{"id":235,"date":"2008-12-17T18:52:43","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T18:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/piqueoftheweek.wordpress.com\/?p=235"},"modified":"2022-01-03T22:42:35","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T22:42:35","slug":"new-exhibit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/2008\/12\/17\/new-exhibit\/","title":{"rendered":"New Exhibit: Ichabod Washburn Benevolent Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_237\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-237\" style=\"width: 390px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-237 alignleft\" title=\"ichabodlogsmo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/ichabodlogsmo.jpg\" alt=\"Motto and seal from Washburn's autobiography, ca. 1870\" width=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/ichabodlogsmo.jpg 593w, https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/ichabodlogsmo-278x300.jpg 278w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 593px) 100vw, 593px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-237\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Motto and seal from Washburn&#8217;s autobiography, ca. 1870<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The<strong> Ichabod Washburn Benevolent Fund<\/strong> was established over 130 years ago through a bequest to the Town of Kingston. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiquebarbedwiresociety.com\/inventors_washburn.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washburn<\/a>, who was born and raised in Kingston, made his fortune as a <a href=\"http:\/\/dlib.cwmars.org\/u?\/worcester,7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wire manufacturer in Worcester<\/a> but never forgot his hometown or the struggles of his mother, who raised her family alone after the death of her husband. In 1869, Washburn&#8217;s will left $10,000 to the Town for the creation of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kingstonmass.org\/content\/40\/858\/6118.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a fund<\/a> from which interest would be distributed to &#8220;widows and maiden ladies of good character and reputation.&#8221; Original account books, receipts and other records of the Fund are now on display in the Local History Room exhibit case.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_236\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-236\" style=\"width: 390px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-236\" title=\"gpn479ichabodwashburnandwifesmaller\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/gpn479ichabodwashburnandwifesmaller.jpg\" alt=\"Ichabod Washburn and wife, no date\" width=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/gpn479ichabodwashburnandwifesmaller.jpg 435w, https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/gpn479ichabodwashburnandwifesmaller-204x300.jpg 204w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 435px) 100vw, 435px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-236\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ichabod Washburn and wife, no date<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ichabod Washburn Benevolent Fund was established over 130 years ago through a bequest to the Town of Kingston. Washburn, who was born and raised in Kingston, made his fortune as a wire manufacturer in Worcester but never forgot his hometown or the struggles of his mother, who raised her family alone after the death &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/2008\/12\/17\/new-exhibit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Exhibit: Ichabod Washburn Benevolent Fund&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,15,18],"tags":[176],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibit","category-people","category-town-of-kingston","tag-notables"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22008,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions\/22008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}