Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1910-06-14
Fryeburg.

Katherine Putnam Osgood died at her
home, 81 Worcester Street, Boston, at
O'Clock A. NJ. on Friday, May 81. The
cause of her death was valvular disease
of the heart. Miss Osgood was native
of this town, and was born on May 25,
1912. She was one of the six children
(three sons and three daughters) of Col.
Edward Louis and Abigail Ripley Dana)
Osgood, of whom her death leaves only
one survivor, viz, Hon. Edward Louis
Osgood of Boston (221 Beacon Street)
and Hopedale, Mass. The late James
Ripley Osgood, the well-kuown publish
er, was her brother, and her mother was
sister to the late Gov. John Winchester
Dana of this town. Miss Osgood was a
woman of refinement, culture and liter
ary attainments, and was frequent con-
tributor of both prose and poetry to
magazines and other periodical publica-
tons. Some of her verses have attained
great popularity, and have been ex-
tensively copied into anthologies, recita-
ton books and other collections OF liter
airy gems. Her poems are worthy of
publication in collective form, being of
much higher order of merit than many
poetic volumes that issue from the press
Among her best poems are those en-
titled ARRIVING Home the Cows"
"What2" 1.-THE Cob House," "What
Else" "Sunset in the Orchard" Mar
garet's Chamber" "BefOre the Prime"
and "By the Apple Tree" The most
popular of her poems is the one first
above mentioned, entitled "Driving
Home the Cows" which has homely
pathos which goes straight to the heart.
This poem consists of IL 4.line stanzas,
and originally appeared in Harper's
Magazine for March, 1865, where it was
accompanied with picture illustrative
of that part of the poem embraced in
the 10th stanza:
"Loosely swung In the idle air
The empty sleeve of army blue;
And, worn and pale, from the crisplng hair
Looked out a face that the father know"
The great popularity of this poem is at
tested by its reproduction in so many
books since its first publication, some of
the books in which it may be found re-
produced being as follows: "The Poets
of Maine," compiled by George Bancroft
Griffith; "Poems of American History
compiled by Burton Egbert Stevenson
"a Library of American Literature
compiled by Edmund Clarence Stedman
and Ellen Mackay Hutchinson; Harper's
Encyclopaedia of British and American
Poetry" compiled by Epes Sargent
american War Ballads and Lyrics "
compiled by George Cary Eggleston lin
this work the poem is accompanied with
a picture illustrative of the 10th stanza)
IAN American Anthology" compiled by
Edmund Clarence Stedman; "The Hum.
bier Poets," compiled by Slason Thomp
son; "a New Library of Poetry and
iSong," compiled by William Cullen Bry.
ant; "Poetry of America" compiled by
W. J. Linton; "The Cambridge Book Of
Poetry and Song" compiled by Char.
lotte Fiske Bates; zone Hundred Choice
Selections in Poetry and Prose, No. l."
compiled by Nathaniel K. Richardson
"Poems of American Patriotism" com.
piled by R. l.. Paget (pseudonym)
"Three- Minute Declarations for College
Men" compiled by Harry c. Davis, A. M.
and John c. Bridgman, A. B. 1.-THE Gold
en- Treasury of American Songs and Lyr.
ics," compiled by Frederic Lawrence
Knowles; "The Fireside Encyclopedia
of Poetry" compiled by Henry T.
Coates; 'Famous Single and Fugitive
Poems" compiled by Rossiter Johnson
the "Lincoln Literary Collection" com
piled by John P. McCaskey; and "a
Treasury of American Verse;" compiled
by Walter Learned. Her poem entitled
"What Else?" is reproduced in "For
Thee Alone" compiled by Grace Harris.
horne, and in "Out of the Heart, com.
piled by John White Chadwick and
Annie Hathaway Chadwick; "The Cob
House" is reproduced in "Werner's
Readings and REGULATIONS, No. IT," com
piled by Stanley Schell, and in the above
mentioned "The Humber Poets;'
"What?" is reproduced in "Child Life,''
compiled by John Greenleaf Whittier;
"Sunset in the Orchard" is reproduced
in the "Delsarte Speaker" compiled by
Henry Davenport Northrop; Margaret
Chamber" is reproduced in the above
mentioned "The Poets of Maine;" "Be
fore the Prime" is reproduced in the
aforementioned "The Cambridge Book
of Poetry and Song;;" and "By the
Apple Tree" Is reproduced in the above
mentioned "Poetry of America" She
wrote an ode for the centennial celebra
ton on August 20, 1868, of the settle
meut of Fryeburg, and the ode is to be
found in the published pamphlet con
tanning the proceedings of the celebra
ton.
The funeral, which was private, was
held on Sunday afternoon, May 20, al
8 O'Clock. Interment was on Birch Ave
nue., Forest Hills Cemetery, Boston, be
side the remains of her sister, Frances
Caroline Osgood, who died on June 90
1908, and whose remains, at first buried
at Fryeburg, we're subsequently exhum-
ed and inferred in Forest Hills Cemetery
North Paris.