Osborn House

Local records indicate that Samuel Osborn built his Scantic Road home 1785, and it housed his ancestors for several generations. According to East Windsor Farmer’s Club member Hezekiah Wells in 1886, it was also used as a hotel at one time. 

The house was the birth place of the Rev. Dr. Samuel Robbins Brown, born in 1810 and died in 1880. He attended Monson Academy and Yale in 1832. He translated the bible in to Japanese from 1872 – 1880. In 1838 he married his former Scantic Road neighbor, Elizabeth Bartlett, the daughter of the Rev. Shubael Bartlett, a missionary to China, who founded the first Protestant school in that country, the Morrison Chinese school for boys in Macao, China. He brought the 1st of three Chinese students to the United States in 1847. Rev. Bartlett headed the school from 1838 until 1847, when he returned to the United States