born in Bridge water, Mass., in 1723, and married the granddaughter of Mary Chilton, the first white Eerson that stepped upon Plymouth Rock. He eld various town offices in Leicester, and served at different times in each branch of the legislature. He was in the campaign against the Indians in New Hampshire in 1749, and in the battle of Bunk- er Hill as a captain. His son, Joseph (1755-1807), the father of Emory, was lieutenant in the 15th Massachusetts regiment, was on duty at the cap- ture of Burgoyne at Saratoga, served afterward under Washington in New Jersey, and after the war held, among other offices, that of deputy sheriff of Worcester county till his death. Emory studied for two years at Dartmouth, and was graduated at Williams in 1817, studied law at Harvard, was admitted in 1821 to the bar in Lenox, and practised in his native town till 1828, when he removed to Worcester, where he was eminent in his profession for nearly thirty years, and became the partner of Gov. John Davis. He was in the low- er house of the leg-

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and 1838, and made during his first term the first report that suggested the feasibility of a railroad between Boston and Albany. He served in the state senate in 1841-'2, being chairman of the judiciary committee, and from 1844 till 1848 was judge of the court of common pleas. He was elected gov- ernor in 1853, and re-elected for the succeeding term, being the last Whig governor in Massachu- setts, and in 1856 he was appointed Bussy professor of law in Harvard. Resigning his professorship in 1876, he opened a law-office in Cambridge, and represented that city in the legislature until his death. The illustration is a view of the state- house in Boston, which is on Beacon hill, oppo- site the common. The degree of LL. D. was con- ferred upon him by Harvard and Williams in 1854. He was a member of the board of education, took a prominent part in the establishment of the Worcester county free institute of industrial sci- ence, was a trustee of Williams college, a member of the International code committee, a fellow of the American antiquarian society, and a member of the Massachusetts historical society, the American academy of arts and sciences, and other learned so- cieties, before which he frequently delivered public addresses on timely topics. Gov. Washburn's writ- ings, many of them on genealogical and historical subjects, exhibit scholarship and research, while his legal works are standard authorities in the law- schools and courts of this country. His most im- portant works are a " Judicial History of Massa- chusetts, 1630-'75 " (Boston, 1840) ; "History of Lei- cester " (I860) ; " Treatise on the American Law of Real Property" (2 vols., 1860-'2; 3d ed., 1868); " Treatise on the American Law of Easements and Servitudes " (Philadelphia, 1863: Boston, 1867); a pamphlet on the "Testimony of Experts" (1866); and " Lectures on the Study and Practice of the Law" (1871). He also contributed an introduction to Rev. Calvin Durfee's " History of Williams Col- lege, Williamstown, Mass." (Boston, 1860).

WASHBURN, George, educator, b. in Middleboro'. Mass., 1 March, 1833. He was graduated at Amherst in 1855, studied in the following year at Andover theological seminary, was sent by the American board as a missionary to Turkey in 1858, and licensed to preach in Constantinople in 1860. On 29 July, 1863, he was ordained at Middleboro while on a visit to the United States, but he returned the same year to Turkey and was released from the service of the board in 1868. He was professor of philosophy and political economy and acting president in Robert college, Constantinople, in 1869-76, and since the latter year he has been president. Amherst conferred upon him the degree of D. D. in 1874. 'He was drawn into intimate relations with the political events that were