Sept., 1864, was mustered out on account of wounds received in action. He has been a frequent contributor to periodical literature and the press, and has delivered numerous addresses. — Another son of Lucius Manlius, Lucius Manlius, soldier, b. in Boston, 15 Sept., 1826; d. near Bellefield, Va., 9 Dec., 1864, was graduated at Harvard in 1848, and at the medical department there in 1857, becoming house surgeon and dispensary physician at the Massachusetts general hospital. He was commissioned surgeon in the 2d Massachusetts volunteers in May, 1861, but resigned in October of that year, and became captain in the 1st Massachusetts cavalry, was ordered to the Army of the Potomac, and participated in the battles of Kelly's Ford, Antietam, South Mountain, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville. He became major in his former regiment, 2 Jan., 1864, lieutenant-colonel, 30 Sept., and was mortally wounded in an engagement on Meherrin river. — John Osborne, lawyer, b. in Gloucester, Mass., 20 Sept., 1811, is the grandson of the first Lucius Manlius's first cousin. He was graduated at Harvard in 1830, where he founded the “Collegian,” in which he was aided by his brother Epes, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and other students. He then studied law in Boston, was admitted to the bar in 1833, and in 1834-'7 contributed the political articles to the “Boston Atlas.” He removed to New York city in 1838 to become associate editor of the “Courier and Enquirer,” but resigned after the election of President Harrison, resumed his profession of the law, taking charge, in 1848, as a volunteer for the Whig congressional committee, of the “Battery,” a campaign paper published in Washington, to advocate Gen. Zachary Taylor's election to the presidency. He subsequently founded the “Republic” with Alexander C. Bullitt, in which he supported the compromise measures, conducting the paper on the principle of opposition to both the Abolition and Secession parties. He discontinued its publication at the close of President Fillmore's administration, and subsequently practised law in Washington and New York city. He resided abroad in 1861-'73, and since the latter date has lived in New York city. He declined the mission to China, which was offered him by President Fillmore. Mr. Sargent has done varied literary work, and his publications include a “Lecture on the Late Improvements in Steam Navigation and the Arts of Naval Warfare,” with a biographical sketch of John Ericsson (New York, 1844), a version of Anastasius Grün's “Last Knight,” founded on incidents in the life of the Emperor Maximilian (New York. 1872), three legal pamphlets reviewing “The Rule in Minot's Case” (New York, 1871), and four numbers of “Chapters for the Times, by a Berkshire Farmer,” political (Lee, Mass., 1884). —
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John Osborne's brother, Epes, editor, b. in Gloucester, Mass., 27 Sept., 1813; d. in Boston, Mass., 31 Dec., 1880, accompanied his father to Russia when a lad, and, after studying at the Boston Latin-school and at Harvard, abandoned a collegiate course, devoting himself to literature. His earliest productions appeared in the “Collegian,” and he subsequently connected himself with the “Boston Daily Advertiser” and the “Atlas,” and in 1839 removed to New York to become an assistant editor of the “Mirror.” He returned to Boston about 1846, and edited the “Evening Transcript” for several years, retiring from that charge to devote himself to editing a series of educational works. During his editorial career Mr. Sargent held pleasant relations with Daniel Webster, John C. Calhoun, William C. Preston, and Henry Clay, and Mr. Clay said that Mr. Sargent's “Memoir” of him was the best and most authentic in existence. While a resident of New York he was a member of the Union club, and a founder of the New York club. He was a laborious student and worker, and engaged with success in almost every branch of literature. He began to write for the stage in 1836, and produced the “Bride of Genoa,” a poetical drama in five acts, which was played with success at the Tremont theatre, Boston, in February, 1837, and subsequently in New Orleans and New York. He produced “Velasco” the following November at the Tremont theatre, Ellen Tree taking the part of Isidora. His other plays, “Change Makes Change,” a comedy, and the “Priestess,” a tragedy, were successfully received in this country and abroad. His novels and tales for the young include “Wealth and Worth” (New York, 1840); “What's to be Done, or the Will and the Way” (1841); “Fleetwood. or the Stain of a Birth” (1845); and “Peculiar, a Tale of the Great Transition,” which pictures the social changes in the south during the early years of the civil war (1863). His poems include “Songs of the Sea” (Boston, 1847); a second volume of “Poems” (1858); “The Woman who Dared” (1869); and numerous fugitive poems, of which the most popular are “Life on the Ocean Wave,” the lyric on the death of Warren, and the lines beginning “Oh, ye keen breezes from the salt Atlantic.” His miscellaneous works are “The Life and Services of Henry Clay” (Auburn, 1843; with additions by Horace Greeley, 1852); “American Adventure by Land and Sea” (2 vols., Boston, 1847); “The Critic Criticised” (1856); “Arctic Adventures by Sea and Land” (1857; with additions, 1860); “Original Dialogues” (1861). He edited the lives of Campbell, Collins, Goldsmith, Gray, Hood, and Rogers, with their poems (Boston, 1852-'65); “Select Works of Benjamin Franklin,” with his autobiography and a memoir (Philadelphia, 1853): the “Works of Horace and James Smith” (New York, 1857); and the “Modern Drama” (15 vols., 1846-'58). Shortly before his death he completed a “Cyclopaedia of English and American Poetry” (New York, 1883). — Lucius Manlius's great-nephew, Charles Sprague, arboriculturist, b. in Boston, Mass., 24 April, 1841, was graduated at Harvard in 1862, became lieutenant and aide-de-camp of U. S. volunteers in November of that year, aide-de-camp in 1863, and was brevetted major of volunteers in 1865. He was chosen director of the botanic garden and Arnold arboretum of Harvard in 1873, and professor of arboriculture in 1879. Prof. Sargent planned the Jesup collection of North American woods in the American museum of natural history, New York city, in 1880. He was chairman of a commission to examine the Adirondack forests and devise measures for their preservation in 1885, and in 1888 became editor and general manager of “Garden and Forest,” a weekly journal of horticulture and forestry. His publications include a “Catalogue of the Forest Trees of North America”
