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Cephas Washburn was born in 25 July 1793 in Rutland, Vermont. He graduated from the University of Vermont and the Andover Theological Seminary. Washburn married Abigail F. Woodward of Randolph, Vermont on 6 October 18181818 is a common year starting on Thursday. Events February 12 Chile gains its independence from Spain March 11 Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is published March 22 Easter Sunday falls on its earliest possible date. The next time Easter will fall this early:. He was ordained in 18181818 is a common year starting on Thursday. Events February 12 Chile gains its independence from Spain March 11 Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is published March 22 Easter Sunday falls on its earliest possible date. The next time Easter will fall this early: in Waitsfield, VermontWaitsfield is a town located in Washington County, Vermont. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 1,659. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 69. 9 mi²) of it is land and 0. 04% is water. by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions to serve as an Indian missionary.

Served as a missionary to the Cherokee Indians at Brainerd, Georgia for a short while and migrated with them westward, arriving in Arkansas around 1820.

Washburn founded Dwight Presbyterian Mission near Russellville, Arkansas in 1821 to serve the newly arrived Cherokee. Dwight was the first American mission to the Indians west of the Mississippi River. The mission was later moved to what is now Sallisaw, Oklahoma. It was named for Rev. Timothy Dwight, president of Yale College and a corporate member of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.

Washburn was the driving force in establishing the Far West Academy in Washington County, Arkansas in 1844 which was a short-lived attempt to establish a college where both white and Indian students could achieve and education together.

Washburn served as the primary Indian missionary in the region until he resigned in 1850.

From 1850 to 1856 he served as minister for the First Presbyterian Church in Fort Smith, Arkansas

Cephas Washburn died at Little Rock, Arkansas on 17 Mar 1860 of pneumonia. He is buried at the historic Mount Holly Cemetery in downtown Little Rock.

Washburn's son Edward Payson Washburn was the artist who painted the famous Arkansas Traveller painting that was later immortalized as a Currier & Ives lithograph. The painting was inspired by the humorous song Arkansas Traveller by Colonel Sanford 'Sandy' Faulkner.