San Francisco County
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OSGOOD BROTHERS
OSGOOD BROTHERS, druggists, at northeast corner of Broadway
and seventh streets, Oakland, are individually known as Frederick S. and Howard
L. Osgood. They were born in Marin county, California –F. S., February, 1860,
and H. L.., October 22,1864--sons of Rufus H. and Caroline (Jarvis ) Osgood. A
third brother, William J., also a native son, is a druggist in Fresno.
The Parents, natives of Maine, and of New
England descent for several generations, were married in that
State before coming to this coast in 1859. The father, was born in 1835,
received a good education, being a graduate of Blue
Hill College
in that State. After his arrival here he served two terms as County
Clerk and one term as Assessor of Marin County,
but his career was mainly that of a merchant, as a member of the firm of W. W.
Henry & Company, wholesale grocers of San Francisco.
He died in 1882. The mother born in 1840 is living in 1891. Fred S., senior
member of the firm of Osgood Brothers, was graduated from Washington
College at Irvington, in
1879, and became a clerk in his fathers store in San
Francisco. After the father’s death in 1882, he became
a drug clerk in that city, and in 1884 formed with Howard L. the firm of Osgood
Brothers, at their present location. Howard L. Osgood was educated in the
public schools of San Francisco,
including a term in the high school, and became a drug clerk in his sixteenth
year. He took a special course in chemistry in the California College of
Pharmacy, and continued as a drug clerk until he joined his brother, Fred S. in
forming the present firm in 1884. Both are members of the California
Pharmaceutical Society. Fred S. Osgood was married in Decoto,
Alameda County,
in 1885, to Miss Priscilla, a daughter of Adolphus Decoto, from whom the village received its name. They have
two children Warren, born in 1886, and Lewis, in 1888.
Transcribed by Kim Buck.
Source: "The Bay of San
Francisco," Vol. 2, Pages 594, Lewis
Publishing Co, 1892.
© 2006 Kim Buck.
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