Background
Osborn, Frederick was born on March 21, 1889 in New York, New York, United States. Son of William Church and Alice C. H. (Dodge) Osborn.
Osborn, Frederick was born on March 21, 1889 in New York, New York, United States. Son of William Church and Alice C. H. (Dodge) Osborn.
Bachelor of Arts, Princeton, 1910. Post graduate study, Trinity College, Cambridge, England, 1911-1912. Doctor of Laws, Washington and Lee University, 1943, Washington and Jefferson College, 1947.
Doctor of Science, Norwich University, 1942. Doctor of Letters, New York University, 1945.
Began in business management, 1912. Treasurer Vice-President in charge of traffic, Detroit, Toledo and Ironton R.R., Detroit, 1914-1917, president, 1920-1921. Partner and special partner G.M.P. Murphy & Company, bankers, New York City 1921-1938.
Director Schieffelin & Company. Appointed chairman President’s Advisory Committee on Selective Service, October 1940. Chairman Joint Army and Navy Committee on Welfare and Recreation, March 1941.
Appointed to temporary rank of brigadier general heading morale branch of army, 1941. Promoted major general (temporary), 1943. Director information and education division, Army of the United States.
Resigned from army, 1945. Appointed deputy representative United States on United Nations Atomic Energy Commission, 1947-1950. Trustee of The Population Council.
Trustee Carnegie Corporation of New York, The Frick Collection, Princeton, Milbank Fund. Member of the board of commissioner Palisades Interstate Park Committee.
Author: (with F. Lorimer) Dynamics of Population, 1934. Editor: Heredity and Environment (by G. C. Schwesinger), 1933. Preface to Eugenics, 1940.Population, an International Dilemma, 1958. Contributor articles on population.
Member of American Geography Society. (Treasurer) Eugenics Research Association Clubs: Princeton, Racquet and Tennis, The Brook, Broad Street, Down Town.
Married Margaret L. Schieffelin, January 10, 1914. Children: Frederick, Margaret Louisa, John Jay, Alice Dodge, Virginia Sturges, Cynthia.