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naval officer of the port, 1803-13. He was married first, Jan. 4, 1775, to Martha Brandon of Cambridge> Mass., who died witliout issue. Sept. 13, 1778; and secondly, May 24. 1786, to Maria (Bowne) Frank- lin, widow of Walter Franklin of New York city, and daughter of Daniel Bowne of Flushing, Long Island, N.Y. Their daughter, Martha Brandon, married the Hon. Edmond C. Genet, French minister to the United States; Juliana married fii'st her cousin, Samuel W. Osgood, and secondly the Rev. Dr. Israel W. Putman; Susan Kittredge married. May 17, 1821, Moses Field, and Walter Franklin Osgood (1791-1836) married Ellen and had one son, Samuel, who married Kate Bowling and died in Newbern, N.C., 1863. Samuel Osgood, the delegate, was a charter member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of: Letters on Episcopacy (1807), and other theological writings. He died in New York city, Aug. 12, 1813.

OSGOOD, Samuel, clergyman and author, was born in Charlestown, Mass., Aug. 30, 1813; son of Thomas (1767-1818) and Hannah (Stevens) Osgood; grandson of Samuel (1714-1774) and Elizabeth (Abbott) Osgood; great-grandson of Ezekiel (1679-1741) and Rebecca (Word well) Osgood; greats-grandson of Christopher (1643- 1723) and Hannah (Belknap) Osgood, of Amherst, and greats-grandson of Christopher (the immi- grant) and Margaret (Fowler) Osgood of Ipswich, Mass., who came from Mai'lborough, Wiltshire, England, in 1633-34. Samuel Osgood prepared for college under Willard Parker and was graduated from Harvard, A.B., 1832, A.M., 1835, and from the Divinity school, Cambridge, in 1835. He traveled and preached, 1835-37, and while residing at Louisville, Ky., in 1836-37, assisted James Freeman Clarke in editing the Westei^n Messenger. He was ordained pastor of the Unitarian church, Nashua, N.H., in 1837, and served there, 1837-41; was pastor of the West-

minster church, Providence, R.I., 1841-49, and succeeded the Rev. Orville Dewey in the pastor- ate of the Church of the Messiah, New York city, 1849-69. He resigned in 1869; was baptized, confirmed and ordered deacon, and advanced to the priesthood in the Protestant Episcopal church in 1870-71. He preached in New York city, but never took charge of a parish, devoting himself to missionary work and to literature. The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred on him by Harvard in 1855 and that of LL.D. by Hobart in 1872. He was corresponding member of the Massachusetts Historical society and of the New England Historic Genealogical society and mem- ber of the New York Historcial society, serving for many years as its domestic corresponding secre- tary. He was married. May 24, 1843, to Ellen Haswell, daughter of George and Mary (Haswell) Murdock of Boston. He edited in connection with the Rev. Henry W. Bellows, the Christian Inquirer (1850-54), and is the author of: Studies in Christian Biography (1851); God With Men, or Footprints of Providential Leaders (1853); Tlie Hearth Stone: TJioughts Upon Home Life in our Cities (1854); Milestones in our Life Journey (1855); Student Life (1860); American Leaves (1861), and Tliomas Craivford and Art in America ( 1875). He translated from the German of Olshausen: History of the Lord's Passion (1839); De Wette's Prac^/caZ Ethics (2 vols. 1842), and published several addresses and sermons. He died in New York city, April 14, 1880.

OSMUN, Thomas Embley (" Alfred Ayres"), orthoepist, was born at Montrose, Ohio, Feb. 26, 1834; son of George and Mildred Washington (Ayres) Osmun, and a descendant of Benjah Osmun, a colonel in the Revolution. His maternal grandfather, a justice of the peace of Akron, Ohio, removed from Vermont in 1813 and four ded the Ayres settlement. Thomas Osmun attended an academy in Cleveland and Oberlin college; studied in Paris and Berlin, 1853-59, and after his return to the United States became a pro- minent contributor to periodicals, teacher of elocution and dramatic critic. He was an editor of the Standard Dictionary, and under the pen name "Alfred Ayres" is the author of: The Orthoepist (1880); The Verbalist (1881); The Men- tor (1884); Essentials of Elocution (ISSG); Acting and Actors; Elocution and Elocutionists (1894); Tlie Essentials of Elocution (1897); Some Hl- Used Words (1901). He died in New York city, Oct. 26, 1902.

OSSOLI, Sarah Margaret Fuller, author, was born at Cambridgeport, Mass., May 3, 1810; daughter of Timothy (q.v.)and Margaret (Crane) Fuller. Her younger sister, Ellen, married the poet, Ellery Channing of Concord, Mass. Mar- garet was educated at home and at the age of