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 45- OSGOOD. OTIS. than fourteen years' judicial service, with the well-merited respect and esteem of his fellow-citizens. He made the court of which he was justice an efficient agency in the enforcement of law and the preservation of public morals, and retired with the con- sciousness of having served his city and state with honor to himself, and fidelity to his constituents and the public interests. OSGOOD, Stephen, son of Stephen and Charlotte (Morrill) Osgood, was born in Salisbury, Essex county, November 16, 1826. His early education was accomplished at the common schools, and when seventeen years old he removed to Georgetown, where, with a brief exception, he has since resided. He began as an apprentice in the mer- chant tailoring business, but contracting the gold fever in 1849, sailed round the Cape to California, where lie remained for one year or more, and returned to George- town. He has held nearly all of the town offices and has been an earnest advocate and leader in all progressive movements. He has been selectman, assessor, and over- seer of the poor ; trustee of the Peabody library and the Georgetown Savings Bank, and director and vice-president of the Georgetown National Bank. 1 le was a member of the House of Rep- resentatives in 1871, and of the Senate in [879, to which he was re-elected in 18S0. He served as chairman upon the commit- tees on public charitable institutions and library. On the 9th of April, 1851, Mr. Osgood married Sarah, daughter of Moses and Alinira (Platts) Carter. Their children are: Louis Kossuth, Stephen Carter, Charles Clement, and Charlotte Alice Osgood. OSGOOD, William N., son of George Newton and Minerva (Hay ward) Osgood, was born in Lowell, Middlesex county, June ii, 1855. The public schools of Lowell furnished the advantages for his early education. He was graduated from the Lowell high school ; entered Amherst College, and was graduated therefrom in the class of 1878 ; attended the Boston University law school, and was admitted to the bar in 1880. He practiced law in Lowell until March, 1885, when he removed his law office to Boston, in which city he has since been engaged in the successful practice of his profession. Mr. Osgood was married in Tewksbury, January 1, 1884, to Harriet Leslie, daugh- ter of Henry C. and Augusta (Jaques) Palmer. He has always manifested an interest in public affairs ; was a member of the Lowell common council, 1881 and '82, being presi- dent of that body the latter year ; was a member of the Lowell water board in 1882; ex-officio, president of the common WILLIAM N OSGOOD. council, a member of the school board, and also a trustee of the Lowell public library. He was the candidate of the Dem- ocratic party in 1888 for secretary of the Commonwealth, and received the largest vote ever cast for a Democratic candidate for that position. During the presidential campaign of 1888 Mr. Osgood made many speeches in different parts of the State. In political views he is progressive, believing in the ultimate triumph of true Democratic prin- ciples over the usurpations of all privileged classes. OTIS, JOHN LORD, son of Hayden E. and Mary (Lord) Otis, was born in Lyme, New London county, Conn., July 15, 1827. He was educated in the public schools of his native state, and early evincing a taste for mechanical engineering, he devoted himself to that study, and in 1S51 was employed as superintendent by the Pacific Manufacturing Company, of Manchester,