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Bio. of A.D. Osborn


   Landmarks of Steuben County, New York,
   Harlo Hakes, ed., Syracuse, NY, D. Mason & Co., 1896.
   Part III -- "Family Sketches", page 182.
   [See the bio. of L.M. Osborn]

   Osborn, A.D., was born December 1, 1835.  His father, Lewis Osborn, was
born in Scipio, N.Y., and in 1837 he came to Dansville and settled on a farm
of 150 acres.  He was a mason by trade.  He married Samantha Gates, who was
born May 20, 1812, and died in July, 1866, by whom he had two children: A.D.,
as above; and L.M., who was born August 31, 1837.  A.D. Osborn received a
common school education, and has always been a farmer, and owns a farm of
eighty-nine acres.  He is a member of Stephens Mills Grange, No. 308.  He has
visited a number of the Western States, and at one time lived in Hartsville.
January 8, 1858, he married Caroline, daughter of John Ingles, wo was born in
New Hampshire, October 3, 1832, by whom he had five children: Frances V., who
was born January 1, 1859, and died October 20, 1869; Willis L., who was born
December 24, 1863, and died October 31, 1869; Albert A., who was born January
21, 1872; and Clara, who was born May 29, 1873.


Bio. of Amos Osborn


   Landmarks of Rensselaer County, New York,
   George Baker Anderson, Syracuse, NY, D. Mason & Co., 1897.
   Part III -- "Family Sketches", page 39.

   Osborn, Amos, of Hoosick Falls, is the second son of David Osborn, a
native of the adjacent town of Pittstown.  The latter spent most of his life
at Hoosick, being a large and successful farmer.  His death occurred in 1881
at seventy-four years of age.  Amos Osborn was born at West Hoosick and has
always been engaged in farming here, owning about 200 acres.  He is a
descendant of an old local family; his grandfather, John Osborn, a very early
settler, came here from Boston.  He inherits the sterling qualities of his
forefathers and occupies an honored place among the citizens of his town.  He
married in 1861 Mary Rowland, daughter of William Rowland.  Their son, Frank,
married Eveline Smith of Pittstown, and Estella, the daughter, is at home.


Bio. of David Osborn


   Onondaga's Centennial,
   Dwight H. Bruce, ed., The Boston History Co., 1896.
   Vol. II, Part III -- "Family Sketches", page 109.

   Osborn, David, Baldwinsville, was born in Orange Co., Nov. 3, 1823, son of
Adolphus B. Osborn, a native of the same county.  The family were of English
extraction and among the earliest settlers of Connecticut.  Adolphus B.
married Elsie Trumper, by whom he had eight children, six of whom are now
living.  They came to the town of Van Buren in 1833, where he died in 1869,
aged 66 years.  David Osborn married Margaret A., daughter of Daniel
Luddington of Oswego Co., in 1847, and they had five children, three now
living: Mrs. Mary E. Kent, Mrs. Hattie L. Humphrey, and Mrs. Florence L.
Schuck, all born in Onondaga Co.  Mr. Osborn was one of the prominent farmers
of the town.  In 1856 he bought the Thomas Field farm of 100 acres.  In 1876
he bought the Erwin Williams property of 103 acres, and made a specialty of
raising tobacco.  He was interested in school and church work and was
recognized as a man of sterling character.  He died Oct. 27, 1894, age 71
years.  A wife and three children survive him.


Bio. of Henry Osborn-8069


   History of Greene County, New York,
   New York, J.B. Beers & Co., 1884.  Page 414.

HENRY OSBORN.
   Henry Osborn was the tenth child of Nathan Osborn, a native of
Connecticut, and a soldier in the Revolution.  In 1799, Nathan Osborn, with
his family, then consisting of eight children, came to North Settlement, in
the present town of Ashland, where, on the 25th of November 1803, Henry was
born.  On their arrival at their destination, they built a log house, in
which they resided three years, when they built a more capacious frame
residence.  This was burned in December 1804, and one of the children, eight
years of age, was so injured by the flames that he soon died.  The family
returned to their original log dwelling, and soon the house was built in
which the childhood and youth of Henry were passed.  The same house, much
remodeled, is now owned and occupied by Henry Cook.  The common schools of
that period afforded Mr. Osborn his only facilities for obtaining an
education, but these he so utilized, that he was considered a better scholar
than most of his associates at that time.
   At the age of 20, or in 1822, he, in company with an elder brother,
Bennet Osborn, took up his residence in the present village of Windham, which
then consisted of only five houses.  He engaged in mercantile business, which
he continued till 1836.
   In 1840 he removed to Rensselaerville, where he was a merchant till 1848.
He then bought a farm at Hunter, where he remained till 1864, when he removed
to Tonica, LaSalle county, Illinois, where he was a wholesale coal dealer.
On account of the health of his family, he returned to Windham, his present
place of residence, in 1876.
   Mr. Osborn served eight years as a school inspector in Windham, and for
several years was a magistrate in Hunter, but he has never been an office
seeker.
   In 1818 he became a member of the Presbyterian church of Windham, and in
1828 he was ordained a ruling elder by Rev. C.H. Goodrich, wich position he
has ever since held.  Mr. Osborn's memory of the early development of this
region is, in all respects, quite distinct.
   October 31st 1826, he was married by Rev. C.H. Goodrich to Sarah Loomis,
a daughter of Oliver and Sarah Loomis of Windham.
   They have had three children: Helen, who still resides with her parents;
Austin Melvin, now a judge of the Supreme Court of the State of New York; and
Frances Rebecca, who died in infancy.
   Mr. Osborn, at the age of 80, is in the enjoyment of robust health, and a
clear intellect.  Of his 12 brothers and sisters, only one, a brother,
survives.  Mr. Osborn has been an invalid for 15 years.


Bio. of Isaac R. Osborn


   Landmarks of Oswego County, New York,
   John C. Churchill, Syracuse, NY, D. Mason & Co., 1895.
   Part III -- "Family Sketches", page 133.

   Osborn, Isaac R., of Oswego Falls, is of old English stock, inheriting the
sterling qualities of his ancestry.  He is the oldest son of Hurum<sic> and
Olive Osborn, of Ira, Cayuga county, where he was born April 2, 1833.  Amos
Osborn, the father of Hurum, was one of the first settlers in Cayuga county.
Isaac has devoted his attention to farming, with marked success, now owning
200 acres of choice land devoted to dairying and thoroughbred stock.  He was
for several years assessor of Ira, and has served Granby as overseer of the
poor.  both himself and wife are members of the Congregational church of
Oswego Falls.  Mrs. Osborn's maiden name was Jane M. Henderson of Tully,
Onondaga county, where her father, John Henderson, was a pioneer and with his
wife, Polly Hunt, accumulated a large property, and reared eight children.
Mrs. Henderson was one of the five organizers of the first Presbyterian
church established in Onondaga county.  Mr. and Mrs. Osborn married October
29, 1858, and have two children, Frank H., who married Ruth Chapman of
Hoosick Falls and who now conducts th old homestead in Cayuga county, and
Hattie, wife of Sandford Wells, a traveling salesman, residing in Fulton.  A
younger son, Hiram, died when less than one year old, in 1864.


Bio. of James H. Osborn


   Bi-Centennial History of Albany, History of the County of Albany,
   N.Y., from 1609 to 1886,
   New York, W.W. Munsell & Co., 1886.  Page 629.

JAMES H. OSBORN.
   James H. Osborn, a son of Jeremiah and Elizabeth (Coburn) Osborn, was born
in Albany, June 17, 1817.  His parents had come to Albany from New Haven, and
his father was a merchant in the city, with a store on Broadway, from 1808 to
1820, when he removed to Olean, N.Y., when he engaged in the lumber business,
in which he continued until his death in 1822.  After settling his estate the
family returned to Albany, where the subject of this notice has since lived.
Mr. Osborn was educated in private schools, spending the last two years of
his school life at the old Lancasterian school on Eagle street, on the site
of the present medical college.
   At the age of fourteen he entered the store of C.W. Bender, at the
coner<sic> of Pearl and Madison avenues, as a clerk.  He was bright and
active, and took naturally to mercantile life, and his advancement was so
rapid that, in 1837, with the aid of Mr. Bender, who had become his firm
friend, he began business for himself, opening a general store on a street
corner opposite to that where he had begun with Mr. Bender.  Previous to
this, Mr. Bender had moved further up the street, and young Osborn had been
for some time in charge of his store, thus familiarizing himself with the
management as well as the details of mercantile operations.  He was
industrious, honorable and careful, as well as pushing and energetic, and he
prospered, continuing in trade in Albany almost uninterruptedly until 1880,
when he retired.  During some years of this period he had as a partner Mr.
James R. Hadley.  After his removal from his original location, he was
located until 1868 at the corner of Pearl and Westerlo streets, where he
bought property, in 1860, and built a store, disposing of which, he located
at No. 8 State street, and there remained until his retirement.  Mr. Osborn
was in trade in Albany during a period which brought many changes with its
passing years.  The old general stores, something like the country stores of
the present day, gave place to stores which were distinctively dry goods or
grocery stores.  He became well and widely known in the grocery trade, and,
abandoning that in 1868, he embarked in the produce trade, in which he
continued until 1880, since which time he has lived in retirement from active
business, but has made some profitable investments in real estate in
different parts of the city.
   In 1842 Mr. Osborn was married to Miss Christina Van Rensselaer, of
Albany, who lived about forty years thereafter, bearing him three daughters,
of whom two are living, Mrs. William N.S. Sanders, of Albany, and Mrs. Dr.
Charles Devendorf, of Detroit, Mich.  In October, 1883, he was again married
to Mrs. Eliza Bailey, of Albany.  Mr. Osborn has long been a communicant of
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, and has been a member of the vestry since 1858.
A few years ago he was chosen warden to fill a vacancy caused by the death of
Mr. C.W. Bender, the friend of his early days.  Formerly a Whig, Mr. Osborn
has been a Republican from the inception of that party, but while he has
carefully watched the progress of events and felt a deep interest in our
national welfare, his tastes have not inclined him to take part in political
life, and he has never accepted any public office.


Bio. of John Osborn


   Our County and Its People. A Memorial History of Tioga,
   County, New York,
   Leroy W. Kingman, ed., Elmira, NY, W.W. Ferguson & Co., 19--?.  Page 653.

   JOHN OSBORN, son of William and Elizabeth (Madge) Osborn, was born
October 14, 1846, in Devonshire, England.  He was educated at Kingsteignton,
Devonshire, England, and learned engineering in the mammoth tanneries of
William Vickery & Sons at Newton Abbott.  On October 29, 1865, Mr. Osborn was
married with Elizabeth, daughter of William and Mary (Coysh) Lethbridge.  She
was born January 27, 1848.  They have had twelve children: William, born
March 7, 1866, died May 22, 1866; William T., born December 25, 1867, died
September 8, 1868; John, born March 18, 1869, died January 1, 1870; William,
born May 6, 1870, died July 27, 1870; Mary E. (Mrs. E.G. Whitley), born
October 6, 1871; William L., born December 6, 1872, married Miss Birdie May
Decker, of Owego; Jane L., born August 31, 1874; Pauline A., born March 12,
1876; Rebekah E., born February 11, 1878; Thomas C., born May 16, 1879, died
same day; Thomas B., born June 11, 1881, died August 13, 1881; Blanche R.,
born June 9, 1882, died March 15, 1892.  In 1871 Mr. Osborn came to America.
His first work in business here was engineering in the Waverly paper mills,
where he was employed seven years by W.W. Shepard.  He and his family went
back to England, spending about eighteen months at his old home, returning to
this country in June, 1880.  For four years he was then employed by Cooley &
Hemstreet, tanners.  For the past twelve years Mr. Osborn has been the
engineer in the furniture manufactory of Hall & Lyon at Waverly.  He is an
earnest Odd Fellow and has passed all the chairs in the lodge at Waverly.
Mr. Osborn has also held other responsible offices in the fraternity and has
been representative to the grand lodge of the state.


Bio. of Jonathan Osborn-9589


   The Growth of a Century: As Illustrated in the History of Jefferson,
   County, New York, from 1793 to 1894,
   John A. Haddock, Philadelphia, Sherman & Co., 1894.  Page 814.
   [See the bio. of Thomas W. Osborn-10200]

   DEACON JONATHAN OSBORN, on the 11th day of May, 1842, came with his family
to North Wilna, where he lived until his death in 1856.  He was born at
Scotch Plains, N.J. in 1790.  In 1815 he was married to Amelia VanDeemen in
New York city.  The father of both John B. Osborn and Abram VanDeemen served
in the war of the American Revolution.  Jonathan Osborn's family was as
follows: Amelia E., wife of Dr. George Hubbard, deceased; Ann Judson, Mrs.
Slater; Spencer C., Abram C., a distinguished clergyman of the Baptist
church; Gen. Thomas W., and Mary E., deceased wife of Dr. Samuel Merrill.
Jonathan Osborn was a man of much learning and broad information.  His habits
of thought tended toward ecclesiastical subjects and literature, and from his
superiority in these he acquired prominence in church circles.  In 1817 he
united with the Baptist church at Scotch Plains, and a few years after was
ordained deacon.  He was elected to minor offices, both in New Jersey and
Jefferson county.  Directly under his guidance and influence the North Wilna
Baptist church was organized, and through many years he was its main reliance
and support.  In all ways, in integrity, morally and intellectually, he was
among the foremost men in the eastern part of the county.


Bio. of L.M. Osborn


   Landmarks of Steuben County, New York,
   Harlo Hakes, ed., Syracuse, NY, D. Mason & Co., 1896.
   Part III -- "Family Sketches", page 419..
   [See the bio. of A.D. Osborn]

   Osborn, L.M., was born August 31, 1837.  His grandfather, William Osborn,
was born in Scipio, N.Y., and moved to South Dansville, where he followed
farming.  He died at ninety-seven years of age.  Lewis Osborn, father of
L.M., was born in Scipio, August 6, 1806, and died August 27, 1852.  He was a
mason by trade, but followed farming, and owned a farm of 150 acres.  He
married Samantha Gates, born May 20, 1812, and died July 29, 1865, by whom
he had two children: Alfonzo A., born December 1, 1835; and L.M., as above,
who was educated at the Rogersville Seminary and taught school a number of
terms.  He married Rosetta, daughter of John Redman, of the town of Ossian,
born June 26, 1844, and by whom he had six children: Samantha Elizabeth, born
November 21, 1863, and married Michael J. Fries; Bertha Luella, born
February 23, 1867, and married Smith Harden; Pheba Jane, born October 21,
1868, and married Gideon M. Southgate; Lewis Frederick, born October 9, 1870;
Su---<smudged> May, born September 2, 1875; and Dora Ethel, born July 28,
1885.


Bio. of M.L. Osborn


   Landmarks of Rensselaer County, New York,
   George Baker Anderson, Syracuse, NY, D. Mason & Co., 1897.
   Part III -- "Family Sketches", page 174.

   Osborn, M.L., is a native of Lansingburgh, born in 1851.  His father, a
coal dealer there, has been a boatman for many years on the Hudson.  Mr.
Osborn was reared in his native town, and his first business engagement was
with his father in the coal trade and a grocery store.  He came to Hoosick
Falls in 1893 and assumed management of the business of renting houses for
Charles Q. Eldredge.  Mr. Osborn wes<sic> first married in 1875 to Julia A.
Leavens of Lansingburgh, who died in 1885; they had three children: Julia R.
and Susie H., and one deceased.  He married second Nellie Icke, also of
Lansingburgh, by whom he has four children: Wright H., Lloyd Q., Fannie L.,
Clyde L.  Mr. Osborn is a member of the First Presbyterian church, and a
Republican.  He returned to Lansingburgh in 1896.


Bio. of Orrin Osborn, son of Lyman Osborn-10333


   Onondaga's Centennial,
   Dwight H. Bruce, ed., The Boston History Co., 1896.
   Vol. II, Part III -- "Family Sketches", page 354.

   Osborn, Orrin, was born in Fabius, Dec. 11, 1835, a son of Lydander<sic>
and Jane (Waterbury) Osborn, he of Massachusetts and she of Nashua.  Lyman
came with his parents of Fabius in an early day.  He served as assessor of
Fabius three years, and took a leading part in local affairs.  Our subject
has always followed farming except seven years, when he worked at
cheesemaking in different localities.  In 1874 he bought the farm in Pompey,
where he has since lived, comprising 138 acres of fine dairy land.  In 1865
he married True A. Hughs of Oneida Co., by whom he has one daughter, Alice
J., who was educated at Pompey Hill and at Onondaga Valley, and now teaches
in the Manlius graded school.
[Note: The 1850 Onondaga Co., NY census shows Orrin's father's name was
       Lyman.]


Bio. of Ozias Osborn


   Onondaga's Centennial,
   Dwight H. Bruce, ed., The Boston History Co., 1896.
   Vol. II, Part III -- "Family Sketches", page 189.
   [See the bio. of Frank Conrad Osborn]

   Osborn, Ozias, Manlius, was born in New Hartford, Oneida Co., N.Y., April
7, 1825.  Ozias, his grandfather, was a native of Massachusetts.  He was
drowned in his native State in 1794.  Ozias, his son, was born in
Massachusetts in 1794, and at the age of eighteen he was serving in the
Continental army, located at Sackett's Harbor.  He came to New York State
when a young man and located in Oneida Co.  He married Lucy, daughter of Ira
Porter, of Oneida Co., by whom he had four children, of whom Ozias was the
youngest.  Ozias, the father, was killed in 1828, while digging a well.  Mrs.
Osborn died in 1877, aged 72 years.  The boyhood of Ozias (our subject) was
spent in Oneida Co., and he was educated in the common schools.  After
leaving school he engaged in coopering, which he followed for six years, then
took up the carpenter and joiner trade, which he worked at for six years.  In
1868 he bought the Bridgeport cheese factory, which he conducted eleven
years, and in 1879 he bought the Marcy farm of sixty-six acres in the town of
Manlius, which he has since conducted as a fruit and grain farm.  He has two
and one-half acres of grapes, one acre of strawberries, and other fruits.  In
1880 he built a cheese factory on the farm, which he conducted for four
years.  Mr. Osborn has never aspired to political office, although he has
been voluntarily offered such at different times.  Jan. 1, 1849, he married
Mary C., daughter of Prof. Henry Herbener, by whom he had six children:
Charles H., a musician, died Sept. 1, 1872, aged 20 years; Frank C., a
graduate of Syracuse University and inventor of the Osborn cash register, now
resides in Detroit, Mich.; Augustus R., a machinist of Smith Typewriter Works
of Syracuse; Theresa C., wife of George Crownhart, of South Bay; Ida, wife of
Frank Tuttle, of Madison Co., died May 21, 1885, aged 23; and Elmer, a postal
clerk on the Auburn division of the N.Y.C.R.R., now 36 years of age.


Bio. of P.F. Osborn


   Landmarks of Wayne County, New York,
   Cowles, George W., ed., Syracuse, NY, D. Mason & Co., 1895.
   Part III -- "Family Sketches", page 210.

   Osborn, P.F., was born in Cattaraugus county, N.Y., April 10, 1846.  He is
the second child of a family of five children, born to Roswell and Emily J.
(Arnold) Osborn, natives of Cayuga county, N.Y., and early settlers of
Cattaraugus county.  The father died in Wisconsin during a short residence in
that State in 1886, at the age of sixty-eight years.  The mother still
resides in Ontario Centre.  Mr. P.F. Osborn was reared in the village of
Sandusky, N.Y., and there educated.  He was a carpenter by trade, although he
had spent six years in the oil regions.  In 1883 Mr. Osborn came to Ontario
Centre and engaged in the mercantile business, where he has been very
successful.  Mr. Osborn is a Republican in politics.  He is a member of the
Webster Lodge No. 538, F. & A.M., and Palmyra Eagle Chapter No. 79, R.A.M.
Mr. Osborn was married twice, first, in 1869 to Augusta Ely, a native of
Rushford, N.Y.  By this marriage he had one child, Ernest, who died at the
age of five years.  Mrs. Osborn died in 1872, and in 1879 he married B. Agnes
Sweeney, a native of Cattaraugus county.  By his second marriage he had one
son, Homer S., born in 1885.


Bio. of Phineas Osborn-12320


   Genealogical and Family History of Central New York,
   William Richard Cutter, ed., New York, Lewis Historical Publishing Co.,
   1912.  Vol. I.
   [See the bio. of W.H. Osburn, son of Orlando F. Osborn-12334]

OSBORN
   Phineas Osborn was probably a native of Vermont, who settled in Herkimer
county, New York, and removed thence to Clayton, Jefferson county, New York,
in 1817.  His farm in Clayton was about three miles northwest of the falls,
three miles north of Depauville, on what was known as "Elm Flat."  He married
Ann Frame, and they had children: Caroline, Clarissa, Eliza, Mary, Eleanor,
Duane, Daniel Webster, William, Phineas Alden and Orlando.  Another source of
information gives Thomas Schuyler.
   The home of the family in Vermont has not been located, but it may be said
that the first federal census of Vermont, taken in 1790, gives the names of
these heads of family, John, Joseph, Lemuel; Benjamin, of Tinmouth; Isaac, of
Pittsford.
   (II) Orlando, son of Phineas Osborn, was born in Clayton, Jefferson
county, New York, May 11, 1835.  He attended the district school in his
native town, and at an early age began to learn the trade of miller in the
old mill at Depauville.  For several years he followed his trade in Jefferson
county and then in Kansas and Arizona, remaining in the west for sixteen
years.  In 1898 he returned to New York state, and in partnership with his
son, W.H. Osborn, purchased the mills at Woodville and the Valley Mills in
Madison county, New York, and he continued in business to the end of his
life.  He died January 6, 1903.  In politics he was a Republican, in religion
a Universalist.  He married, December 23, 1858, Elizabeth Faire, who was born
in Clayton, September 3, 1836, daughter of Thomas and Margaret (Bearon)
Faire.  Her father was born in Dublin, Ireland, of English parentage, and was
a large landowner in Dublin.  He came to Canada in the British army and when
his term of service expired, he settled at Clayton and followed farming, and
for many years worked in the Ashery.  Margaret Bearon was a native of France
and came with her father's family to settle in Montreal, Canada.  The
children were: William; Mary; Elizabeth; Juliann; Marcella, who died young;
Ella and Lucinda.  Mr. Faire died April 13, 1890, and his widow died in the
following year.
   (III) William H., son of Orlando Osborn, was born in Cape Vincent,
Jefferson county, New York, August 16, 1864.  He worked in the mill with his
father during his boyhood.  His schooling was very limited even for those
days.  When he was fifteen he went to work in a mill owned by his uncle,
Phineas Alden Osborn, at Dexter, New York, and afterward worked for two years
for A.H. Herrick & Son, at Watertown, New York.  After another year in the
employ of his uncle at Dexter and four years in the employ of Farwell &
Rhines, of Watertown, he entered upon a business career on his own account.
He had acquired a broad and detailed knowledge of the business and a wide and
diversified experience, entirely through his own efforts and perseverance.
In 1891 he bought the old Bryant mill at the village of Evans Mills, New
York, and conducted it until he sold it in 1895.  Two months later, in May,
1895, he bought the old S.H. Pitcher mill, at Adams, New York, and conducted
it three years.  In 1896, in partnership with his father, he bought the
Woodville Mill.  In March, 1898, he bought the Amlmerion N. Thomas mill, in
Mexico, New York, and conducted it until May 18, 1910.  In the meantime he
also bought a half interest in the Potsdam Mills and held this interest for
three years, and in addition to his various sawmill properties, he had
organized the Wright & Osborn Lumber Company and had an extensive business in
lumber and in building and contracting.  Before he sold his mill, Mr. Osborn
had bought a half interest in the Wilson Canning Company, with factories at
Mexico, in Oswego county; Taberg, Oneida county, and at Rush, Monroe county.
The company also has a leased factory at Taberg.  The business of the concern
is extensive and among the largest in this line in northern New York, having
a total capacity of two million five hundred thousand cans of fruits and
vegetables per annum, and the plant is run to its full capacity.  He is also
the treasurer of the Wilson Canning Company; vice-president of the Citizens
National Bank, of Adams, and formerly vice-president of the Majestic
Furniture Company.  In all his various investments and enterprises he has
been highly successful, possessing the executive ability and business
sagacity to bring prosperity to every undertaking, and is noted for his fair
and squar business methods.  Though an exceedingly busy man, he has never
neglected the recreations and diversions necessary for a healthy mind and
body.  He is fond of driving and has raised and owned some fine horses, among
which may be mentioned: "Colonel Osborn," with a record of 2:03 3/4;
"Mohonk," 2:25; "Prodigal Queen," 2:24 1/2; "Miss Barney," 2:13 1/4; "John
Engart," three-year-old, 2:21 1/4, and many others.  In politics he is a
Republican.
   He married (first), April 5, 1888, Mary C. Casler, of Dexter, Jefferson
county, daughter of Melza and Lydia Casler.  She died October 31, 1895, and
he married (second), June 27, 1900, Lillian M. Ingersoll, who was born at
Palermon, Oswego county, New York, April 1, 1871, daughter of Alonson and
Lydia (Jennings) Ingersoll.  Children by first wife: Leon C., born Noventer
25, 1890; now manager of the Rush Canning Factory; Gaylord F., born September
11, 1894; Kent M., October 1, 1895, died November 13, 1897.


Bio. of Thomas W. Osborn-10200


   The Growth of a Century: As Illustrated in the History of Jefferson,
   County, New York, from 1793 to 1894,
   John A. Haddock, Philadelphia, Sherman & Co., 1894.  Page 822.
   [See the bio. of Jonathan Osborn-9589]

SOME UNION SOLDIERS.

   GENERAL THOMAS W. OSBORN, son of Jonathan and Amelia Osborn, was born at
the village of Scotch Plains, New Jersey, in 1833.  In 1842 he removed with
his parents to North Wilna, Jefferson county.  He remained upon the farm,
performing the ordinary labor of a farmer's son, until 1854.  During that
time he had no educational advantages excepting the winter terms of the
district school.  In the autumn of 1854 he commenced a course of study
preparatory for college.  He graduated from Madison University (now Colgate
University) in 1860.  After graduation he entered the law-office of Starbuck
& Sawyer, at Watertown, being admitted to practice law in 1861.  It was not
until after the battle of First Bull Run that he determined to do what he
could to sustain the government.  He raised a company for light artillery
service, afterwards known as Company D, First New York Light Artillery.  Of
this command he was commissioned captain.  The battery served continuously
with the Army of the Potomac and engaged in more than 30 pitched battles,
from the Peninsula to Gettysburg, proving itself one of the best artillery
forces in the army, only equaled by the battery of Mink and Spratt, also
raised in Jefferson, St. Lawrence and Lewis counties.  After this general
and entirely truthful statement it is not necessary to go into details, for
Osborn's battery has a record that can be found in the history of the Army of
the Potomac.  The services of Captain Osborn were so meritorious that he was
rapidly promoted from one grade to another, having been chief of artillery of
the second division of the second corps, under General Berry, with the rank
of major; in 1863 he was promoted to the command of the second brigade of the
volunteer artillery of the Army of the Potomac; and in June, 1863, was made
chief of artillery of the second corps, under General Howard, in which
capacity he went through with the battle of Chancellorsville.  In 1864 he was
transferred to the Army of the Cumberland, and was chief of artillery of the
fourth corps of that army; and while thus employed was seriously wounded.
While in command of the recruiting barracks at Louisville, Ky., he organized
the 106th, 107th and 108th regiments of colored troops.  Returning to the
front as soon as convalescent, on the 28th of July, 1864, he was assigned, by
General Sherman, as chief of artillery of the Army and Department of the
Tennessee, commanded by General Howard.  This assignment gave Major Osborn
the largest artillery command held by any officer during the war, with the
one exception of Major-General Barry, who was General Sherman's chief of
artillery.  November 1, 1865, upon the organization of Sherman's army for the
Savannah campaign, Major Osborn was relieved from the command of the
artillery of the department, and retained that of the moving army.  December
21, 1864, in addition to his other duties, he was put in command and had
charge of all the artillery, light and heavy, captured at Savannah; January
9, 1865, he received his previous command of the artillery only with the
moving army and entered upon the Carolina campaign.  This he retained until
May 10, 1865, when he was relieved by the Secretary of War and assigned to
other duty.
   The principal campaigns in which he was engaged were the Peninsula,
Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Lookout Valley and Chattanooga,
Atlanta, Savannah and the Carolinas.  His first commissions was that of
captain, and at the close of the war he received that of brevet
brigadier-general.
   The Major's best work was probably performed at the battle of Gettysburg,
while in command of the artillery brigade of the 11th corps.  We pass over
the first two days' fighting at Gettysburg, and state that, excepting a
severe fight by Slocum, before and after service, to dislodge Ewell from some
earth works, there was no considerable fighting on the third day until the
artillery contest, preparatory to the grand charge of Pickett's division.  In
the forenoon, the officers of Mead's army with their field glasses could
plainly see Lee's batteries going into position along the crest of Seminary
Ridge.  Those batteries, standing at regular intervals, covered a point of
about two miles, and about 150 of Lee's guns were in position.  This was
believed to be the longest and finest line of field guns ever in position
upon a battlefield, and engaged at the same time in battle.  Major Osborn's
five battalions occupied the crest of Cemetery Hill.  The distance between
the two lines of battle, from seven-eighths of a mile to a mile and a half,
was just enough for efective artillery work.  At precisely one o'clock Lee's
signal gun was fired, the shot directed upon Cemetery Hill.  In less than a
minute after, the 150 guns opened, more than half of which were turned upon
Cemetery Hill.
   After this firing had been in progress about an hour, General Hunt came
upon the hill, and while consulting with Generals Howard and Schurz and Major
Osborn of the progress of the battle, the artillery fire and Lee's probable
intentions, the Major suggested that the firing of Meade's should entirely
cease and permit Lee to develop his plans.  The three generals approved the
plan and Hunt at once acted upon the suggestion.
   The firing along the entire line had no sooner ceased than Lee advanced
Pickett's division, supported by two other divisions, to the grand charge
upon Hancock's line.  The result of that charge is well known.  As soon as
Pickett's column was in half-range, every one of Meade's guns opened with
grape and canister, with deadly and sickening effect.  Pickett's column
melted away like the mists of morning before the rising sun.
   At the close of the war, Major Osborn was assigned, by the Secretary of
War, to other important duty, the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned
Lands for the State of Florida.  In that capacity he served two years, and
then resigned his commission in the army and became a citizen of Florida,
with his residence at Tallahassee.  Soon after his resignation he received
from Chief Justice Chase the appointment of Register in Bankruptcy for
Florida.
   During the enforcement of the Reconstruction Laws, he took an active part
in the politics of the State; was elected a member of the Constitutional
Convention, and drafted the Constitution of the State.  By the Legislature
elected under the new Constitution, he was elected in May, 1868, to the
United States Senate, as a Republican, for the term ending 1878.  He entered
the Senate at the age of 35.
   In 1876 he served as United States commissioner at the Centennial
Exposition, at Philadelphia.  Otherwise than that he has held no public
office since he retired from the Senate.  In later years he has been engaged
in business in Florida and New York, and in literary pursuits.


Bio. of W.H. Osburn, son of Orlando F. Osborn-12334


   Our County and Its People. A Descriptive Work on Jefferson,
   County, New York,
   Edgar C. Emerson, ed., The Boston History Co., 1898.
   Part III -- "Personal References", page 56.
   [See the bio. of Phineas Osborn-12320]

   Osburn, W.H., was born in Cape Vincent, August 16, 1864, a son of Orlando
F. Osburn (born in the town of Clayton), who was a farmer.  Orlando F.
married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Fair, who was a manufacturer of potash.
W.H. Osburn was educated in the common schools and then learned the miller's
trade.  In 1891 he bought the Evans Mills, selling out his interest in 1895,
when he came to Adams and purchased the Adams Mills; in 1896 he purchased the
Woodville Mills and makes a specialty of custom trade, feed and handling of
grain.  In 1888 he married Mary C., daughter of M.E. Casler.  Mrs. Osburn
died October 31, 1895, leaving three sons, Leon C., Gaylord F. and Kent M;
the latter died November 13, 1897, aged two years and one month.  Mr. Osburn
has served as trustee of the town and takes an active interest in educational
and religious enterprises, having ever advanced the best interests of his
town and its people.


Bio. of Welcome Osborn


   History of Mower County, Minnesota,
   Mankato, MN, The Free Press Publishing House, 1884.  Page 459.

   Welcome Osborn, one of the early pioneers of Mower county, came here in
1856 and settled on section 27, in the town of Austin, where he remained
until 1864, when he moved to section 14, where he erected a log house and
still occupies it.  He now has under cultivation 280 acres of land, and has
one of the finest farms in the town.  He is a native of Canada.  Was born in
January, 1825, and is the oldest son of Isaac and Sarah Osborn.  His father
ran away from home when he was six years old.  His mother, at present, is
living with him, and is eighty years old.  He was married in April, 1849, to
Miss Caroline Yates, also a native of Canada.  They have ten children,
William, John, Stephen, Melissa, Charles, Nancy, George E., Arad, Henrietta
and Herbert.  Mr. Osborn has been prominent in town affairs, having held the
office of supervisor and treasurer, and other offices of trust.  Mr. Osborn
never was sued and never sued any one, and he never was dunned for a debt; is
a prominent member of the Methodist church.  Mr. Osborn says that when he
came here he tried to buy boards to make a door.  He offered Mr. Brown $1 for
two six-inch boards, but could not buy them.  The family lived on potatoes
and milk two or three days at a time, with plenty of money in his pocket to
buy provisions, but there was none to be had.


Bio. of William Osbon


   Landmarks of Monroe County, New York,
   Boston, The Boston History Co., 1895.  Part III -- "Family Sketches",
   page 209.

   Osbon, William, was born in Penfield in 1836, and was the son of Abner and
Mary K. Mines Osbon, and grandson of Abner, who was among the early settlers
of Penfield Center.  Mr. Osbon's father, Abner, came from Connecticut to
Penfield in 1809, and settled at Higbie's Corners, and in 1849 moved to
Penfield Center, where he was for some years highway commissioner, also
overseer of the poor, and for twenty years justice of the peace.  He had four
sons, two of whom, William and John, were in the 8th New York Cavalry from
1862 to 1865, both entering as privates and being discharged, John as second
lieutenant, and William as first lieutenant.  In 1868 William married Frances
Brownell, and now lives near where his grandfather settled and where he died
in 1815.


Bio. of William H. Osborne


   Landmarks of Wayne County, New York,
   George W. Cowles, ed., Syracuse, NY, D. Mason & Co., 1895.
   Part III -- "Family Sketches", page 88.

   Osborne, William H., was born on the homestead, September 19, 1841.  His
father, George L., was a native of Dutchess county.  The family who were
among the early settlers of Masachusetts were of English extraction, and came
to Wayne county in 1833.  George L. married Martha H., daughter of John
Cornell, and they had three sons: Charles A., and Gilbert L., now of Owosso,
Mich.  William H. was educated in the common schools, and at the age of forty
married Julia, daughter of Nathaniel H. French, of Junius, Seneca county.  In
1865 he inherited and purchased the homestead of 120 acres, which has been in
the family over sixty years, raising fruit, hay, grain and stock.  Our
subject is one of the representative farmers of his town.


Bio. of Luther Russell


   History of Portage County, Ohio, Chicago, Warner, Beers & Co., 1885.
   Page 895.  (Partial transcript).
   [See a complete transcript
    of the bio. of Luther Russell made by Betty Ralph at the Ancestry.com
    Portage Co., OH message board]

   LUTHER RUSSELL (deceased) born November 9, 1801, in West Windsor, Conn.,
was descended from William Russell, who early emigrated from England.  His
father, Return Russell, was born in West<sic> Windsor, Conn., March 1, 1778.
His mother, Jerusha (Osborn) Russell, was born December 20, 1780, in
Connecticut.  They left their Connecticut home when our subject was a child
and settled in Rodman, Jefferson Co., N.Y., whence they removed to Ohio in
1822.  They soon joined the Shaker Society near Cleveland and here lived,
died and were buried.  Luther, the eldest of eleven children, remained in
Rodman to settle up his father's business.  The children were very fond of
their father, who, physically, was large and well developed.  He was genial,
intelligent and agreeable.  He died October 5, 1834.  They also reverenced
their gentle and loving mother, who died March 23, 1854, having lived a life
of self-sacrifice.  <Rest of biography not copied>


Bio. of Antrim Osborne-10617


   History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, L.H. Everts
   & Co., 1884.  Page 661.

   Randall Osborne emigrated before 1730 from England, and settled in
Montgomery County, where he leased property and engaged in agricultural
pursuits.  Among his children was Richard, whose son, Randall, became owner
of the land, which he cultivated and improved.  One of the grandsons of the
latter, who also bore the name of Randall, married Mary Hess, by birth a
German, whose children were Richard, Nathan, Jonah, John, Randall, and a
daughter, Elizabeth, who became Mrs. John Custer.  Jonah, of this number, was
born in 1788, on the ancestral land in Montgomery County, and on attaining a
suitable age acquired the trade of a stone-mason.  He married Elizabeth
Bisson, and had children, -- Mary (Mrs. James Redmond), Franklin, Antrim,
Elizabeth Ann (Mrs. William Sewell), Phoebe (Mrs. Harlan Miller), and
Susannah.  Antrim Osborne was born Nov. 19, 1817, on the homestead, in
Montgomery County.  Having been deprived, in the year 1826, when but eight
years of age, of a father's protection and guidance, he was placed with
Bethel Moore, of West Conshohocken, to learn the trade of woolen
manufacturing.  He remained three years at this point; was employed for a
brief period at a neighboring mill, and ultimately removed to Rockdale,
Delaware Co., where he was engaged as a weaver with Lewis & Phillips.  After
a service of four years with this firm he removed to Philadelphia, and
completed an apprenticeship to the trade of a bricklayer.  In 1838 Mr.
Osborne resumed his original occupation in Delaware County, and was employed
for three years by Richard Blundon, after which the same period was spent in
a carpet-factory in Philadelphia, owned by John McAfee.  He was also at a
later date employed at Crosby's mill, in Delaware County, and in 1846 rented
a mill at Waterville, in the same county, where he began the manufacture of
satinets.  He continued in this location for seventeen years, and in 1861
purchased the property of the Rose Valley Paper-Mill, upon which site his
present buildings were erected, after which he began the manufacture of
woolen jeans, doeskins, and cassimeres.  In 1863 his son, Thomas J., was
admitted in the firm.  Mr. Osborne was married in 1839, to Isabella V.
Barris, of Trenton, N.J.  Their children are Elizabeth B. (Mrs. John L.
Grimm), William H., Mary Ann (Mrs. William H. Forwood), Thomas J., and Antrim
E.  Mr. Osborne is in his political views a pronounce Republican, but has
been fully occupied with his business interests, and found no leisure for
participation in matters of public concern.  He and his family are worshipers
with the congregation of the Nether Providence Methodist Episcopal Church.


Bio. of John Ball Osborne


   Portrait and Biographical Record of Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania,
   New York, Chapman Publishing Co., 1897.  Page 1034.
   [See the 1893 bio. of Edwin Sylvanus Osborne and the
    1904 bio. of Edwin Sylvanus Osborne]

HON. JOHN BALL OSBORNE, one of the distinguished and honored citizens of
Scranton, was born in Wilkesboarre, Pa., June 24, 1868, a son of Gen. Edwin
S. Osborne, of that city.  He is descended from John and Ann (Oldage)
Osborne, who came from England and settled in East Windsor, Conn., prior to
May 19, 1645.  Their son, Samuel, had a son Jacob, ther father of Thomas
Osborne, who removed from Connecticut to Essex County, N.J. shortly before
the Revolution.  He enlisted as a private in Captain Marsh's troop of Light
Horse, and laid down his life at the battle of Monmouth in 1778.  He left a
widow and infant son, Cooper.  The latter, in 1798, married Hannah Oakley, of
Scotch Plains, N.J. who was the daughter of Ephraim Oakley and granddaughter
of Sylvanus Oakley, a man of wealth and influence in New York.  There was
something of a romance in this union.  The Oakleys were proud and
aristocratic, with loyalist leanings, and did not look with favor on the
marriage of their delicately nurtured daughter with the sturdy young man who
had been thrown on his own resources for a livelihood by the untimely death
of his patriotic father.  But Cooper was very independent and, early in the
present century, putting all their worldly goods in an ox cart, he and his
young wife removed to Pennsylvania and settled in what is now the town of
Bethany, Wayne County.  He bought some land and with indomitable energy made
a clearing and erected a log house.  He died in 1818, and his widow, who was
a woman of unusual force of character, was left alone to rear a family of six
children.  She died at Bethany in 1856, regretted by all who knew her.
   One of these children, Sylvanus Osborne, the grandfather of our subject,
was born in the log house in Bethany, in Ceptember, 1812, and became a farmer
and later in life a railroad contractor.  In 1836 he married Lucy Messinger,
a caughter of cyrus Messinger, of Bridgewater, Susquehanna County.  She was a
descendant of Henry Messinger, who was born in England and resided in Boston
prior to 1640.  He owned the property now occupied by the Massachusetts
Historical Society.  His son, Thomas, born March 22, 1661, married Elizabeth
Mellows, by whom he had one son, Ebenezer, born June 2, 1697, who married
Rebecca Sweetser.  Their son, Wigglesworth, born December 16, 1743, served
during the Revolution as first lieutenant in Read's Massachusetts Regiment of
the Continental army.  He married Jemima Everett, sister of Rev. Oliver
Everett, who was the father of Edward Everett, the famous statesman.  Both
the Messinger and Everett families furnished New England with several
prominent clergymen.  Cyrus Messinger, son of Wigglesworth and Jemima
(Everett) Messinger, was born October 26, 1776, and was married in 1798 to
Rhoda Keyes.  From Massachusetts they removed to Susquehanna County, Pa.,
where their daughter Lucy was born October 27, 1816.  She became the wife of
Sylvanus Osborne and died in Prompton, Wayne County, December 21, 1844.
   Gen. Edwain Sylvanus Osborne, son of Sylvanus and Lucy (Messinger)
Osborne, was born in Bethany, Wayne County, August 7, 1839, and his early
years were spent upon his father's farm.  After graduating from the
University of North Pennsylvania, he entered the National Law School at
Poughkeepsie, N.Y., from which institution he received a degree in 1860.  He
also read law in the office of Hon. Charles Dennison of Wilkesbarre, and was
admitted to the bar of Luzerne County February 26, 1861.  After the outbreak
of the Rebellion, in April, 1861, he enlisted as a private in Company C,
Eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers, and served during the campaign of 1861 with
General Patterson's Division.  The following year he returned to Wilkesbarre
and recruited a company, of which he was commissioned captain August 22,
1862.  The company was assigned to the One Hundred and Forty-ninth
Pennsylvania Infantry.  From September, 1862, until February, 1863, Captain
Osborne served on the staff of General Wadsworth, after which he returned to
his regiment, and participated in all the battles in which the Army of the
Potomac was engaged, being on several occasions highly complimented in orders
for gallantry and skillful handling of troops while under fire.  He was
commissioned major of his regiment and was three times brevetted for
meritorious conduct.
   At the close of the war Major Osborne was appointed judge advocate, with
the rank of major, in the regular army.  In this capacity he was charged with
very important duties, including an inquiry into the treatment of Union
soldiers while held prisoners of war by the Confederates.  He went to Macon,
Andersonville, and other places in the south, and after careful investigation
made a report which resulted in the arrest and trial of the notorious Captain
Wirz of Andersonville prison.  General Osborne drew up the formal charges
against Wirz and prepared the case for trial.  Wirz was found guilty and
executed.  Shortly afterward General Osborne sent in his resignation and
returned to the practice of law in Wilkesbarre.  In 1870 Governor Geary
appointed him major-general of the Third Division of the National Guard.
During the ten years that he held this position he was several times brought
into prominence, notably during the exciting labor troubles at Scranton in
1871, and again at Susquehanna Depot in 1874, and at Hazleton in 1875.  He
took an active part in the organization and improvement of the National
Guard.  In 1874 he received the unanimous nomination of the Republicans of
Luzerne County (then comprising Lackawanna County) for additional law judge,
but was defeated by a small majority.
   General Osborne is an enthusiastic member of the Grand Army of the
Republic, and in 1883 was commander of the department of Pennsylvania.  He is
also a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, the Society of the
Army of the Potomac, Society of the Fifth Army Corps and kindred
organizations.  He was elected congressman-at-large from Pennsylvania in 1884
bythe largest vote ever polled in the state up to that time, it having
exceeded thevote for Blaine and Logan by more than 2,000.  He was re-elected
congressman-at-large in 1866<sic> by a majority that exceeded the vote for
Governor Beaver by nearly 6,000.  In 1888 he was returned to congress by his
home district, comprising Luzerne County.  Throughout his service of six
years in congress he constantly advocated with force and ability the policy
of protection to American industries and took a prominent part in the
opposition to the Mills bill and later in the passage of the McKinley law.
On his retirement from public service he returned to the practice of his
profession.
   October 12, 1865, General Osborne married Ruth Ann BAll, daughter of the
late William Ball and Mary Ann Smith, his wife, of Carbondale, Pa.  Mrs.
Osborne is descended from Edward Ball, who came from England and settled in
Branford, Conn., some time prior to 1640.  The immediate ancestors of Edward
Ball were the same as those of Mary Ball, the mother of George Washington.
Edward Ball was one of the commissioners sent from Branford and Milford,
Conn., in 1660, to inspect lands in New Jersey with the view of selecting an
eligible site for a town.  As a result of their report the ancient township
of Newark was purchsed and the town of Newark established by Rev. Mr. Pierson
and his congregation, who removed there in a body shortly before June 24,
1667.  Edward Ball was sheriff of Essex County in 1693.  His son, Thomas, was
the father of David, whose son, Stephen Ball, was an ardent patriot during
the Revolution, and on the 29th of January, 1781, was executed at Bergen
Point by the British as a spy.  His son, Ezekiel, was the father of William
Ball, a skilled mechanic, and a man of great energy and sterling qualities.
He removed to Carbondale, Pa., and became one of the leaders in the
development of that section.  He helped to build and for many years
superintended the Gravity railroad of the Delaware & Hudson Canal Company
from Carbondale to Honesdale.  William Ball married Mary Ann Smith, daughter
of Charles and Ruth (Godfrey) Smith, of Sullivan County, N.Y.  Mr. Smith was
a captain in the War of 1812, and served on Staten Island, N.Y.  His father,
Ephraim Smith, was a private in Capt. Noble Benedict's company of the Fifth
Connecticut Regiment during the Revolutionary War.  Ruth Godfrey was the
daughter of David Godfrey, who also served in the Continental army as a
private in Captain Mervin's company, Colonel Hathorn's regiment, New York
Militia.
   John B. Osborne, whose name introduces this sketch, is the eldest of six
children, all of whom are still living.  After preparing for college in the
public schools and the Harry Hillman Academy of Wilkesbarre, he entered the
freshman class of the academic department of Yale University in 1885, and
graduated in 1889 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts.  In 1894 his Alma
Mater honored him with the degree of Master of Arts in recognition of his
work in political economy.  Immediately after graduation he registered as a
law student in his father's office at Wilkesbarre, but his course of study
was interrupted in an unexpected manner.  In October, 1889, President
Harrison appointed him consul of the United States at Ghent, Belgium.  He was
the youngest man ever appointed to such a position, being only a few months
past his twenty-first year.  His consular district consisted of the provinces
of East and West Flanders, having a population of two million souls and
teeming with thriving industries.  Besides the historic cities of Ghent and
Bruges, the district contained Ostend, the fashionable seaside resort, where
our government at that time maintained a consular agency subordinate to the
consulate at Ghent.  On the nomination of Consul Osborne, Dr. James W. Kesler
of Honesdale, Pa., was appointed and served for a times as consular agent at
Ostend.  During his administration our subject amde about thirty official
reports on commerical and industrial subjects, many of which were reproduced
from the government publications by leading trade journals at home and
abroad.  He served at Ghent to the entire satisfaction of the department of
state for over four years, retiring in January, 1894, having thus been
retained by President Cleveland for nearly a year.
   Shortly after his return to the United States, Mr. Osborne was admitted to
the bar of Luzerne County, and later to the bar of Philadelphia.  Locating in
that city he practiced law there, with an office in the Girard Building,
until April, 1986, when he came to Scranton, where he has since successfully
prosecuted his profession.  He is a man of literary tastes and has
contributed several able articles to leading magazines, including the
Cosmopolitan and the Green Bag.  Besides belonging to the college fraternity
of Zeta Psi and several other fraternal organizations, he is a member of the
Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the Revolution and a Companion of the
Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States.
   One the 1st of October, 1891, Mr. Osborne was united in marriage with Miss
Bertha Josephine Grinnell, a daughter of Frank Dexter and Elizabeth (Upson)
Grinnell, of New Haven, Conn.  One child belsses this union, Grace Josephine,
born in Ghent, Belgium, August 7, 1892.  Mrs. Osborne also comes from
colonial stock, being descended from Matthew Grinnell, who came to this
country from England at a very early day and was made a freeman of
Portsmouth, R.I., in 1638.  To the same family belonged the late Moses and
Henry Grinnell, the well known bankers of New York City, who equipped the
Arctic expedition which discovered Grinnell Land.  The paternal grandmother
of Mrs. Osborne was Lydia Coggeshall, a direct descendant of Sir Thomas
Coggeshall, of the Manor Coggeshall in Essex, England, who lived in the reign
of King Stephen (1149(.  The first American ancestor was John coggeshall, a
silk merchant, who came from Essex in the famous ship "Lyon," arriving at
Boston September 16, 1632.  He became a deputy to the general court of
Boston and although a strict Puritan he espoused the cause of Mrs. Ann
Hutchinson when she was persecuted.  As a result he was practically banished,
and in company with other supporters of Ann Hutchinson and Roger Williams, he
removed to Rhode Island and founded a new colony.  When the four towns,
Newport, Portsmouth, Providence and Warwick were united in 1647, John
Coggeshall was made the first president of the colony.  He died the same year
while in office.  Mrs. Osborne's great-great-grandfather in this line, John
Coggeshall, was born October 5, 1757, and died at New Bedford, Mass.,
July 19, 1830.  He was a major in the Revolutionary War.  In 1775 he was one
of the minute-men and was at the battle of Bunker Hill.  He also had the
distinction of being in the first regiment to march into Boston after the
evacuation of the British.  One her mother's side several of Mrs. Osborne's
ancestors distinguished themselves in the Revolution.  Among these were Capt.
Daniel Allen, Lieut. Isaac Kimberly, Ensign Samuel Atkins and Simeon Upson.


Bio. of Thomas A. Osborn


   History of Cambria County, Pennsylvania,
   Henry Wilson Storey, New York, Lewis Publishing Co., 1907.  Vol. III,
   page 411.
   [See the 1888 bio. of Thomas A. Osborn, uncle of this Thomas A.
    Osborn]

   THOMAS A. OSBORN, proprietor and editor of the Cambria Freeman, at
Ebensburg, Pennsylvania, was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, September 2,
1873, son of Edgar S. and Mary (Helfrich) Osborn.  He was one of four
children in his parents' family, two of whom survive, Thomas A., and
Elizabeth, single, residing at home.
   The father, Edgar S. Osborn, was born in Meadville, Pennsylvania, 1837;
his father was a Presbyterian minister, and of an old Virginia family,
members of which came to Meadville, Pennsylvania.  Edgar married Mary,
daughter of Charles and Catherine Helfrich, who was born in 1854, at
Hastings, Pennsylvania.  The grandfather, Charles Helfrich, was a native of
Alsace-Lorraine, Germany, and was compelled to flee the country during one of
the revolutions.  He came to Cambria county, Pennsylvania, from Wilkes-Barre,
and located in Hastings some time in the forties, and later moved to
Johnstown, where he died.
   Edgar S. Osborn was reared in Meadville, and on the breaking out of the
Civil war enlisted at that place as a member of Company F, Ninth Pennsylvania
Reserves, and served during the war.  He was wounded at the battle of
Gettysburg, and eventually the wound caused his death.  After the close of
the war, he married and settled in Johnstown, where for a number of years he
was a merchant.  He died February 12, 1878.  After the death of her husband,
Mrs. Osborn married W.S. Elder, by whom she had two children, Cora M. and
William S.  Mr. Elder died in 1891.
   Mr. Osborn had a brother, Thomas A. Osborn, who went to Kansas at an early
day, and edited a newspaper at Leavenworth.  Later he was elected governor of
the state, serving two terms.  Subsequently he was appointed under President
Grant as minister to Chile, South America.
   Thomas A. Osborn, son of Edgar S. and Mary (Helfrich) Osborn, was reared
at home, acquiring his education at the public schools, at the McAllister's
Soldiers' Orphan School, and at Morrell's Institute, conducted by Bennett &
Greer, in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.  As early as his fifteenth year he entered
the office of the Johnson Street Railway Company, holding a clerical position
with them for about six years, resigning his position to take a trip to the
west, including far away California.  While away he was employed with a
surveying party, and by his exposure contracted rheumatism and one year later
returned home.  He then entered the employ of F.A. Cresswell, a contractor of
Johnstown, with whom he was associated one year, and was then appointed
secretary of the Democratic county committee of Cambria county.  Upon the
election of W.H. Strauss to the office of register and recorder for Cambria
county, Mr. Osborn was appointed his deputy, serving in the office up to the
time Mr. Strauss went out of office -- January, 1904, having served
continuously as the county's Democratic committee's secretary since 1898,
with the single exception of 1894<sic>.  During his tenure of office in the
court house, on July 1, 1903, he purchased the Cambria Freeman, at Ebensburg.
It is the oldest Democratic paper in Cambria county, and for twenty-seven
years was edited by James G. Hasson.  After the expiration of Mr. Osborn's
term of office, he assumed control of the newspaper and has vigorously
conducted the same, and his strength and personality have made it one of the
leading papers in Cambria county.  He is a member of Johnstown Lodge, No.
175, Elks; also belongs to the Woodmen of the World.  He is known in Cambria
and adjoining counties as a wide-awake Democratic politician.
   Mr. Osborn married, June 15, 1905, E. Gertrude Reese, of Johnstown.


Bio. of Daniel G. Osborn


   History of Bradford County, Pennsylvania,
   H.C. Bradsby, Chicago, S.B. Nelson & Co., 1891.  Page 1054.

   DANIEL G. OSBORN, farmer and stock-grower, of Windham, Pa., P.O. Nichols,
N.Y., is one of the leading citizens of Windham township, and a war veteran.
He resides in the immediate vicinity of where he was born, February 26, 1839,
and is a son of Peter and Rachel (Gardner) Osborn, natives of Orange county,
N.Y., who came to Bradford county in 1827, locating in Windham township, and
spent the remainder of their lives on their farm.  The father died November
12, 1882, the mother September 24, 1852.  Their family consisted of eight
children, as follows: Elizabeth, Sarah (wife of Charles Johnson, a farmer of
Windham, who died in 1861), Parmelia (wife of Job Bixby, who died in 1883),
William (died April 25, 1890), Laura (wife of Peter Barnes, who died in 1850,
and she married Jefferson Wait, of Nichols, N.Y.), Henry B. (a harness-maker
in Evergreen), Richard (died in 1874, in Wisconsin, had been a soldier in the
Fifth Regiment, New York Cavalry, Company G, returned from the army in broken
health and never recovered), and Daniel G., whose name heads this sketch.
The latter received his portion of his father's estate, and purchased the
interest of the other heirs in the homestead, and now owns 100 acres of
highly improved land.  He was married in LeRaysville, January 1, 1866, to
Esther E. Russell, widow of Morgan Russell, and daughter of Martin V.B. and
Abigal (Bidlack) Towner.  Morgan Russell was killed in the battle of
Chancellorsville, May 3, 1863; he and his brother lay side by side on the
field.  Daniel G. Osborn's family was as follows: Millie A., Martin P.,
Lettie M. and Morgan D., and two children that died in infancy.  Mr. Osborn
enlisted in the cause of his country, in 1862, in the Seventeenth Regiment,
Pennsylvania Cavalry, Company D; went direct to Washington, then into
Virginia, and his regiment was detailed on picket duty for two months on the
Oquaqua river, when they were captured, December 28, 1863, and carried off to
Richmond; were in Castle Thunder two weeks, when with a steamboat-load of
others, they were exchanged, and were on parole, at Annapolis, until June 1,
following, when the exchange was completed.  He returned to duty with his
regiment.  Three months after, he was taken sick with typhoid fever, and was
sent to Columbia Hospital, and finally given a certificate of disability, and
discharged, February 15, 1864.  He has never recovered from the effects of
his army sickness, and receives a small pension; he is a Republican.


Bio. of W.H. Osborne


   History of Bradford County, Pennsylvania,
   H.C. Bradsby, Chicago, S.B. Nelson & Co., 1891.  Page 1055.

   W.H. OSBORNE, station agent, L.V.R.R., is a native of Chemung county,
N.Y., born June 16, 1848, and is a son of Ira and Sarah (Jadwin) Osborne, the
former a native of Chenango, and the latter of Orange county, N.Y.  His
grandfather, Jonah Osborne, was a soldier in the War of 1812.  W.H. Osborne,
who is the second in a family of seven living children, received and academic
education, and taught school five terms; then learned telegraphy, and in 1870
he commenced work as an operator at Athens.  On October 3, 1871, he went to
Frenchtown, this county, as agent and operator; he remained there three
years, when he was again transferred to Athens, as operator, and in 1877 he
was appointed assistant to agent; June 16, 1886, was appointed station agent.
The receipts of the station are about $150,000 a year.  Mr. Osborne was
married, in Athens, March 20, 1877, to Mrs. Charlotte B. Halbert, daughter of
Hewitt and Elizabeth (Dodge) Andrews, the former born in Washington county,
and the latter in Onondaga county, N.Y.  Both her grandfathers, W.H. Andrews
Josiah Dodge, were soldiers in the War of 1812.  She is the eldest of four
living children, and was born in Windham, Bradford Co., Pa., October 3, 1852.
To this marriage have been born four children, viz.: Ralph, Izora, Elizabeth
(deceased) and Harold.  They are members of the Methodist Church; he is a
member of Queen Esther Council, No. 1153, Royal Arcanum, and Sexennial
League.  In politics he is a Democrat.


Bio. of Wilkins W. Osborn


   Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Fayette County, Pennsylvania,
   John M. Gresham, Chicago, John M. Gresham & Co., 1889.  Page 370.
   (Bio. is accompanied by a portrait.)
   [See the bio. of Andrew L. Osborn]

WILKINS W. OSBORN, M.D., of Upper Middletown, was born and reared near
Fairchance, Fayette county, Pa.  He is the seventh child born to the marriage
of Andrew G. Osborn and Jane Lynn.  His paternal grandfather, Joseph Osborn,
was of Scotch-Irish descent, and came to Fayette county in an early day from
Orange county, N.J.  The maiden name of his wife was Jane Lucky, to whom he
was married in about 1790.  His father, Rev. Andrew G. Osborn, was the fourth
son of his parents, and on April 26, 1826, he was married to Miss Jane, a
daughter of Alexander and Margaret Lynn, of Somerset, Pa., both of English
descent, and were born near the city of Philadelphia.  They were lifelong
believers in the doctrines of, and strong in the faith on which the Church of
England is founded.  Dr. Osborn's maternal grandfather, Alexander Lynn,
served as a soldier in the War of 1812, and afterwards died at Somerset, Pa.
   Rev. Andrew G. Osborn's education was received in the ordinary
subscription schools and later at Madison College.  He was ordained as
minister of the Cumberland Presbyterian church in 1833 and faithfully served
and earnestly preached to various congregations for many years.  Among some
of his charges were at Hopewell, Harmony, New Salem, Masontown and East
Liberty.  Being loyal to the cause of the Union during the dark days of the
rebellion, he tendered his services to the Federal government, and was
accordingly appointed chaplain of the Fourteenth Regiment Pennsylvania
Volunteer Cavalry.  He joined this regiment at Harper's Ferry late in the
fall of 1863, and from that time until May, 1865, he was on the field
administering alike to the physical as well as the spiritual wants of the
soldiers.  Possessing some knowledge of medicine and surgery, he dressed the
wounds of many soldiers in camp and on the field.  He was admired and beloved
wherever known, for his many manly qualities, his clear head and generous
disposition.  After a lingering illness of a disease, contracted from
exposure while in the army, on October 19, 1868, he passed peacefully to
rest.  He was the father of twelve children, eight sons and four daughters,
and what is most remarkable, seven of his sons were soldiers in the war and
fought bravely for a reunited country and the preservation of the Union.
   Dr. Wilkins W. Osborn, whose name heads this sketch, spent his boyhood
days on his father's farm and received his education in the ordinary schools
of the neighborhood.  On September 19, 1862, he joined Company E, Fourteenth
Regiment Pennsylvania Cavalry Volunteers as a private soldier and faithfully
served throughout the war, and was honorably discharged on May 30, 1865, at
Alexandria, Va.
   Returning home, he entered the office of Dr. F.C. Robinson at Uniontown,
as a student of medicine and concluded his studies with his brother, W.F.
Osborn, M.D., at Mount Pleasant, Pa.  He attended lectures at the medical
department of Ann Arbor University, Mich., and subsequently at the Western
Reserve Medical College, Cleveland, Ohio.
   On March 3, 1868, he began the practice of medicine at Upper Middletown,
where for over twenty years he has been most successfully engaged in the
active practice of his profession.  By close application to his work and
careful study of standard medical literature and periodicals, and having been
a hard student and a man of naturally strong mind, he has become one of the
prominent and successful physicians of Fayette county.  He has for several
years been an active and leading member of the Fayette County Medical
Society.  As Doctor Osborn is as yet unmarried, his youngest sister, Miss
Virginia Osborn, presides over his home at Upper Middletown, which is a model
of neatness, elegance and comfort.  For many years he has been one of the
trustees of the Presbyterian church of which he is an honored and useful
member.  He believes in the old adage: that "character is the key that
unlocks the door to success," and has governed his life accordingly.  He is
well informed in currant<sic> literature of the day and is always ready to
lend a hand toward the advancement of any cause calculated to elevate the
standard of culture, the advancement of civilization and the betterment of
society.
   He is a liberal contributor to the current medical literature and science
of the times.  He possesses fine business ability, is a leading member of the
Presbyterian church, and from a social and moral standpoint his reputation
both as a gentleman and physician is first-class.


Bio. of Andrew Lynn Osborn


   Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Fayette County, Pennsylvania,
   John M. Gresham, Chicago, John M. Gresham & Co., 1889.  Page 518.
   [See the bio. of Wilkins W. Osborn]

   ANDREW LYNN OSBORN is a native of George township, Fayette county, Pa.,
and was born December 19, 1835.  He is a son of Rev. Andrew G. and Jane
(Lynn) Osborn, the former a well known and patriotic minister of the
Cumberland Presbyterian church, and the latter an estimable woman and native
of Somerset county.
   The paternal grandfather, Joseph Fowler Osborn, came from Orange county,
N.J., to Fayette county, and settled in Georges township in about 1800.  He
was a soldier in the War of 1812, and his ancestors were natives of Kilkenny,
Ireland.  The maternal grandfather, Alex. Lynn, was born in Beaver county,
removed to Somerset county, and served as a soldier in the War of 1812.  The
hatchet he carried through that war is now in the possession of A.L. Osborn.
   Rev. Andrew G. Osborn was born and reared near Fairchance.  His public
conduct was above suspicion and his patriotism is deserving of admiration.
His family consisted of twelve children: Alexander, served in Seventeenth
West Virginia; Joseph; Dr. William, of Pleasant Unity, was drafted, hired a
substitute and in less than a month afterward went out as a surgeon of
Thirteenth Pennsylvania cavalry; Sarah A., wife of Samuel Robinson, a woolen
manufacturer of Greene county, Pa.; Andrew L.; Margaret J.; Dr. Wilkins W.
(see his sketch), served in Fourteenth Pennsylvania cavalry; Henry M. and
Isaac B. (twins) served in Fourteenth Pennsylvania cavalry; Milton K. and
Louisa, killed by an explosion of oil in 1852, and Mary Virginia, of Upper
Middletown.  For full history of Rev. A.G. Osborn -- his find ministerial and
magnificient war record -- see sketch of W.W. Osborn.
   Andrew L. Osborn was educated in the common schools, and has always been
engage in farming in Georges township.  He is an extensive lumber contractor
for the Fairchance Furnace Company, and has acted successfully in that
capacity for several years.
   He enlisted in Coompany E, Fourteenth Pennsylvania cavalry, and was in
eighteen battles besides numerous skirmishes, several daring raids and many
fatiguing marches.  He was mustered into the service November 23, 1862, as a
corporal, and was honorably discharged as a sergeant May 30, 1865.
   On December 4, 1867, he was married to Miss Mary E. Wood, daughter of John
C. Wood.  They have five children: William, Louisa, Ella, Presley and Arthur.
   In politics Mr. Osborn and his brothers are uncompromising republicans.
He has served as school director in a democratic township, and is now central
committeeman of Georges township.  Mr. Osborn is a member of the G.A.R. at
Uniontown, a member of the Presbyterian church, and is an intelligent and
upright man.