Genealogy and history of representative citizens of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, Part 25

Author: Hurd, Charles Edwin, 1833-1910
Publication date: 1902
Publisher: Boston, New England historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 850

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John Gordon Wright was educated in the schools of Clinton and Lancaster, Mass. For three years, from the time he was twelve until he was fifteen years old, he was employed in the office of the Bigelow Carpet Company at Clinton, after which he resumed his studies, attending an academy. After his school days were over he came to Boston and entered the store of Patterson, Eager & Co., Milk Street, where he remained as an employee for one year. He then became paymaster for the Clin- ton Company, being at this time but sixteen years of age. Subsequently he was for four years in the office of the Lowell Machine Shop. This he left in order to go to New York City to enter the business house of Sam- uel Lawrence, wool merchant, whose represen- tative he was when he came to Boston for the second time in 1865. From that time up to 1884 he was engaged in business in this city as a partner in several different concerns, all connected with the wool business. In the year last named Mr. Wright established him- self in business at his present quarters, 620 Atlantic Avenue, as an importer of and dealer in Australian and other foreign wools; and he

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has since thus continued, having been quite successful. He is a director in several busi- ness corporations, and is known as a good mer- chant and a far-sighted and enterprising man, with sufficient conservatism to keep out of rash and unprofitable speculations. He is a mem- ber of the Boston Art Club, of the Country Club, and of the Boston Merchants' Association.

Mr. Wright was married February 13, 1866, to Miss Mary Ann Bigelow Fenno, a daughter of Henry W. and Rebecca Hill (Darracott) Fenno, of Chelsea, Mass. Mrs. Wright is a grand-daughter of George Darracott, the founder of the Boston Gas Light Company, who was later a well-known manufacturer of gas meters. Mr. and Mrs. Wright have one child - Lila Darracott, born July 4, 1869, who is now the wife of Andrew Adie and the mother of two children : Andrea Wright, born August 17, 1899; and Mary Rosamond, born July 19, 1901.

The following record of births, marriages, and deaths is copied from the old family Bible of the Darracotts, and may be said to give a bird's-eye view of Mrs. Wright's ancestry and family connections :

William Darracott, the purchaser of this Bible, was the son of William Darracott, who was the son of Sir Darracott, of Biddeford, England. The father of the owner of this book emigrated to this country about the year 1742, and m. Sarah Earl, of Boston, by whom he had two children, one of whom d. in infancy ; the other, the owner of this Bible, is a house carpenter, and built himself a mansion in Charles Street, to which he moved September 26, 1796. He d. 16th of October, 1806.

BIRTHS.

William Darracott, son of William and Rachel Darracott, b. February 4, 1781.

George Darracott, son of William and Mary Dar- racott, b. October 6, 1784.

Rebecca Hill Darracott, first child of George and Sally Darracott, b. Monday, January 18, 1808.

Elizabeth Clark Darracott, second child of George and Sally Darracott, was b. Saturday, Sep- tember 9, 1809.

George Darracott, first son of George and Sally Darracott, b. Thursday, November 8, 1810.

William Earle Darracott, second son of George and Sally Darracott, was b. Saturday, December 12, 1812.

Sarah Clark Darracott and Mary Lowell Darra- cott, twin children of George and Sally Darracott, were b. Wednesday, 25th, and Thursday, 26th days of May, 1814.

Sarah Clark, seventh child of George and Sally Darracott, b. November 13, 1815.

Frances Mehitable Darracott, eighth child of George and Sally Darracott, b. February 5, 1817.

William Earle Darracott, third son of George and Sally Darracott, b. June 15, 1818 (ninth child).

Franklin Darracott, fourth son of George and Sally Darracott, b. September 24, 1820 (tenth child).

Risdon Darracott, sixth son of George and Sally Darracott, b. December 23, 1823, Tuesday.

James Risdon Darracott, seventh son of George and Sally Darracott, b. Friday, January 13, 1826.

Lowell Blake Darracott, eighth son, b. Sunday, February 1, 1829.

Frances Mehitable Darracott, daughter of George and Sally Darracott, b. March 5, 1832.

MARRIAGES.

William Darracott was m. to Rachel Brown, June 19, 1780.

William Darracott was m. to Mary Barnard, widow of Captain John Barnard, whose maiden name was Lowell, December 25, 1783.

William Darracott was m. to Deborah (Corter or Carter), November 11, 1787. All of Boston.

George Darracott was m. to Sally Clark, the daughter of James Clark, ship-builder, January 18, 1807. Sally Clark was b. August 27, 1787.

Rebecca Hill Darracott, eldest daughter of George and Sally Darracott, was b. January 18, 1808 ; was m. to Henry Williams Fenno, son of Deacon John Fenno, November 20, 1828.

Elizabeth Clark Darracott, second daughter of George and Sally Darracott, was m. to Benjamin Henderson Green, son of Captain Francis Green, of Boston, December 9, 1830.

George Darracott, Jr., was m. to Ann M. Clark, December 3, 1835.

Sarah C. Darracott m. to Joseph Nason, July 8, 1844.

Franklin Darracott m. Julia Maria Marland, daughter of Abraham Marland, of Andover, Septem- ber 24, 1840.

James Risdon Darracott m. Catherine Janet Wright, of Lowell, April, 1851.

Mary Lowell Darracott m. Rev. Henry F. Edes, March 16, 1853.

Frances Mehitable Darracott, youngest daughter of George and Sally Darracott, m. to Martin Lincoln Bowles, of Roxbury, August 27, 1857.

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DEATHS.

Rachel Darracott, wife of William Darracott, d. April 7, 1782.

Mary Darracott, wife of William, d. June 24, 1785.

William Darracott, Jr., son of William and Rachel Darracott, d. December 23, 1803.

William Darracott, Sen., d. October 16, 1806.

Sarah Furbur, the mother of William Darracott, d. December 3, 1807. She was the daughter of Mr. Earl, of Boston.

William Earle Darracott, second son of George and Sally Darracott, d. September 20, 1813, aged 9 months.

Sarah Clark Darracott, twin daughter of George and Sally Darracott, d. October 12, 1814, aged 4} months.

Frances Mehitable Darracott d. Monday, August 2, 1819, aged 2 years, 5 months, 28 days.

James Clark Darracott d. March 6, 1825.

Risdon Darracott d. March 3, 1825. They were buried the same day.

Lowell Darracott d. December 23, 1829, aged 10 months, 22 days.

William Earle Darracott, third son of George and Sally Darracott, d. August 23, 1837, aged 19 years, 3 months.

Sarah Darracott, wife of George Darracott, d. June 16, 1859, aged 71 years, 9 months, 19 days.

George Darracott, son of William and Mary Dar- racott, d. July 13, 1865, aged 80 years, 9 months.

James Risdon Darracott d. August 29, 1862.

Henry Williams Fenno, b. November 25, 1806, d. July 14, 1862.

Rebecca Hill Darracott Fenno, b. January 18, 1808, d. December 24, 1893.

Henry Fenno and Rebecca Darracott m. in Boston, November 20, 1828.

Rebecca Fenno was the daughter of George and Sally (Clark) Darracott.

HARLES FREEMAN SMALL, re- tired business man of Boston, resid- ing in the city of Malden, is a native of Limington, York County, Me., where his grandfather, Henry Small, was a pioneer settler, removing from Scarboro, Me., in 1787. Mr. Small's parents were Francis and Dorothy (Libby) Small, natives of Scarboro. On the paternal side Mr. Small is a lineal descendant of Francis2 Small, the

immigrant progenitor of the Maine family of this surname, who is considered to have been a son of either Edward' Small, who was liv- ing at Piscataqua as early as 1640, or of John' Small, who was one of the founders of Eastham, Cape Cod. The line of descent from Francis,2 b. about 1620, to Francis,? 1785, the father above named, is through Samuel, 3 b. 1666; Samuel, 4 1700; John, 5 1722 ; and Henry, 6 b. 1757.

A pamphlet on "The Small Family in America," by Lauriston W. Small of the Maine Historical Society, contains a partial genealogy of the Maine branch, and vividly portrays the life and character of conspicuous representatives of different generations. To this pamphlet we are indebted for the follow- ing further particulars concerning the first Francis Small and some of his descendants in Maine. The author designates him as Fran- cis,2 and says he was named for his kinsman, Captain Francis Champernoune. Francis2 Small was living at Dover, N. H., in 1648, later at Falmouth, Me., and in 1668 at Kittery. On November 28, that year, he received from Sundy, a friendly Indian chief, a deed of a tract of land twenty miles square, known as Ossipee. The original deed was recorded in 1773. Francis2 Small at the time of the Indian wars removed to Cape Cod, where he d. about 1713. In 1711 he deeded Ossipee (Os- sipee proper, the part that he had retained of his purchase, "was divided into the towns of Limington, Limerick, Newfield, Parsonsfield, and Cornish ") to his son Samuel3.

Samuel4 Small, son of Samuel3 and his wife Elizabeth Heard, m. in Kittery, at a youthful age, Anna Hatch, and shortly removed to Scar- boro, where for sixty-three years his was the most conspicuous name on the record. He was a Deacon of the church, for fifty-two years Town Clerk, and for many years Moderator of town meetings. So enthusiastic a patriot was he that he copied entire into the town record- book the Declaration of Independence. In 1778 he was at the head of the town's Com- mittee of Correspondence, Inspection, and Safety. He lived to be past ninety years of age.

Major John5 Small, son of Deacon Samuel, 4

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was a land surveyor and an officer in the Eng- lish army. In 1762, while making a survey for a military road, he was killed by a shot meant for a bear. At Falmouth, October 12, 1752, he m. as his second wife Mary McKen- ney, spoken of as the "fairy-born Mary, light, graceful, and bewitching, the most beautiful girl ever seen by her townspeople." Somewhat lacking, perhaps, in good judgment and pru- dent thrift, as in her hands the property left by the Major appears to have been scatttered before his children (two by the first wife and six by the second) were settled in life.

Henry6 Small, son of Major John and Mary, hurried off to join the Revolutionary army when he heard the news at Scarboro of the battle of Lexington, and served as a private nearly three years. He m. at Scarboro, June 16, 1778, Elizabeth Dam; and in April, 1787, he migrated with his wife and four children to Ossipee, settling in that part which is now Limington, whither his uncles, Samuel5 and Joshua, 5 had preceded him. Building a log- house in the woods, he entered vigorously upon the work of clearing and cultivating a farm about a mile west of the present village of Limington. Industry and integrity were his leading characteristics. Mentally, his wife, a "large-brained, large-hearted, queenly dame,"

was his superior. He d. in 1826, and she on June 13, 1841. They had twelve children : Abigail, Mary, John, Francis,7 Humphrey, Elizabeth, Fanny, Sally, Dora, Henry, Theo- dosia, and Joseph.

Francis7 Small, father of Charles Freeman, was b. May 2, 1785. He m. November 29, 1810, Dorothy Libby. She was b. June 28, 1791, daughter of Philemon and Martha (Small) Libby. Her father, Philemon, a lineal descendant of John' Libby, b. in England about 1602, who, coming to this country as a young man, was in the employ of Robert Trelawney, manager of a trading post on Rich- mond's Island, off the coast of Maine. Proba- bly in 1640 John Libby sent for his wife to come from England, and with her took up his abode on the main land in what is now Scar- boro. Their son Henry,2 b. in 1647, m. Honor Hinkson, daughter of Peter Hinkson. Fleeing from Scarboro after the surrender of

the fort to the Indians in 1690, he lived for some years at Lynn, Mass., but eventually returned to Scarboro. John3 Libby, son of Henry and Honor, b. probably about 1701, m. first Mary Goodwin, and, after her death, m. in 1738 Anne Fogg. He was a surgeon, and held important town offices in Scarboro. He was Lieutenant in Captain George Berry's Company in 1745, and later was known as Captain Libby. Philemon, 4 father of Doro- thy, b. May 29, 1749, was his eighth child by his second wife. Philemon Libby's wife was a grand-daughter of Deacon Samuel4 and Anna (Hatch) Small, above named.

Francis7 and Dorothy (Libby) Small had ten children, all b: at Limington but the youngest, Amanda, who was b. in Windham, Me. The record is: Sophronia, b. November 8, 1811; David Otis, September 29, 1813; Martha L., September 10, 1815, all deceased; Abigail Dam, b. September 2, 1817, d. January 8, 1841; Lydia, b. December 24, 1819, d. No- vember 18, 1894; William Francis, b. May 2, 1822, d. February 20, 1889; Mary Ann, b. August 20, 1824, d. May, 1900; Louisa Otis, b. November 19, 1826; Charles Free- man, of Malden, b. June 10, 1830; and Amanda, b. October 12, 1834. Mr. Small's father was a mason, and worked at his trade in Limington, Me., many years, and was also a farmer, giving much attention to his farm. In the War of 1812 he was a soldier, serving a short time in camp. He d. July 17, 1865. His wife Dorothy d. March 11, 1879.

Charles Freeman8 Small, youngest son of Francis,7 was educated at Windham, Me. Ambitious and energetic, knowing that he must make his own way in the world, he came to Boston in 1848 at eighteen years of age, and was employed for several years as clerk in the grocery store of his brother, William F. He then started in the grocery trade for him- self in Boston on Concord Street; and in 1855 he removed to Pinckney Street, West End, and there for over forty years prospered in the provision business. Selling out in 1895, he retired from active pursuits. For the last twenty-eight years, or since 1873, he has made his home in Malden. Mr. Small and his fam- ily attend the Universalist church. In poli-

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tics he is a Republican, his father and grand- father having been respectively Federal and Whig.

He was married July 29, 1858, to Mary Livermore Glover, daughter of Ephraim Terry and Mary Webster (Sleeper) Glover. She was born in Manchester, N. H., August 6, 1837, being the eldest of a family of three children. Her sister, Martha Sleeper Glover, who was b. at Manchester, November 7, 1838, m. Stephen C. Drew, resides at Boston and Plymouth, Mass., as his summer home. They have four children - Lillian Curtis, Thomas Livermore, Alden Glover, and Charles Henry. Mr. Drew is a descendant of John and Priscilla (Mullens) Alden. Mrs. Small's brother, Thomas Liver- more Glover, b. July 10, 1841, was brought up in the family of his step-grandfather, Thomas Livermore, of Boston. In May, 1861, before he was twenty years of age, he enlisted in the First Regiment, Massachustts Volun- teers, for service in the Civil War. He was wounded in the spine at the battle near Wash- ington, August 29, 1862, and was carried to the Seminary Hospital, where he d. September 5, 1862. His grave is in the Soldiers' Home burial-ground near Washington.

Ephraim Terry Glover, Mrs. Small's father, was b. May 7, 1812, at Harvard, Mass. He m. September 17, 1836, Mary Webster Sleeper, of Chester, N. H., b. January 29, 1816. He d. November, 1857; and she d. at Goff's Falls, Manchester, N. H., in 1841. Ephraim Terry Glover was a representative of the seventh generation of that branch of the Glover family in New England founded by Henry1 Glover, the date of whose arrival in this country appears to have been about 1640. Henry' Glover, b. in 1603, was the third son of Thomas and Margery (Deane) Glover, of Rainhill Parish, town of Prescott, Lancashire, England, originally. He d. 1655, in Med- field, a part of Dedham, Massachusetts Bay Colony. His elder brother, John Glover, came to New England in 1630, and settled at Dorchester, and was the founder of another and numerous branch of the family. Henry Glover,2 son of Henry,1 b. probably at Ded- ham in 1642, was living in Boston as early as 1660. A few years later he removed to Mil-

ton, where he d. in 1714. Edward, 3 son of Henry2 and his wife Hannah, was b. in Milton in 1681, d. in 1745. His first wife Sarah Gill, the mother of his children, six in num- ber, d. in 1740. His son John, 4 who was b. at Milton in 1726, and d. in 1759, served as a soldier in the French and Indian War, 1755- 57. He m. Abigail Holmes in 1751, and was the father of four children. John5 Glover, b. in 1753, son of John and Abigail, m. in 1776 Rachel Littlefield, of Stoughton, Mass., daughter of Moses Littlefield. They lived at Milton till after the birth of four children, and then removed to Lunenburg, Mass., where six children were born. About 1790 he migrated to Grafton, Vt., and there his wife d. in July, 1799. Later he returned to Milton, but event- ually settled at Randolph, and d. there on July 22, 1829. Benjamin6 Glover, b. at Lu- nenburg in 1788, son of John5 and his wife Rachel, went with his parents to Grafton, Vt. After returning to Massachusetts, he lived for a few years at Harvard. He m. July 16, 1810, Polly Terry of that town. Enlisting in the United States army in 1812, he served through the second war with Great Britain, and after its close was drowned while crossing a bridge on his return. His wife Polly was left a widow with one son, Ephraim Terry Glover, then three years of age.

Charles Freeman and Mary L. (Glover) Small have two children: Louise Marrett, born in Boston, November 29, 1860; and Charles Thomas, born in Boston, April 17, I862. Louise Marrett married, April 3, 1884, Everett Lovejoy Fuller, of Malden, son of ex-Mayor Loren Lovejoy Fuller, and has two children: Loring Lovejoy, born June 22, 1888; and Everett Small, born September 12, 1894. Charles Thomas Small married April 3, 1884, Inez Vellett Yale, daughter of Rufus Mitchel Yale, of Malden, and has one child - Charles Wilder, born October 11, 1886.

ILLIAM THOMAS PIERCE, chief engineer of the Metropolitan Park Commission, is a native of Leomin- ster, Worcester County, Mass. Born Novem-

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ber 12, 1854, son of John Q. A. and Elizabeth Childs (Whittaker) Pierce, he is a descendant in the ninth generation of John Pierce (or Pers), an early settler of Watertown, Mass., the line being: John,1 Anthony,2 Joseph, 3 Francis, 4 William, 5 Jonathan,6 Ezekiel,7 John Q. A.,8 William Thomas9. (See "Record of the Posterity of John Pers," by Frederick C. Pierce, 1880.)

John1 Pierce (or Pers) was a grantee of a lot of land at Watertown and purchaser of three lots before 1644. He d. in 1661. He had eight children, all b. in England. Anthony, 2 who came over before his father, was made a freeman at Watertown in 1634. He and his wife, Anne, had nine children, the seventh being Joseph3. Francis, 4 b. in 1671, son of Joseph3 and his first wife, Martha, was one of the original members of the church at Weston. He m. in 1697 Hannah, daughter of John John- son, of Cambridge. William, 5 b. at Weston in 1708, m. in 1729 Sarah Whitney, and re- sided successively in Southboro, Hopkinton, and Sutton. Jonathan,6 b. in 1736, was a sol- dier of the Revolution. He enlisted in Cap- tain Edmund Brigham's company, Colonel Job Cushing's regiment, September 1, 1777, and was discharged November 29, 1777; and in 1778 he enlisted in Captain Andrew Elliot's company for nine months for the town of Sut- ton. In 1757, being then of Hopkinton, Mass., and also at later periods, he bought land in Sutton. His wife, Mary Goodale, was sister to the mother of Robert B. Thomas, the founder of the "Old Farmer's Almanac." Ezekiel,7 b. November 1, 1787, son of Jona- than and Mary Pierce, was the youngest of thirteen children. He was a much respected citizen of West Boylston and by occupation a farmer. He m. in 1811 Ruth, daughter of Moses and Hannah Perry and grand-daughter of Abner and Mary Perry, who were from Hopkinton, Mass. Ezekiel? had four children - Estes, Emily, John Q. A., and Harriet.

John Q. A.8 Pierce was b. at West Boylston in 1817. Removing to Leominster in 1844, he resided there about twenty-three years, keeping a general merchandise store. In 1867 he came to Boston, and engaged in the boot and shoe business, being one of the firm of

Pierce & Barrell on Pearl Street, later Pierce & Fuller, and still later Pierce & Son, of Fed- eral Street, afterward on Summer Street. For twenty years or more he was a resident of Watertown, where he d. December 14, 1891. In 1862 he served as Representative from Leominster in the State Legislature, six years he was Selectman, and five years he was United States Assessor for the towns of Leom- inster and Sterling. He was first m. April 9, 1840, to Delia Phelps Bliss. She d. May 24, 1848. His second wife, Elizabeth Childs Whittaker, whom he wedded March 8, 1849, d. in 1862. His third wife, Caroline S. Bur- dett, d. in 1874. He is survived by his fourth wife, Abbie Francis (b. Tarlton), whom he m. October 19, 1876, and by three sons : Charles Quincy, of Watertown; Henry Bliss, of New York; and William T., the subject of this sketch. Another son, Myron E., formerly of Boston, is now deceased.

William Thomas Pierce received a public- school education, partly at Leominster and partly at Watertown, whither his father re- moved about 1868, and where he was graduated in the high school class of 1872. In the autumn of that year he entered the office of Ernest W. Bowditch, Boston, civil engineer and landscape gardener, where he gained ten years' experience in engineering. In 1881 and 1882 he was employed by the Mexican Central Railroad, the following three years being engaged on railroads in Canada. From that time on till 1892 he gave his attention to special work in the office of Mr. Bowditch, after which he established an office of his own, and in 1894 was appointed to his present posi- tion of chief engineer of the Metropolitan Park Commission. Mr. Pierce is a member of both the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Boston Society, also of the American Park and Outdoor Association, and of the American Forestry Association. For nearly three years, 1891-93, he was Town Engineer and Superin- tendent of Sewers for the town of Watertown, where he remains a resident. He was married June 6, 1883, to Almira Putnam Goss, daugh- ter of Ezekiel and Almira (Hatch) Goss. She was born in Salem, Mass., August 10, 1859. Mr. and Mrs. Pierce have one child, a daugh-

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ter, Elizabeth Childs, who was born October 23, 1885, and is now a student in the public schools of Watertown.

RANCIS AUGUSTUS OSBORN, president of the Eastern Banking Com- pany of Boston, was born September 22, 1833, in that part of Danvers, Mass., now included within the limits of the town of Pea- body. His parents were Augustus K. and Mary (Shove) Osborn. Through various lines of ancestry he comes of Essex County Colonial stock. The immigrant progenitor of the fam- ily of which he is a representative in the seventh generation was William Osborn, who, on coming to New England, took up his abode in the locality then known as Salem Village (afterward Danvers, and now Peabody). The line of descent is: William,1 Samuel,2 Jo- seph, 3-4 Sylvester, 5 Augustus Kendall,6 Fran- cis Augustus7.

William Osborn1 was b. in 1645, and d. in January, 1728-9. His wife, Hannah, daugh- ter of John Burton, was b. in 1640, and d. after 1721. Their son Samuel2 was b. in 1675, and lived to be over eighty years of age. His wife, Eleanor, daughter of Daniel2 and Esther (Boyce) Southwick, d. in October, 1702. Her father was a son of Lawrence' and Cassan- dra Southwick, who were severely persecuted for being Quakers. Joseph3 Osborn, b. in October, 1702, m. Rachel Foster, daughter of David2 and Hannah (Buxton) Foster. Her father was a son of John' Foster, Sr., founder of the Salem branch of Fosters, whose name appears on the Salem records of 1657; and her mother was a daughter of Anthony and Eliza- beth Buxton, of Salem. Joseph+ Osborn, b. in August, 1726, d. in July, 1804. His wife, Mary Proctor, b. in December, 1733, d. in January, 1791. She was a daughter of Cap- tain John and Lydia (Waters) Proctor, of Salem, and grand-daughter of Benjamin Proc- tor, b. in 1659, son of John2 Proctor, of Salem (John,1 of Ipswich). (New England Genea- logical Register, vol. li.) Sylvester,5 b. No- vember 10, 1758, d. October 2, 1845. As a youth of sixteen, he was in the battle of Lex- ington. His second wife was Elizabeth Poole.

She was b. April 30, 1770, and d. October 18, 1827. Augustus Kendall Osborn, b. July 7, 1800, d. March 18, 1849. He m. January 3, 1833, Mary Shove, daughter of Squiers and Esther (Marble) Shove. She was b. April 23, 1803, and d. March 30, 1842.

Francis A. Osborn attended the public schools of Danvers and later a boarding-school in Marlboro kept by O. W. Albee. In 1845 he came to Boston, and in 1849 was graduated from the Boston Latin School, having com- pleted the five years' course in four years. His first connection with business was in the capacity of clerk to William Ropes & Co., of Lewis Wharf, Boston, who were engaged ex- clusively in commerce with Russia. He was with Ropes & Co. five years, and subsequently was engaged in the ship-chandlery business for three or four years. When the Civil War broke out, in April, 1861, he was an officer of a company in the New England Guards, was appointed Captain on April 19, and with the battalion of two companies, comprising the guards, did garrison duty for a month, begin- ning April 25, at Fort Independence in Boston Harbor, under the command of Major (after- ward General) Thomas G. Stevenson. When the Guards returned to Boston, both the Major and Captain offered their services for the war to Governor John A. Andrew. The offer was accepted; and Captain Osborn on August 31, 1861, was made Lieutenant Colonel of the Twenty-fourth Massachusetts Volunteers, under command of Colonel Stevenson. On Decem- ber 28, 1862, he was made Colonel. With his regiment he served in the North Carolina ex- pedition under General Burnside in the De- partment of the South and in the Army of the James. He took part in the siege of Fort Sum- ter and the assault on Fort Wagner. He com- manded the regiment when it won renown by taking the rifle-pits in front of Fort Wagner, capturing nearly the whole force of the enemy that had held the pits against three previous attacks by other regiments, and had completely checked the advance of the Federal engineering work. He was mustered out November 14, 1864, was made Brevet Brigadier General, United States Volunteers, March 13, 1865.

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Genealogy and history of representative citizens of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, Part 25

Author: Hurd, Charles Edwin, 1833-1910 Publication date: 1902 Publisher: Boston, New England historical publishing company Number of Pages: 850

Author: Hurd, Charles Edwin, 1833-1910
Publication date: 1902
Publisher: Boston, New England historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 850