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John Osborne Sargent Lawyer, journalist, author "SARGENT, John Osborne,
lawyer, b. Gloucester, Mass., 1811; d. New York, N.Y. 1891. Brother
of Epes
Sargent. Graduating from Harvard in 1830, he studied law and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1833. In 1841, after several
years of journalism as well, he became a member of the bar of the
Supreme Court of the United States. During his practice in Washington
he was one of the managers of 'The Republic.' Mr. Sargent edited
some of the English poets, with biographies. It was his purpose
to make translations of all the Odes of Horace; and though he did
not live to complete his work, his 'Horatian Echoes,' 1893, issued
posthumously, with an introduction by O.W. Holmes, contains the
majority of the Odes" Poem Translations John Osborne Sargent, Horatian Echoes: Translation of the Odes of Horace (New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1893) [online text] Writings John Osborne Sargent, The Rule in Minot's Case again as restated with variations by the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts (New York: G.P. Putnam, 1871) [online text] _________________, Common Sense versus Judicial Legislation being the review of a law recently enacted by the Supreme Court of Massachusetts (New York: G.P. Putnam, 1871) [online text] _________________, A Third Chapter on the Rule in Minot's Case (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1874) _________________, Chapters for the Times (Lee, Massachusetts: Office of the Valley gleamer, 1884-1885) [online text] A Layman, The Rights and Wrongs of Helpless Stockholders and of a Helpless Corporation (New York: Evening Post Job Printing Off., 1887) [online text] Research Resources John O. Sargent Papers Microfilm of Correspondence, a diary, and miscellany |
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