Untitled From Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette, Wisconsin, publ. 1901- page 495-496

FREDERICK A. WASHBURN, residing in Section 15, Clifton township, Grant county, bears an honorable record for brave service in the war between the North and South. Responding to his country's call for aid, he enlisted Dec. 17, 1861, in Company F, 2d Wisconsin Cavalry, and when discharged, on Dec. 6, 1863, at Red Bone, Miss., he re-enlisted, the following day, in the same company and regiment, being finally mustered out at Madison, Wis., Dec. 16, 1865, after four long years of arduous service on Southern battlefields. He was on active duty with his regiment nearly the whole of this time, being for a brief period confined in hospital during his first enlistment, and a few days in the hospital at Galveston, Texas, during his second term.

This gallant soldier was born in Lake county, Ill., in 1844, and is a son of B. F. WASHBURN, a native of New York State, who also served in the war of the Rebellion, as a member of the 20th Wis. V.I. At the time of his enlistment the father owned the farm where his son Frederick now resides. He never returned to his family and friends, being one of the large number in every army who are reported missing. His fate was never known, though it is supposed that he was a victim of some marauding band of guerrillas. Of his family four sons and two daughters reached adult age. One son, George W. was a member of the same company as our subject, and was with him until his death, in Memphis, Tenn., while another son, Benjamin F., Jr., served throughout the latter part of the war in the 17th Wis. V.I., and is now a resident of Excelsior, Richland Co., Wis. It will thus be seen that the family furnished four defenders of the Union, two of whom, father and son, never came back.

Frederick A. WASHBURN has passed nearly all of his mature years on the homestead farm where he now lives. He has been twice married, his first wife being Miss Senena TAYLOR, by whom he had two children: Albert E., now in the Klondike; and Ida D., wife of Henry FRANKLIN. His present wife was in her maidenhood Miss Clara May FIELDS, and to them have been born five children, namely: Dora May, Arthur E., Ica L., Roxy M. and Adelbert L.

Mr. WASHBURN's health was greatly impaired by his long service in the army, and as the years pass by his infirmities caused thereby increase in intensity. He is a good citizen, and is highly respected and esteemed by all who know him.



This biography generously submitted by Carol Holmbeck