Lawrence James Osborne and Kathryn Mary Larsen

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Husband Lawrence James Osborne ¹

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         Father: Thomas Edward Osborne (1877-1970) 1
         Mother: Maude G. Brown (1882-      ) 2

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Wife Kathryn Mary Larsen ³

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1 M Richard William Osborne ³

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2 F Nancy Kathryn Osborne ³

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3 F Mary Margaret Osborne ³

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         Spouse: [Unk] Nissen (      -      )

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4 M Lawrence Thomas Osborne ³

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General Notes: Husband - Lawrence James Osborne

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He held the following academic degrees:
A.B., North Central College, Naperville, Illinois. (1930)
B. Mus., Chicago Conservatory of Music, Chicago, Illinois.(1932)
M. Div. (Master of Divinity), Evangelical Theological Seminary, Naperville, Illinois. (1933)
S.T.M, (Master of Sacred Theology), Union theological Seminary, New York. (1937)
M.A., University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada. (1943)
Ph. D. Stanford University, Stanford, California. (1952)
He also did additional study at the British Museum and at Cambridge University. He was awarded a Faculty summer grant in 1968 and a Danforth Grant in the summer of 1969.
He had two careers. He was an ordained minister in the United Methodist Church and had pastorates in Pennsylvania, New York, Nevada and California. He then became a college professor, teaching in the English Department of University of the Pacific for twenty-seven years. His special fields of competence and interest were: Milton and the Seventeenth-Century Literature of England; Survey of English Litera­ture; Poetry - British and American; The novels of Herman Melville; English grammar and usage; English composition. He held the following offices in professional organizations: President, College English Association of the Bay Area, 1960; Vice-president, College English Association of the Bay Area, 1959; Secre­tary-Treasurer, College English Association of the Bay Area, 1958; President, Pacific Faculty Club, 1958; Secretary, Pacific Graduate Council; Secretary, Pacific Faculty Council, 1961, Chairman, UOP General Faculty, 1966.
He was active in the Masonic organization since joining DEMOLAY in Franklin, Pennsylvania. He was made a member of the Legion of Honor of Venango Chapter October 14, 1979. This has included: Masonic Lodge; Scottish Rite, 32° And 33°; Royal Order of Scotland; Grand Lodge of California and Hawaii; Order of Eastern Star; Order Of Eastern Star: K.C.C.H. Investiture Team, Grand Chaplain in San Francisco; Chairman of Stockton Scottish Rite Aphasia Program and Chairman, Loys T. Newton Scholarship Grant Committee.

SSDI: LAWRENCE J OSBORNE 24 Mar 1908 21 Nov 2004 (V) 94070 (San Carlos, San Mateo, CA) (none specified) 553-46-3220 California

1 Virginia Gordon Russell, Gordons of Western Pennsylvania (Cochranton, PA: Specialty Printers, 1981), Pg 20j.

2 Virginia Gordon Russell, Gordons of Western Pennsylvania (Cochranton, PA: Specialty Printers, 1981), Pg 19x.

3 Virginia Gordon Russell, Gordons of Western Pennsylvania (Cochranton, PA: Specialty Printers, 1981), Pg 20k.