Samuel Duffield Osborne (1858–1917) was an American writer.

Biography

Duffield Osborne was born on June 20, 1858 in

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, New York. He was a son of Samuel Smith and Rosalie Willoughby (Duffield) Osborne; grandson of Samuel and Abbie M. (Theall) Osborne, and of James Murdoch and Margaretha A. (Prince) Duffield, and a descendant of George Duffield, who emigrated from Ireland to

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, in 1720, and of Carel de Beauvais, who emigrated from France and settled in New York in 1659. Osborne attended the

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and was a graduate from Columbia College, A.G., 1879, A.M., 1882, and from the

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, LL.B., 1881. He was admitted to the bar in 1881 and practised in New York City, 1881–92. He was assistant secretary of the Brooklyn department of city works, 1892–94; traveled in Europe, 1895–96, and on his return settled in New York City and engaged in literary work. He was elected a member of the

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in 1878; a corresponding member of the

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in 1879, and an associate member of the

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in 1883. He edited: '' Livy's Roman History'' in the World's Great Books series (1898); Macaulay's ''

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'' (1901), and became associate editor of the Home Library of Literature and Achievement, in 1901. He is the author of: ''The Spell of Ashtaroth'' (1888); ''The Robe of Nessus'' (1890); ''The Secret of the Crater'' (1900); '' The Lion's Brood'' (1901), and of many short stories, essays and poems. Osborne died from pneumonia in Brooklyn on November 20, 1917.

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