Z 0220.000 Osborn (George C.) Collection

Biography:

George Coleman Osborn was born on May 15, 1904, in Learned, Mississippi. He graduated from Mississippi College in 1927 and received master's and doctoral degrees from Indiana University in 1932 and 1938. For four years he was a public school teacher and administrator in Mississippi. For the rest of his career he was a professor at universities and colleges in Indiana, Tennessee, Florida, Mississippi, and Virginia. Among special research services, his projects included Democratic Majority Research Expert on Taxation for the Finance Committee, United States Senate, 1936–1938. Osborn published a number of books and articles. Among these works were: John Sharp Williams: Planter-Statesman of the Deep South; James Kimble Vardaman, Southern Commoner; The Life of a Southern Plantation Owner During Reconstruction, as Revealed in the Clay Sharkey Papers; Plantation Life in Central Mississippi As Revealed in the Clay Sharkey Papers; and My Confederate History—Clay Sharkey. Osborn died in August 1982 in Gainesville, Florida.

Scope and Content:

This collection is composed of two typescript compilations of the papers of John Sharp Williams, U.S. congressman and senator from Mississippi. The manuscripts were edited by Dr. Osborn.

1. "Selected Speeches of John Sharp Williams." 1938. Contains 74 speeches, most of which were taken from the Congressional Record, and cover the period 1898–1923.
2. "Selections from the Correspondence of John Sharp Williams and Woodrow Wilson." 1938. Contains copies of 373 letters (1913–1923) from the Williams Papers in the Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.

Series Identification:

1. Edited Manuscripts. 1938. 2 volumes.

   Box 1: "Selected Speeches of John Sharp Williams."
   Box 2: "Selections from the Correspondence of John Sharp Williams and Woodrow Wilson."