HAMILTON COUNTY OHIO -BIOS:  WASHBURN, Hattie (OYLER)
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Biographical Record and Portrait Album of Tippecanoe County, Indiana,
1888, pp. 547-548

MRS. HATTIE WASHBURN, teacher of the primary school at Clark's Hill, is
a native of Ohio, born in Hamilton County, February 12, 1844, a daughter
of WILLIAM G. and REBECCA (PHELLIS) OYLER, both of whom are deceased.
Her father was an Englishman by birth, being a native of Kent County,
England.  MRS. WASHBURN was reared in her native county, receiving good
educational advantages.  She attended the high school at Harrison,
Hamilton County, and also at College Hill, near Cincinnati, and
graduated from the latter in the year 1859.   She began her career as a
teacher in September of the same year, which she followed until 1863.
October 5, 1863, she was married to BENJAMIN F. WASHBURN, who was born
in La Fayette, Indiana, September 11, 1844, and here he was reared and
educated.  In December 1863, MRS. WASHBURN came with her husband to La
Fayette, and in 1866 she again engaged in teaching school, which she has
followed every succeeding winter in Lauramie Township, and during this
time has taught seven terms in the Pierce district, and is now teaching
her fifth term in Clark's Hill.   She is the owner of a fine farm of
eighty acres.  MR. and MRS. WASHBURN have no children of their own, but
have an adopted daughter named ORA POE.  MR. WASHBURN travels for the
Champion Reaper Works.