Editing Cadwallader C. Washburn (section)

==Family life==
Shortly after his birth in 1818, Washburn was diagnosed with [[epilepsy]].

On January 1, 1849, New Years Day, he married Jeanette Garr, daughter of Andrew Sheffield Garr and Elizabeth Sinclair Garr.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/thisday/index.asp?day=9&month=6 |title=On This Day in Wisconsin History<!--Bot-generated title--> |access-date=December 28, 2007 |archive-date=June 11, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611064938/http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/thisday/index.asp?day=9&month=6 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Both were 30-years-old at the time. The following year, the couple brought their first daughter, Jeanette (Nettie) Garr Washburn, into the world in 1850. After giving birth to Nettie her mother, Jeanette, started showing signs of mental illness. After Frances (Fanny) was born two years later, in 1852, Washburn made arrangements for his wife's care at the Bloomingdale Asylum. Later she was transferred to an institution in [[Brookline, Massachusetts]], where she remained until her death at the age of 90 in 1909.{{sfn|Paynter|2002|p=16}}