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OSBORN, FRANCIS AUGUSTUS, GEN., eldest son of Augustus K. and Mary (Shove) Osborn, was born in Danvers, now Peabody, Mass., Sept. 22, 1833,
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of ancestry dating in this country from 1645. He On Aug. 26, 1863, the regiment made, under com- came to Boston in 1845, and was educated in the Boston Public Latin School, from which he gradu- ated in 1849. He first entered business with W. Ropes & Co., Russian merchants, acting as cierk with them for six years. He then went into the ship- chandlery business for himself, remaining therein for about five years. When the Civil War broke out he was an officer of the New England Guards, and upon its organization into a battalion of two companies, he was commissioned captain of the
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original company, April 19, 1861. The battalion was sent to Fort Independence to do garrison duty April 25, and remained there a month. On its return to the city, May 25, Maj. Thomas G. Stevenson of the battalion and Captain Osborn offered their services to Gov. John A. Andrew, and were soon after commissioned colonel and lienten- ant-colonel respectively of the Twenty-fourth Mas- sachusetts Volunteers, the first service of which was in Burnside's expedition to North Carolina, taking part in the battles of Roanoke Island and Newbern, and several other engagements of less note. On Dec. 28, 1862, Lieutenant-Colonel Osborn was pro- moted to the coloneley of the regiment. The regi- ment then went into the department of the South, and participated in the assault on Fort Warner and in the siege of Fort Wagner and Fort Sumter, doing regular duty in the trenches for several months.
mand of Colonel Osborn, an assault upon the enemy's rifle-pits in front of Fort Wagner and cap- tured them, taking prisoners nearly the whole force occupying them. This affair gave the regiment great credit, as the enemy, by holding these rifle- pits, which were in a strong position, had been able to check completely the advance of the engineering work against Fort Wagner. The work was at once resumed, and speedily resulted in the capture of that fort. The success of this assault was the more noteworthy, as three previous assaults upon these rifle-pits by other regiments had been repulsed. In the spring of 1864 the regiment was sent with the Army of the James to join the operations around Richmond and before Petersburg, and was there actively engaged during the summer and fall of 1864. During this service Colonel Osborn was slightly wounded in the neck by a spent ball. He was mustered out on Nov. 14, 1864, and, warmly recommended for brevet, was brevetted brigadier- general. Returning to Boston, he was for a time cashier of Blake Brothers & Co., bankers. He was appointed naval officer for the district of Boston and Charlestown March 19, 1867, and served two years. Leaving that office, he went into the stock- brokerage business, having been previously elected a member of the Boston Stock Exchange. On Jan. 1, 1874, he became treasurer of the Corbin Bank- ing Company, of New York and Boston. In May, 1883, he sold out his interest, and on June 30 re- signed as treasurer. In November, 1883, he organ- ized the Eastern Banking Company, becoming its president, which position he still holds. He has 'been a director of the Tremont National Bank since January, 1876. He was the original treasurer of the New England Mortgage Security Company, having been elected in April, 1875, but on June 14, 1879, he resigned that office on account of pressing business ; he is still, however, a director. He served three years in the city council ( 1867, 1868, 1869), and was department commander of the de- partment of Massachusetts, G.A.R., for the year 1869. He was one of the original charter mem- bers of the Massachusetts Commandery of the Mili- tary Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, and was first commander of that command- ery, being succeeded by General Devens. He is trustee of various land associations ; has been inter- ested in real estate more than a score of years ; was a member of the first board of directors of the Real Estate Exchange and Auction Board, and its president from March, 1891, to March, 1892, when he declined reelection. He was one of those who
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organized the Citizens' Association on Dec. 27, and cultured man, and a portrait painter of merit. 1887, and was its first president, serving four years, and then declining reelection. He was appointed civil-service commissioner by Governor Robinson in June, 1886, and served three years as chairman of the board, but declined reappointment to office by Governor Ames for business reasons. He has been twice married : first to Miss Mary M. Mears, and of this union was born one daughter ; and second to Miss Emily T. Bouve ; of this union have been born four children, - two daughters and two sons.
OSGOOD, HAMILTON, M.D., was born in Chelsea, July 7, 1839. He was graduated from the Chelsea High School, and ill health prevented his taking a university course. After travelling several years on account of his health he finished his education under private tutors in Europe and Boston. Grad- uated M.D. from the Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia, he at once matriculated as stu- dent in the Harvard Medical School. After two sessions here he went abroad and studied his pro- fession during two years in Berlin, Vienna, Paris, and London, making a special study of the throat, lungs, and heart. Returning from Europe he spent five years in Philadelphia, on account of his wife's health, and became lecturer in the Jefferson Medical College there, and visiting physician to the German Hospital ; he was appointed to the medical staff of the Centennial Commission, and made examiner in two life-insurance companies. Dr. Osgood is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, and of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement. He is senior physician to the Hospital for Incura- bles in the Dorchester district, with which he has been connected from its infancy, having been in -. strumental, together with the late Miss Harmon, in originating this institution. He has been a frequent contributor to the medical journals, and among his papers are : " Angina Pectoris," " Nitrite of Amyl in the Chill Stage of Malaria," " Misleading Car- diac Murmurs and Expiratory Auscultation of the Heart," " Inveterate Headache," " A Case of Acute Interstitial Nephritis, with Convulsions and Recovery," " Therapeutic Value of Suggestion dur- ing the Hypnotic State," and "The Outcome of Personal Experience in the Application of Hyp- notic Suggestion." Dr. Osgood has also written " A Biographical Sketch of Louis Pasteur," and is the author of " Winter and its Dangers."
OSGOOD, NATHAN C., son of Charles and Sarah E. Osgood, of Salem, Mass., was born in that city Aug. 24, 1857. His father was a highly educated
The early tuition of Nathan C. was received under the parental roof, and later he was sent to the public schools of Salem, finally graduating from the high school. Opportunities were suggested for a continuance of his studies, but his desire to enter into mercantile pursuits was too strong to allow him to prolong them. Although possessing artistic tastes, he did not inherit in any special degree his father's pronounced talent, and he longed for a busy life and something more in keeping with his active mind. He first entered the employ of G. F. Bouvé, sole-leather dealer (now head of the firm of Bouve, Crawford, & Co.), where he remained until he became proficient in the business. Then, in 1884, he began business on his own account, establishing himself on High street, and in the name of N. C. Osgood. His specialty is inner- soling, and he is a representative commission-agent for tanners throughout the country. Mr. Osgood votes the Republican ticket, but beyond this is in no way a politician, as all his time is needed for his mercantile pursuits. He was married in 1886 to Eliza Stevens, daughter of Hon. William S. Stevens, of Dover, N.H. ; they have one daughter.
OSGOOD, WILLIAM N., son of George Newton and Minerva (Hayward) Osgood, was born in Lowell, Mass., June 11, 1855. He was educated in the Lowell public schools and at Amherst College, where he graduated in the class of . 1878. Then he took the course of the Boston University Law School, and in 1880 was admitted to the bar. He began practice in Lowell, but in 1885 removed to Boston, where he has since remained. While a resident of Lowell he served in the common council (1881 and 1882), president of that body during his second term; on the school board; as a member of the water board ( 1882) ; and as a trustee of the public library. In politics he is a Democrat, and has been the candidate of his party for secretary of the Commonwealth ; in the election of ISSS he re- ceived the largest vote ever cast for a Democratic candidate for that office. On Jan. 1, 18S4, Mr. Osgood was married, in Tewksbury, to Miss Harriet L. Palmer.
O'SHEA, EDWARD FLAVIAN, M.D., son of John .1. and Ellen ( Morris) O'Shea, was born in Milford, Mass., Nov. 29, 1863. He was educated in the local schools and at St. Joseph's College, Buffalo, N.Y. He began the study of medicine under Dr. Kittenger, of Lockport, N.Y., and then, in 1887, entered the Harvard Medical School, graduating
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therefrom in 1890. He obtained the means to pur- sue his medical studies by working in the shoe-
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shops of his native town. Immediately after his graduation from the Medical School he began prac- tice in East Boston. He is a member of the Massa- chusetts Medical Society.
O'SHEA, PATRICK, superintendent of the lamp de- partment of Boston, was born in Cork, Ire., May 13, 1856, and came to Boston with his parents at the age of two years. They removed to Easton, where his boyhood was passed and his early educa- tion received. He afterwards attended school at West Dudley, returning to Boston in 1870. Then he entered the employ of Tileston & Hollingsworth, paper manufacturers, where he remained for over fifteen years, learning the business in its various branches. Mr. ()'Shea early became interested in politics, and during the past seven years he has served on the Democratic ward committee, of which for three years he was chairman. He was appointed to his present position by Mayor Matthews in 1891.
OTIS, ALBERT BOYD, son of Samuel and Eliza (Nickerson) Otis, was born in Belfast, Me., June 24, 1839. His education was obtained in the schools of his native city and in Tufts College, at which institution he was graduated in 1863. He began the study of law in the office of Hon. Nehe-
miah Abbott, of Belfast, Me., and entering the Har- vard Law School was graduated therefrom in 1866. On motion of Governor Andrew he was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1867, and began the practice of his profession in Governor Andrew's office. Later he formed a partnership with John F. Andrew, which continues at the present time. He has been remarkably successful in his practice, and his name is widely and favorably known. In politics he was formerly an ardent Republican, but since 1884 he has identified himself with the Independents.
PACKARD, HORACE, M.D., son of the late John Harris Packard, of West Bridgewater, Mass., was born in that town Aug. 9, 1855. He was edu- cated in the Bridgewater Academy and the State Normal School, and graduated from the Boston University School of Medicine M.D. in ISSo. Then he went abroad, spending a year in. study in Vienna, London, and Berlin. Returning to Boston he has since practised his profession in this city. He served one year as interne to the Massachusetts Homeopathic Hospital, and was later appointed surgeon, which position he now holds. He is also associate professor of surgery in the Boston Uni- versity Medical School. He is a member of the Massachusetts Homoeopathic Medical Society, the Boston Homeopathic Medical Society (of which he is ex-president), and the American Institute of Homoeopathy. Dr. Packard has now relinquished general practice, devoting his entire time to surgery. He has introduced a number of new and improved surgical instruments. His contributions to the medi- cal press include papers on abdominal surgery, appendicitis, antiseptic surgery, anesthesia, etc. Dr. Packard was married Oct. 31, 1884, to Miss Mary A., daughter of George K. Hooper, of Boston.
PAGE, CHARLES EDWARD, M.D., son of John Cal- vin and Fanny (Gould) Page, was born in Nor- ridgewock, Me., Feb. 23, 1840. He was educated in the local schools, finishing at the Eaton Academy of Norridgewock. After leaving school he taught awhile in Anson and Madison, Me., meanwhile taking up the study of hygiene. Then he entered the manufacturing business, but soon withdrew from it and resumed his studies. These were again in- terrupted by the Civil War. In 1862 he joined the Thirteenth Massachusetts Volunteers and went to the front. After being severely wounded at Fred- ericksburg he was made lieutenant in the Fourth Regiment. He was then assigned to the Depart- ment of the Gulf as assistant superintendent of
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negro labor, and stationed at Brazier City, La. ing from the Lawrence Academy (Groton) was Here he had charge of all contrabands who came
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back from General Banks' raid, and saw that all were properly fed, clothed, and transported. At length he was taken prisoner and held within the Confederate lines for thirteen months, when he was exchanged. His health failing, he resigned and re- turned North. Then he promptly resumed his medical studies. In 1879 he entered the Eclectic Medical College of the city of New York, gradu- ating in 1881. The following year he published his first book " How to Treat the Baby." This was followed by " Natural Cure of Consumption," and " Horses, their Feed and their Feet," a manual of horse hygiene. " Pneumonia and Typhoid Fever : a Study " is his latest publication. He has been a frequent contributor to the medical journals. In his practice he has given especial attention to the treatment of obesity and consumption. Dr. Page is a member of the Algonquin, Athletic, and Roxbury Clubs, and of John A. Andrew Post 15, G.A.R. On Sept. 14, 1889, he was married to Miss Jane Day, daughter of James Adams of Castleton, Vt. ; they have two children : Margaret and Charles Edward Page, jr.
PAGE, EDWARD, was born in Groton, Mass., Dec. 4, 1826. He received his early education in the public schools of his native town, and after graduat-
engaged in general mechanical and business enter- prises (in Leominster) up to 1864, when he began the study of dentistry with Dr. T. S. Blood, of Fitchburg. He was one of the first class, of six members, to graduate from the Harvard Dental School, in the spring of 1869. A year later he graduated from the medical department. He has been in the practice of dentistry in Charlestown, where he now resides, from 1865 to the present time. He was the first president of the Harvard Alumni Association, treasurer of the Massachusetts Dental Society twenty years, secretary and treasurer of the Boston Society for Dental Improvement for eight years, and a member of the Harvard Dental School Association. He is also supreme leader of the Home Circle, and past commander of the American Legion of Honor.
PAGE, FRANK WILFRED, M.D., was born in East Wilton, N.H., Aug. 24, 1843. He was educated in Burlington, Vt., graduating from the University of Vermont in the class of 1864, receiving the degree of A.B., and that of A.M. in 1869. In 1866 he graduated from the medical department, and pursued a course of studies in the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York city. He
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began the practice of his profession in St. Peter, Minn., and returning East settled in Brandon, Vt.,
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where he followed medicine and surgery for eleven years. He then relinquished his private practice to accept the position of first assistant in the McLean Asylum for the Insane. Upon the retirement of the superintendent he was advanced to that position, which he held six months, when he resigned to accept the position of superintendent of the Adams Nervine Asylum. This he held until 1885, then declining a reelection. He is still one of the con- sulting physicians of this institution, and also of the Danvers Asylum for the Insane. He is also exam- ining surgeon for the Boston agency of the Travel- lers' Life Insurance Company. Dr. Page is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society and of other organizations. He has contributed various articles to different medical journals, among them papers on " Thoracantisis," " Cerebral Abscess," " Permanency of the Rest Treatment," " A Bussey Bridge Accident Case," and "Liberty of the Insane."
PAGE, GEORGE HERBERT, proprietor of the Lang- ham Hotel, son of William R. and Juliette (Church- hill) Page, was born in Constantinople, Turkey, June 15, 1863, where his parents were at the time residing. His father was a native of Hallowell, Me., and his mother, of England. He was educated in French schools in Constantinople and Port Said, Egypt, two years at the former and three at the latter ; a German-boarding school at Jaffa, Pal- estine ; then, coming to the United States, in the Wiscasset, Me., public schools, and finishing at the Hallowell ( Maine) Classical School. He began work in July, 1879, as an errand boy in Boston, for the wholesale hardware-house of B. Callender & Co., and later was employed in the same capacity by Pierce, Tripp, & Co., mill supplies. Then he became book-keeper for the Tucum Manufacturing Company, and subsequently clerk in the Norfolk House, Roxbury district. He opened the Langham Hotel, as proprietor, in December, 1888.
PAGE, WASHBURN EDDY, D.M.D., son of Edward, M.D., D.M.D., and Rebecca Jane Page, was born in Leominster, Mass., Aug. 2, 1853. In November, 1865, his parents moved to Charlestown, where he graduated from the Warren Grammar School, class of 1870, and the Charlestown High School, class of 1873. He entered the dental department of Har- vard University, graduating in the class of 1877 and receiving his degree of D.M.D. Then he began active practice, associating himself with his father. In November, 1881, he established himself in the Studio Building, on Tremont street, and in Decem-
ber, 1891, moved to his present office, No. 16 Arlington street. He has held the offices of presi. dent, treasurer, and corresponding secretary of the Harvard Odontological Society, and is now a mem- ber of its executive committee. He is a member of the council, and the committee on dental school, and is serving his thirteenth year as treasurer of the Harvard Dental School Association. For several years he was secretary and a member of the executive committee of the Massachusetts Dental Society, and is now vice-president. He has hehl the office of president, and is now chairman of the executive committee of the New England Dental Society. He is past commander of Harmony Council, American Legion of Honor. He is an active member of the American Dental Association ; the Dental Pro- tective Association of the United States ; the Henry Price Lodge, Free Masons; Howard Lodge, Odd Fellows ; the Odd Fellows Mutual Benefit Associa- tion ; Loyal Council; Home Circle; and South Boston Yacht Club; and he has held positions of
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trust in other corporations, societies, and clubs. In January, 1883, he was married to Miss Adelia Cynthia Wait, of South Boston.
PAGE, WESLEY L., son of George G. Page, was born in Cambridge in 1852. He was educated in the Cambridge grammar and high schools, and when a lad of sixteen began work in his father's box-fac-
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tory. In 1874 he was admitted to the business as ent times in the Chicago, Burlington, & Quincy, the a junior partner, the firm name then being George Mexican Central, and the Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fé Railroads. He is widely known as the owner of the famous yachts " Mayflower " and " Volunteer." He was also one of the syndicate who owned the " Puritan, " the first of the Boston " flyers." Gen- eral Paine was married in 1867 to Miss Julia Bryant ; they have seven children.
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G. Page & Co. In 1880 ill-health compelled the father to retire (he died Jan. 13, 1886), and the entire management of the factory and the business of the house fell into the hands of the two brothers, Ovando G. and Wesley L. Two years after Ovando died, and in March, 1883, the present corporation, under the name of the George G. Page Box Com- pany, was formed, with Wesley L. Page as president and general manager. The concern has become one of the largest of its kind in the country. It utilizes the entire product of five mills situated in Massachusetts and Maine, and part of the product of several others. The large brick building of the company stands on the site of the house in which Wesley L. Page was born.
PAINE, CHARLES JACKSON, son of Charles Cushing and Fannie (Jackson) Paine, was born in Boston Aug. 26, 1833. He was educated in the Boston Latin School and Harvard College, from which he graduated in. 1853. He studied law with Rufus Choate, and was admitted to the bar in 1866. He served in the Civil War, entering as captain of Com- pany I, Twenty-second Massachusetts Volunteers, and, passing through various grades, closed as brig- adier-general and brevet major-general, United States Volunteers. He has been director at differ-
PAINE, ROBERT TREAT, son of Charles Cushing and Fanny Cabot (Jackson) Paine, was born in Boston Oct. 28, 1835. His great-grandfather was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independ- ence. He received his early education in private and public schools of Boston, entering the Boston Latin School at ten and graduating at fifteen. In 1851 he entered Harvard, and was graduated with honors in the class of 1855, among such distin- guished classmates as Bishop Phillips Brooks, Fran- cis C. . Barlow, Alexander Agassiz, Theodore Lyman, and Frank B. Sanborn. After studying law at Harvard one year, he passed two years in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, France, and Spain. Return- ing to Boston in 1858, he further pursued his law studies in the offices of Richard H. Dana and Fran- cis E. Parker one year, and in 1859 was admitted to the bar. He practised till 1870, when he re- tired from active business, intending to devote the remainder of his life to various benevolent enter- prises, one of the first of which was the building of "Trinity Church, which took a large share of his time from 1872 to 1876, he being one of the sub-com- mittee of three who had charge of the work. He was chosen the first president of the Associated Charities upon its organization in 1878, and has held that position ever since. In 1879 he organ- ized the Wells Memorial Institute, the largest work- ingmen's club in the United States, and having now sixteen hundred members. He became its first president, which office he still retains, and raised the various subscriptions which have paid out over $90,000 for the memorial building. Mr. Paine's winter residence is at No. 6 Joy street, Boston, and his summer residence at Waltham. He represented Waltham in the lower house of the Legislature in 1884 ; has been a member of the vestry of Trinity Church, Boston, for fifteen years ; a member of the executive committee of the Episcopal City Mission, and also of the Society for the Suppression of Vice. He is one of the trustees of donations to the Prot- estant Episcopal Church ; is president of the Work- ingmen's Cooperative Bank, the Workingmen's Buikdling Association, and the Congress of Working- men's Clubs; and president of the " Robert Treat
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Paine " corporation for the purpose of founding a in the branches of patent and trade-mark law Christian charity for promoting the spiritual, moral, and in equity causes, having been connected with and physical welfare of the working classes. Mr. Paine was a candidate for congressional honors in the Fifth Massachusetts District in 1884, as a " Mug- wump " and Democrat. He had been a Republi- can (and Free Soiler) until the nomination of Mr. Blaine. He is vice-president of the Children's Aid Society, of which his mother was one of the found- ers and a director as long as she lived. Starting in life with no money, his savings at the law were so judiciously invested in real estate and railroad and mining enterprises that at thirty-five years of age he gave up business with an independent fortune of his own making. In 1887 Mr. Paine gave $10,000 to Harvard College to endow a fellowship for the study of " the ethical problems of society, the effects of legislation, governmental administration, and private philanthropy, to ameliorate the lot of the mass of mankind.". This eminent philanthro- pist has done something more than theorize. Be- sides his twenty-five published pamphlets and addresses, all for the public weal, he has thrown himself and his wealth into the work of raising the unfortunate, improving the condition, and especially the homes, of the working classes, strengthening private morals and public "law and order." Mr. Paine was married in Boston April 24, 1862, to Lydia Williams Lyman, daughter of George Williams and Anne ( Pratt) Lyman. Her father was the son of Theodore Lyman, a distinguished Boston merchant at the beginning of this century. Of this union are five children : Edith (Mrs. John H. Storer), Robert Treat, jr., Ethel Lyman, George Lyman, and Lydia Lyman Paine.
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