Old Sands Street Methodist Episcopal Church, of Brooklyn, [electronic resource]: an illustrated centennial record, historical and biographical . ing words he did not use, but fitting words, so fitting that or-dinary men might search for hours and yet fail to find the delicately-shadedepithets which fell from his lips with perfect naturalness and inimitable the pulpit he was, perhaps, less skillful in his appeals to the unconvertedthan in his addresses to believers. It must not be understood from this state-ment that he did not sometimes stir the consciences of sinners, for he cert
Old Sands Street Methodist Episcopal Church, of Brooklyn, [electronic resource]: an illustrated centennial record, historical and biographical . ing words he did not use, but fitting words, so fitting that or-dinary men might search for hours and yet fail to find the delicately-shadedepithets which fell from his lips with perfect naturalness and inimitable the pulpit he was, perhaps, less skillful in his appeals to the unconvertedthan in his addresses to believers. It must not be understood from this state-ment that he did not sometimes stir the consciences of sinners, for he certainlyproved his ability to do this, but as a preacher upon themes aiming at theedification of the church he was one of a thousand. Lucretia, his first wife, was a native of Danbury, Conn. Shewas nine years his senior—a woman of a very quiet, retiringdisposition, and faithful to her duties. She died in Pough-keepsie, N. Y., as already stated, in the forty-second year ofher age. Three daughters were the fruit of this union. Theyare all married, and are still living. Dr. Kettell left a widow,who, with their only son, resides in Brooklyn, N. ??^N \^ /. (flptW&M jpfrwryi** REV. T. G. OSBORN, M. A. LXXXII. THOMAS G. OSBORN. he ancestors of the Rev Thomas Gilbert Osborn,, were among the early settlers of East Hamp-ton, Long Island. They came from Lynn, Mass.,but were originally from Maidstone, in Kent, En-gland. Thomas Osborn and John Osborn were named in the char-ter of East Hampton when it was incorporated under the co-lonial government of New York by a patent from GovernorNicoll, March 13, From one of these was descendedDaniel Osborn, of East Hampton, who was born before 1700,and to whom the ancestry of T. G. Osborn is definitely Osborn, grandfather of Thomas G., was a graduate ofYale College. He practiced law in Cutchogue, L. I., and was amember of the New York Legislature in 1787 and 1788. Hisson, Dr. Thomas Osborn, of Riverhead, had an extensive pr
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