From the Westford [Mass.] Wardsman, 8 Jan. 1916
Alden Fletcher Osgood, for the past seven years an inmate of the New England Home for Deaf Mutes in Everett, died at the home of his sister, Mrs. W. H. Brown, in Natick last week Friday of pneumonia at the age of seventy-eight years. Mr. Osgood was born in Westford on August 8, 1837, the son of Peletiah Fletcher and Sophronia (Baldwin) Osgood, and grandson of Jacob and Patty (Fletcher) Osgood, one of the substantial citizens of the town and extensive farmer on Francis hill at Chamberlains' corner. Alden P. Osgood, for so many years teacher in the old Stony Brook school district was his uncle and our present Houghton G. Osgood a cousin.
Mr. Osgood was highly educated and by nature typical of the Westford Osgoods of high-grade intellectuality. At the age of ten years he was sent to Hartford, Conn., where Dr. Thomas H. Gallaudet had opened the first school in this country for deaf mute children. When he was fourteen years old he was taken before the Massachusetts legislature to demonstrate the possibilities of educating deaf mute children. His success in reading and writing and in the various intellectual tests to which he was subjected proved a powerful argument for the appropriation of funds for the education of deaf mute children in this state. Westford and the Stony Brook school district by this demonstration built better than it knew for this class of shut-ins.
Mr. Osgood learned the trade of leather cutter and for more than thirty years he worked in Boston, Natick, Ashland and Hudson. He had traveled all over this country and written a number of interesting books on travel, visiting Washington many times, the headquarters of General Grant and the army of the Potomac, and at one time visited Jefferson Davis, president of the southern confederacy, when Mr. Jefferson was in prison.
Nature almost invariably balances her accounts and Mr. Osgood, shut off by nature by nature's telephone and megaphone, was compensated by a highly intellectual nature, optimistic, cheerful and happy. His death brings some of the reminiscences of the Osgoods of Westford and the inroads of death and removal. Of the four once prominent families who were a part of the early and late foundation of the town, Dr. Benjamin, John Jacob and Alden P. and their descendants, born in Westford—all have passed from Westford, and the only representative in town of this once numerous, active and flourishing family is a cousin of the subject of this sketch.
Alden Fletcher Osgood, for the past seven years an inmate of the New England Home for Deaf Mutes in Everett, died at the home of his sister, Mrs. W. H. Brown, in Natick last week Friday of pneumonia at the age of seventy-eight years. Mr. Osgood was born in Westford on August 8, 1837, the son of Peletiah Fletcher and Sophronia (Baldwin) Osgood, and grandson of Jacob and Patty (Fletcher) Osgood, one of the substantial citizens of the town and extensive farmer on Francis hill at Chamberlains' corner. Alden P. Osgood, for so many years teacher in the old Stony Brook school district was his uncle and our present Houghton G. Osgood a cousin.
Mr. Osgood was highly educated and by nature typical of the Westford Osgoods of high-grade intellectuality. At the age of ten years he was sent to Hartford, Conn., where Dr. Thomas H. Gallaudet had opened the first school in this country for deaf mute children. When he was fourteen years old he was taken before the Massachusetts legislature to demonstrate the possibilities of educating deaf mute children. His success in reading and writing and in the various intellectual tests to which he was subjected proved a powerful argument for the appropriation of funds for the education of deaf mute children in this state. Westford and the Stony Brook school district by this demonstration built better than it knew for this class of shut-ins.
Mr. Osgood learned the trade of leather cutter and for more than thirty years he worked in Boston, Natick, Ashland and Hudson. He had traveled all over this country and written a number of interesting books on travel, visiting Washington many times, the headquarters of General Grant and the army of the Potomac, and at one time visited Jefferson Davis, president of the southern confederacy, when Mr. Jefferson was in prison.
Nature almost invariably balances her accounts and Mr. Osgood, shut off by nature by nature's telephone and megaphone, was compensated by a highly intellectual nature, optimistic, cheerful and happy. His death brings some of the reminiscences of the Osgoods of Westford and the inroads of death and removal. Of the four once prominent families who were a part of the early and late foundation of the town, Dr. Benjamin, John Jacob and Alden P. and their descendants, born in Westford—all have passed from Westford, and the only representative in town of this once numerous, active and flourishing family is a cousin of the subject of this sketch.
From the Westford [Mass.] Wardsman, 8 Jan. 1916
Alden Fletcher Osgood, for the past seven years an inmate of the New England Home for Deaf Mutes in Everett, died at the home of his sister, Mrs. W. H. Brown, in Natick last week Friday of pneumonia at the age of seventy-eight years. Mr. Osgood was born in Westford on August 8, 1837, the son of Peletiah Fletcher and Sophronia (Baldwin) Osgood, and grandson of Jacob and Patty (Fletcher) Osgood, one of the substantial citizens of the town and extensive farmer on Francis hill at Chamberlains' corner. Alden P. Osgood, for so many years teacher in the old Stony Brook school district was his uncle and our present Houghton G. Osgood a cousin.
Mr. Osgood was highly educated and by nature typical of the Westford Osgoods of high-grade intellectuality. At the age of ten years he was sent to Hartford, Conn., where Dr. Thomas H. Gallaudet had opened the first school in this country for deaf mute children. When he was fourteen years old he was taken before the Massachusetts legislature to demonstrate the possibilities of educating deaf mute children. His success in reading and writing and in the various intellectual tests to which he was subjected proved a powerful argument for the appropriation of funds for the education of deaf mute children in this state. Westford and the Stony Brook school district by this demonstration built better than it knew for this class of shut-ins.
Mr. Osgood learned the trade of leather cutter and for more than thirty years he worked in Boston, Natick, Ashland and Hudson. He had traveled all over this country and written a number of interesting books on travel, visiting Washington many times, the headquarters of General Grant and the army of the Potomac, and at one time visited Jefferson Davis, president of the southern confederacy, when Mr. Jefferson was in prison.
Nature almost invariably balances her accounts and Mr. Osgood, shut off by nature by nature's telephone and megaphone, was compensated by a highly intellectual nature, optimistic, cheerful and happy. His death brings some of the reminiscences of the Osgoods of Westford and the inroads of death and removal. Of the four once prominent families who were a part of the early and late foundation of the town, Dr. Benjamin, John Jacob and Alden P. and their descendants, born in Westford—all have passed from Westford, and the only representative in town of this once numerous, active and flourishing family is a cousin of the subject of this sketch.
Alden Fletcher Osgood, for the past seven years an inmate of the New England Home for Deaf Mutes in Everett, died at the home of his sister, Mrs. W. H. Brown, in Natick last week Friday of pneumonia at the age of seventy-eight years. Mr. Osgood was born in Westford on August 8, 1837, the son of Peletiah Fletcher and Sophronia (Baldwin) Osgood, and grandson of Jacob and Patty (Fletcher) Osgood, one of the substantial citizens of the town and extensive farmer on Francis hill at Chamberlains' corner. Alden P. Osgood, for so many years teacher in the old Stony Brook school district was his uncle and our present Houghton G. Osgood a cousin.
Mr. Osgood was highly educated and by nature typical of the Westford Osgoods of high-grade intellectuality. At the age of ten years he was sent to Hartford, Conn., where Dr. Thomas H. Gallaudet had opened the first school in this country for deaf mute children. When he was fourteen years old he was taken before the Massachusetts legislature to demonstrate the possibilities of educating deaf mute children. His success in reading and writing and in the various intellectual tests to which he was subjected proved a powerful argument for the appropriation of funds for the education of deaf mute children in this state. Westford and the Stony Brook school district by this demonstration built better than it knew for this class of shut-ins.
Mr. Osgood learned the trade of leather cutter and for more than thirty years he worked in Boston, Natick, Ashland and Hudson. He had traveled all over this country and written a number of interesting books on travel, visiting Washington many times, the headquarters of General Grant and the army of the Potomac, and at one time visited Jefferson Davis, president of the southern confederacy, when Mr. Jefferson was in prison.
Nature almost invariably balances her accounts and Mr. Osgood, shut off by nature by nature's telephone and megaphone, was compensated by a highly intellectual nature, optimistic, cheerful and happy. His death brings some of the reminiscences of the Osgoods of Westford and the inroads of death and removal. Of the four once prominent families who were a part of the early and late foundation of the town, Dr. Benjamin, John Jacob and Alden P. and their descendants, born in Westford—all have passed from Westford, and the only representative in town of this once numerous, active and flourishing family is a cousin of the subject of this sketch.
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