Morning journal and courier., 1880-04-16
Dr. Samuel OsgeOd.

Of Dr. Samuel Osgood, who died at his home in New York city Wednesday morning, the New York Evening Post says:
 Dr. Osgood was one of the best educated men in New York. He was a Greek and Latin student and had an extensive knowledge of the Romance languages. Of modern Ian guages he was most interested in the German, Dr. Osgood as man of letters, distinguished preacher, lover of art and a warm friend, was esteemed and beloved by a very large circle, including prominent representatives of all the leading professions both in the United States and abroad. He counted among his friends such men as Bancroft, Longfellow, Dean Stanley, Tyndall, Holmes and Noah Por- ter. Among his most intimate associates of this city were Bishop Potter, the Rev. Dr. John Cotton Smith, the Rev. Dr. Morgan, the Rev. Dr. Henry O. Potter. the Rev. Dr. Tit fany and the Rev. Dr. Washburn, the Rev Dr. Adams, the Rev. Dr. Prentiss President Barnard Of Columbia College, Judge Peabody, J. Pierpont Morgan, Cyrus W. Field, Edwin Booth, Edmund Clarence Stedman, David Huntington, Eastman Johnson, Samuel Cole man, R. Swain Clifford T. De Peyster, Peter Cooper, Abram s. Hewitt Professor V. Batta and many others.
 Dr. Osgood was member of the Century Club, the Union League Club and tho New York Historical Society. At art receptions and gatherings of the clergy and literary as SemDia6eS LIT. OSROCC dloQ 6 prominent posi- tion. When he resigned the charge of the Church of the Messiah in 1869 he went abroad for rest. During his stay abroad, which last ed from May to December, he wrote series of letters on art, social and religious topics, which were published in the Evening Post and attracted much attention in America. Ia 1872 Hobart College of this State, conferred the degree of IL. D. upon him. When he returned from abroad he embraced the doctrines of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and in many addresses, discourses, sermons and published pamphlets afterward maintained that this church was the most comprehensive of religious or ganizations. Since that time he has occupied the pulpit at intervals, but has never assumed control of 8 congregation, and he has busied himself with various professional pursuits A number of volumes of his sermons and poems have been published. Among h's published discourses are the discourse before the Harvard Divinity School, published in 1863, and the Anniversary Discourse before the New York Historical Society, published in 1866 Since his withdrawal from the Uni tarian church he has contributed frequently to journals and magazines. In 1875 new and enlarged editions of his ''The Hearth Stone" and "Mie Stones" appeared, and to- gether with them many discourses and speeches and memoirs written by him of William Cullen Bryant, F. D. Maurice, Thom-
 
 Duyckinck, and centennial articles upon Coleridge, Spinoza, Rousseau, Voltaire and others. His principal contribution to the Church congress, Of which he was an active member, was "An Essay on the Ethics Of Art," delivered at Boston in 1876. His me morial, Bryant Among his Countrymen, the Poet, the Patriot the Man. was delivered before the Goethe Club in October. 1878.
 Of late Dr. Osgood on public occasions has usually spoken extemporaneously. He has been prominent contributor to the Interna- tional Review, Harper's Monthly Magazine, the North American Review, the Bibiiotheca Sacra and other periodicals. He leaves uu- finished work which he intended to complete during the coming summer, which was to be entitled ''The Renaissance of America" It was to include his Charming and Bryant dis courses
 For many years Dr. Osgood has passed his summers at Fairfield, Connecticut, sur rounded by his family. He called his beauti ful summer home in that village "Waldstein. " He has taken an active part in the public af fairs of the village and helped to advance it's interests.