Lucretia (Perry) Osborn (1858-1930)
Mrs. "Lulu" Lucretia Thatcher (Perry) Osborn
She was born in Augusta, Georgia, to an old New England family. In 1881, at the Military Chapel on Governor's Island, she married the prominent paleontologist, Henry Fairfield Osborn, son of the President of the Illinois Central Railroad. They had five children (listed) and lived between 850 Madison Avenue, N.Y., and Castle Rock on the Hudson River. In 1927, she published her most famous work, Washington Speaks for Himself, a biography on George Washington made up of previously unpublished letters. She also published The Chain of Life (1925), a popular version of Men of the Old Stone Age, and The Origin and Evolution of Life, by her husband. During World War I, she published a brochure to help raise funds for the Allies in Europe, Hands Across the Sea.
