E. B. Osgood Delivery Wagons

(Photograph courtesy of Joel Fuller)

Featuring another piece of Cumberland's history: E.B. Osgood!

Edward B. “Deacon” Osgood was one of the six first graduates from Greely Institute in June 1880. Osgood started butchering pigs around 1890 and opened a general store next to his butcher shop.

He smoked ham and bacon on the premises and made sausages following his own secret recipe. A New Hampshire company aged country cheese specifically for his business.

In addition to his butcher shop, Osgood ran a packing plant that, by 1940, averaged 5,914 pounds of lard, 3,245 pounds of sausage, and 14 tons of ham and bacon per year.

Each spring, Osgood and his crew worked a 20-acre patch devoted to market gardening. Osgood’s grandson Fred took over the business after his death in 1944.