Record of Burial

Submitted by Patricia B. Illingworth - Chief Docent Grove Street Cemetery

Commemorative Biographical Record of New Haven County, Connecticut,

   Chicago, J.H. Beers & Co., 1902.  Page 70.  (transcript)

   COL. NORRIS GALPIN OSBORN, editor of the New Haven Register, is well and

favorably known throughout the State in which for years he has been an

important factor in the councils of the Democratic party, and figured more

or less conspicuously in public affairs.

   Born April 17, 1858, Col. Osborn is a son of the late Hon. Minott Augur

and Catherine S. (Gilbert) Osborn, the former of whom for fifty and more

years was prominently identified with the history of New Haven and the

State, as editor and publisher of the Register, and whose mantle has fallen

upon the son who is proving himself worthy of its wearing.  Col. Osborn

descends on both sides from old New Haven families; in paternal lines from

Jeremiah Osborn, one of the patentees of the town of New Haven, and in

maternal lines from English ancestors who came to New England not long after

the Pilgrim fathers.

   Mr. Osborn in boyhood attended both the public and private schools of New

Haven, then entered Yale College from which he was graduated in 1880.  In

1886 that institution conferred upon him the degree of M.A.  After his

graduation he became connected with the editorial staff of the Register, and

was made editor-in-chief in 1884.  In this important position he has exerted

a wide influence, and has made the Register recognized as the leading

Democratic organ in the southern part of the State.

   Col. Osborn has repeatedly been a delegate to the conventions of his

party – local, State and National – and taken a leading part therein.  In

1883 and 1884 he was an aid on the staff of Gov. Waller, and in 1896 was

appointed a State prison director by Gov. Coffin.  He has also served as a

director in the New Haven University Extension Centre.  In the fall of 1901,

he was made the unanimous choice of both parties to represent New Haven in

the Constitutional Convention, and was chosen a member of that body in the

election that followed in November.  In the deliberations of this convention

which convened Jan. 1, 1902, and which at this writing (March) is still in

session, Col. Osborn has taken an active interest and borne an honorable

part.

   In his college life Col. Osborn was a member of the Greek Letter Society,

Delta Kappa Epsilon, and of the Scroll and Key Society.  He is a member of

Hiram Lodge, F. & A.M., and the Ancient Order of United Workmen.  He is a

member of the New Haven Chamber of Commerce, a member of the Sons of the

American Revolution, and was formerly governor of the Society of Founders

and Patriots, Colony of Connecticut.  As a journalist Col. Osborn is a

success.  He is a forceful writer, his editorials are trenchant, lively, and

much quoted.  As a man he is widely popular through his winning personal

qualities and he is a happy after-dinner speaker, and greatly in demand for

such occasions.

   On Dec. 27, 1881, Col. Osborn was married to Kate Louise Gardner, of New

York City, and their five children are: Innis, Minott Arthur, Dorothy,

Gardner and Katherine.