Born: April 16, 1819.

Died: February 2, 1881.

Washburn grad­u­at­ed from Har­vard in 1838, stu­died the­ol­o­gy at An­do­ver and New Ha­ven, and en­tered the Con­gre­ga­tion­al min­is­try. In 1844, ha­ving been or­dained in the Pro­test­ant Epis­co­pal Church, he be­came Rec­tor of St. Paul’s, New­bur­y­port, Mass­a­chu­setts, where he stayed un­til 1851. He spent 1851-2 in Chi­na and Eur­ope, then served as Rec­tor of St. John’s, Hart­ford (1853-62); Pro­fess­or Church Pol­i­ty at the Berk­e­ley Di­vin­i­ty School, Mid­dle­town, Con­nec­ti­cut; Rec­tor of St. Mark’s, Phil­a­delp­hia, Penn­syl­van­ia (1862-5); and Rec­tor of Cal­va­ry Church, New York (1865-81). His works in­clude:

• Social Law of God, 1874
• Voices from a Bu­sy Life, post­hu­mous

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Translations

1. On the Birth­day of Our Lord