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OSGOOD, Thaddeus, philanthropist, born in Melhuen, Massachusetts, 24 October, 1775; died in Glasgow, Scotland, 19 January, 1852. He was graduated at Dartmouth in 1803, studied divinity, and was ordained in 1806. He was stated supply at Southbury, Coral, and was employed as a missionary in New York and in Canada. He organized the first church in Buffalo, New York, and many others, in 1812 collected money in England for a school in Quebec, and in 1825 revisited that country and raised a sum of money for a society to promote education and industry. In 1837 he organized a society in Canada to supply Bibles for seamen and emigrants, and was for many years a distributor of tracts and a founder of Sabbath-schools.
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