Osgood, Gayton P
state legislator, congressman, was born in 1797. He served in the Massachusetts legislature in 1829 and 1831; and was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1832 to 1835. He died June 26, 1861. con- OSGOOD, HELEN LOUISE GIBSON, philanthropist, was born about 1835 in Boston, Mass. She organized and ducted for many months a hospital for one thousand colored soldiers of the army of the Potomac, and displayed great executive ability. She died April 20, 1868, in Newton Centre, Mass.