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Letter to Harvey Cushing, August 8, 1821
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Featherston Osler was born on January 4, 1838, in Newmarket, Upper Canada, the son of Rev. Featherstone Lake Osler (1805–1895) and Ellen Free Pickton (1806-1907), and brother of Sir Edmund Boyd Osler (1845–1924), M.P. and Dr. William Osler (1849–1919).,
He was a barrister. He was educated at local schools in Bond Head and Barrie, Ontario. He served in the law firm of James Patton in Toronto and was called to the bar in 1860. He was made a puisne judge of the Court of Common Pleas in 1879. In 1883, he was appointed Chief Justice of the Court of Appeal in Ontario. He retired from the Bench in 1910 and became president of the Toronto General Trusts Corporation. From 1921 to 1924, he served as a Treasurer of the Law Society of Ontario. In 1861, he married Emma Henrietta Smith (1839–1902). He died on January 16, 1924, in Toronto, Ontario.
Letter to Harvey Cushing from Hon. Justice Featherston Osler, 80, Crescent Road, Rosedale, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Featherston Osler explains that William Osler brought their aunt, Miss Mary Anne Pickton, to Canada in 1884. Miss Pickton lived with Osler's parents on Wellesley Street in Toronto until her death in February 1886. William Osler and Miss Pickton were very close; she may have helped fund Osler's studies in Germany. He mentions his aunt Lizzie [Elizabeth Osler], his father's youngest sister.
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Cushing's colour code: White (Correspondence)