SOURCE:1884 History of Owen County, p. 903

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 
Gosport and Wayne Township.

ROBERT D. WASHBURN, farmer of Wayne Township, son of 
James W. and Matilda (Dean) Washburn, was born in 
Kentucky July 1, 1830, and came to Owen county in the 
spring of 1858. He has resided in Wayne Township since 
1864. He was reared upon a farm, learning in the meantime 
to be something of a mechanic. December 21, 1854, he was 
married, in Henry County, Ky., to Harriet Moore, who bore 
him seven children -- Webster, Harriet Jane, Emmett 
Simpson, Nancy Bell, John Newton, Mary M., James Richard. 
At the subscription schools of his native State, Mr. W. 
acquired a fair English education. In the fall of 1871, 
he was elected Justice of the Peace, of Wayne Township, 
and at the end of one term was re-elected, but for reasons 
of his own refused to qualify. He owns a nice farm of 
eighty acres, all in cultivation, and well improved. 
Both he and Mrs. W. are devout members of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church.

DATA ENTRY: Glorianne Fahs