People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 27-25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1896 — DR. I. B WASHBURN. [ARTICLE]

DR. I. B WASHBURN.

Dr. I. B. Washburn was born in Cass county. Indiana. Jan. 9, 1838. He received his education in the;common schools of Pular.ki an I Cass counties, the Logansport £< ininary and Franklin College, Franklin. Indiana. After which he worked on his father’s farm and taught school, until he commenced the study of medicine in 18.78, in the office of Dr. James Thomas in Royal Center. Cass county. He attended two courses of lectures in Rush Medical College an 1 graduated from the same in February, 18(31, In November. 1801. he enlisted as a private in Company I. 4Cth Indiana, but two months after his enlistment he was detailed in the medical department. He "«s appointed assistant surgeon of the same regiment in November. 18 12. And the .following October lie was appointed surgeon of the 46 th Indiana. He won that appointment by the hard work done during the Vicksburg campaign in 1863. H* was in his doth year when he received that appointment and was the youngest surgeon in the Department of the Gulf. His regiment came home on and fui lough iu June, 1861. He was married to Miss Mattie A. Moon of Roval Center, July 6, 1864. lie was mustered out the service at Lexington, Ky.. Dec. 28. 1864, by reason of “expiration of term of service.” He attended a third course of lectures in Rush Medical College in 1865 and in August of that year he located in Star City, Pulaski county, where he practiced his profession nearly nine years. He was elected joint representative for Pulaski, Jasper and Newton counties in 1870. He’ removed to Logansport in 1873. where he was engaged in thedrug business in connection with the practice of medicine. He removed to Rensselaer in the autumn in 18)7. where he has since resided. He was elected county treasurer in 1886, and re-elected in 1888, by the largest majority given anyone on the republican ticket in Jasper county at that election. Since then he has attended two special courses of instruction in the post graduate medical school of Chicago. He is a member of the Chicago Medical Society. He has been a friend of education and was a member of the Rensselaer school board with E. L. Clark, M. F. Chileote and M. L. Spitler, and helped to formulate the present course of study in the Rensselaer schools. He became a member of the Christian church in 1859 and has been an ardent church and Sunday school worker since that time. Jle has a comfortable home and enjoys the confidence and patronage of a large number of people in Rensselaer and the adjacent country.