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The Family of Ebenezer Osborne-13912


   History of Clermont County, Ohio, by Everts, pub. by J.B. Lippincott
   & Co., Philadelphia, 1880.  Page 285.  (partial transcript)
   (Contributed by Herbert H. Osborn)

"Williamsburgh Township"
   Ebenezer Osborne, the father of Lydia, was a tailor and lived on lot 324.
His family consisted of four children: two daughters -- Lydia, aged eleven,
and Matilda, seven years -- and two younger brothers, -- Josiah and John,
-- the latter probably an infant at the time Lydia was lost.  This sad event,
the only one in the history of that day invested with tragic interest,
occurred on the 13th of July, 1804.  It appears that it was customary for the
Osborne children, alone or acompanied by some of the neighbors' little girls,
to drive up the cows which grazed on the commons around the village.  On the
afternoon of the above day the two Osborne girls, accompanied by the girls of
the McKaslen family, set out on this duty, following the paths which led to
the "big field," about a mile from the village, where the cattle were
supposed to range.  They were guided in their movements by the tinkling of
the cow-bells, and were, perhaps, led off by this means from the main path,
and in that way the McKaslen girls became separated from the Osborne girls,
and struggling to find their way home, finally came upon a blind path, which
they followed, and before night reached the house of William Hunter, in
Jackson township, more than six miles from Williamsburgh.  Not so fortunate
the Osborne girls.  They became bewildered, separated, and the elder one
hopelessly lost.  The Rev. James B. Finley, who participated in the search
for the child, has left on record such a graphic account of the scenes and
events which followed that we produce it to a large extent:
     <here is a very long description of the search for Lydia Osborne, which
      I have not copied.>
   Of the subsequent history of the Osborne family little can be said.  The
father died of grief in the course of a dozen years, and Mrs. Osborne became
the wife of John Charles, a well-known citizen of the northern part of the
county.  Josiah, the elder son, was a man of some note in his day, and John,
the youngest of the family, lived to be an old man in the township of
Jackson.


Bio. of Aaron Osborn-3894 and Barzilla Osborn-6808


   History of Clermont County, Ohio, by Everts, pub. by J.B. Lippincott
   & Co., Philadelphia, 1880.  Page 315.  (transcript)
   (Contributed by Herbert H. Osborn)

Aaron OSBORNE moved to Tate [township] from Pennsylvania in 1799, settling
just inside the village of Bethel.  He moved to Indiana, where he died in
1874, at the age of ninety-six years. In the war of 1812 he served in Capt.
Brady's company.  Of his three sons and five daughters, Nathan died in
Indiana; David still resides at Bethel, where he was born in 1807, and
where, since 1827, he has followed the undertaker's trade, interring in that
period more than 4000 persons, FRAZEE was killed by lightning in Illinois in
1852.  The daughters married William WIND, John HILLIS, William TOMPKINS,
George W. ELROD, and T.L. TINSLEY.

Barzilla OSBORNE, a brother of Aaron, was a laborer in the village.  In his
family occurred the first birth in Bethel, -- Mary, -- who received from
Obed DENHAM a gift of a town lot, which is now owned by J.A. PERRINE.
Osborne moved to the west at an early day.


Church info on Barzilla Osborn-6808


   History of Allen County, Ohio, Chicago, Warner, Beers and Co., 1885.
   Page 491.  (transcript)  (Contributed by Herbert H. Osborn)

   "BAPTIST CHURCH.--The following history of this society is based on the
records of the church, and for this reason, it is taken from Mr. Harrison's
historical sketch:
   "The First Baptist Church of Lima, Allen Co., Ohio, was organized January
25, 1834 with twenty six membrs, to wit: James Daniels, Rhoda Daniels,
William Chenoweth, Ann Chenoweth, James Johnson, Ellen Johnson, Nancy
Johnson, Thomas Hawthorn, Mira Hawthorn, Betsy Terry, Nancy Daniels, Sarah
Chalmers, Benjamin M. Daniels, Barzillai Osborn, Elizabeth Osborn, Samuel
Lippencott, Elizabeth Lippencott, John Lippencott, Nancy Lippencott, Samuel
B. Lippencott, Phebe Lippencott, Phebe Homan, William Chaffee, Abigail
Chaffee, Samuel Homan and Sally Homan.  Rev William Chaffee was their first
pastor.  The church was admitted to membership in the Mad River Association
in August, 1834.  Services were held in the old court house till the 18th of
October, that year, at which time a new house of worship was comnpeted and
occupied."


Bio. of Aaron J. Osmon


   A Portrait and Biographical Record of Allen and Van Wert counties, Ohio,
   Chicago, A..W. Bowen and Co., 1896.  pages 419-420  (transcript)
   (Contributed by Herbert H. Osborn)

OSMON, AARON  J., now a leading farmer of Allen county, Ohio, was born in
Bath township, in the county, February 16, 1844, and descends from an old
Virginia family, that early became settlers in Ohio.
   Brazelia Osmon, the grandfather of our subject, was a native of the Old
Dominion, and was a blacksmith and farmer.  He served in the war of 1812,
and was a pioneer of Allen county, there being but two houses in the now
city of Lima when he arrived here.  He entered a farm, of 160 acres, from
the government, and this land he subsequently cleared up and converted into
a good homestead.  He reared a family of eleven children, viz: Mary, Phoebe,
Sarah, Rhoda, Elizabeth, Aaron, Abraham, died near Lima, in 1851, Ebenezer,
now living in Wisconsin, Brazelia, deceased, Rachael, deceased , and Lydia,
now living at Ada, Ohio, wife of Barton Holland, ex-sheriff of Allen county.
The father of this family was a whig in politics, but later became a
republican.  He died near Lima, in the faith of the Baptist church, at the
age of eighty-five years, his wife having preceded him to the grave some
years previously.
   Abraham Osmon, son of Brazelia Osmon, and the father of the subject of
this sketch, was also a native of Virginia, and was a young man when he came
to Ohio, and entered a tract of 120 acres, in Bath township, Allen conty,
which tract he likewise converted into a fertile and profitable farm.  He
married Miss Charity Tunget, the marriage resulting in the birth of ten
children, viz:  John J., who died at the age of seven years: Mary E., who
was first married to Levy Spiker, who died a prisoner of the war of the
Rebellion, at Andersonville, Ga.; she then became the wife of Joseph
Bressler, also deceased; William C., now residing at Marion, Ind.; Martha
J., wife of J. H. Atmar, now residing in Lima, Ohio; Elizabeth A., died in
infancy; Francis M., died at Petersburg, Va., near Cheat Mountain, was a
member of company H, Twenty-second regiment Ohio volunteer infantry; Aaron
J., our subject; George R.; Harrison H., who died in infancy, and Lewis L.,
of Perry township, Allen county.  The mother of these children died June 28,
1877, in the faith of the Methodist church, and is buried in Bath township;
and the father died December 15, 1851, a member of the Methodist church, and
lied beside her.
   Aaron J. Osmon was reared a farmer and remained with his parents until
May, 1864, when he enlisted at Lima, in company F, One Hundred and
Fifty-first Ohio volunteer infantry, and later in company B, One Hundred and
Ninety-second Ohio volunteer infantry, under Col. Butterfield.  He
participated in the battles of Fort Beards, Fort Sumner, Fort Reno,
Rockville and others, in the Shenandoah valley, and was honorable dischared
in August, 1865.  He then returned to Allen county, Ohio, and purchased a
farm of 143 acres in Perry township, where he has since made his home.
   December 30, 1866, Mr. Osmon married Miss Amanda R., daughter of Asa
Hungeford of Allen county, but formerly of New York.  This marriage has been
blessed with eleven children, born in the following order: Frances Hill,
born December 17, 1867; Martha Ellen, born July 14, 1869; William Herbert,
born March 26, 1871; Emma Lenore, born June 1, 1873; Lewis Hungeford, born
February 15, 1875; Alton Lawrence, born April 2, 1876; Royal Edwin, born
November 8, 1878; Charity Agusta, born January 31, 1881: Asa Hungeford, born
January 31, 1881; infant daughter, born April 25, died May 5, 1883; Ralph
Waldo, born July 26, 1884.
   The parents are members of the Methodist church and live in full
conformity with its teachings.  Mr Osmon is very popular with the republican
party, and in 1893 was elected by that party county commissioner by a
majority of forty-one over George Kanall, of Lima, the democratic nominee.
Fraternally Mr Osmon is a memer of G.A.R. post, of Westminister, and also
Mart Armstrong post, No. 202, of Lima, Ohio.  He is likewise a member of
George R. Taylor's command, No. 8, U.V.U., department of Ohio; of the
Auglaize grange, No. 347, P. of H. Mr. Osmon is an adept at farming and has
a well improved and fertile farm, which he has earned through well directed
industry and intelligent management.  He is public spirited and generous, a
friend of education, and contributes freely to the support of church and
school.  He is highly respected for his integrity and straightforwardness in
all his transactions, and socially stands the peer of any man in the county
of Allen, his family enjoying the same distinction.


Bio. of Albert Osborn-13368


   History of Allen County, Ohio, Chicago, Warner, Beers and Co., 1885.
   Page 716.  (transcript)  (Contributed by Herbert H. Osborn)

ALBERT OSBORN, merchant, Lima, was born in February, 1836, in Youngstown,
Ohio; son of John and Isabel (Duncan) Osborn, natives, the former of
Virginia, the latter of Washington County, Penn.  John Osborn was a miller
in his early days, but in later life took up farming.  He came to Ohio in
his youth, and became an early settler of Mahoning County, where he married
and raised a family of fourteen children, nine of whom are now living: Mary,
Rachael, Jane, Harriet, Laura, Henrietta, Marcus L., John H. and Albert.
Our subject received his early education in Trumbull County, Ohio, and
immediately began business for himself.  In the winter of 1856 he married
Sarah A., daughter of John and Elizabeth McCorkle, and to this union has
been born one son--John M.  Mr Osborn went to Pennsylvania in 1862, and
entered into oil commerce, boring wells and speculating in real estate until
he had reaped sufficeint to warrant him in returning to this county in 1868,
and engaging in the queensware trade.  This he followed nine years, and then
selling out his interest in 1877, he opened his present general grocery and
provision store.  He is a member of Lima Lodge, F. & A. M.


1882 Bio. of Charles Osborn-1016


   The History of Clinton County, Ohio, Chicago, W. H. Beers & Co., 1882.
   Pages 893-896.  (transcript)  (Contributed by Herbert H. Osborn)

CHARLES OSBORN (deceased).  The subject of this notice was a resident of
this county for some years, and as such deserves especial mention in this
work.  He was the publisher of the first newspaper in the United States to
advocate, in a radical manner, the emancipation of the slaves.  It also
expressed in strong language its opposition to intemperance and war.  In the
language of William Lloyd Garrison, "Charles Osborn is the father of all of
us Abolitionists."  He edited and published the Philanthropist at Mt.
Pleasant, Ohio, in 1817-1818, it taking fifteen months to issue fifty-two
numbers (the paper was a weekly).  He was a Quaker preacher, and commemced
his ministry in the Friends' Church about 1807 or 1808.  He traveled and
preached wherever there were Quakers, and for thirty years sat at the head
of the church, even Joseph John Gurney refusing to take a seat above him.
 During these thirty years, he was engaged in two controversies with the
main body of Friends.  He was, probably, the strongest opponent of Elias
Hicks and his doctrine in the Friends Society.  He also opposed the
colonization scheme very bitterly from its inception.
   We insert the following article, as showing the position and esteem in
which he was held by the Society of Friends:
   Testimony of the Clear Lake Monthly Meeting of Anti-Slavery Friends,
concerning Charles Osborn, deceased:
   We feel that in commerating the life, the pious and godly example, the
arduous and zealous labors of this faithful minister of the Gospel, we are
but rendering that tribute which is due to his memory.  And this we feel
constrained to do, by the fresh and endeared recollection we have of him,
and of his earnest labors in the cause of truth; hoping that this brief
memento may prove a blessing to survivors, and incitement of similar
dedication of heart to the service of the Lord, and to follow him as he
followed Christ.
   It appears that he was born in the State of North Carolina on the 21st of
the eighth month, 1775.
   In the nineteeth year of his age, he removed with his parents, Daniel and
Margaret Osborn, to the State of Tennessee.  Here he resided many years, and
here was the scene of his early labors in the Gospel.  His first appearance
in the ministry seems to have been in the year 1806 or 1807.
   Destitute of worldly patrimony, he made but a poor appearance to those
who judged afte the sight of the eye, and by this class was treated somewhat
cooly in his first public labors; but his eye being kept single to the great
Minister of ministers, none of these things moved him.  Through the
baptizing power, and the authority of truth attendant upon his ministry, all
opposition was soon silenced, and he went forth an approved minister of the
society about the year 1808.  Toward the close of 1808, he engaged in his
first religious visit.
   He traveled much in the service of truth in his own yearly meeting of
North Carolina, and several times visited Friends of other yearly meetings
while a resident of Tennessee.
   In addition to these labors in the ministry of the Word, having at an
early period of his life, through the manifestations of truth in his own
breast, seen the injustice and cruelty of slavery, he engaged in the
formations of associations for the relief of its victims, under the
denomination of Manumission societies.  In this enterprise, which commenced
in 1814 or 1815 and of which he was the principal oringinatior, he
endeavored to enlist the feelings and co-operation, not merely of members of
his own society, but that also of all others, and in endeavoring to lay the
foundation-principle of these societies, he, at that early day, advocated
and maintained the only true and Christian ground--immediate and
unconditional emancipation.
   In 1816, the Colonization Society took its rise in the city of
Washington, under the auspice of leading men of the nation.  Notwithstanding
the reputed high character of the projectors of this scheme, he promptly and
energentically opposed it.  The same year he removed to Mt Pleasant, Ohio,
and there conducted a paper under the title of the Philanthropist, in which
he took occasion to expose the then secret, but now well-known, design and
tendency of this cruel and oppressive scheme.
   This paper was the first ever published, that we have any knowledge of,
which advocated the doctrine of uncondional emancipation.  This was the germ
from which sprang the befamed Genius of Universal Emancipation, of
Tennessee, the editor of that paper, Benjamin Lundy, having previously
served in the printing office under the preceptive influence of our friend.
   The Philanthropist  was also the first paper ever published, at least in
the United States, that advocated the doctrine of the impropriety of using
the products of slavery.
   While a resident of Ohio, he performed sundry religious visits to Friends
in various places.  He came to the State of Indiana, and settled in Waynne
County in the year 1819.
   He left home In the spring of 1832, and performed a religious visit to
Great Britain and a part of the Eastern Continent, being absent about
eighteen months.  While there, he encountered a spirit of innovation of a
different character among Friends, a disposition to run into formalities,
out of which the Society oringinally came, and to adopt doctrines at
variance with the view of our wothy predecessors, in regard to the purely
spiritual nature of the Gospel.  This was in him , as we learned from his
own account, a source of renewed trial, and deep exercise of mind.  He,
however, was enabled to meet it with promptness and decision, though it made
its appearance in high places.  Thus, as one of the Lord's valiants,
equipped in the panoply of his Divine Master, he was enabled to withstand
the enemy on the right hand and on the left.
   But it seems his severest trials were reserved for his declining years.
After having spent his life, from youth to advanced age, in the advocacy of
the truth, as professed by the Society of Friends, and traveled extensively
in the ministry of the Gospel, as one almost, if not altogether universally
beloved and approved, he was deserted, while occupying the same ground, and
maintaining the same testimony he had long been laboring to do, by many,
very many, of his families, friends and acquaintances--by that very society
itself, as then organized, which he had so zealously labored to build up;
and that, too, which was a far more painful consideration, because of his
faithful and unflinching steadfastness in maintaining some of those
testimonies.  We allude to the course of treatment he received, previous to
the separation, on the Anti-Slavery question.
   Having acted from the convictions of truth upon his own mind, in his
efforts in behalf of the slave, he dared not call them in qustion or change
his course to suit the unsoundness of others.  A few Friends who felt and
sympathized with him, and who were alike bound to the law and to the
testimony, in the winter of 1842-43, re-organized the society, in order to
carry out the principles and testimonies thereof, the doing of which had
therein been prohibited by the Yearly Meeting, since which time, as ability
was afforded, he endeavored to encourage Friends to faithfulness in the
support of our meetings for worship and discipline, and in the mainenance of
the various testimonies of the society, ever manifesting to the last an
unwavering confidence and belief in the recititude of his course in regard
to the re-organization of the society.
   In his ministry, it was his peculiar lot to wade in the deep in unfolding
the glorious plan of redemption through the Lord Jesus Christ, being
eminently qualified, as a doctrinal teacher, to lay open the mysteries of
redeeming love "to poor, lost and fallen man," ever guarding with a jealous
and watchful eye the honor and glory of his Divine Master.  Although he was
somewhat slow in utterance and delivery, yet his language was very
comprehensive, perspicuous and full of meaning.
   His abhorrence for strife and war was fitly portrayed in the following
page of his journal, penned while passing through Germany in 1832:
   "Passing along, here presents to view an extensive, well-cultivated
landscape, indicating plenty; there is a shepherd, leading and tending his
flock, inspiring ideas peaceful and sublime.  We move along our steady pace;
soon we enter the gates of a fortified town, where the soldier, equipped
with his frightful plumange and glittering instuments of death, appears in
sight.  Ideas of battles fought; of conquests made; of burning cities, of
streaming blood; of dead and dying men.; of widow's cries, and orphan's
tears, the pride of princes who glory is their shame, rush into the mind,
and demand the Christian tribute of sorrow--abhorrence of war, and prayer
for its poor, fallen, ambitious votaries.  'All they that take the sword,
shall perish with the sword.'"
   In the social circle he was deeply interesting, his observations being
both instuctive and edifying to those of his friends who had the privilege
of enjoying his company.
   In 1842, he removed to the North, and settled in the State of Michigan,
and from thence, in 1848, he removed here, near Clear Lake, Porter Co.,
Ind., and became a member of our Monthly Meeting.
   On the first day of the week previous to his being taken ill, he appeared
in public testimony in his own particular meeting, and spoke with that
clearness, life and power, which had so conspicuously marked his ministerial
labors in the Gospel through life.  The tenor of his remarks on this
occasion, were such as to leave the impression on the minds of Friends, that
he was apprehensive his race was almost run.
   The next morning, while apparently in usual health, he penned the
following lines in his journal, descriptive of the feelings and aspiration
of his soul:
   "Though I am not without tirals and poverty of spirit, yet as I am
favored to keep in the patience, and not to feel condemnation, I have cause
for rejoicing, for the cup of unmixed felicity is not a daught for mortal.
If it were, where would be the reserve for futurity?  'Although the fig-tree
shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be on the vine, the labor of the
olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat, the flock shall be cut
off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stall, yet will I
rejoice in the Lord, and joy in the God of my salvation!'  O, Lord!  enable
me to pray without ceasing, and in everything give thanks; to rejoice
evermore, and praise Thee while I have my breath, and forever, after death."
   For several years previous to his dissolution, he was subject to
occasional attacks of lung fever, which sometimes were quite severe.  On the
evening of the same day, the 24th of the twelfth month, 1850, he showed
symptoms of a recurrence of the same disease, but was not confined to bed.
On the following morning, he expressed a desire to write a little more in
his diary, which he accordingly attended to, and wrote as follows:
   "Third Day, 24th.--I am somewhat unwell to-day, but being favored to have
my mind stayed upon God, I have peace.
                "My life--if Thou preserv’st my life,
                     Thy sacrifice shall be,
                And death--if death must be my doom,
                     Shall join my soul to Thee!
        "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Thee,
because he trusteth in Thee!
        "O, ye philosophers, of the present day! ye Fowlerites! ye exalters
of nature and science!  have ye, with all  your philosophy and mesmeric
dreams, discovered a more excellent way?"
   At a certain time in the course of his sickness, a friend having stepped
into the room, he remarked: "How much better off I am than the poor slave.
I have my friends around me, doing all they can for me, while many of them
have not so much as a child to hand them a cup of water."
   As already intimated, he was deeply impressed with the necessity of
bearing a testimony against the productions of slavery, and, accordingly,
looked forward to the closing scene of all terrestrial things with him;
while in heath, he had his burying-clothes, free from the stain of slavery,
procured and held in readiness.
   A day or two after he was taken unwell, as there was a business of a
temporal nature demanding his attention, he manifested some anxiety about
it; saying: "It is altogether likely to me that I shall  go very suddenly; I
wish that business attended to.  It was never my intention to have anything
of a worldly nature restg upon me at such a time as this."
   After  this he said but little, lying mostly in silence, bearing his
afflicition with great patience, evidently having finished his work, and was
quietly waiting for the coming of the Lord Jesus.  This was sensibly felt to
be the case by those present.  It was a time of perect and solemn calm,
when he quietly passed away the 29th of the twelfth month, 1850, aged
seventy-five years four months and eight days.
   Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord from henceforth.  Yea, saith
the Spirit, for they rest from their labors, and their works do follow them.
   The above memorial was read in this meeting, and directed to be forwarded
to the Quarterly Meeting.  Taken from the minutes of Clear Lake Monthly
Meeting of Anti-Slavery Friends, held third month, 6th 1852.
                                                        Benjamin Maulsby
                                                        Jane Williams,  Clerks
   The foregoing memorial was subsequently read and approved in both the
Quartly and Yearly Meetings.  Two sons of Charles Osborn now reside in this
county, at Wilmington--Charles N. and Parker B. -- scketches of whom appear
in this work.


Bio. of Charles N. Osborn-1246


   The History of Clinton County, Ohio, Chicago, W. H. Beers & Co.,
   1882.  Pages 896-897.  (transcript)  (Contributed by Herbert H. Osborn)

CHARLES N. OSBORN, Justice of the Peace of Union Township, was born in Wayne
County, Ind., September 20, 1819.  His father, Charles Osborn, was a
minister in the Society of Friends, and the publisher of the Philantropist,
issued in 1817 from Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, being the first newspaper in the
United States to advocate the immediate emancipation of the slaves; in fact,
the first "Abolition paper" published in America.  A condensed but
comprehensive history of Charles Osborn will be found elsewhere in this
work.  Mr. Osborn's mother was Hannah Swain, a native of Tennessee.  She
departed this life in February, 1878, at the advance age of eighty-eight
years one month and twelve days.  Our subject remained in Indiana, Wayne
County, till seven or eight years of age, and then accompanied his parents
to this county, locating on Todd's Fork near Sligo, in the forepart of 1827.
Two years later, the family removed to the Little Miami River, below
Waynesville, in Warren County, Ohio, but returned to Wayne County, Ind., in
the fall of 1831.  Mr Osborn remained with his parents until June, 1838,
when he struck out for Wilmington, on foot and alone, with his little
knapsack on his back.  He walked the entire distance, arriving at his
destination on the 20th day of the same month.
   He obtained employment as a clerk with Barclay & Hoge, owners of a
general store and manfufactory of hats.  Mr. Osborn was a hatter by trade,
and came to Wilmington with the intention of working at the trade.  He
remained with the above firm till 1840.  On September 16, of that year he
married Caroline, daughter of Daniel Hinman, a native of Dutchess County,
N.Y.  Soon after this union, Mr. Osborn went into business on Main street,
in connection with David Stattan and Joseph W. Hackney, the firm only a few
months, and then, in connection with his brother-in-law, Stiles Hinman,
bought out the firm, changing the firm name to Hinman & Osborn.  In March,
1842, the firm sold their stock and trade, and Mr. Osborn went to
Martinsville and purchased the hat store and tools of T. L. Caruthers, also,
in company with a brother-in-law, John C. Hadley, opening out a general
store.  In October, 1847, the firm dissolved partnership, and Mr. Osborn
returned to Wilmington.  His next venture was with D.C. Hinman in a general
store, the firm of Hinman & Osborn doing busines till January 1, 1851.  In
the fall of that year, Mr. Osborn was elected Clerk of the Court of Common
Pleas of Clinton County, being re-elected in 1954, and serving two terms.
In 1857, he embarked, with Webb Broomhall, in a merchant tailoring and
clothing extablishment.  In 1858, he was elected Justice of the Peace of
Wilmington, serving one term.  In April, 1861, Mr. Osborn engaged in the
drug business with Cyrus M. Walker.  In 1865, he disposed of his interest to
his partner, and purchased the stock of groceries owned by Samuel Woodruff.
E.L.Way was a partner in the business.  Four months later, Mr Woodruff
bought back the stock.  Mr. Osborn started in  the same business again, but
two years later Mr. Woodruff bought him out.  He then went into partnership
with Judge A. W. Doan, the firm of Osborn and Doan continuing two years.
Mr. Osborn remained in the business till March 1, 1877, and since then has
been acting as administrator of estates, executor, trustee, etc.  Mr. Osborn
was made a Mason in 1850, and a member of the Chapter in 1854.  For several
years he officiated as Secretary and Treasurer of both Lodge and Chapter.
He was formerly a Whig, and was a delegate to the Whig convention, In
February, 1840, that nominated Tom Corwin for Govenor of Ohio.  Since 1854,
he has been a staunch Republican.  Five children have been born to Mr. and
Mrs. Osborn, two sons and two daughters living--Mary E., wife of E. L. Way,
once publisher of the Clinton County Republican, now residing in Orange
County, Fla.; Edward F., of Babb and Osborn; Hannah, wife of Frank Babb, of
Babb & Lewis; and Daniel C., proprietor and publisher of the South Florida
Journal, at Orange Co., Fla.  Mr. Osborn, wife and family are Friends.


Bio. of Parker B. Osborn-1247


   The History of Clinton County, Ohio, Chicago, W. H. Beers & Co.,
   1882.  Page 897  (transcript)  (Contributed by Herbert H. Osborn)

PARKER B. OSBORN,  is one Wilmington's oldest and most enterprising harness
manufacturers.  He was born in Wayne County, Ind., October 13, 1821.  He is
the son of that noble Quaker minister, Charles Osborn, who was, in the
language of William Lloyd Garrison, "the father of all of us Abolitionists."
In 1817, he issued, at Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, the first number of the
Philanthropist, the first newspaper published in America advocating the
doctirne of immediate emancipation of the slaves.  He was a pioneer minister
of the Society of Friends, and for thirty or forty years "sat head of the
church over the world."  A brief but reliable sketch of this slave
emancipator will be found in this work.  Parker B. Osborn resided in Wayne
County, Ind., till he had attained his fifteenth year.  He then commenced
learning his present trade, and subsequently taught music seven or eight
years (from 1827 to 1835).  In 1828-29, he resided with his parents of
Todd's Fork, in Adams Township; thence to Warren County, Ohio, and two years
later back to Wayne County, Ind.  His next place of business was at Niles
and Cassopolis, in Michigan, where he remained six or seven years.  In 1850
he came to Wilmington once more, and commenced teaching music again, having
classes throughout this State, Indiana and Michigan.  In 1855, he located
at Muncie, Ind., where he worked at his trade, and from which point he
taught his different classes in music.  In the spring of 1862, he located
again at Wilmington, and since 1865 has devoted his entire time and
attention to his business.  Mr. Osborn is a well known citizen of Wilmington
and Clinton County, and honored by all for his high business qualities and
warm, social nature.  He enjoys a birthright in the Society of Friends, and
politically, is Republican.  He has been married  three times.  The maiden
name of his present wife was Rebecca A. Randolph.  Mr. Osborn has three
children living--I.R.Osborn, with Lyon & Healey, of Chicago; Clarence W.,
residing on a farm near Lincoln, Neb., and Jennie E., at home.


Etcyl Osborn-6886 Family Bible


   (Transcribed with permission of Karen Garnett)

   Etcyl Osbu--- was Born Feb 14th AD. 1815
      Cyntha    Osbu--- was Born May 16th  AD 1817
Maria Elizabeth   "      "   "   June 3rd     1836
M.H.  Osb---             "   "   March 27th   1838
William Nelson Osb--- "  "   "   December 1st 1839
G.W. Osb---           "  "   "   Nov 15th     1841
Frances Ellender Osl---  "   "   Feb 25th     1844
Cyntha Caroline   "      "   "   Feb 12th     1846
Sarah Jane        "      "   "   Oct 26th     1848
Mary Ann          "      "   "   Nov 14th     1851
John Henry Etcyl Osb---  "   "   Sept. 18th   1853
Howell Cobb       "      "   "   May 5th      1860

Sarah Jane Osb--- Departed this life
 Oct 14th  6- Oclock P.M.  AD 1866

William Henderson Osborn was Born January 29th A.D. 1875
Emily Mariar Osborn was born Oct 17th A.D. 1876
Alice Osborn was born January 9th 1879 AD
Sarah Elen Osborn was born Novembre<sic> 17th 1880
Maston H. Osborn and Eliza Jane Dodd was married February 8th A.D. 1870


Bio. of Daniel E. Osborn


   Chadwick's History of Shelby County, Indiana, B.F. Bowen & Co.,
   Indianapolis, 1909.  Page 647.  (transcript)

SERG. DANIEL E. OSBORN.
   The state of North Carolina has furnished a larger percentage of the
emigrants from the Atlantic States to the various sections of Indiana than
might at first be apparent to the casual observer, and of the vast number of
enterprising, aggressive citizens who have taken up their abode here, the
subject of this sketch must hold a place in the front rank, as we shall see
by a study of his interesting career, for in him are manifested many of the
sterling characteristics known to his worthy ancestors which has resulted in
his winning material success and at the same time gaining the confidence and
respect of those with whom he has come in contact.
   Serg. Daniel E. Osborn was born in Guilford county, North Carolina, March
18, 1872, the son of Jesse H. and Luarcha (Phillips) Osborn.  Jesse H.
Osborn died when our subject was a child, and his wife reared the five
children left to her.  She successfully managed a small farm, and was
enabled to give her children a fairly good education, and D.E. was thus
prepared for teaching.
   The subject of this sketch came to Indiana in 1894, and worked as a farm
hand.  Desiring to see something of the great wide world and give exercise
to his military instincts, he enlisted in December, 1896, in Company G,
Eleventh United States Infantry, which was stationed at Little Rock,
Arkansas, until the spring of 1898, when it was sent to Mobile, Alabama,
from which place it was sent to Tampa, Florida, thence to Porto Rico, and
attached to General Miles' army during the Spanish-American war.  This
regiment served in that islanduntil April 3, 1902, having done some fighting
in the meantime.  They landed at Ponce and were then sent to Yaco and placed
under General Swan for the purpose of taking the western end of the island.
On August 10, 1898, the Spaniards were engaged near Maygues and the enemy
was taken on August 13th, following.  Then the Eleventh did garrison duty.
On the date mentioned above, April 3, 1902, this regiment left Porto Rico
for the Philippine Islands, and thus a voyage of over fourteen thousand
miles was made.  They landed in Manila, May 3d following, and at first did
garrison duty, then went on the expedition to Mindano under General Sumner;
they encountered the natives in several places.  Mr. Osborn says that while
in the Phillipines they were compelled to guard the Americans while they
constructed roads and did other work, for the natives were treacherous.  He
left ehre in October, 1902, and arrived in Indianapolis on December 22d,
following, after having remained in the service for a period of six years,
and he is remembered by the government, which he so ably and faithfully
served, with a pension.
   Mr. Osborn ws married December 31, 1902, to Lula Rigsbee, a native of
Shelby county, Indiana, her birth having occurred August 11, 1882.  She is
the daughter of Adrian and Alice (Powell) Rigsbee, and she is a graduate of
the high school at Arlington.
   In 1904 Mr. and Mrs. Osborn moved onto the farm where they now live,
section 29, Hanover township, and each succeeding year has added to their
prosperity.  This farm, which is under a high state of improvement, and is
worth twenty thousand dollars, consists of one hundred and twenty acres.
Grain is extensively grown, and much interest is taken in stock raising,
good stock of various kinds being constantly kept on the place, Mr. Osborn
being especially interested in well-bred horses, of which he is an excellent
judge.  His residence is a modern and commodious one, a heating plant
supplying hot and cold water having been installed.  A large, substantial
barn and other necessary outbuildings are also to be seen on this very
attractive farm.  Mr. Osborn is also a stockholder in the Gwynneville
Breeding Association.
   Mr. and Mrs. Osborn are the parents of two interesting children,
Gareldene, born December 11, 1905, and Martin, born December 30, 1907.
   In politics our subject is a Republican.  Mrs. Osborn is a member of the
Methodist Episcopal church.  Mr. Osborn is an interesting conversationalist,
having traveled extensively and been a close observer, and he and Mrs.
Osborn are held in high esteem by all who know them.


Bio. of Charles J. Osborn


   Compendium of History, Reminiscence and Biography of Western Nebraska,
   Alden Publishing Co., 1909.  Pt. 2, page 559.  (transcript)

CHARLES J. OSBORN.
   Charles J. Osborn, an agriculturist of prominence in Cheyenne county,
resides on his fine farm in Sidney precinct.  He has been closely identified
with the public affairs of his locality from the early stages of its
development, serving in different capacities at various times, during the
period 1894-'96 holding the office of county clerk, and has always taken an
active part in county and state politics.
   Mr. Osborn was born five miles from Hillsboro, in Montgomery county,
Illinois, June 30th, 1862, a son of Samuel C. and Lydia (Kendrick) Osborn,
who are now deceased.  He lived on the home farm and received the usual
schooling of the farmer lad in those times, remaining with his parents until
1885, when he came to Nebraska and located in Cheyenne county, where he
spent a few months, then turned back to the eastern part of the state for a
time, returning to Cheyenne county in the spring of 1886, and he has made
this section his home ever since.  He filed on a homestead in section 22,
township 16, range 49, which he later sold, filing on another claim in
section 14, township 14, range 50, now owning four hundred and eighty acres
of deeded land, together with a full section, making a ranch of one thousand
one hundred and twenty acres, which is known as the "Idlewild Ranch and
Dairy Farm."  He is engaged to a large extent in dairying, and keeps a large
number of cows, besides other stock.  He was among the first to raise
high-grade Shorthorn cattle in this part of the state, and has made a
complete success of his venture.
   Mr. Osborn farms about one hundred and thirty acres, raising corn and
small grains.  He has erected good buildings of all kinds, and every portion
of the ranch bears evidence of good management and prosperity.
   Mr. Osborn married Miss Iva Bewley, a native of Montgomery county,
Illinois.  The wedding occurred there November 4th, 1883, the twenty-fifth
anniversary of which was duly celebrated in 1908 by all their neighbors and
friends from Sidney and the surrounding country.  The parents of Mrs.
Osborn, Oliver H. and Sarepta (Meisenheimer) Bewley, have both passed away.
Mr. Osborn's family consists of the following children: Leo E., engaged in
the decorating and painting business, residing in Sidney.  One son, Maynard
Waldo, now living in Sidney, married Winnifred Bixby.  Viola Blanche, Jesse
R. and Clifford are still at home.  They are a most interesting family, and
have a pleasant home, surrounded by a large number of warm friends in their
community.
   Mr. Osborn and his wife are both active in neighborhood affairs, the
former now acting as school moderator, while the latter holds the office of
treasurer, school district No. 77.  Mr. Osborn is independent of party
lines, voting for principle and men rather than political affiliation.  He
is a member of the Methodist church of Sidney.


Bio. of Richard Osburn


   Compendium of History, Reminiscence and Biography of Western Nebraska,
   Alden Publishing Co., 1909.  Pt. 2, page 757.  (transcript)

RICHARD OSBURN.
   In that large and promising section of Nebraska known as Cherry county,
Richard Osburn, whose name introduces this article, has run a noteworthy
career, and while still in the prime of life, and at the maturity of his
manly powers, has attained an enviable standing among those strong and
leading men who are making the wilderness a blooming garden.  His handsome
and well appointed farm property is located in section 22, township 34,
range 25, and there he has shown what may be developed by a high degree of
the peculiar characteristics of honesty, integrity and industry that so
strongly mark the typical American farmer, especially so when he is
breathing the strong, free winds of the great west.
   Mr. Osburn was born on a farm in Decatur county, Iowa, January 11, 1854,
but grew to manhood in Monroe county, in the same state, where he received
such educational advantages as the times afforded.  His father, Jonathan
Osborn<sic>, came of an old American family, and while he was by trade a
carpenter, devoted his life mostly to farming, in which he was notably
successful.  His wife, Julia A. Stocker, the mother of Richard Osburn, was
of German blood, her parents having come into this country from Germany in
the early years of the past century.  Jonathan Osburn and wife were the
parents of a family of six children, of whom the one whose career forms the
subject of this sketch was the first born.
   Mr. Osburn began life for himself when about twenty years of age, and for
a few months was engaged in farm work in Kansas, but soon removed to Nodaway
county, Missouri, where he bought a forty-acre farm, on which he made his
home for some ten years.  He was married to Miss Nancy Halsey, March 31,
1884.  Her people were of New England descent, though her father, Zebidee
Halsey, was born and reared in Virginia.  Her mother, Cecilia Chatham, was a
lady that well fulfilled the best ideals of American womanhood.  To Mr. and
Mrs. Richard Osburn have come nine children, all of whom were born on the
farm where we find them today, and all of whom are now living: Della May,
Joseph Mills, John Wesley, Frank Edgar, Albert Marion, Richard Evart, Floyd
Emmet, Earl and Sylvia Anne.
   In the spring of 1884 Mr. and Mrs. Osburn came to Nebraska and pitched
their tent, where their home is found at the present time in Cherry county.
They are still living in the log house which was erected to shelter them at
their first coming, though it has been greatly improved and enlarged, so
that it bears little resemblance to what was the first structure on the
place.  The land itself has been greatly improved by thorough and systematic
cultivation.  Mr. Osburn found life an uphill road during the first years of
his residence in Cherry county.  He was glad at times to get anything to do
in which he could find scanty support for his family.  During the long
drouth between 1893 and 1896 he raised no crops whatever, fully realizing
what it means to have a famine in the land.  The next year was more
prosperous and he began to forge ahead, so that now he is very comfortably
situated, with no fear for the future.  He is the owner of four hundred
acres under active cultivation.  Mr. Osburn devotes much attention to
cattle, hogs and horses, and is keeping about fifty head each of cattle and
hogs, with half as many horses.  The very satisfactory results of his
experience in stock encourage him to still further efforts in this line.
During the unrest when an Indian uprising was threatened in 1891 Mr. Osburn
moved his family twelve miles nearer the fort for safety, but shortly
returned to the farm, fearing no danger since.
   Mr. Osburn is a Democrat in his general political affiliations, and takes
a commendable interest in local and school affairs.  For some fifteen years
he has been a member of the school board, and may be counted on for a quick
response to every appeal for a better community, and the advance of
educational and moral institutions.  He is a member of the American Order of
Protection at Valentine.


Bio. of Samuel H. Osborne


   Compendium of History, Reminiscence and Biography of Western Nebraska,
   Alden Publishing Co., 1909.  Pt. 3, page 1125.  (transcript)
   (Illustration of residence of Samuel H. Osborne accompanies the bio.)

SAMUEL H. OSBORNE.
   Samuel H. Osborne, a very well known and highly respected citizen of
Morrill (formerly Cheyenne) county, Nebraska, has a valuable estate in
Bayard precinct, besides land in other localities near.  He is one of the
prominent old settlers in the region, and has passed through all the old
Nebraska times, assisting in no small degree in the upbuilding and
development of the vicinity.
   Mr. Osborne was born in Licking county, Ohio, February 16, 1841, where he
spent the first seven years of his life.  In 1848 his parents, Joshua and
Harriett (Rigby) Osborne, natives of Pennsylvania and Virginia,
respectively, moved to Steuben county, Indiana, with their family of eleven
children, seven sons and four daughters, and there our subject grew to
manhood.  He enlisted in Company H. Eighty-eighth Indiana Infantry, and was
with Company A, First United States Engineers, for three years and three
months, in active service all of that time in the Army of the Cumberland
under Buell and later Rosecrans.  He was discharged from the army at
Nashville, Tennessee, having a brilliant record as a soldier.  Three
brothers were also in the service.  One met his death in battle at Stone
River, December 31, 1862; another brother was severely wounded at
Huntsville, Alabama.  Our subject was in the battles of Stone River and
Perryville, Kentucky, at Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge, and all the
skirmishes between the later place and Atlanta, Georgia.  Here he turned
back to Nashville under Thomas.
   After the war closed Mr. Osborne returned to Indiana and remained there
up to 1869, going at that time to McLean county, Illinois, and later to
Iowa.  In March, 1871, he came to Nebraska, and in October removed to
Ottumwa, Iowa, where he worked for three years.  Returning to McLean county,
he followed farming until 1887, when he came to Nebraska, settling in that
part of Cheyenne county which is now Morrill.  Here he filed on a homestead
on section 25, township 21, range 52, at that time entirely unimproved land.
He pre-empted about three hundred acres in section 2, township 20, range 52,
ninety acres of which were under irrigation; also acquired a Kincaid claim
of four hundred and eighty acres in section 35, township 23, range 52.  He
improved these tracts extensively, having two irrigation ditches on the home
place and has been engaged in grain and stock raising during all of the time
he has been in the region.  At the present time he has about fifty head of
cattle and a small bunch of horses.  He has a complete set of good farm and
ranch buildings and every convenience and improvement for the proper
operation of a model ranch.  We call attention to a view of the home to be
found in our illustrative pages.
   Mr. Osborne is a Republican politically and active in local affairs,
having served as justice of the peace for twenty-one years.
   Mr. Osborne married Miss Emily W. Benson in Oak Grove, Illinois, December
4, 1873, she being a native of McLean county, of that state, a daughter of
James and Polly Ann (Henshaw) Benson.  They have a family of four children,
namely: Dale, married and now living in Idaho; Thomas C. Osborne, married
and living in Wayne, Nebraska, where he has charge of the Presbyterian
church; Eva June and Dean H., living on the home ranch.
   Mrs. Osborne is a member of the Christian church, while Mr. Osborne is a
comrade of the Bayard Post, No. 350, Grand Army of the Republic.


1888 Bio. of Thomas A. Osborn


   Portrait and Biographical Album of Sedgwick County, Kan.,
   Chicago, Chapman Brothers, 1888.  Page 131.  (transcript)
   (Portrait accompanies bio.)
   Also found in Portrait and Biographical Record of Dickinson, Saline,
   McPherson and Marion Counties, Kansas and perhaps other
   county histories, as Thomas A. Osborn had served as governor of Kansas.
   [See the 1904 bio. of Thomas A. Osborn]
   [See the bio. of Edward D. Osborn]
   [See the bio. of Thomas A. Osborn, nephew of this Thomas A.
    Osborn]

Thomas A. Osborn.
   THOMAS A. OSBORN, one of the most popular and distinguished gentlemen who
ever served the State of Kansas as her Executive, is to-day an honored
citizen of that great commonwealth and a resident of her capital city.  He
was chosen to this high positions at a critical time in the history of the
state.  While it is true that no commonwealth in our glorious galaxy of
States has been so sorely tried or passed through so many and such severe
ordeals, there have been some periods of greater trials than others.  One
crisis after another has come upon this people, but there was always a firm
and wise hand ready and able to guide the ship of State through the storm
and over the shoals.  Kansas found in the person of Mr. Osborn a safe
leader, a patriot and a statesman.  From the year 1872 to 1877 was an
important period in the history of Kansas, and during this time Thomas A.
Osborn stood at the head of its affairs.  Many vital questions were forced
upon the Executive during these eventful years, and the record he made then
will ever endear him to the hearts of the people of the State he so
efficiently served.  When tried he was not found wanting, but demonstrated
that he possessed a sound judgment, a keen foresight, and an unfaltering
devotion to the well-being and prosperity of the State.  Though a stanch
Republican as a citizen, as a Governor he was non partisan, and worked
impartially to the betterment and welfare of the whole people.  Not only has
he been a valued citizen of the State because he so ably filled the
Gubernatorial Chair for two terms, but because for over a quarter of a
century he has stood in the front rank of her most progressive and patriotic
citizens, aiding in every laudable enterprise having for its object the
public good.
   Thomas A. Osborn was born nearly fifty-two years ago, at Meadville, Pa.,
Oct. 26, 1836.  He attended the common schools of his neighborhood during
his boyhood, and at the age of fifteen commenced life as a printer by
carrying the newspapers of the office.  Here he served a full
apprenticeship, and in the meantime pursued the course of study which had
been interrupted by the necessity of making his own living.  By his labors
at the case he was enabled in due time to earn enough money to pay his way
through Allegheny College, and in 1856 he commenced the study of law in the
office of Judge Derrrickson, of his native town.  The year following he came
to Michigan, and was soon afterward admitted to the bar.  In November, 1857,
he migrated to Kansas, and began his career in the Territory at Lawrence, as
a compositor in the office of the Herald of Freedom.  Such was his fidelity
to duty, and his industry and efficiency, that he was soon promoted to the
position of foreman, and in March, 1858, the editor of the paper, after a
two-weeks absence, expressed his thanks "to his worthy foreman, T.A. Osborn,
Esq., for the very satisfactory manner in which he has conducted its
columns."
   Before Mr. Osborn was twenty-two years old he commenced the practice of
law at Elwood, Doniphan County, and soon acquired a fine reputation in his
chosen profession.  Politically, he was a strong Republican and Free-State
man, and in 1859 was elected Senator from Doniphan County to the first State
Legislature, taking his seat in 1861, when twenty-five years old.  The year
following he was chosen President pro tem of the Senate during the absence
of the Lieutenant Governor, and during the impeachment trial of Gov.
Robinson and others.  His next promotion was his election to the office of
Lieutenant Governor over his competitor, Hon. J.J. Ingalls.
   In 1864 Mr. Osborn received the appointment of United States Marshal in
Kansas, by President Lincoln, and occupied the position until 1867, residing
during and after his term of office at Leavenworth.  In the fall of 1872 he
accepted from the hands of his party the nomination for Governor of Kansas.
The convention assembled at Topeka, and their candidate was elected by a
majority of 34,000.  He was duly inaugurated in January, 1873, and served
with so great ability and rendered such satisfaction that he was again
chosen at the State Convention of his party for a second term.  The
following November he was duly elected and served another two years.
   It is proper in this connection to give a resume of some of the
occurrences in Kansas at the time Gov. Osborn occupied the position of State
Executive.  In May, 1874, during his second year as Governor, the Indians on
the southwestern frontier commenced depredations upon the settlers in
Barbour County, which were confined for a time to the stealing of their
cattle and horses.  In an attempt to recover some of the plunder, a
detachment of United States Cavalry fatally wounded a son of Little Robe, a
chief of the Cheyennes.  This incited the Indians to open outrages, and in
June five murders were committed.  These outrages alarmed the entire
southwestern border, and action was at once taken to place the more exposed
points in as good a condition of defense as was possible.  Companies were
organized and armed in readiness for an emergency, and stockades were
constructed by the settlers at Medicine Lodge, Kiowa, Sun City, and at
points midway between the two latter places.  Notwithstanding these
precautions, hundreds of people deserted their homes and sought protection
in the larger towns.  In July other murders were committed, and suspicion
pointed strongly to the Osage Indians.  Early in August a party of these,
twenty-five in number, appeared near the town of Kiowa, claiming to be out
on a buffalo hunt, and upon being ordered to return to their reservation
they refused to do so.  This was communicated to Capt. Ricker, who was in
in command of a company of mounted militia, and hwo in setting out to find
them, overtook them about fifteen miles northeast of Medicine Lodge.  In the
skirmish which ensued four Indians were killed.  The savages now grew more
bold and decided in their onslaught upon the white settlers, and by the 1st
of September they had slain sixteen citizens, six of whom were residents of
Lawrence and peaceably engaged in surveying public lands forty miles south
and twenty miles west of Dodge City.  Gov. Osborn was compelled to keep the
volunteer militia companies on the border in active service until nearly the
close of 1874, and between those who urged extreme measures and those who,
more timid, advised a policy of extreme forbearance, he was in a position
requiring great ingenuity and temperance of action.  Few men in his position
could ahve done better, and more would probably have failed in assisting to
bring all these troubles to a peaceable conclusion.
   After leaving the Gubernatorial Chair in 1877, Mr. Osborn was appointed
by President Hayes, United States Minister to Chili.  In this position he
remained for four years, when he was tendered by President Garfield the
position of Minister to the Empire of Brazil.  This he accepted, and
remained near the court of Don Pedro until the administration of President
Cleveland came into power.
   Mr. Osborn's record as a foreign Minister was not only highly creditable
to our own Nation, but doubly so to him as an official and a citizen of the
great peace-loving Republic of America.  While in Chili he was quite active
in trying to bring to an end the bloody war in which that country was
engaged with Peru and Bolivia, and in 1880 presided over a conference of
representatives of the belligerent power on board the American man-of-war
"Lackawanna" in the bay of Arica, which had in view that object.  He also
interested himself in bringing to a peaceful conclusion the long-pending
boundary dispute between Chili and the Argentine Republic.  For his valued
and able services in this connection he received the thanks of both nations.
   Since Gov. Osborn's return to the United States he has occupied himself
in various enterprises, and while not entirely eschewing politics, has made
known his desire to be excused from filling further official positions.  He
stood at the head of the Kansas delegation to the National Republican
Convention in 1888, and in that august assembly was a prominent figure.  He
is a man whose opinions are universally held in respect, and one who has no
unimportant influence in the councils of his party.  His early life and
training served to build up within him that patience and self-reliance, and
that perseverance in behalf of a worthy principle, which has been the secret
of his standing among his fellowmen, and distinguished him as a man of more
than ordinary ability, and one eminently to be trusted.


Bio. of Truman S. Osborn-13002


   Commemorative Biographical Record of Northeastern Pennsylvania
   Including the Counties of Susquehanna, Wayne, Pike and Monroe,
   J.H. Beers & Co., Chicago, 1900.  Page 804.  (transcript)
   [See the bio. of Peter F. Osborne-12994]

   TRUMAN S. OSBORN, one of the leading farmers and lumbermen of Dreher
township, Wayne county, is a native of that county, born March 6, 1839, in
Salem township.
   Our subject's father was born in Pittston, Luzerne county, Penn., June 6,
1814, and at an early day came to Wayne county, making his home thereafter
in Salem township, where he engaged in business as a farmer and lumberman.
He was quite prominent in local affairs, and was called upon to serve in
several township offices.  Religiously he held membership in the Methodist
Episcopal Church.  At Palmyra, Penn., he was married, December 17, 1837, to
Miss Harriet Harris, who was born in Kingston, Penn., July 18, 1821, and
died in October, 1865, being laid to rest in Arlington cemetery.  Our
subject is the eldest of their children, the others being as follows:
Oliver, born September 26, 1842, married Lucy Wilcox, and died November 8,
1890; Mary F., born September 27, 1845, is the wife of F. Brundage, a farmer
of Lake township, Wayne county; William H., born March 8, 1847, married
Martha Kickworth, and died in Wisconsin in 1885; Zilpha M., born July 1,
1849, is the wife of Charles White, a sawyer of Mayfield, Penn.; Lucy A.,
born August 25, 1851, is the wife of Harvey Daniels, a farmer of Lake
township, Wayne county; Wilson and Wilmer, twins, were born December 21,
1855, and the former is a resident of California, the latter dying when
young; Martha A., born February 4, 1857, is the widow of Hiram Williams, a
farmer of Lake township; George, born October 5, 1860, married Ann Beach,
and is a fireman on the Delaware & Hudson railroad, residing in Carbondale,
Penn.; and Peter, born April 10, 1863, died when young.  For his second wife
the father married Martha Madison, by whom he had one son, Albert P., a
carpenter of Carbondale.  Mr. Osborn passed away December 24, 1876.
   During his boyhood and youth Truman S. Osborn aided in the operation of
the home farm, but after attaining his majority he went to Promised Land,
Pike Co., Penn., where he engaged in lumbering for a time.  He then helped
Lewis Bortree to build a sawmill, and afterward worked for his
father-in-law, Jeremiah Williams, for four years.  Returning to his father's
old homestead, he operated the same for one year on shares,and then again
rented the Williams farm for four years.  In connection with farming he
carried the mail between South Sterling and Moscow for four years, and on
May 15, 1868, purchased his present place, to the cultivation and
improvement of which he has since devoted his attention with marked success.
He first bought fifty acres, for which he paid $700, and to the original
purchase has added forty-one acres, making a fine farm, on which he has
erected all the buildings and made other improvements that add to its beauty
and value.  Prosperity has crowned his well-directed efforts, and besides
his home farm he also owns the one which his son operates.  During the early
sixties, besides attending to his other business, Mr. Osborn carted lumber
to Easton, Nazareth, Bath, Cherryville, Mechanicsville, Bethlehem and
Quakertown, the distance being from fifty to sixty miles, and sold one load,
drawn by two horses, for $160.  He also carted lumber to New Jersey,
crossing the Delaware on a ferry at Slateford, and selling near Blairstown.
At that time horse feed was selling for $3.30 per hundred pounds.
   At Fennersville, Monroe Co., Penn., Mr. Osborn was married, June 21,
1862, to Miss Rebecca J. Williams, who was born on the old homestead in
Dreher township, a daughter of Jeremiah Williams, whose sketch appears
elsewhere.  The following children were born of this union: Ella A., wife of
Jacob Lamm, of Newfoundland, Penn.; William H., who married Emma Distol, and
is engaged in farming on his grandmother's farm in Dreher township; Arthur
J., who married Elizabeth B. Carlton, and is engaged in farming in Dreher
township; Grace, who died at the age of nine years; Ruth, who died at the
age of two years and ten months; Lyman, who married Celia Burrus, and is
running a farm of his own known as the "C.G. Wolfe farm"; Eva, who died at
the age of two years and ten months; Ida M., at home; and Mary F., who was
married June 29, 1898, to Eddie Adams, a farmer in Dreher township.
   During the Civil war Mr. Osborn was drafted and to hire a substitute he
had to give $300, which was all the money that he possessed.  In politics he
is a Democrat, and he has most creditably filled the offices of collector
and constable for two terms each.  He hold membership in the Methodist
Episcopal Church, and socially is identified with the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows and the Patriotic Order Sons of America.


Bio. of Peter F. Osborne-12994


   Commemorative Biographical Record of Northeastern Pennsylvania
   Including the Counties of Susquehanna, Wayne, Pike and Monroe,
   J.H. Beers & Co., Chicago, 1900.  Page 881.  (transcript)
   [See the bio. of Truman S. Osborn-13002]

   PETER F. OSBORNE, one of the brave defenders of the Union during the
Civil war, and a worthy citizen of Salem township, Wayne county, is a
representative of a family that has long been identified with the growth and
development of this section of the State.  His grandfather, John Osborne, a
famous hunter, was born in Susquehanna county, Penn., and married Miss
Rebecca McCape, by whom he had four children: James, the father of our
subject; Rebecca, deceased wife of Nathaniel Rollison, of Salem Township,
Wayne county; Henry, who died in Canaan township; and Peter, who died in
Salem township, in 1875.  The grandfather died in 1816, his wife two years
later, their deaths resulting fron<sic> an accidental plunge in the icy
waters of the Susquehanna river.
   James Osborne was born June 23, 1807, in Pittston, Penn., and was but
nine years old when his father died.  The children lived near their
birthplace until they reached maturity, when Rebecca married and came to
Wayne county.  The brothers followed soon afterward, and purchasing wood
land in Salem township, began clearing the same for farming purposes.
James, Rebecca and Peter settled within a radious of a mile, while Henry
bought property six miles distant on Bidwell Hill, but he afterward removed
to South Canann township, Wayne county, where he operated a carding machine.
The father of our subject was a renowned hunter and fisherman, and when the
infirmities of age prevented him from doing manual labor he delighted to sit
with his descendants around him, relating the scenes and incidents of life
in the back woods.  He was married, April 22, 1829, to Miss Rachel Persing,
of Tatawissa, Penn., daughter of Peter Persing.  Of the eleven children born
to them, two died in infancy; Harriet, wife of Abraham Cramer, died in 1874;
James died in 1893; Amanda, wife of L.B. Cramer, died in 1896; John W. is a
resident of Hamilton, Penn.; Angeline is the wife of George Penny, of
Daleville, Penn.; Rebecca is the wife of Stephen Kimble, of Hoadley's,
Penn.; George Henry is a resident of Reynoldsville; Peter F. is next in the
order of birth; and Rachel is the wife of W.H.H. Bell, of Patton, Penn.  The
mother of these children died May 26, 1880, the father in 1897, at which
time he had forty-six grandchildren and fifty-eight great-grandchildren.  He
was widely and favorably known, and is deserving of prominent mention on the
roll of Wayne county's honored pioneers.
   Peter F. Osborne, whose name introduces this sketch, was born in
Arlington, Wayne Co., Penn., November 1, 1842.  On August 6, 1862, he
offered his services to his country, enlisting for nine months in Company A,
137th P.V.I.  He was honorably discharged June 1, 1863, and March 7, 1864,
re-enlistedfor three years, or until the close of the war, becoming sergeant
in Company D, 2nd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery.  He was mustered out at
Washington, D.C., November 22, 1865.  With the Army of the Potomac he was
all through the Peninsular campaign, including the battles of the
Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor and South Mountain.  While fighting
in front of Petersburg he was wounded, June 17, 1864, and was sent to the
hospital at Chestnut Hill.
   Mr. Osborne was married, in Honesdale, August 3, 1867, by Rev. W.J. Judd,
a M.E. minister, to Miss Frances G. Williams, daughter of Jeremiah and Susan
Ruth (Bartleson) Williams.  Her father, who was born in New York City, May
20, 1811, died March 1, 1886, in South Sterling, Penn., where her mother is
still living.  Mrs. Osborne's paternal grandfather, Joseph Williams, a
native of Wales, became a sailor, and finally located in New York, where he
wedded Mary Kinney, a native of Ireland.  When their son Jeremiah was seven
years old they removed to Philadelphia, and subsequently to South Sterling.
This was in the early days, when travelers were forced to make their own
roads, and it required four days for them to cut a road through the dense
woods, a distance of twelve miles.  Bartle Bartleson, Mrs. Osborne's
maternal grandfather, was of German descent, and married Alice Acres, of
English parentage.  The children of Jeremiah Williams and wife were Rebecca,
wife of Truman Osborne, of South Sterling; Martha, who is unmarried, and
lives in South Sterling; John B., a lawyer of Stroudburg, who is now serving
as district attorney of Monroe county; J.W., a coal dealer of Elmhurst,
Penn.; Mary A., wife of Edward Kimble, of Lake Ariel, Penn.; and Frances G.,
born December 15, 1846, the wife of our subject.
   Mr. and Mrs. Osborne have four children: Bella M., born April 14, 1868,
was educated at the Waymart Academy and the Bloomsburg Normal School, and is
now a successful teacher; Ernest W., born May 4, 1872, attended school at
Waymart, Wood's Business College, and the Bloomsburg Normal School, and is
now a bookkeeper for the Delaware & Hudson Coal Co., at Honesdale; and
Gertie R., born March 1, 1878, and Lena F., born June 27, 1879, are both at
home.
   Politically Mr. Osborne has always been a pronounced Republican, and
besides serving on the Republican county committee he has held the following
township offices: Supervisor, two years; school director, three years;
overseer of the poor, seven years; and inspector of elections.  He also
served as postmaster of Arlington six years, and has proved a most popular
and trustworthy official.  Socially he is a member of the Grand Army of the
Republic, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Encampment, while
religiously, he and his wife are both connected with the Methodist Episcopal
Church.  As a citizen, friend and neighbor he is true to every duy, and
justly merits the esteem in which he is held.


Bio. of Fred A. Osborn


   Commemorative Biographical Record of Northeastern Pennsylvania
   Including the Counties of Susquehanna, Wayne, Pike and Monroe,
   J.H. Beers & Co., Chicago, 1900.  Page 1149.  (transcript)
   [See the bio. of Charles M. Osborn]

   FRED A. OSBORN is one of the prominent men of Harford township,
Susquehanna county, where he has been for several years a successful farmer.
His keen intelligence has won him respect, and his genial, kindly
disposition has attached to him a host of personal friends.  He is still in
the prime of manhood, having been born December 29, 1852, at Oxford,
Chenango county, New York.
   Our subject's father, Edward M. Osborn, married Elsey Permelia Youlin,
she being his second wife, and marrying him after the death of her sister,
to whom he had been first united.  She was born in Chenango county, N.Y.,
July 3, 1826, and died there November 11, 1862, now sleeping in the
beautiful cemetery at Oxford, where he life as a wife and mother was passed.
Edward M. Osborn was born June 22, 1816.  He was a man of fine physique and
resolute will.  In 1861 he enlisted in the Union army, and was commissioned
second lieutenant of Company H, 114th New York Volunteers.  After six
months' service, however, he was honorably discharged, on the score of
disability, the result of disease contracted in the miasmatic marshes and
swamps of the South.  Not long after the death of his second wife he went to
Great Bend, Penn., where he married, for his third wife, Miss Sarah B.
Miles.  He conducted a shoe store there, both making and selling footwear,
until 1870, when he moved to Harford, and was so highly esteemed by his
fellow townsment that for ten years he served as justice of the peace.  He
died May 27, 1895, at the ripe old age of seventy-nine, and is buried at
Harford.  He was a devout and consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, and his passing away was a cause for public regret.  No children
were born of his first marriage.  Fred A., as has been said, was a child of
the second wife, whose other children were as follows: Elijah accompanied an
army surgeon to the front when but a boy of thirteen years, and became the
pet of the regiment, but within a year was attacked with typhoid, and died
March 18, 1863; Amelia F. is the widow of C.A. Chant, of Worcester, Mass.;
Charles M. conducts a coffee-roasting plant at Syracuse, N.Y.; Mary E.
married E.W. Miller, a grocer of New York City; Lizzie L. is the wife of
F.B. Peck, a hotel keeper and the postmaster at Amherst, Neb.; Frank E., a
machinist, lives at Brooklyn, N.Y.; Lelia B. is married to W.L. Bennett, a
merchant of Sidney, N.Y.  To the third marriage were born six children: Ella
B., deceased; Lulu M., who married Everett Perry, of Susquehanna, Penn.;
Edward M., a resident of Philadelphia; Eugene H., who conducts a barber's
establishment at Harford; Elizabeth, now Mrs. Harry Hemander, of Susquehann;
and Ray, who is connected with a Toilet Supply Co., at Philadelphia.
   Fred A. Osborn married while very young.  His life has been one of hard
work, but its story is a tale of the success which attends industry,
integrity and thrift.  On January 28, 1872, before he had reached his
majority, he led to the altar Miss Alzada Phillips, who was born December 8,
1846, in Lenox township, daughter of Nelson and Sally A. (Farnham) Phillips.
Mrs. Osborn's family may be reckoned among the early settlers of Susquehanna
county.  Both her parents died in Clifford township, her father (who was a
shoemaker) in 1881, at the age of seventy-five, her mother in 1897, at
eighty-six.  Mrs. Phillips was a member of the Baptist Church.  She bore her
husband ten children: Celestia, now deceased, who was the wife of Hiram
Dolph; Owen, who lost his life while gallantly fighting in the battle of the
Wilderness; Stephen, a prosperous farmer at Williamsport, Penn.; George, who
lost his life through a railroad accident at Harrisburg, while on his way to
rejoin his regiment after three years' service; Mary A., wife of Joshua
Vail, of Scranton, Penn.; Hannah, widow of Truman Whipple, of Carbondale;
Alzada, Mrs. Osborn; Juliatte, who became the wife of Charles Gifford, a
farmer at Lenox, Penn.; Nelson, a farmer at Elk Hill, in Clifford township;
and Elisha P., whose whereabouts are unknown, nothing having been heard of
him since he started for the West, many years ago.  To Mr. and Mrs. Osborn
has been born one son, Nelson E., who resides at home.
   Mr. Osborn remained with his parents until he was twelve years of age,
when he began the real battle of life.  He commenced by working on the farm
of William Clark, who paid him the by no means princely compensation of his
board and clothes, with the privilege of attending school during the winter
months.  He remained with Mr. Clark for three years, when his (Osborn's)
father removed to Tom's River, N.J., taking Fred with him.  After a year
spent there the boy went to Great Bend, Penn., where he secured work as a
farm hand, earning his board and clothes, with a stipend of eight dollars
per month and the same educational privileges as before.  He stayed at Great
Bend for one year, and then, finding it impossible to collect the pittance
due him, he made his way back to his birthplace, Oxford, N.Y., where he
remained until he was married, then settling at Scranton, Penn.  Moving to
Harford three years later, he spent the next twenty-four months as a cobbler
in his father's shop, and then rented a farm, which he cultivated for five
years.  His next venture as in carpentering, at which he worked, with fairly
good success, for some five years.  Later he was engaged in the village of
Harford two and a half years as clerk for C.H. Johnston, and during the next
four years for his successor, E.E. Jones, when he received the appointment
of postmaster under Cleveland's administration, filling the office for four
years.  Meantime he engaged in mercantile business for himself, continuing
successfully for four years, at the end of which time he disposed of his
store and bought the eighty-acre farm on which he now resides.  He has
received many tributes of popular good-will and confidence, having been
elected township clerk, and school director for nine years, and having been
shosen, in 1898, as one of the executive committee of the Harford
Agricultural Society, becoming one of the executive council of that body,
which position he still holds.
   Mr. Osborn's political affiliation is with the Democratic party.  He is a
prominent Odd Fellow, affiliating with Live Oak Lodge No. 635, his
membership in the order dating from 1875.  Twice he has represented his
lodge in the Grand Lodge, and he has served two terms as District Deputy
Grand Master in Susquehanna county.  He also belongs to G.L. Payne Camp,
Sons of Veterans, and served as its chief executive officer during two
terms.  While his career has not been marked with startling achievements, it
presents a noteworthy illustration of the possibilities afforded by a
democratic commonwealth.  He has hewed out his own path to success in the
face of difficulties which might have overcome weaker men, and stands to-day
as one of the best types of the "self-made man."


Bio. of William H. Osborn-12972


   Commemorative Biographical Record of Northeastern Pennsylvania
   Including the Counties of Susquehanna, Wayne, Pike and Monroe,
   J.H. Beers & Co., Chicago, 1900.  Page 1286.  (transcript)

   WILLIAM H. OSBORN.  Though he had almost reached the age of exemption
from military service when the great Civil war began, being then forty-two
years of age, the subject of this sketch was one of the first to enlist,
once it was seen that there was serious work ahead for the government.
Discharged for disability, he re-enlisted, and saw active service,
participating in a number of engagements, including some of the most
memorable battles of the war.  It is a glorious record, and one well worthy
a typical representative of a prominent Pennsylvania family.
   The grandfather of our subject, James Osborn, was a native of New York
State, born near the Jersey line.  He was a physician who, a century, or
longer, ago, practiced his profession among the pioneer settlements of
Lackawanna county, and there died.  He married Asenath Brady in New York
State, and left a family of eight children, namely: James, who moved to
Ohio, and there died; John, whose descendants now live in Wayne county;
William, father of our subject; Peter and Henry, who went West; Hannah, who
married John Love; Polly, who married a Mr. Grist; and Betsey, who married
William Ross.
   William Osborn, father of our subject, was born in Sussex county, N.J.,
December 23, 1778.  At the age of eighteen years he removed to Lackawanna
county, Penn., and there married Elizabeth Holden.  He removed to Wyoming
county, near Lake Winola, where he followed farming, and lived to the ripe
old age of eighty-four years, dying in 1862; his wife lived to the age of
seventy-two years.  In politics he was a Democrat.  To them were born seven
children: Sydney, deceased; Asenath, who married a Mr. Dix, and is now
deceased; Orilla, deceased; Polly, who died unmarried; William Holden, the
subject proper of this sketch; Elizabeth, who married James Milligan, and
lives at Mill City, Penn.; and Joseph G., a resident of Dorrance, Luzerne
county.
   William H. Osborn was born in Lake township, Luzerne county, April 23,
1819.  He was given fair school advantages, and at the age of twenty-one
years began for himself the life of farming, lumbering and sawmilling.  He
has in his lifetime owned three sawmills, the first in Falls township,
Wyoming county; the second in Springville township, Susquehanna county, and
the third in Lathrop township, Susquehanna county.  Mr. Osborn moved to
Susquehanna county in 1856.  For seven years he resided in Springville
township, then moved to Lathrop township, where he has since remained.  He
purchased a farm of 275 acres, and now has s160 acres partially cleared.  He
is now farming the old mill pond, the water having been drained off.  Mr.
Osborn enlisted, in September, 1861, in Company A, 57th P.V.I., and was with
that regiment until discharged for disability, March 10, 1863.  On April 5,
1864, he enlisted in Battery D, of the First Penn. Light Artillery, and
received an honorable discharge June 30, 1865.  He participated in sixteen
regular battles, including those of Chase City Cross Roads, Malvern Hill,
Williamsburg and Fair Oaks while in the infantry service.  In the artillery
service he was with Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley, at Cedar Creek,
Fisher's Hill and Winchester.  At Cedar Creek a horse was shot from under
him, and that sharp engagement witnessed some heroic work by the First
Artillery, in which our subject was expecially conspicuous.
   Mr. Osbone<sic> has been twice married.  His first wife, whom he married
in Wyoming county, was Alvira, daughter of Stephen and Betsey (Scott) Post,
and by this marriage he had six children, but one of whom is living, Mary
Ann, wife of Isaaac<sic> Lonsberry, of Chicago, Ill.; one son, Stephen M.,
enlisted in the 57th infantry, and was killed September 1, 1862, at the
battle of Chantilly; Milton and Melvin, twins, died at the age of thirteen
years, with diphtheria; Lydia died when one and a half years old; Helen
married, and died when about twenty-one years old.  Our subject for his
second wife married Catherine Gregory, daughter of Sylvester Gregory, and by
that union had one child, Sylvester L., who married Minnie, daughter of
Solomon and Sarah (Reynolds) Decker, and he has two daughters, Katie and
Eula.
   In politics Mr. Osborn has been a Republican since the party was
organized, and has held various local offices, including those of auditor,
poormaster and school director.  He is also a member of Rogers Post, G.A.R.,
of Brooklyn, Penn., and is now serving on its official staff as lieutanant.
He has through his long life in Susquehanna county ever been an earnest and
industrious citizen, interested in all matters that relate to the general
welfare, and by his worthy and consistent life has won the highest esteem
of his fellow citizens.


Bio. of Edwin H. Osborn-14757


   Portrait and Biographical Record of Dickinson, Saline, McPherson
   and Marion Counties, Kansas, Chicago, Chapman Bros., 1893.
   Page 491.  (transcript)
   [See the Bio. of Almon Osborn-14756]

   EDWIN H. OSBORN, M.D.  A prominent and scholarly physician of Peabody,
Kan., is the subject of the present writing.  Dr. Osborn is a native of the
State of Ohio, having been born in Seneca County, that State, January 14,
1830.  He was the son of Joseph Osborn, a native of Massachusetts and a
farmer by occupation.  When the doctor was quite young the family moved to
Indiana, and remained there until he was twelve years old, and in 1842 moved
to Rock County, Wis.
   The education of our subject was not neglected.  He attended one year at
Beloit Seminary, for two years he was a pupil at Milton Academy, in Rock
County, and from his thirteenth until his seventeenth year, he was engaged
in the study of Latin and Greek.  At Racine our subject entered the office
of Dr. Barber to read medicine, and went from there to Rush Medical College,
Chicago, at which institution he attended the fall term of lectures for
1851, and graduated at the Cincinnati Eclectic Medical College in 1852.
Opening up practice at Fulton, Wis., he remained at that place for one year,
and then went to Belleville, Wis., and practiced there until 1874, and for
the next ten years he practiced in Oregon, Dane County, Wis.  He came to
Peabody, Kan., in 1884, and for one year he engaged in farming and
stock-raising.  For three years he was with Dr. Loos, and with the exception
of one year of absence he has practiced since that time.  In 1892 he
returned, and has a general practice here.
   The wife of Dr. Osborn was Miss Marion Henriette Fox, a native of Ohio,
and a lady who at one time was a fine organist and musician.  The family is
as follows: Mary Genevieve, an artist and teacher of music; and Charles
De Lacy, a lad of thirteen.  Jessie Lowesa died age three years at Madison,
Dane County, Wis., August 20, 1873.
   Dr. Osborn is a Republican in his politics, and believes that the
principles enunciated by that party must be upheld for the salvation of the
country.  Mrs. Osborn and daughter are members of the First Presbyterian
Church, and are ladies who command the esteem of all.  For many years Dr.
Osborn has been a member of the order of Masons, and also fo the Odd
Fellows, and in both he has been highly valued.


Bio. of William Osborne


   History of Green County, Wisconsin, Springfield, IL, Union Publishing
   Co., 1884.  Page 884.  (transcript)

   William Osborne came to Green county in 1861, and worked about one year
upon a farm.  He then enlisted in company B, of the 31st Wisconsin regiment,
and was mustered into service in August, 1862, at Prairie du Chien.  His
regiment belonged to Sherman's western divistion, and participated in the
famous march to the sea, and to Washington.  He served until June 15, 1865,
and was mustered out at St. Louis.  He lost his health while in the service,
and was unable to do any work for a number of years after his return from
the war.  He is now a pensioner.  He owns 112 acres of good land, on section
6, of the town of Jefferson, having purchased the "Squire Gardner farm."
His wife was formerly Arsula South, daughter of Abijah South, formerly a
resident of Jefferson, but now deceased.  Mr. and Mrs. Osborne have two
children -- Sada and Leroy.  Mr. Osborne ws born in Trumbull Co., Ohio, Jan.
1, 1846, and is the son of John and Abigail (Allen) Osborne.  The latter
died when the subject of this sketch was eight months old.  The former is
living in Pennsylvania.


Bio. of Roy T. Osborn


   Kansas, Chicago, Standard Publishing Co., 1912.  Pt. II, page 600.
   (Bio. is accompanied by portrait)  (transcript)
   [See the bio. of Stephen J. Osborn]

   Roy T. Osborn, probate judge of Montgomery county, is a lawyer by
profession.  He was born in Atchison county; Missouri, Nov. 30, 1874.  His
parents are Hon. Stephen J. and Arabella T. (McCreary) Osborn.  (See sketch
of Stephen J. Osborn.)  His father is one of the most distinguished lawyers
and jurists of Kansas, to which state he came from Missouri in the spring of
1879, settling in the following fall at Wakeeney, Trego county.  When his
father located at Wakeeney, Roy T. Osborn was but five years of age.  At
Wakeeney he obtained his preliminary education, in the public schools, and
was then for five years a student in the Kansas Wesleyan College, at Salina.
In the fall of 1895 he entered the junior class of the University of Kansas,
where he graduated in 1897, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
Predilection led him to study law, and in the year 1899 he returned to the
University of Kansas to take up the study of that profession, graduating in
1900 and receiving the degree of Bachelor of Laws.  Immediately after his
graduation in law he located at Coffeyville, Kan., where for six months he
was associated in the practice with Hon. Thomas E. Wagstaff.  He then became
a government employee, in the law department of the commission created by
Congress to look after the interests of what was and is known as "the five
civilized Indian tribes."  This position he resigned in 1904 to practice law
at Coffeyville, in association with his father, who had previously removed
to that place.  His former partner in the law, Hon. Thomas E. Wagstaff, was
elected county attorney of Montgomery county, and under him Mr. Osborn
served efficiently as assistant county attorney, from 1905 until 1907.  He
had become well and favorably known as a lawyer and as a Republican leader
in politics, and in 1908 was made the nominee of his party for probate judge
of Montgomery county.  He was elected to this position at the fall election
of that year, and was reelected in the fall of 1910, his present term
expiring in January, 1913.  To say that in the opinion of the people of
Montgomery county be has rendered acceptable and satisfactory services as
probate judge would be speaking in modest terms of his record in the office.
Judge Osborn has long sustained prominent fraternal relations.  He is a
member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and of the Knights of
Pythias order, and during his college days became a member of the Sigma Chi
and Phi Delta Phi fraternities.  It is to the younger men that any state
must look for future leaders in public affairs, and to Judge Roy T. Osborn,
of Independence, the State of Kansas may well afford to look for one of
those, who shall shape her future policies.  In 1904, Judge Osborn married
Mrs. Martha DeWitt, nee Turner.


Bio. of Edward Delayhay Osborn


   Kansas, Chicago, Standard Publishing Co., 1912.  Pt. II, page 697.
   (transcript)
   [See the 1888 Bio. of Thomas A. Osborn]

   Edward Delayhay Osborn, a member of the faculty of the Washburn Law
School at Topeka, is a native of Kansas and a son of one of the state's most
distinguished and esteemed citizens, Thomas Andrew Osborn, who was honored
by state and nation with offices of great importance and responsibility.  He
served as governor of Kansas for the term of 1873 to 1877; was afterward
appointed United States minister to Chili, and later teld the same
diplomatic office in Brazil.
   Edward D. Osborn was born at Leavenworth, Sept. 3, 1871, and spent the
earlier days of his boyhood in Topeka and South America, where his father's
official duties required his residence.  On leaving Brazil the family
returned to Leavenworth and there he entered the public schools, and later
became a student in Washburn Academy at Topeka.  In 1890 he entered Williams
College in Massachusetts, where he studied for three years and then returned
to Topeka and prepared himself for the legal profession, reading law in the
office of Rossington, Smith & Dallas, and was admitted to the bar in 1895.
He had his first practice under Judge A. H. Horton in the legal department
of the Missouri Pacific Railway Company and remained in its employ at Topeka
for several years.  He then formed a partnership with Hon. Alex. M. Harvey,
formerly 1ieutenant-governor of Kansas, establishing a law firm that
continued to occupy a place of much prominence at the Topeka bar until 1905,
when Mr. Osborn retired from the practice of his profession to become a
member of the faculty of the Washburn College Law School.  He was appointed
acting-dean of the law school in 1907 and held that position for two years.
In his political views Mr. Osborn is a supporter of the Republican party,
but he has never, like his father, taken an active part in political life.
He is a member of the Shawnee county, the Kansas state, and the American bar
associations and holds membership in the Topeka Club and the Country Club.
His fraternal affiliations are with the order of Elks.