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Ellen Elizabeth Osgood, fifth child of Charles and Lucy (Holbrook) Osgood, was "born in Pomfret (Abington parish) May 28, 1850, prepared for Mount Holyoke Seminary at the Dedham High school, Dedham, Mass., and at Woodstock Academy, Woodstock, Conn. She graduated from Mount Holyoke in 1873. After teaching a private school in Putnam, Conn., for one year she became assistant in the high school at Putnam, and remained as such seven years, resigning to spend the year 1882 in travel and study abroad. In 1883-84 she taught history in Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pa.; in 1885 accepted the position of lady principal of Cushing Academy, Ashburnham, Mass.; spent the summer of 1894 in Europe; in 1895 resigned to take a much needed rest, spent the year in private study in Boston and elsewhere, and in 1896, was recalled to Cushing Academy, where she still remains. Miss Osgood has made English literature and French her specialties."
--Commemorative Biographical Record of Tolland and Windham Counties Connecticut Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens and of Many of the Early Settled Families, Chicago: J. H. Beers, 1903, pp. 485-486.
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Ellen Elizabeth Osgood, fifth child of Charles and Lucy (Holbrook) Osgood, was "born in Pomfret (Abington parish) May 28, 1850, prepared for Mount Holyoke Seminary at the Dedham High school, Dedham, Mass., and at Woodstock Academy, Woodstock, Conn. She graduated from Mount Holyoke in 1873. After teaching a private school in Putnam, Conn., for one year she became assistant in the high school at Putnam, and remained as such seven years, resigning to spend the year 1882 in travel and study abroad. In 1883-84 she taught history in Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pa.; in 1885 accepted the position of lady principal of Cushing Academy, Ashburnham, Mass.; spent the summer of 1894 in Europe; in 1895 resigned to take a much needed rest, spent the year in private study in Boston and elsewhere, and in 1896, was recalled to Cushing Academy, where she still remains. Miss Osgood has made English literature and French her specialties."
--Commemorative Biographical Record of Tolland and Windham Counties Connecticut Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens and of Many of the Early Settled Families, Chicago: J. H. Beers, 1903, pp. 485-486.
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