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 | | PANEL 1 TITLE: CHARLES C. He had an aristocratic-sounding name and an impressive lineage, but Charles Cleveland Osgood-the "Lion of Redstone"-was very much a self-made man. The descendant of early New England colonists, Osgood (born 1851) was orphaned in his early teens and worked his way through school as an office boy and bookkeeper. |
 | | Charles Osgood, one-time office boy, became famous as the "Fuel King," the lord of a vast empire of mines, steel mills, ore refineries, and coke plants. |
 | | Built in 1901, the mansion symbolized the benign lordship of Charles Osgood and his second wife, Alma-whom the townsfolk, with proper deference, dubbed "Lady Bountiful." The Osgoods lived like true aristocrats, keeping a stable of thoroughbreds and entertaining European princes and members of America's industrial nobility. |
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