biography
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Osgood, James Ripley
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1836–92)
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| biography:
| Publisher, born in Fryeburg, Maine, USA. In 1871 he co-founded James R Osgood & Co, a subsidiary of Ticknor & Fields. While retaining many fine writers, it failed financially, and with Osgood's departure (1880), was dissolved into a company headed by Henry Oscar Houghton. |
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