Bulgaria and the Far East. 
‘Hamlin, D. D., of Maine. 
George H. Washburn, with whom he made his home 
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SOCIETY NOTES 
Rev. George Washburn, D. D., LL. D., well known 
along the North Shore, especially at Manchester, where 
he has spent his summers for many years, pased away 
Monday at his home at 377 Marlboro st., Boston, fol- 
lowing an illness of only a few days from pneumonia. 
He was almost eighty-two years of age, having been 
born March 1, 1833, in Middleboro, the son of Philan- 
der and Elizabeth (Homes) Washburn. On both the 
paternal and maternal sides his ancestors were people 
of note who had been in public life. Dr. Washburn 
prepared at Phillips Andover Academy for college and 
was graduated from Amherst college in 1855, and then 
for three years attended Andover Theological Semi- 
nary, leaving to go to Constantinople, Turkey, as 
treasurer of the American Board. Later he returned 
to this country and in a year completed his full course 
at Andover Theological Seminary. This was in 1862, 
and the next year he was ordained to the Congrega- 
tional ministry. After this, he went again to Turkey, 
where he continued with the American Board until 
1869, when he became vice-president of Robert College, 
in Constantinople, and four years later president, 
which office he retained until about 1904, when with 
advancing years, he resigned. In his long service for 
the college Dr. Washburn had been professor of phil- 
osophy for many years. Some of the students under 
him became later in life men of prominence, among 
them Panaretoff, the present Bulgarian minister to 
Washington. Dr. Washburn received from Amherst 
his A. B. degree, 1855, that of D. D. in 1874, and his 
LL. D. in 1900, from the University of Michigan, while 
Princeton conferred a like honor upon him, as did 
Amherst and the University of Pennsylvania. Fol- 
lowing his return to this country, Dr. Washburn took 
up his residence in Boston. He had been a Lowell 
Institute lecturer and was an authority on matters in 
At the time of the World’s 
Columbian Exposition in Chicago, in 1893, Dr. Wash- 
burn was a member of Congress of Religions and a 
speaker on Mohammedanism, and he was a member of 
the Edinburgh Conference and of the extension com- 
mittee on education of that organization. While in the 
South Hastern part of Europe, Dr. Washburn was made 
a trustee of the Thessalonica Agricultural and Indus- 
trial Institute, conducted under American administra- 
tion, and he continued as trustee up to the time of his 
death. He was active in helping to secure the inde- 
pendence of Bulgaria, and received a highly prized 
decoration, the Order of St. Alexander, from Prince 
Alexander of Bulgaria, and the Civil Merit from Prince 
Ferdinand, the present king of Bulgaria. Dr. Wash- 
burn was the author of ‘‘Fifty Years in Constantin- 
ople,’’ and was a contributor for twenty years or more 
to the Contemporary Review and wrote also for other 
publications, including English and American maga- 
zines. He married, in Constantinople, April 15, 1859, 
Henrietta Loraine Hamlin, daughter of Rev. Cyrus 
His wife and a son, Dr. 
in Marlboro street, survive. 
Many North Shore people were present at the 
wedding of Miss Louise Hope Thacher and Bernard 
Shirley Carter, which was solemnized at Trinity Chureh 
last Saturday afternoon, the rector, the Rev. Dr. Alex- 
ander Mann, assisted by the Rev. Dr. Endicott Pea- 
body of the Grotan schgol, officiating. The bride wore 
a gown of white satin with a court train and a veil 
of tulle. She was given away by her father, Thomas 
Thacher, and was attended by Misses Camilla Morgan 
of New York, Gertrude Amory, Mary Hunnewell, Alice 
Wesselhoeft, Grace Lockwood and Constance Morgan. 
Her sister, Miss Dorothy Thacher, was bridesmaid. The 
groom, who is a son of Mr. and Mrs. John Ridgeley 
Carter of Baltimore and Paris, had for his best man, 
his cousin, Henry Carey Morgan of New York.  Fol- 
lowing the wedding there was a reception at the home 
of Mr. and Mrs. Louis B. Thacher, Beacon street. The 
couple will leave shortly for a visit to California and 
to the Far East, touching at the Philippines, China and 
Japan. 
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North Shore summer cottagers are interested in 
the recently announced engagement of Miss Constance 
Wharton and Henry St. John Smith, the latter of 
Portland, Me., a senior at Harvard. Miss Wharton is 
the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William F. Whar- 
ton (Susan Lay) of Beacon street, Boston, and Lenox 
and a grand-daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Lay 
of Washington and Nahant. Mrs. Cochran Thom of 
Washington, who has also a summer home at Nahant, 
is an aunt. Miss Wharton was a debutante of two 
seasons ago, a favorite among an unusually attractive 
set of girls. 
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Miss Marcia Taylor, who with her parents, Mr. and 
Mrs. Charles B. Taylor, is spending the winter at the 
Hotel Brunswick instead of at Manchester-by-the-Sea, 
was one of the pupils of Mrs. Robert Anderson who 
gave a recital at the Brunswick Wednesday evening. 
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Already the Vincent club members are making 
plans for their annual show in April, when a play, writ- 
ten by Misses Alice Thorndike and Barbara Burr, will 
be presented in addition to the dances and other stunts 
which always make a Vincent club affair so delightful. 
The play is known at present as ‘‘S. 8. Romantic’’, 
but may not be produced under that name. As the 
name suggests, the story takes place on an ocean liner, 
which will make this play so different from the others 
the club has given in previous years. Rehearsals are 
to be started in March. 
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The Anti-Suffrage teas promise to be a prominent 
feature of fashionable life during Lent in Washington 
this year. They are to be given in the drawing room 
of Mrs. Robert T. Lincoln’s house, the first on Saturday, 
Feb. 27. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Curtis, Jr.,(Ethel Roelker) 
of Cambridge have leased the Carey cottage at Nahant 
for next summer. Mr. and Mrs. Gorham Brooks of 
Boston oceupied the cottage last season. 
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Ernest Schmidt conducted the Symphony rehearsal 
at Boston last Friday afternoon in place of Dr. Muck, 
which was an innovation to the regular attendants. 
The orchestra left Boston Sunday night for a brief tour 
of New York, Philadelphia and Washington, where 
they are giving concerts. The next rehearsal at Boston 
will be next Friday, Feb. 26, and the concert will fol- 
low on the 27th. Among those noted in the audience 
Friday were Mrs. Boylston A. Beal, Mrs. Russell 8. Cod- 
man, Miss Mary Bartlett, Mrs. John L. Thorndike, Mrs. 
Robert S. Bradley and her daughter Mrs. Roger S. Cui- 
ler, Miss Eleanor Fabyan, Mrs. Francis L. Higginson. 
