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Putnam, James Osborne

lawyer, state senator, congressman, author, was born July 4, 1818, in Attica, N. Y. He represented the Buffalo district in the state senate of New York in 1854 and 1855.

He was a presidential elector-at-large in 1860, and was United States consul at Havre, France, from 1861-66. He was United States minister to Belgium from 1860 to July, 1862, and was the United States delegate to the international property congress held in Paris, France, in 1880. He wrote a volume of his Addresses and Miscellanies, which was published in 1880. PUTNAM, MRS. KATHARINE HUNT (PALMER), author, was born March 1, 1792, in Framingham, Mass. She was a Boston writer, and the author of Scripture Text Book; and The Old Testament Unveiled. She died Jan. 8, 1869, in New York city.

PUTNAM, MRS. MARY (LOWELL), author, was born Dec. 3, 1810, in Boston, Mass. She is a life-long resident of Boston, and the author of Fifteen Days; History of the Court of Hungary; Records of an Obscure Man; Tragedy of Errors; and Tragedy of Success.