Henry S. Washburn was born on 10 June 1813 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. Henry S. was married to Maria Carlisle Loring. Henry S. died in 1903 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Attorney and business executive Henry S. Washburn wrote the poem "The
Vacant Chair" to commemorate the death of an eighteen year old Union
Army lieutenant who was killed in action around Thanksgiving of
1861.