 Washburn then embarked on the study of law , first with Charles Dewey , a Williamstown judge and lawyer , and then at Harvard Law School under Asahel Stearns . Although he did not graduate from Harvard , he was admitted to the bar and opened a practice in Charlemont , Massachusetts . After six months there he returned to his hometown of Leicester , where he practiced until 1828 . In that year he moved to Worcester , where he would live and practice for the next thirty years . In 1830 he married Marianne Cornelia Giles , with whom he had three sons and one daughter . 
