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WASHBURN, Peter Thacher, lawyer, born in Lynn, Massachusetts, 7 September, 1814; died in Woodstock, Vermont, 7 February, 1870. He was graduated at Dartmouth in 1835, studied law at Harvard, was admitted to the bar in 1838, and practised in Ludlow, Vermont, till 1844. Removing then to Woodstock, he was reporter of the state supreme court for eight years, and for several terms a member of the legislature, serving as chairman of the judiciary committee. In 1861 he was a member of the Chicago convention, and was the first to give the vote of his state to Lincoln. He was adjutant-and inspector-general of the state in 1861-'6, and his records show only 75 men unaccounted for out of more than 34,000. He served in the field as a lieutenant, and afterward as acting colonel of the 1st Vermont volunteers, which, with the Massachusetts troops, he commanded at the battle of Big Bethel. In 1869 he was elected governor by the Republicans, and died in office. He was trustee of the University of Vermont, and president of the Woodstock railroad. He was the author of "Digest of all Cases in the Supreme Court of Vermont, including" the First Fifteen Volumes of Vermont Reports" (Woodstock, 1845); supplement to "Aiken's Forms" (Claremont, New Hampshire, 1847)" " Digest of Cases in the Supreme Court of Vermont," vols. xvi.-xxii. (1852)" and " Reports of the Supreme Court of Vermont," vols. xvi.-xxiii. (1845-'52).
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