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For hundreds of years, many have celebrated the first of May as "May Day," an opportunity to celebrate the coming of summer. Mas...

Frances Sargent Locke Osgood gave birth to her first daughter, Ellen Frances Osgood , on July 15, 1836. Ellen was born in England, where ...

Frances Sargent Locke  was born on June 18, 1811 in Boston, Massachusetts, though most of her early life was spent in nearby Hingham. Years ...

Frances Sargent Osgood died of tuberculosis on May 12, 1850 at her home in New York. She suffered from the disease for years, possibly as f...