Osborn, Chase S – Osgood, Kate Putnam
Osborn, Chase S
journalist, public official, was born Jan. 22, 1860, in Huntington county, Ind. In 1880 he became managing editor of The Signal of Milwaukee, Wis., and subsequently filled an editorial position on the Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin.
In 1883 he became editor and part proprietor of the Florence Mining News, and in 1887 established the Miner and Manufacturer of Milwaukee, Wis. He then became city editor of the Milwaukee Sentinel, and is now the editor and proprietor of The News of Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. He has been state game and fish warden for the state of Michigan; has been postmaster of his city, and has taken an active part in the public affairs of his city, county and state.
Osborn, Henry Fairfield
educator, author, was born in 1857 in Connecticut. He is a professor of biology at Columbia college, and the author of From the Greeks to Darwin, an outline of the evolution idea.
Osborn, Henry Stafford
clergyman, educator, author, was born Aug. 17, 1823, in Philadelphia. He is a presbyterian clergyman and educator, and professor in Miami university, Ohio, in 1871-73. He is the author of Palestine Past and Present; Fruits and Flowers of the Holy Land; Scientific Metallurgy of Iron and Steel in the United States; Manual of Bible Geography; Ancient Egypt in the Light of Recent Discoveries; Little Pilgrims in the Holy Land; New Descriptive Geography of Palestine; The Prospector's Field Book and Guide; and A Practical Manual of Minerals, Mines and Mining.
Osborn, John
soldier, physician, author, was born March 17, 1741, in Middletown, Conn. He attained note as a chemist, and is said to have had the most valuable medical library in the state. Before the revolution he published a translation of Condamine's Treatise on Inoculation, with an original appendix. He died in June, 1825, in Middletown, Conn.
Osborn, John Churchill
physician, educator, poet, was born in September, 1766, in Middletown, Conn. In 1808 he was appointed professor of the institutes of medicine in Columbia, which office he resigned in 1813 to accept the chair of obstetrics in the New York college of physicians and surgeons. He was a connoisseur in poetry, belles-lettres, and painting. Joel Barlow submitted the poem of The Vision of Columbus to him for revision. He died March 5, 1819, in the Island of St. Croix.
Osborn, John E
physician, legislator, congressman, governor, was born June 9, 1858, in Westport, N. Y. He was elected in 1883 to the Wyoming territorial legislature, and in 1888 was elected mayor of the city of Rawlins. In 1892 he was elected governor of Wyoming, and at the expiration of his official term as governor he was unanimously renominated by his party for a second term, but owing to important business engagements declined the honor. He was elected to the fiftyfifth congress as a democrat.
Osborn, Laughton
artist, was born in 1809 in New York city. He was an artist and writer of New York city, and the author of Confessions of a Poet; Sixty Years of the Life of Jeremy Levis; The Vision of Rubeta; Arthur Carryl; Handbook of Oil Painting; and Travels by Sea and Land. He died Dec. 12, 1878, in New York city.
Osborn, R. H
physician, surgeon, state senator, was born June 27, 1823, in North Bloomfield, Ohio. He taught school for three years, and in 1849 graduated from the Medical college of Cleveland, Ohio. He has attained success as an eminent physician and surgeon of Michigan, and is the oldest physician on Lake Superior. In 1877-78 he served with distinction as a member of the state senate of the Michigan state legislature. He has been a school director for twenty-five years; is vice-president of the Merchants' and Miners' bank of Calumet, and a director of the Farmingdale Land and Live Stock company of South Dakota.
Osborn, Selleck
journalist, poet, was born in 1783 in Trumbull, Conn. He was a journalist, once popular as a poet, who published Poems, Moral, Sentimental, and Satirical. He died. Oct. 1, 1826, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Osborn, Thomas A
lawyer, state senator, governor, was born Oct. 26, 1836, in Meadville, Pa. He practiced law in Pontiac, Mich.; and was elected county attorney of Doniphan county in 1858. He was elected state senator in 1859; and in 1862 became president of the senate. The same year he was elected lieutenant-governor of the state. He was United States marshal from 1864 to 1866; and was elected governor of Kansas in 1872 and re-elected in 1874. He was United States minister to Chili from 1877 to 1881; and in 1881 was promoted to the post of United States minister to Brazil. was
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, Edwin S
soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Aug. 7, 1839, in Bethany, Pa. In 1861 he enlisted in the union army; and in 1863 was promoted to major and appointed assistant inspector-general. After the close of the war he was detailed as a judge advocate in the bureau of military justice, at Washington. In 1883 he was commander of the department of Pennsylvania Grand Army of the Republic. In 1884 he was elected a representative-at-large from Pennsylvania to the forty-ninth congress; and re-elected to the fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as a republican.
Osborne, John E
physician, legislator, governor, was born June 19, 1858, in Westport, N. Y. He first was apprenticed to a druggist in Vermont; later studied medicine and attended the medical lectures at the university of Vermont, graduating in 1880.
He moved west, opened a drug store in Rawlins, Wyo., where he accumulated a fortune and established an enviable reputation as a physician. He is probably the largest individual sheep holder in Wyoming , his flocks numbering over thirty thousand. In 1882 he was elected a member of the territorial legislature; in 1888 was elected mayor of Rawlins; and in 1896 was elected governor of Wyoming. He is president of the Rawlins Electric Light company; secretary of the Rawlins Wool Storage company; president of the Rawlins Hotel company; and director of a large drug supply house.
OSBORNE, [SAMUEL] DUFFIELD, author, was born in 1858 on Long Island. He is a littérateur of New York city; and the author of The Spell of Ashtaroth; and The Robe of Nessus.
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.
Oscanyan, Hatchik
author, was born in 1818 in Turkey. He is an Armenian writer of New York city who took the name of Christopher; and is the author of Acaby, a satirical romance; Veronica, a novel; Bedig, a work for young readers; and The Sultan and His People, once a very popular work.
Osgood, Mrs. Frances Sargent
[LOCKE], poet, was born June 18, 1811, in Boston, Mass. She was a poet whose poems were for a time extremely popular.
She was the author of The Casket of Fate; A Wreath of Wild Flowers from New England; The Happy Release, a play written for Sheridan Knowles; and Poems.
She died May 12, 1850, in Hingham, Mass.
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.
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.