Biography:

Historian; university professor. Born– May 15, 1904, Learned, Miss. Parents– Samuel George and Bettie Mae (Hendrick) Osborn. Married– Margaret McMillen, May 20, 1936. Children– Two. Education– Mississippi College, A.B., 1927; Indiana University, M.A., 1932; chairman of the Social Services Department at Berry College, 1935-1943; research expert for finance committee of the U.S. Senate, 1937-1938; University of Mississippi, 1943-1944; Memphis State University, 1944-1947; University of Florida, 1947-1974; Wallace State Junior College, 1974-1977.  Received research grants from American Philosophical Society (1956) and Woodrow Wilson Foundation (1959). Contributed to many scholarly journals. Member of the American and Southern Historical Associations and the American Academy of Political and Social Service.  Awarded emeritus status at the University of Florida, 1974; at Wallace State, 1977.  Died 1981.

Source:

Contemporary Authors online.  Directory of American Scholars, 1982 and Who’s Who in the South and Southwest, 1976.

Publication(s):

The First Baptist Church, Gainesville, FL, 1870-1970. S.l.; s.n., s.d.

James Kimble Vardaman; Southern Commoner. Jackson, Miss.; Hederman Bros. 1981.

John James Tigert; American Educator. Gainesville, Fla.; University of Florida Press, 1974.

John Sharp Williams, Planter-Statesman of the Deep South. Baton Rouge, La.; Louisiana State University Press, 1943.

Woodrow Wilson in British Opinion and Thought. Gainesville, Fla.; Alachua County, 1980.

Woodrow Wilson; the Early Years. Baton Rouge, La.; Louisiana State University Press, 1968.

Joint_Publication(s):

The Role of the British Press in the 1970 American Presidential Election. Smithtown, N.Y.; Exposition Press, 1981.