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Bio. of James A. Osborn


   History of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, ed. Herbert C. Bell,
   Chicago, Brown Runk & Co., 1891.  Page 1003.

   JAMES A. OSBORN, physician and surgeon, was born in Philadelphia in 1840,
son of Peter and Rebecca (George) Osborn, of that city.  He was educated in
Philadelphia, read law in Washington, D.C., graduated from the law department
of Columbia College, and was admitted to the Washington bar, but never
practiced.  He read medicine with Dr. Seth Pancoast, of Philadelphia,
graduated from the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia in 1875, and
came to Milton, where he has since been engaged in an extensive practice.
He married in 1884 Anna H., daughter of Rev. A.M. Barnitz, of York,
Pennsylvania, by whom he has two children: Harry and Herbert.  Politically
the Doctor is a Republican.


1906 Bio. of Matthew Osborn-10591


   History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, John W. Jordan,
   New York, Lewis Publishing Co., 1906.  Vol. II, page 250.

   MATTHEW OSBORN, proprietor of the Osborn House, was born August 25, 1836,
in North Huntingdon township, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, a son of
George and Jane (Cowan) Osborn, one of four children, three of whom survive:
Judith, wife of Jonathan W. Douthitt, of Eldorado, Kansas; Eliza, wife of Eli
C. Cavitt, Lake City, Iowa; and Matthew, of whom later.
   The paternal grandparents were Archibald and Judith (McWilliams) Osborn,
he being a native of England and she of Protestant Irish stock, born in the
north of Ireland.  They were married in this country and later settled in
North Huntingdon township, where they lived and died.  Their homestead has
passed out of the possession of the family.  On the maternal side the
grandparents were Joseph and Fannie (Patton) Cowan, both natives of New
Jersey, born just across the line from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, their
parents having immigrated from Scotland.  These grandparents came into
Pennsylvania during the days of Indian possession, and settled in the
vicinity of what is now known as Osceola Hill, Allegheny county, others
coming with them, namely: George Cowan, a brother of Joseph Cowan, and
veteran of the war of 1812; Rachael and Sarah, sisters in a family of the
name of Hope; one William Ekin, whose farm is still in the possession of the
Ekin family, now in the fourth generation.  There was one other member of the
party, John Cowan, who was captured by the Indians shortly after his arrival
and taken by them into the Lake Erie region, but two years later, on a
trading expedition, he escaped and returned to his people.
   George Osborn, son of Archibald Osborn, was born on the same farm in North
Huntingdon township where Matthew Osborn was born, in 1802.  In his young
manhood he learned the hatters' trade, which pursuit he followed during his
short life.  He died at the age of thirty-three on the old home farm where he
was born.
   Matthew Osborn grew up in the place of his birth, attending the public
schools until he had reached the age of sixteen, when he found employment as
a messenger from the terminus of the Pennsylvania railroad station at Beatly
Station to the old Tavern stand of Samuel Blythe, a distance of two miles,
receiving ten dollars per month, and board.  He continued at this for a few
months, then accepted a position in a store in his home town, Jacksonville,
whre he worked for one year.  For the next six or seven years he was in the
coal mines at Coultersville, driving a mule.  He went into the mines of the
Yough Coal Company as a driver in 1853.  Upon the breaking out of the Civil
war he and his brother-in-law contracted with R.R. McQuiston and Company to
haul coal to the river and load the boats, which proved a money-making
undertaking.  In September, 1862, he took charge of a small coal property for
Scott Andrews and Company, which was incorporated with the Y.C.H.C. Company,
and Mr. Osborn remained in the position of manager of the property until
1880.  In 1883 he built a hotel, in company with Mr. Joseph Hough, at
Smithton, but some months later he sold his interest to his partner, and in
1884 built the modern hotel building in Suterville of which he is proprietor.
His hotel has the reputation of furnishing the best accommodations between
McKeesport and Connellsville, and he is one of the best known men of
Westmoreland county.
   Mr. Osborn married, in 1857, Elizabeth Gregg, of Westmoreland county.  She
died in November, 1904, survived by nine children, James H., office clerk in
the machine shops of the Pittsburg Coal Company; George E., director of the
Suterville First National Bank; Oliver O., a Baltimore and Ohio railroad
conductor; Jane C. and Anna G., twins; Lawrence E., superintendent of the
Douglass plant of the H.C. Frick Coke Company; Maud H., wife of C.M. Suter,
of Suterville; Edith L. and Eva A.  With the exception of Maud H., the
daughters all remain home.  Mr. Osborn is Democratic in politics, and is a
member of the town council of Suterville.  He is also a member of Franklin
Lodge, No. 221, F. and A.M., of Pittsburg, Duquesne Chapter, No. 193, R.A.M.
of Pittsburg, and Kedron Commandery, No. 18, K.T., of Greensburg.


Bio. of George Edgar Osborn


   History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, John W. Jordan,
   New York, Lewis Publishing Co., 1906.  Vol. III, page 190.

   GEORGE EDGAR OSBORN, son of Matthew and Elizabeth (Gregg) Osborn, was born
October 2, 1861, at Coulterville, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania.  He had the
advantage of the common school system in the neighborhood in which he was
born until his eleventh year, when by force of circumstances he began work in
the near by coal mines as "trapper-boy."  He continued there in various
mining capacities until he advanced to his twenty-second year.  In 1885 he
began work as a car repairer for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company.
This work he faithfully attended to, and two years later he was made
brakeman, and at the date of his resignation from the company, April, 1895,
he was serving as an "extra" conductor.  In 1895 he became associated with
his father in conducting an hotel business at the borough of Suterville, this
county.  He is also a stockholder and one of the directors of the First
National Bank of the same place.
   Politically Mr. Osborn affiliates with the Democratic party, but does not
neglect his own personal affairs for the sake of becoming an active
politician.  Being an advanced, progressive character, he naturally finds a
place in the Masonic order, being a member of Stephen Bayard Lodge, No. 526;
Cuquesne Chapter, No. 193, R.A.M. of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania; Kedron
Commandery, No. 18, K.T., of Greensburg, Pennsylvania.  He also belongs to
Grace Lodge, K. of P., at Sutersville, Pennsylvania.  Beginning at the
humblest place as a miner, and that, too, when but a mere lad of eleven
summers, he steadily pressed forward with a determination to accomplish
something in the battle of life.  By industry and prudence he has attained to
an almost enviable position among his companions and fellow citizens.


Bio. of John Osborn


   Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People,
   Chicago, J.H. Beers & Co., 1919.  Vol. I, page 543.

   JOHN OSBORN, late of Franklin, has left many substantial evidences of his
life work in that city and at other points in this section of Pennsylvania.
Arriving here at a period when business conditions were favorable to material
development of the best order, he possessed the constructive skill and
intelligence requisite for a prominent part in the work, and set a standard
in his line which few others have even approached.  Mr. Osborn was the type
of builder who takes a conscientious pride in his achievements.  He had the
artistic sense to realize that to be truly fine a building must be thoroughly
adapted to the purpose it must serve, but he also knew that harmony with
surroundings and beauty of construction are not incompatible with service,
and his workmanship was equal to the attainment of both.  The structures that
he erected are notable for good taste and durability, and comprise a
flattering percentage of the best buildings in Franklin and other cities in
this part of the State.  Though he lived to his seventy-fifth year, he
continued to be active in business until a short time before his decease.
   Mr. Osborn was a native of England, born Nov. 20, 1842, at Redruth, in the
County of Cornwall.  He spent his early life in that country, and received
the thorough training characteristic of tradesmen in the Old World.
Remaining in England until two years after his marriage, he left his wife and
child there and came alone to the United States, where his first location was
at Dover, Del.  His wife and child joined him six months later, and the
family soon moved to Scranton, Pa., where he began contracting, continuing in
that location for several years.  About 1881 Mr. Osborn concluded to make a
change of residence, his choice falling upon Franklin, Venango Co., Pa.,
where he found a permanent home.  His work speedily won the recognition that
it deserved, and he was one of the busiest contractors in the city regardless
of the times, being awarded some of the best work undertaken here.  It is a
well known fact that he was so exacting about the quality of the work he
turned over to his patrons that if it satisfied him there was no question
about their opinion of it, and the great demand for his work was founded upon
punctilious attention to every detail of the contracts he had.  Among the
structures which he put up in Franklin may be mentioned the Masonic Temple,
Evening News building, Snook block, Franklin Trust Company building,
Lamberton National Bank, New Orpheum theatre, the Catholic and Presbyterian
churches and the Episcopal Sunday school.  He also made the addition to the
high school and added the fourth floor to the Y.M.C.A. building.  He had the
contract for the larger part of the Polk Institution buildings, and his son
and successor is now building a sand plant at that Institution.  He laid
considerable paving in the city, and also did a great deal of street paving
at Butler, Pa., as well as five streets in Titusville, this State.  Some of
his important work was at Butler and Warren, including a silk mill at the
latter place, and he built another silk mill at Kane, Pa., as well as a bank
building and an apartment building.  He also put up the New Orpheum Theatre
at Titusville.  After his son John became old enough to assume
responsibilities he was taken into partnership, and he is continuing the
business on his own account now.
  Mr. Osborn was a most desirable citizen, and highly esteemed for his kindly
personality as well as his honesty and loyalty to any person or cause with
which he was associated.  He took no active part in public affairs, leading
a very domestic life, though he was a member in good standing of the B.P.O.
Elks lodge of Franklin and the Protected Home Circle.  All his life he was a
devout member of the Episcopal Church.  He passed away at his home in
Franklin, on Eagle street, July 19, 1917, and was interred in the Franklin
cemetery, the funeral services being conducted by Rev. Martin Aigner, of St.
John's Episcopal Church, and the commitment service of the Elks being
followed at the grave.
   On March 5, 1867, Mr. Osborn was married, at Newquay, England, to Mary
Mitchell, a native of Newauay, born Jan. 8, 1844, who died Dec. 5, 1916, and
is buried in Franklin cemetery.  She, too, was a member of St. John's Church.
Mr. Osborn's health was never good after her demise, though he was seriously
ill only two weeks before his own death.  Mr. and Mrs. Osborn reared five
children, namely: Anna, the wife of John E. Tarr, of Richmond, Cal., has one
son, John; Lida is the wife of F.C. Dailey, of Wilkinsburg, Pa.; John is
mentioned below; Miss Clara lives at home; Edith is the wife of A.C.
Sheasley, of Franklin.  Mr. Osborn was also survived by a brother and sister,
Edwin Osborn, of Franklin, and Mrs. Jabez Floyd of Scranton.
   JOHN OSBORN, only son of John and Mary (Mitchell) Osborn, was born Nov. 1,
1875, in Scranton, Pa., and was a child when the family removed to Franklin,
where he acquired all his education in the public schools.  All of his
business life has been spent with his father and since the latter's death in
in carrying on the business which the latter established, and for which he
has become well qualified under such excellent training and by practical
experience.  He is considered one of the coming figures in construction work
in this section, and it is highly to his credit that he has the reputation of
endeavoring to maintain the principles and standards for which his father was
noted.  Mr. Osborn in unmarried.  He is well known in Franklin and other
cities in this part of Pennsylvania, and fraternally holds membership with
the B.P.O. Elks lodge of his home city.
passed away at his home in Franklin


Bio. of Bryan Hill Osborne


   Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People,
   Chicago, J.H. Beers & Co., 1919.  Vol. I, page 480.
   (Bio. is accompanied by portraits of Bryan Hill Osborne and his father,
    David C. Osborne)
   [See the bio. of David C. Osborne]
   [See the bio. of Harris B. Osborne]

   BRYAN HILL OSBORNE, of Franklin, is a lawyer and business man of versatile
talents, well exemplified in the success which has accompanied his various
undertakings, of whatever character.  In more than thirty-five years of
practice at the Venango county bar he has won distinction in the legal
profession, and at the same time has carried extensive and important
responsibilities in the field of business, has devoted a considerable thought
to vital public questions, and has spent much time in the service of his
fellow citizens, attempting to realize some of his cherished ideals in that
line.  With a mind alert to perceive the best possibilities of whatever
interests him and the requisite mental and physical energy to follow his
conclusions with action, he has accomplished much of value to the community
besides handling his own affairs capably.
   Mr. Osborne is the first of his family to make a permanent home in
Pennsylvania, though his father, Dr. David Cuvier Osborne, is very well
remembered in this section, where he was established for several years in the
course of a long and fruitful ministry in the Methodist Church.  The Osbornes
are of old New England stock, thre having been several families of the name
in New Haven, Conn., among the early settlers.
   (I) Thomas Osborne, from Mardstone, England, the pioneer ancestor of the
branch of the family in which we are interested, removed in 1650 to
Easthampton, L.I., and was a land owner there.  In 1687 he conveyed all his
remaining lands to his son Benjamin and returned to his old home at New
Haven, where he died.  By occupation he was a tanner.  His children were
Benjamin, Thomas (mentioned below), John and Jeremiah.
   Richard Osborne, brother of Thomas, came from England to Hingham, Mass.,
thence to New Haven; he served in the Pequot war.  He was a tanner by trade.
Afterward he lived at Fairfield, Conn., and Newtown, L.I.  The children of
Richard Osborne were: John, Elizabeth, Priscilla and David.
   John Osborne, another early settler of New Haven, removed to Fairfield
with his father Richard; he married Sarah Bennett and had children: Samuel,
John, David, Joseph and Elizabeth.
   Jeremiah Osborne, perhaps a brother of Richard, settled in New Haven, was
a tanner; served as deputy to the General Court, 1672-74.  By his wife Mary
he had children: Rebecca, Increase, Benjamin, Jeremiah, Mary, Elizabeth,
Jeremiah(2), Joanna, Thomas and Elizabeth(2).  Similarity among the names of
the children of Richard, Jeremiah and Thomas would indicate that they were
brothers.
   (II) Thomas Osborne (2), son of Thomas above, was born in England in 1622
and came to this country with the family.  He removed from New Haven, Conn.,
to Easthampton, L.I., with his father, and died at Easthampton in 1712, aged
ninety years.  Among his children was Daniel.
   (III) Daniel Osborne, son of Thomas(2), born in 1666 at Easthampton, L.I.,
died there Jan. 6, 1713.  His branch of the family located in the lower part
of Main steet, Easthampton, and from that fact came to be known in later
years as the "Down Street Osbornes."  The old homestead of Daniel Osborne was
owned in recent years by Daniel E. Osborne.  Daniel Osborne married Elizabeth
Hedges, daughter or granddaughter of William Hedges, immigrant ancestor of
the Hedges family of New York.  Children: Daniel, Thomas, Abigail, Rebecca
and Mary.  These were born at Easthampton.
   (IV) Daniel Osborne(2), born about 1690 at Easthampton, died there May 18,
1757.  On June 10, 1713 he married Elizabeth Austin.  Children: Elizabeth,
Daniel, Rebecca, Jonathan, Hannah and David.
   (V) David Osborne, son of Daniel(2), born May 11, 1720, at Easthampton,
L.I., died Dec. 4, 1792.  To his marriage with Mary Hunting were born five
children, the sons being Daniel and David.
   (VI) David Osborne(2), born in Easthampton, Aug. 22, 1761, died Feb. 16,
1813, at Kingsbury, Washington Co., N.Y.  On Nov. 20, 1788, he was married at
Amenia, Dutchess Co., N.Y., to Lucretia Harris, who was born at Cornwall,
Litchfield Co., Conn., July 30, 1768, and died at Kingsbury, Jan. 30, 1811.
Children: Cornelia, born Oct. 2, 1789, died Dec. 23, 1821.  Maria, born
April 5, 1791, died the same day.  John Huntting, born in November, 1792,
died Aug. 13, 1794.  Sophronia Lucretia, born April 5, 1795, died Aug. 3,
1830.  Platt Smith is mentioned below.  Harriet Munro, born April 13, 1800,
died June 5, 1829.  Harris Burnett, born Jan. 12, 1803, died in 1889.  Morris
Dickson, born Dec. 29, 1805, died July 26, 1808.  Cynthia Ann, born Oct. 29,
1807, died Feb. 4, 1864.
   (VII) Platt Smith Osborne, born March 26, 1798, died at Sherman, N.Y.,
April 20, 1887.  He married Mary A. Platt, daughter of Nehemiah and Anna
Platt, and they had children as follows, born at Ripley, N.Y.: Sophia
Lucretia, born June 14, 1829, married Dr. Graves.  David Cuvier is mentioned
below.  Platt Smith, Jr., was born April 27, 1834.  Harriet, born Jan. 20,
1836, married Samuel P. McCalmont.  Cynthia Ann, born April 3, 1838, married
Dr. Samuel McNair.  Isadore was born Dec. 12, 1839.  Harris Burnett was born
Aug. 11, 1841.  James Whitehill was born Feb. 10, 1843.  Mary Ann, born
July 15, 1845, married Stephen Benedict.
   (VIII) REV. DAVID CUVIER OSBORNE was born Aug. 3, 1830, and was reared
under primitive conditions, his father having taken up a farm from the
government in 1820 in an undeveloped section of New York State.  The father
was a tanner, following the calling of many of his ancestors.  The boy was
given the best possible education under the circumstances, attending the
local public schools and Westfield Academy, and made such good progress that
at sixteen he was engaged to teach the village school at Sherman, where the
family then resided.  All the Osbornes were fond of music and talented in
that line, and David was especially gifted.  He cultivated his musical skill,
spending two years in New York City studying with the best instructors of the
time and later teaching music, both vocal and instrumental.  For two and a
half years he studied law in Panama, N.Y., in the office of Hon. Abner Lewis.
But the course he had laid out for himself was changed on New Year's Eve,
1850, when he formally embraced Christianity while attending evangelistic
services, and not long afterward he united with the Methodist Episcopal
Church.  He had already shown such promise as a public speaker that his
friends saw a useful career for him in the ministry, which he soon decided to
adopt, and in 1853 he was admitted to the Erie Conference to preach the
gospel.  The early predictions of his admirers were more than fulfilled.  He
became one of the leading ministers of the Methodist denomination, setting a
standard of earnest and effective work in every pastorate and leaving
substantial evidences of the vigorous spirit which animated him in every
enterprise.  His love for music led him to give it an important place in the
church services, and he himself would organize and drill church choirs and
labor zealously to provide musical facilities, pipe organs having been
installed in many of the churches which he served through his influence.  The
young were always the special objects of his care and attention.  It was not
only his idea to make the church and its activities attractive to them, but
he planned to make them take the serious responsibilities of maintaining the
church organization, and met with great success in this field, no doubt
attributable to the never fading youthfulness of his own spirit.  He believed
that the church should lead in social regeneration, and the famous "Akron
Plan," originally used in the First Church, Akron, Ohio, he worked out while
pastor of that church in collaboration with Louis Miller, superintendent of
the Sunday school and financier of the enterprise, and Jacob Snyder, the
architect.  They usually met in Dr. Osborne's study to discuss their ideas,
which had such wonderful fruit.  These progressive souls were anxious to
provide a building especially adapted to the needs of Sunday school and
church social activities, and it proved so successful at Akron that it was
adopted by other congregations with similar problems all over the country.
Dr. Osborne was also called upon to help plan the Chautauqua movement, Dr.
John H. Vincent asking counsel of him in arranging for and conducting the
Chautauqua assemblies.  While on the Barnesville district (1893-98) he was
superintendent and instructor in the Epworth League Assembly of Bethesda,
Ohio, and those who appeared on the program of that assembly in those years
were guests at his cottage.  A number of ambitious church building
enterprises were carried to completion by his energy, his pastorates in every
church having been periods of memorable activity.  Yet with all the success
he had in a material way, he never sacrificed the spiritual to that end --
it was rather that he raised the spiritual to a vigor and intensity which
made many things possible.  His eloquence was appealing, and a number of
laymen who proved highly useful to the denomination were brought in under his
preaching, notably the late President William McKinley.  His pastorates were
as follows: Randolph, 1853; Wattsburg, 1854; Dunkirk, 1855-56; Warren, 1857;
Franklin, 1858-59; New Castle, 1860-61; Erie, First Church, 1862-64; Akron,
1865-67; Erie Street Church, Cleveland, 1868-70; Titusville, 1871-72;
Cleveland district as superintendent, 1873-76; Steubenville Kramer Church,
1877-78; Massillon, 1879-80; First Church, Canton, 1881-83; First Church,
Youngstown, 1884-86; Painesville, 1887-89; Conneaut, 1890-92; Barnesville
district as superintendent, 1893-98; Niles, 1899-1900; Madison, 1901;
superannuated, 1902; moved to Kalamazoo, Mich., where he died Oct. 26, 1912.
While there he supplied a pulpit at Comstock, Mich., 1904-07.
   On October 23, 1856, Dr. Osborne married Arvilla Maria Hill, eldest
daughter of Rev. Bryan S. and Mary E. (Sanborn) Hill and they had children as
follows: Bryan Hill is mentioned below; David Winthrope, born at New Castle,
Pa., March 16, 1861, died at Kalamazoo, Mich., Nov. 14, 1917; Cyrus Clarke,
born at Akron, Ohio, Oct. 19, 1865, married Oct. 12, 1893 to Myra Fay Mackey,
of Franklin, Pa., is now residing at Havana, Cuba; Mary, born at Cleveland,
Ohio, Sept. 21, 1869, died at Kalamazoo, Mich., Nov. 10, 1904; Donald Platt,
born at Steubenville, Ohio, Oct. 28, 1878, married May 15, 1918 to Mrs. Mabel
H. Boudeman, is now residing at Kalamazoo, Michigan.
   Mrs. Arvilla Maria (Hill) Osborne, born Dec. 29, 1837, at Sheridan, N.Y.,
daughter of Rev. Bryan S. and Mary E. (Sanborn) Hill, died Oct. 18, 1913, at
Kalamazoo, Mich., was the eldest of their family, the others being:
(2) Robert Allen, born March 23, 1839, died April 29, 1858.  (3) Mary E.,
born Oct. 3, 1840, died April 23, 1859.  (4) Adeline, born Aug. 20, 1842,
married Nov. 17, 1864, George M. Permer, who died in the spring of 1918.
(5) Julia, born Dec. 20, 1844, married Oct. 26, 1865, Daniel B. Foote.
(6) Emily, born Jan. 17, 1847, married Sept. 3, 1870, Dr. S.F. Chapin.
(7) Stella was born June 8, 1849.  (8) Eva Marila, born Feb. 12, 1852,
married June 28, 1881, John C. Comopton.  (9) Moses Simpson, born Feb. 18,
1854, died Oct. 1, 1857.  (10) John Sanborn, born July 26, 1856, died
July 16, 1886, married Nov. 9, 1881, Minnie H. Fritts.  (11) Johanna Stewart,
born July 26, 1856, died April 28, 1899, married June 28, 1882, Joseph R.
Allen, and (second) in January, 1892, George Sammons.
   (IX)Bryan Hill Osborne, born at Franklin, Pa., Aug. 10, 1858, began his
education in the public schools there and attended high school at Cleveland,
Ohio, where he fitted for college.  He studied at Ohio Wesleyan University as
a member of the class of 1880, but did not take the full course.  He began
the study of law in the office of McCalmont & Osborne at Franklin, and was
admitted to the bar in 1881, entering upon active practice immediately.
His law office has since been maintained at Franklin, and he has attained
high distinction in his profession, at the same time filling various offices
of trust with which he has been honored, in connection with the
administration of the city government.  For several terms he was a member of
the council, was mayor in 1896, and in 1903, 1905 and 1906 represented his
district in the State Legislature, running on the Republican ticket; in 1916
was one of the presidential electors who supported Hon. Charles E. Hughes.
Mr. Osborne's business connections include association with the First
National Bank of Franklin, of which he is a director; Sibley Soap Company;
S.T. Karns' Sons Company and West End Water Company -- director of all these
and secretary of the Water Company; and he is financially interested in
various other enterprises in the vicinity.  He has co-operated in the
promotion of many projects appealing to men of public spirit in Franklin; is
president of the board of trustees of the Franklin Hospital for the Insane at
Warren, Pa.  His religious connection is with St. John's Protestant Episcopal
Church at Franklin, which he has served as vestryman for some years.
   On Dec. 11, 1889, Mr. Osborne married Stella V. Mitchell, daughter of
Forster W. and Laura M. (Wilson) Mitchell, of Franklin, Pa.  They have but
one child, Geraldine, born at Franklin, who was married June 16, 1917, to
Frederick Studebaker Fish, of South Bend, Indiana.



Bio. of George W. Osborn, son of George Osburn-10634


   Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Cambria County, Pennsylvania,
   Philadelphia, Union Publishing Co., 1896.  Page 228.

   GEORGE W. OSBORN, a citizen of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and a gardener by
occupation, is a son of George W. and Margaret (Murphy) Osborn.  August 6,
1843, in a little log house, corner of Main and Market streets, Johnstown,
he was born, and there, too, he was married, his wife being Miss Phoebe
Myers, a daughter of Abraham Myers.  Mr. Osborn attended the public schools
in his early boyhood, but did not acquire very much book-knowledge on account
of failure of his eye-sight.  However, he entered a store, and in making his
own way gained an education that was as valuable to him as the same amount of
book-lore would have been, perhaps more so.  He was twenty-one years in this
store, and then he entered the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad company as
a ticket-agent.  Later he was transfered to the freight department, where he
remained until he became assistant agent with R.T. Given, agent.  He now
discharged the duties of a brakeman for the Pennsylvania Railroad company.
He was a faithful workman on the Pennsylvania railroad, but after having
served this company for a number of years he married and moved to Bedford
county, returning in 1888, after thirteen years' residence there, he located
in Johnstown and working for the Johnson company, and at gardening.
   Mr. Osborn has had various occupations, and in all has proven himself a
laborer eminently worthy of his hire.  In this respect, as in others, he
shows the temper and quality of the Irish race to which he belongs.
   His grandfather was a native of the "Old Country" and came to America,
settling first in Lancaster county, later in Westmoreland, about one and a
half miles from Latrobe, in Unity township, where he died.  The grandfather
was a farmer by occupation and emigrated to this country on account of being
a home-ruler.
   The father of our subject was born and reared to manhood in Westmoreland
county.  Then he came to Johnstown and ran a boat for a short time on the
Pennsylvania canal.  Afterwards he went into partnership with John Dibert,
until 1850, and shortly afterward went to New Florence, Westmoreland county,
and engaged in the mercantile business.  In 1855 he had purchased a farm of
two hundred and forty acres near Johnstown from Abraham Stutzman, paying for
all this good land but $7150.00.  After his venture at New Florence he moved
to Johnstown to his farm, going into partnership at the same time with his
son-in-law, J.H. Fisher, in a store.  He continued for some time in this
partnership, and then retired and devoted his entire time to the care of his
real-estate, and to farming and gardening.
   He was a prosperous business man, who lived in the confidence and esteeem
of all his neighbors and associates.  He was a leading member of the
Methodist Episcopal church, and was a trustee for a number of years.  A
donation of $2000 to the building at the corner of Franklin and Locust
streets prove him to have been a liberal man.


Bio. of J.J. Osburn-10645


   20th Century History of the City of Washington and Washington County,,
   Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens, Chicago, Richmond-Arnold
   Publishing Co., 1910.  Page 725.

   J.J. OSBURN, general farmer in Smith Township, where he is operating his
valuable farm and meeting with much success, is a native of Washington
County, Pennsylvania, and was born in Robinson Township, Dec. 15, 1834.  His
parents were James and Martha (McKennet) Osburn.
   The father of Mr. Osburn was born in Ireland and he was brought to America
by his parents, who settled in Westmoreland County, where he was reared.  He
married Martha McKennet and they moved to Robinson Township, Washington
County, where he died when his eldest son, J.J., was eight years old.  He was
a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  There were two other sons: G.W.
and R.C., the latter of whom is deceased.  The parents were buried in
Miller's Run Cemetery.
   J.J. Osburn obtained his education in the schools of Robinson Township and
when quite young began to perform farm duties and has devoted the larger part
of his life to agricultural pursuits.  Following his marriage he resided for
some years on a farm of 138 acres in Robinson Township, in which he has a
one-third interest, and then purchased a farm of 110 acres near Dinsmore, and
while still owning that, bought the one on which he now resides, subsequently
disposing of the other, and is now cultivating 100 acres in Smith Township.
   On July 5, 1866, Mr. Osburn was married to Miss Elizabeth McAdam, who died
Feb. 17, 1909, and was laid to rest in Fairview Cemetery.  She was a woman of
exemplary life and beautiful character.  Eight children mourn the loss of a
devoted mother, namely: Cora R., who married J.V. Sutherland; Eva E., who
married John B. Blockhard; Nora B., who resides with her father; Ida, who
died young; Ida(2), who lives at home; Oscar L., who married Chess Ackleson;
Alvin C., who married Alma Blanchard; Noland C., who lives in California, and
Ralph E., who lives at home.  Mr. Osburn and family are members of the First
Presbyterian Church at Burgettstown.  In his political views, Mr. Osburn is a
Republican and in both Robinson and Smith Townships has been an active party
worker and has been recognized as a useful citizen.  During three terms he
was president of the Election Board in Robinson Twonship and has served on
the school board, and during his term as road commissioner the public
highways in his district were carefully looked after.


Bio. of Robert T. Lloyd


   History of the Western Reserve,
   Chicago, The Lewis Publishing Co., 1910.
   Vol. III, page 1457.  (abstract)
   (Bio. is accompanied by a photograph of R.T. Lloyd and wife)
   [Bio. contributed by David Giesler]

   ROBERT T. LLOYD. ...
   Leicester Lloyd, the father of Robert T., was born in Blandford, MA on
2 Mar 1798.  He moved to near Wickliffe, Lake Co., OH and resided there until
his death 14 Nov 1875.  He married 15 Feb 1821 at Fort Ann, NY to Miss Sarah
Osborn.  His wife was born 18 Dec 1798 at Blandford, MA.  Leicester and Sarah
Lloyd's children were Theodore John, Charles Smith, Elizabeth Roxanna, Mary
Ann, Sarah Almira, Robert Thompson, Leicester Hamilton, George Lewis, and
Harriet Lucinda.
[The bio. contains additional information on the children of Leicester and
Sarah Osborn in particular on Robert T. Lloyd.]


Bio. of Charles H. Osborne


   Biographical Review, This Volume Contains Biographical Sketches of,
   Leading Citizens of Cumberland County, Maine,
   Boston, Biographical Review Publishing Co., 1896.  Page 40.
   (transcription)

CHARLES H. OSBORNE, a native of Portland, was one of triplets, two boys and
a girl, born December 23, 1832, to the Rev. Charles F. and Susan (Leavis)
Osborne.  An account of his ancestral history may be found in the sketch of
Mr. Osborne's brother, Woodbridge G. Osborne, published on another page of
this volume.  Mr. Osborne acquired a practical eduation<sic> in the schools
of Scarboro and Limington, and began life for himself as a clerk in a
clothing store in Portland, going from there to Dover, N.H., where he was
employed for three years in the drug store of John B. Wheeler.  Returning to
his native city, Mr. Osborne worked for three years in the retail grocery
store of Dunn & Osborne.  He then went into the clothing business with I.P.
Farrington, carrying it on two years.  In 1855, in company with his brother,
John A. Osborne, he bought  seventy acres of land in the town of Gorham; and
after managing it a while in partnership, Mr. Osborne bought out his
brother's interest, and has since been prosperously engaged in general
farming.  He is a skilled and practical agriculturist, and his property is
well improved and in excellent condition.
   On February 9, 1866, Mr. Osborne was united in wedlock with Mrs. Sarah
Hayward, nee Holmes.  They are the parents of three children, as follows:
Sumner L., born June 20, 1867, was married in October, 1894, to Isabelle
Durell, of Hyde Park, Mass.; Irving, born June 6, 1869, was graduated from
Bowdoin College, and is now a teacher in the high school at Winthrop, Mass.;
and Lillie Emily, born July 26, 1874, lives in Boston.  Mr. Osborne supports
the principles of the Democratic party; and, religiously, he and all of his
family are members of the Congregational church.  He is a Knight of Pythias,
belonging to Gorham Lodge, No. 24.


Bio. of Jerry Jackson Osborne-11642


   Biographical Review, This Volume Contains Biographical Sketches of,
   Leading Citizens of Cumberland County, Maine,
   Boston, Biographical Review Publishing Co., 1896.  Page 61.
   (transcription)

JERRY JACKSON OSBORNE, a venerable and honored citizen of Gorham, Cumberland
County, is a native of New Hampshire, having been born in the town of Lee,
that State, January 3, 1815.  His parents were the Rev. John B. and Mary
(Frost) Osborne, both natives of New Castle, N.H.; and he is of English
extraction, his grandfather, George J. Osborne, having been the emigrant
ancestor.  The last named came from England directly to Portsmouth, N.H.,
where he afterward resided until his death at a ripe old age.  He was a
school teacher by occupation.  Further information relating to Mr. Osborne's
ancestry is contained in the sketch of Woodbridge G. Osborne, his nephew.
   The subject of this brief sketch obtained his education among the hillside
schools of his native State.  From his earliest recollection he has been
engaged in agricultural pursuits, finding the occupation pleasant and
profitable.  He owns a valuable timber farm in the town of Gorham, where he
has resided for many years, being numbered among the well-to-do farmers of
this part of the county.
   Mr. Osborne was married March 1, 1852, to Elizabeth Leavis Martin,
daughter of William and Sophia (Leavis) Martin, of Portland.  Mrs. Osborne
was born in Portland, November 27, 1822.  She and her husband have three
children living, the following being their record: Mary E., born May 13,
1853, is the wife of Clinton A. Moulton, of Buxton, and the mother of three
children -- Millie o., Margie, and Florence; Charles S., born June 2, 1857,
lives on the old homestead; William H., born August 5, 1859, married Georgie
Libby, of Gorham, who died leaving one son, Frank M., born March 27, 1882.
In politics Mr. Osborne affiliates with the Democratic party, being one of
its stanchest supporters; and his wife is a member of the Baptist Church of
Limington.


Bio. of Woodbridge G. Osborne


   Biographical Review, This Volume Contains Biographical Sketches of,
   Leading Citizens of Cumberland County, Maine,
   Boston, Biographical Review Publishing Co., 1896.  Page 220.
   (transcription)

WOODBRIDGE G. OSBORNE, who is living retired from active business, is a
native of Cumberland County, Maine, his birth having occurred July 24, 1837,
in the town of Scarboro.  His father, the Rev. Charles F. Osborne, and his
grandfather, the Rev. John B. Osborne, were faithful ministers of the Free
Will Baptist denomination.
   John B. Osborne was a native of Lee, N.H., where, when but a boy, he
became imbued with religious zeal, and determined to consecrate his life to
the cause of Christianity.  He was ordained to the ministry in his native
town, and became one of the most successful and influential preachers of that
faith in New Hampshire.  He was twice married.  His first wife, Abigail
Smith, bore him three children.  His second wife, Mary Frost, mother of the
Rev. C.F. Osborne, was born in Epping, N.H.  She bore him fourteen children;
and of these Jerry Jackson Osborne, the youngest child, is the only one now
living.  He is a farmer in Gorham, owning one hundred and fifty acres of
land, about one-third of it being under cultivation.
   Charles F. Osborne, born March 15, 1800, in Lee, N.H., was there reared to
man's estate.  For some years he was engaged mostly in surveying in Portland,
being employed a portion of the time as a clerk in a store.  He subsequently
started in mercantile business for himself, opening a general store, but gave
up this in order to fit himself for the ministry, for which he was eminently
adapted.  He was ordained as pastor of the Free Will Baptist church at Fort
Hill, Gorham, in 1837; and he continued his pastoral labors until his death,
January 24, 1854, his last charge being at the Limerick and Limington Church
in Parsonsfield, quarterly meeting, York County.  The Rev. Charles F. Osborne
married Susan C. Leavis, a daughter of Thomas Leavis, of Portland, and of
their nine children the following are living; namely, Harriet S., Ellen M.,
Charles H., Ervine D., Lillia, and Woodbridge G.  Harriet S., born in
September, 1820, is the wife of Hanover S. Nickerson, of Pittsfield, Me.,
where both attend the Free Will Baptist church.  Ellen Maria, born in March,
1831, makes her home with her sister Harriet in Pittsfield, and is there a
member of the Free Will Baptist church.  Charles H., who was one of triplets,
born in December, 1833, owns a farm of one hundred acres in Gorham, where he
makes a specialty of early fruits.  He married in November, 1868, Mrs. Sarah
Haywood, born Holmes; and their eldest child, Sumner C. Osborne, married
Isabelle Durrell, of Hyde Park, Mass.  Ervine D., a graduate of Bowdoin
College, is now engaged in teaching in Winthrop, Mass.  Lillia is a
professional nurse of Brook line, Mass.  They are Congregationalists in their
religious belief.
   Woodbridge G. Osborne was educated at the Limerick and Limington Academies,
being graduated from the latter when but sixteen years old.  He at once began
teaching school, first in Sebago, in the following winter at Baldwin; and the
next fall he had charge of the tuition school at Emery's Corner in Limington.
In 1855 he taught the winter term of the North Gorham school; and just
afterward he assumed charge of the school at Gorham Corner, where he remained
a year.  He had confined himself so closely to the duties of his calling that
he was now forced to abandon his profession for a while.  He came to Portland,
and was subsequently employed as a clerk in a store for a short time.  In
1859 he established himself in a mercantile business in company with J.F.
Dearborn, the firm being Osborne & Dearborn.  The following year he sold his
share to his partner, and began travelling for Shaw Brothers, wholesale
grocers of Portland.  When the Shaws gave up the business in 1860, Mr. Osborne
opened a store for the sale of grain and groceries on Market Square in this
city, forming a partnership with O.W. Eldredge, whom he afterward bought out.
He continued this business successfully until the summer of 1862, when he
sold out, in order that he might be free to enter the service of his country.
On July 28 he enlisted under Captain Ellis M. Sawyer in Company E,
Seventeenth Maine Volunteer Infantry; and for three months he was employed as
mail messenger.  He was then taken sick, and, being incapacitated for active
duty, was assigned to look after the Quartermaster's stores.  He was
subsequently promoted, and given charge of the Quartermaster's store at Blue
Ridge Mountain.  Another promotion placed him in the office of book-keeper at
the Brigadier Quartermaster's department.  His health remaining impaired, he
was from there sent to Washington, where he was honorably discharged April
30, 1863.  By virtue of his patriotic services Mr. Osborne receives a pension;
and he is a member of Bosworth Post, No. 2, Grand Army of the Republic, of
Portland.
   After regaining his health, Mr. Osborne resumed teaching, being employed
successively at Gorham, Buxton, and Cape Elizabeth, retiring from this work
in 1874, his last school being the Ligonia at the Rolling-mills in Cape
Elizabeth.  In 1875 he began travelling for the wholesale grocery house of
W.E. Donnell & Co., with whom he remained five years.  He was subsequently
employed in a similar capacity by Charles McLaughlin & Co., and then by
Thomas Dana & Co., of Boston.  While working for the latter firm, through
some business transaction Mr. Osborne took possession of a grocery store in a
New Hampshire town, where he remained engaged in business for six or seven
years before he could dispose fo the store at an advantage.  Returning then
to Maine, he worked a year for Twitchell, Champlin & Co. of Portland, going
in 1894 to the store of Shaw, Harmon & Carney, by whom he was employed until
December of that year, when he retired from active life.  Mr. Osborne has a
farm of sixty-five acres, which he has bought in small lots, at South
Portland; and here he spends the warmer months of the year, residing in the
winter season in Portland.
   On August 29, 1860, Mr. Osborne was united in marriage with Mary Ellen
Anthoine, daughter of Deacon Daniel Anthoine, of Cape Elizabeth.  Their only
child, Woodbridge G. Osborne, Jr., was born April 5, 1880.  In politics Mr.
Osborne is a steadfast and loyal Republican.  Religiously, both he and his
wife are members of the Free Will Baptist church.  Socially, he is identified
with several of the leading organizations of the city, being a member of
Beacon Lodge, No. 67, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; of Bramhall Lodge,
No. 3, Knights of Pythias; of Portland Encampment, No. 19, Independent Order
of Odd Fellows; and Oasis Commandery, No. 241, of the Golden Cross of
Knightville.


Bio. of James Osborn-11652


   The History of Wells and Kennebunk, Edward E. Bourne, Portland, ME,
   B. Thurston &  Co., 1875.  Page 755.  (transcript)

JAMES OSBORN.
   James Osborn was the son of John Osborn, of Charlestown, Mass.  In early
life he went into the service of his country in the Revolutionary war, and
was in Capt. Danforth's company of Col. Nixon's regiment.  After the war was
over, in 1784, he came to Kennebunk.  Here he was first employed as a clerk
in the store of Tobias Lord.  A few years later, he commenced teaching school,
and for twenty-five years was employed in that capacity in the various
Districts of the town; a part of that time, in addition to his labors in the
school, doing business as a trader in the store of Prentice.  In 1790, he
erected the house now standing hear the store of his son, James Osborn.  The
western end was fitted for a store, in which he traded several years.  He was
an honest and worthy man, and, for the period in which he lived, a good
teacher.  In 1787, he married Nancy Lord, of Berwick, by whom he had four
children, Samuel, John, James, and Mary.  She died June 10, 1832, aged 69.
He, Nov. 10, 1836, aged 76.


The Osborn Family of King's Co., Nova Scotia


   The History of Kings County, Nova Scotia, Arthur W.H. Eaton, Salem, MA,
   The Salem Press Co., 1910.  Page 767.  (transcript)

THE OSBORN FAMILY
   The Osborn family is said to have been transplanted to Nova Scotia from
Martha's Vineyard, and this statement is probably true.  Nov. 24, 1774, Sarah
Osborn, dau. of Samuel and Sarah Osborn, was m. at Passamaquoddy (either in
Maine or in New Brunswick), by John Curry, J.P., to Charles Skinner.  Ann
Osborn, sister of Sarah, was m. in Cornwallis in 1778, to William Allen
Chipman, and Ann is said to have been of St. John, N.B.  Wilmot Osborn, a
brother of these women, m. in Corwallis, June 17, 1800, Lydia, dau. of Robert
and Jerusha (Bill) Kinsman, (2) March 7, 1810, Sarah, dau. of Abraham and
Elizabeth Seaborn Wolfe (Woodworth) Masters.
   The name "Wilmot" suggests the possibility of a connection between the
Wilmot family of N.B. and the Osborns, and we have also the significant fact
that the mother of Lemuel Wilmot, founder of the New Brunswick Wilmot family
and grandfather of Sir Lemuel Allen Wilmot, governor of N.B., after her first
husband Ezekiel Wilmot's, death was m. to Jonathan Osborn or Osborne.
   Wilmot Osborn of Cornwallis and his second wife Sarah (Masters) had
children: Mary Lavinia, b. Nov. 26, 1810; John, b. Aug. 2, 1812; Sarah Alice,
b. May 12, 1814; Abraham Masters, b. Nov. 13, 1815; Rebecca Jane, b. Sept.
17, 1816; Elizabeth, b. Oct. 15, 1818; Roxanna, b. Nov. 1, 1823; Samuel,
b. July 24, 1825.


Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Sarah Osborn-12143


   Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Sarah Osborn Who Died at Newport,
   Rhode Island, on the Second Day of August, 1796, Samuel Hopkins,
   Worcester, MA, printer Leonard Worcester, 1799.  (transcription of parts
   of selected paragraphs)

Page 5
   MRS. SARAH OSBORN, was born in London, on February 22, 1714.  Her father
was Mr. Benjamin Haggar.  Her mother was Mrs. Susanna Haggar, whose maiden
name was Guyse.  She was sister to the Reverend Doctor John Guyse of London.
Mrs. Osborn came to America, with her mother, in the year 1722, in the ninth
year of her age, her father having been here for some time before.  They
lived in Boston a short time, and then moved to Freetown, on the east side of
Taunton river, near fifty miles south of Boston, and above twenty miles from
Newport.  In the year 1729, they moved to Newport on Rhodeisland, where she
lived till her decease.

Page 16
   In process of time, I was married to Mr. Samuel Wheaten, being in my
eighteenth year, October 21, 1731, and went with my husband, the next winter
to see his friends in the country; where I stayed almost five months; and was
almost all the time under strong convictions.

Page 18
   I met with many trials in my lying in, it being an extreme cold season.
My child was born on Oct. 27, 1732.  The next spring, my husband returned
home; but went to sea again, and died abroad in November, 1733.  I was then
in my twentieth year.  The news of my husband's death came to me on the first
of the next April.

Pages 51-52
   About this time I had the offer of a second marriage, with one who
appeared to be a real christian (and I could not think of being unequally
yoked with one who was not such.)  I took the matter into serious
consideration.  I foresaw there were difficulties which I must unavoidably
encounter; and many duties would be incumbent on me, to which I had been a
stranger: Particularly my being a mother in law to three sons, which my
proposed husband had by a first wife.  But after weighing all circumstances,
as well as I could, in my mind, and earnest prayer, which God enabled me to
continue in for some time, I concluded it was the will of God, that I should
accept the offer, and accordingly was married to Mr. Henry Osborn, on the
fifth day of May, 1742.


David Osborn-5233's Family


   Pioneer History of Camden, Oneida County, New York, Elizabeth T. Pike
   et al., Utica, NY, pub. by authors, 1897.  Page 291.  (transcript)
   (Bio. is accompanied by a photograph of David Osborn-5233 and his wife
   and a photograph of their house)
   [see Bio. of David Osborn-5262]
   [A photocopy of this history is posted online at the
    Oneida Co., NY GenWeb site]

DAVID OSBORN'S FAMILY
   Deacon David Osborn was born in Litchfield, Conn., in the year 1782.
Esther Potter, his wife, was born in Plymouth, Conn., in 1779.  They were
married by the Rev. Mr. Waterman, the 22d of December, 1802.  In March of the
following year they came to Camden, making the journey with an ox team.
Fifty acres of land had been taken up about a mile and a half from the
present village and two and a half acres cleared.  Reuben Osborn, a brother,
came at the same time; a log house had been built on his land.  David and his
wife remained there two weeks.  These primitive houses were erected in a
short space of time, and a log house with a cross-legged table and bench was
ready for occupancy at the end of two weeks.  The table is still in existence
at the residence of the late David Osborn, a descendant.  Mrs. Osborn brought
a bag of sweet apple seeds with her from her old home, from which sprang the
fine old orchard which has supplied the descendants, and many others, with
delicious fruit.  Possessing a great love for flowers, she brought from her
Eastern home single hollyhock seeds, which she sowed in the virgin soil of
the wilderness; they well repaid her for all her trouble and care; they grew
finely and bore double blossoms of all colors, a thousand-fold, making a
glorious blaze of color among the chaos of logs and brush of that newly-
cleared land, cheering the hearts of the passers-by with a thought of the
possibilities of the future.  They lived seven years in their first home.  It
stood back of the present house, on a road which ran through from Dunbar
stree, fallen into disuse many years ago.  They abandoned the old house,
moving into one owned by Deacon Lyman Tuttle nearer the village, and later
into the Penfield house, just off from the main road.  During the year 1817
Mr. Osborn built the frame house which is still standing in a good state of
preservation, known to all as the Old Deacon Osborn place, and where he died
in 1859.  His wife died at the home of her son, David Osborn, a short
distance this side of the old home, and on the land they first purchased in
Camden.  Their children were -- Potter, Sherman, Lucy, David, Elam, and
Esther, the youngest and only one living, who married Isaiah B. Loomis and
resides in Bound Brook, N.J.  To her we are indebted for this history of the
early settlement of the Osborn family.  She has one son, O.P. Loomis.  He
entered the electrical field with Prof. Thomson, at New Britain, Conn., in
1883, and went with that company to Lynn, Mass., where in 1885 he devised
improvements in the art, from this time until 1887, when a company called the
Loomis Electric Manufacturing Company was incorporated.  In 1889 they moved
to New York where the patents were transferred to the Eureka Electric
Company.  Under the pressure of the panic of 1893 this company was suspended
and has since gone out of business.  Since this time Mr. Loomis has been
engaged in the design and manufacture of electrical machinery and his
apparatus is successfully running in all parts of the world.  He is a member
of the Institute of Electrical Engineers, and has contributed several
articles to various journals on the subject.  During his career he has taken
out over twenty patents for improvements, principally in the line of
electrical engineering.
   Reuben Osborn and his family came to Camden with his brother David.  He
was one of the trustees of the First Congregational Church.  In 1811 he
removed to Dover, O., where he died March 24, 1860, aged 81 years.  Lucy
Osborn died unmarried in Camden, May 26, 1852, aged 45 years.
   Sherman Osborn built the house just west of his childhood's home and moved
into it December 4, 1830.  He married Susan C. Osborn and settled here.  They
had two children, Hubert and Mary.  His wife died August 10, 1844.  After her
death he married Marilla M. Phelps, by whom he had one son, Miner Osborn,
residing in Camden; Sherman Osborn died April 6, 1859.  His second wife
survived him until December 31, 1885.  Miner P. Osborn is the owner of the
electric light plant of this village.  In 1887 he commenced obtaining the
necessary subscriptions for the introduction of the electric light, and met
with good success.  The system introduced was the Loomis incandescent,
manufactured by the Loomis Electric Manufacturing Co. of Boston.  Many of the
business places threw out the old mode of lighting and replaced the kerosene
lamps with electric lights.  In 1888 an experimental electric light was
placed on Main street, opposite Union street, which was so superior to the
oil lamps which had been in use prior to this, that at the present time the
whole village is lighted with electricity, as well as many private houses.
Mr. Osborn with his wife and one son resides on Church street.


Bio. of David Osborn-5262


   Pioneer History of Camden, Oneida County, New York, Elizabeth T. Pike
   et al., Utica, NY, pub. by authors, 1897.  Page 294.  (transcript)
   [see David Osborn-5233's Family]
   [A photocopy of this history is posted online at the
    Oneida Co., NY GenWeb site]


DAVID OSBORN, JR.
   David Osborn, Jr. built a house for himself just east of his childhood's
home, in 1854.  He married Mercy D. Cobb, daughter of Bennett Cobb, Sen., by
whom he had one son, Henry S., born October 6, 1842.  His wife died -------.
He married the second time Mary Porter, who came from Taunton, Mass.  Three
children were born, viz.: Benjamin Porter, who died when a mere child; Betsey
Porter, born February 16, 1845, married Walter D. Mathson of Amsterdam, where
her death occurred;  Benjamin L. Osborn, who was born October 25, 1846, who
who resides in the old homestead and to whom we are indebted for this history
of his father's family.
   Since writing the history of the Osborn family Mrs. Esther Osborn Loomis
was removed by death, May 14, 1897, aged 77 years.


Bio. of Charles Dudley


   History of Portage County, Ohio, Chicago, Warner, Beers & Co., 1885.
   Page 717.  (transcript)

   CHARLES DUDLEY, farmer, P.O. Freedom, is a native of Richmond, Berkshire
Co., Mass., born December 8, 1814; son of Timothy and Anna (Osborn) Dudley,
natives of Guilford, Conn.  They were married in Berkshire County, Mass., in
1800, and in 1835 moved to Freedom Township, this county, and in 1837 to
Whiteside County, Ill., where they died, aged seventy-seven and ninety years
respectively.  Our subject came to this county in 1837, settling in Freedom
Township, where he now resides.  He has cleared many acres of land and has
followed general agriculture.  He was married June 22, 1837, to Sarah Leete,
a native of West Stockbridge, Berkshire Co., Mass., born August 6, 1816, and
daughter of Nathaniel and Dimmis (Wickhane) Leete, natives of Connecticut,
and who were married in 1800, and lived and died in Berkshire County, Mass.
To our subject and wife were born four sons: Charles A., attorney in Des
Moines, Iowa; Plimmon H., civil engineer, New York City; Marquis W., and John
F., a farmer in Freedom Township, this county, all married.  Our subject has
served in some of the township offices.  He and his wife are members of the
Congregational Church.  In politics he is a strong Republican.


The Gurnee Family


   History of Rockland County, New York, ed. David Cole, J.B. Beers & Co.,
   1884.  (partial transcript)

p311.
GURNEE FAMILY.
   This family is of Huguenot origin, and the name was originally spelled
"Garnier," but like many other French names, has been changed from its
original form.  The ancestor of this family was Isaac Garnier, ...
   Francois Garnier was the father of ten children: 1, John born December
12th 1729; 2, Francis; 3, Stephen; 4, Isaiah; 5, Isaac; 6, Eli; 7, James;
8, Hester, wife of Rodger Osborn; 9, elizabeth, wife of ----- Peets; and
10, Anna.
   ...
   II. DESCENDANTS OF STEPHEN GURNEE ... 4, Abraham, born December 1781, died
August 25th 1854, (he married Sarah, daughter of William Osborn, and she
died March 11th 1865, aged seventy-nine; ...
p312.
   10, Sarah, wife of Matthias Osborn. ...


Family of Peter Wannamaker


   History of Rockland County, New York, ed. David Cole, J.B. Beers & Co.,
   1884.  p265.  (partial transcript)

   About the year 1740, Peter, eldest son, as we have assumed, of Coenard
Wannamer, moved from his father's home near the New Jersey line to a point
about two miles northeast of Suffern, where he settled upon 200 acres of
land.  The foundation of his original house forms part of the house at
present occupied by Mr. George R. Mapes.  His children were Henry, Adolphus,
and Margaret wife of Peter Haring.  Henry married a Miss Fredericks, to whom
were born Peter, James, Abram, Margaret wife of John Osborn, and Elizabeth
wife of Frederick Smith.
   ...


Hist. of Greene Co., NY, 1884


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

Page 199.
EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
   ...
   The act of the incorporation of the parish is recorded in the office of
county clerk of Ulster county, under date of June 1799.  The old church was
built in 1814, the new one, in 1879.  The joint act of association for
organizing Trinity church is dated May 11th 1799, and is as follows:
   "We, whose names are hereunto affixed, do profess ourselves to belong to
the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States, and do hereby solemnly
agree to associate ourselves together, to promote the same, in the towns of
Windham, Freehold, and vicinity."
   It is signed by Samuel Gunn, Norman Collins, Silas Lewis, Ebenezer Osborn,
Eli Osborn, John Tuttle, Benjamin Johnson, Samuel Goodsell, Eliphalet
Wheeler, Almond Munson, Amasa Tuttle, Orange Munson, Jehial Tuttle, Jabez
Barlow, Samuel Merwin, Constant Andrews, Justin Coe, Daniel Merwin, Enos
Baldwin, Samuel Woolcott, Ebenezer Johnson, Elisha Stanley, Samuel Chatfield,
and William Tuttle.

Page 397.
EARLY SETTLERS OF WEST WINDHAM.
   ...
Page 398.
   Benjamin Osborn was a brother of Deacon Nathan.  His wife was a Merrill
from Connecticut.  Their children were: Polly, who married Jacob Smalling;
Comfort, who married a Mr. Fenton; Riley, who died recently on the homestead,
past 80; Roderick; Buel; Lena and Angeline married Brothers, Matthews, sons
of Herman.
   Ard Osborn married Carolina Frayer, sister to Catherine, wife of Silas
Lewis jr.  They had several children.  Orrin Osborn was the youngest brother
of Ard.  Abijah and John Stone's mother, Experience [Stimson] Stone, was a
daughter of Captain George Stimson.  John moved to Boston, Massachusetts.
Abijah moved to Osbornville [Windham] and built one of the first dwellings
there.  His wife was Alathea Osborn, eldest daughter of Deacon Nathan Osborn.
They had one son, Burrit C. Stone, deceased.
   ...
   Eli Osborn moved to Danby, Tompkins county.  His wife was a large woman,
and coming to visit a Windham neighbor who was in Danby, drove up, in a two
seated wagon.  Mr. Osborn occupied one seat and Mrs. Osborn the other.  "Is
that the way you ride?" inquired the visitor.  "Yes," said Mr. Osborn, "I
have to go twice to carry my wife to church."  His son moved from Windham to
Richford, Tioga county.


William Osborn-11783 Rev. War Pension Papers



Affidavit by Samuel Osborn of Greene Co., NY:
State of New York}
County of Greene } ss  Personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of
the peace in and for said county Samuel Osborn of said county aged eighty
four years after being duly sworn according to law deposes & says that
William Osborn, the lated husband of Dorcas Osborn was this deponent's
brother, that this deponent well recollects that his said brother William
Osborn, the identical person who was the late husband of Dorcas Osborn who
made application for a pensionfrom the State of New York, resided in Hamden,
Connecticut, that before the commencement of the War of the Revolution he
left Hamden and went to reside with a Mr. Stiles of Lanesborough, Massachu.,
Berkshire Co., that after the commencement of the disturbence which lead to
the Revolutionary War his said brother William Osborn, above mentioned, left
Mr. Stiles in Lanesborough, & took up his residence in Stockbridge where he
soon after enlisted early in the Spring of 1775 for eight months under Capt.
Williams and Col. John Patterson, that the said William Osborn served out his
eight months & further that the above named William Osborn was the identical
person who enlisted from Stockbridge, Berkshire County Massachusetts in the
spring of 1775 seventeen hundred and seventy five for eight months & who
served eight months, that he was the identical person who served under that
name, all of these facts, this deponent well recollects from the time of
their occuring, that after the eight months service was ended, the said
William Osborn returned from the armey to Connecticut where he was married in
1777, that this deponent well recollects of the said William Osborn after his
marriage in 1777 being in the service in the War of the Revolution, that the
said William Osborn was in service at New Haven at the time the British
landed there, that the said William Osborn was at Fairfield in the service
when that was burned in 1780, of the said William Osborn service at New Haven
& at Fairfield there is no doubt, & that he was out & in service in the War
of the Revolution at other times that this deponent was himself married in
the year 1786 and that his said brother William was married nine years before
this deponent, of the truth of this he is confident.
Sworn & Subscribed before me}
this 11th day of April 1846 }   Saml. Osborn
        John Thompson Justice of the Peace

I certify that the above named Samuel Osborn is a respectable old man &
person.         John Thompson Justice of the Peace

********

Affidavit by William Osborn and Dorcas Osborne:
State of New York}
County of Broome }
   Be it Known, that on this nineteenth day of October A.D. 1852 before me,
the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, in and for the County and State
aforesaid, personally appeared William Osborn and Dorcas Osborne his
widow<sic> resident of Whitneys Point in said County, and made oath according
to law that he is the legal heir of the identical man who was a Soldier in
the war of the Revolution, and who has heretofore mad application for the
benefit of the Pension Act of 4 July 1836.  That he is directly interested as
a claimant in said Pension, and makes this affidavit to be filed with such
additonal evidence or arguments as my Agent may use in prosecuting said
claim. ...                     signed William Osborn
...

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Affidavit by E.D. Robinson, Clerk:
State of New York}
County of Broome } SS.
   It is hereby certified that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited
before me the Clerk of the C---ty of Court held in and for the said County
being a court of Record that William Osborn was a Revolutionary Soldier of
the United States died on the Fourth (4th) day of November eighteen hundred
and thirty three leaving surviving him Dorcus Osborn his widow, who also died
on the tenth (10th) day of May eighteen hundred and thirty nine (1839) and
that she left surviving her the following named children viz: William Osborn,
Fanny Osborn, John P. Osborn the only surviving children of the aforesaid
Dorcus Osborn, deceased.
                        In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and
                          affixed my seal of office this twenty ninth day of
                          March one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three
                                        E.D. Robinson  Clerk
********

Affidavit by Rev. Leicester A. Sawyer:
                        New Have Conn. March 3, 1837,
   I hereby certify that it appears from the Church Records in my possession
that William Osborn was married to Dorcas Peck on the tenth day of December,
A.D. 1777, the record being according to the best of my belief in the
handwriting of the incumbent at that date -- the Rev. Allyn Mather.
                        Leicester A. Sawyer
                Pastor of the Church of Christ in the United
                           & city<?> New Haven
********

Affidavit by John W. Osborn:
Broome County SS
  Town Triangle    John W. Osborn being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he
has examined the tomb stones of William Osborn deceased the claimant
mentioned in the papers on file in the Pension office and that his death took
place on the 8th day of November in the year 1831 instead of the 8 of
November in the year 1830 as mentioned in the papers on file in the Pension
office or as stated in the certificate to have been on the 4th of November in
the year 1833 and further this deponent saith not.      John W. Osborn
Subscribed and sworn before }
me this 13th day of May 1853}
                Geo W. Seym--- Justice Peace


Bio. of Isaac Stalcup


   Early History of Greene County, Indiana, Jack Baber, Worthington, IN,
   Worthington Times, 1875.  Page 45.  Reprint by Worthington Times, 1962.
   (transcript)

Made Plows

   We will now give a short sketch of a few of the old pioneer settlers.  Old
Isaac Stalcup was born in North Carolina, and married Catherine Osborn.  They
came to Greene county in the year 1817, and settle on White river, and that
fall built the first little log cabin, on the old farm where William Crites
now lives.  He crossed at the yellow banks on the Ohio river, and came by way
of Vincennes to Greene county.  Grandfather Stalcup and wife had twenty-one
children -- fifteen boys and six girls.