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About William Fogg Osgood
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Osgood.html
William Osgood's mother was Mary Rogers Gannett and his father was William Osgood who was a medical doctor. He studied at the Boston Latin School where Benjamin Osgood Peirce taught mathematics for the year 1880-81 but at this stage Osgood was interested in studying the classics. He entered Harvard College in 1882, still intent on studying classics, and for two years he pursued this aim. However F N Cole and B O Peirce, who had begun teaching at Harvard the year before Osgood entered, persuaded him to study mathematics. He was also influenced by two other mathematics lecturers at Harvard, namely James Mills Peirce, the son of Benjamin Peirce, and William Elwood Byerly who was renowned as an excellent teacher. Osgood graduated with a A.B. in 1886, coming second out of 286 students, then undertook graduate work at Harvard for a year, graduating with a Master's Degree in 1887.
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William Fogg Osgood's Timeline
| 1864 |
March 10, 1864
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Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States
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| 1895 |
April 17, 1895
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| 1897 |
May 24, 1897
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Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
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| 1943 |
July 22, 1943
Age 79
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Belmont, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
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