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Osborn, Thomas W

lawyer, soldier, United States senator, was born March 9, 1836, in Scotch Plains, N. J. He elected to the Florida state senate; and was elected a senator in congress from Florida for the term ending in 1873.

Osborne, Thomas B

lawyer, jurist, educator, congressman, was born in 1797 in Fairfield county, Conn. He was for several years judge of Fairfield county, Conn.; and was a representative in congress from 1839 to 1843. In 1848 he settled in New Haven, and became a professor in the law department of Yale college. He died Sept. 2, 1869, in New Haven, Conn.

Osborne, Thomas M

railroad president, was born Sept. 23, 1859, in Auburn, N. Y. In 1886 he became president of the Owasco River railroad, at Auburn, N. Y.

Osburn, Nehemiah

contractor, was born Aug. 9, 1801, in Pompey, N. Y. He constructed for the United States court houses in Detroit, Cincinnati and Baltimore, beside government buildings in Milwaukee, Rochester and many other cities. He died Jan. 10, 1892, in Rochester, N. Y.

Osgood, Howard

clergyman, educator, was born Jan. 4, 1831, in Plaquemine parish, La. In 1868 he was called to the professorship of Hebrew in Crozer Theological seminary, Pa. In 1875 he was elected to the same chair in Rochester Theological seminary.

Osgood, Jason C

inventor, was born Nov. 16, 1804, in Nassau, N. Y. In 1846 he invented the celebrated Osgood dredging machine, which made his name known the world over.

Osgood, Kate Putnam

author, poet, was born in 1841 in Fryeburg, Maine.

Her best known poem, Driving Home the Cows, published anonymously in Harper's Magazine, in March, 1865, was copied by nearly every journal in the United States, and was one of the few poems of merit that were suggested by the civil war.

Osgood, Samuel

clergyman, author, was born Aug. 30, 1812, in Charlestown, Pa. He was a unitarian clergyman, pastor of the Church of the Messiah in New York city in 1849-69. He was the author of Studies in Christian Biography; God with Men; Mile-Stones in our Life Journey; The Hearthstone; Student Life; The Gospel Among the Animals; and American Leaves. He died April 14, 1880, in New York city.

O'Shea, John

public officer, legislator, was born Feb. 17, 1859, in Chicago, Ill. During 1882-86 he was deputy county clerk; clerk in election commissioner's office in 1888; division clerk in the water office during 1889-91; and deputy clerk of the superior court during 1893-97. He served with distinction in the thirtythird, thirty-fourth and fortieth general assemblies of the Illinois state legislature.

He is also interested in the real estate business.

Osler, William

physician, educator, author, was born in 1849 in Ontario. He is a physician, professor in Johns Hopkins university since 1889; and the author of Clinical Notes on Small-Pox; Histology Notes for Students; Cerebral Palsies of Children; Principles and Practice of Medicine; and Diagnosis of Abdominal Tumors.

Osmer, J. H

lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 22, 1833. He moved to Franklin, Pa., in 1865; was a member of the republican state committee; and a delegate to the republican national convention of 1876. He was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the fortysixth congress as a republican.

Osmond, S. M

author, poet. He is the author of Sulamith, a metrical romance.