Thencanic letter from Washington Hasbrouck, 09 November 1882

Washington Hasbrouck was born on November 26, 1824, to Sally Auchmoody and Philip S. Hasbrouck, in New Paltz, New York. His early educational training is not known. He was the vice-principal of Kingston Academy and founded the Hasbrouck Institute, an all-boys private school in Jersey City, New Jersey, in 1856. He married Sabra King (1829-1894) in about 1850 and had two children: Albert Crowell (1851-1900) and Elizabeth “Lizzie” Hasbrouck (1854-1908). He received several honorary degrees including a master's from Rutgers in 1857, a doctorate from New York University in 1869, and a doctorate from Princeton in 1876. A few years after the [financial] Panic of 1873 caused declining enrollment at Hasbrouck Institute, he left to become Principal of the New Jersey State Normal School on July 1,1876, where he remained until 1889. He died on February 24, 1895, in Newburg, New York.