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Bio. of A.L. Osborn-9396


   History of La Porte County, Indiana, Chicago, Chas. G. Chapman
   & Co., 1880.  Page 478.  (transcript)

   A.L. Osborn, born in New Haven Co., Conn., May 27, 1815; a lawyer, and
settled May 14, 1833.


Aaron Osborn-43 -- Death Notice


        Clipping received from Hubert Lusby.  No newspaper name or date.

   Aaron Osborn died yesterday at 2 PM at his residence, corner of Ninth and
Greenbush streets.  At the outbreak of the rebellion he enlisted 9/7/1861 as
a prv in Co. K, Seventh IN Infantry and was mustered out 9/20/1864.  He again
enlisted 12/1/1864 as a prv in Co. I, Eleventh IN Cav. and was mustered out
9/19/1865.  The funeral will occur from the residence tomorrow at 2 PM, Rev.
A.W. Wood officiating.  Burial at Greenbush.


Rev. Pension Papers of Aaron Osborn


Pension Application W4558

W.4558          BLWt 30.622-160-55
ca1744          Birth of Aaron Osborn.
                Aaron Osborn from Fort Stanwix.
ca 1780         First enlisted at Goshen in Orange Co., NY, had been in
                  service about 3 years.  About 1 year of that time at
                  Fort Stanwix.
1//1780         Aaron Osborn married Sarah Read at Albany, NY.
                Aaron Osborn served under James Gregg and Co. Van Schuck.
2/20/?          Had dau. Phebe Osborn the winter before the army disbanded.
                  Phebe afterwards married William Rockwell and moved to the
                  Town of Dryden, Tompkins Co., NY.
8/9/?+1         Had a son Aaron Osborn, Jr.  Aaron Osborn died about 1830.
                Sarah (Benjamin) last saw her husband about 3 months after the
                  birth of Aaron Jr.  Sarah found that her husband had married
                  another girl by the name Polly Sloat above New Burgh.
                  Aaron Osborn married unlawfully a second time.  Sarah
                  afterwards married John Benjamin of Bloominggrove, Orange
                  Co., NY.
ca1817          Sarah (Benjamin) believes Aaron Osborn died about this time.
                  Aaron Osborn of Wayne Co., PA was a corporal in the company
                  commanded by Capt. Gregg of the Regt. commanded by Col.
                  Clinton in the NY line for 2y6m.
5/18/1818       Aaron Osburn of Town of Amsterdam in Montgomery Co., NY, age
                  74, applies for  pension.
                  Served as a corporal in the regiment commaded by Col.
                  Ganewort? + V. Shou-- of the NY line for the term of 6y6m.
6/27/1819       Death of Aaron Osborn
2/13/1838       Sarah Benjamin, formerly widow of Aaron Osborn, dec'd
                  inscribed on pension roll.
6/23/1855       Sarah Benjamin, age 109 or 110 years, of Mt. Pleasant, Wayne
                  Co., PA applies for bounty land warrant of 160 acres.

                Correspondance in the pension folder states that Sarah Read's
                  maiden name was Sarah Mathews, that she first married
                  William Reed, a Rev. War soldier, and then Aaron Osborn.
                  Further correspondance states she died at Mt. Pleasant, PA
                  in 1858.


Addie (Howard - 249) Osborne Obituary


        Grant Co. News, Williamstown, KY, Friday, April 25, 1958, p6.

DEATHS
MRS. ROSS OSBORNE
   Mrs. Ross (Addie) Osborne, age 81, passed away at the Dry Ridge Convalescent
Home Saturday, April 19.  She was a native and lifelong resident of Grant
County.
   Funeral services were conducted from the Williamstown Christian Church
Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock with the pastor, George Laskey, officiating.
Burial was made in the Williamstown cemetery.
   Surviving are her husband and one son, Green Osborne of Covington.  Others
are four great-grandchildren and one brother, Ell Howard, Covington.


Bio. of Adelbert Osborn


        The Centennial History of Oregon, 1811-1912, Gaston,
        Chicago, The S.J. Clark Publishing Co., 1912.  Vol. III, page 696.
        (transcript)

   ADELBERT OSBORN, who owns a farm of forty acres in Josephine county, not
far from Murphy, has passed the seventy-fifth milestone on life's journey,
yet is still personally supervising his agricultural interests.  He was
born in New York, May 5, 1837, and is a son of Isaac and Nancy (Wilson)
Osborn, in whose family there were two children.  The father was a native
of New Jersey and the mother of New York and it was in the Empire state
that Adelbert Osborn was reared to the age of fourteen years, when he began
driving a team with a grading gang.  He was employed in that way until the
outbreak of the Civil war when his patriotic spirit was aroused by the
attempt of the south to overthrow the Union and he enlisted for service as
a member of Company E, of the Twenty-Sixth Illinois Infantry, under General
Polk.  His command was attached to the Fifteenth Army Corps and he
participated in a number of important engagements during the three years
which he spent at the front in defense of the stars and stripes.  He was
finally mustered out at Atlanta, Georgia, and upon his return to the north
accepted a position as foreman and later as engineer on the Michigan
Central Railroad between Detroit and Chicago.  Eight years passed in that
way and for several years he was also employed on the Chicago and
Northwestern railroad.  He afterward worked at similar employment in
California and then made his way to Texas where he engaged in herding
cattle for a number of years.  In 1879 he came to Oregon and for a year
made his home in Portland, during which time be was working on the line of
the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company. Once more, however, he turned
his attention to stock-raising interests, purchasing a large number of
cattle which he took to Montana and there sold.  He afterward reentered
railroad service in connection with the Northern Pacific but finally
returned to Oregon and is now making his home in Josephine county.  Here he
purchased and has improved forty acres.  This constitutes one of the good
farms in the vicinity of Murphy and the care and labor bestowed upon the
place are bringing to him a substantial financial return.
   In 1887 Mr. Osborn was united in marriage to Miss Hays, a native of
Oregon and unto them were born four children: Wheeler R., Winifred H., Dan
M. and Josephine.
   Mr. Osborn's study of the political questions and issues of the day and
of the situation which affects the general interests of society has led him
to give his support to the socialist party.  He is a member of the Masonic
fraternity, loyal to the teachings of the lodge and willing at all times to
aid his brethren of the order.  His business life in connection with
railroad construction and grading has taken him into various sections of
the country so that he knows the east, the west the north and the south.
He is much pleased with the attractive climate of Oregon and the
opportunities, and natural advantages of the state, and has made permanent
location here, deciding to spend his remaining days in this district.
Whatever success he has enjoyed is due to his own labor and perseverance
and he has many substantial qualities which have gained for him the warm
regard and kindly consideration of those who know him.


Bio. of Albert Osborn-12655


        Pictorial and Biographical Memoirs of Elkhart and St. Joseph
        Counties, Indiana, Chicago, Goodspeed Bros., 1893.
        Page 474.  (transcript)

   HON. ALBERT OSBORN.  The Osborn family is one of the prominent ones of
Elkhart county and the first member to take root on American soil was the
great-grandfather of our subject, who was born in England and who braved
Neptune's tender mercies and settled in Massachusetts at an early date.  He
brought his wife with him and in that State both passed the remainder of
their days.  Their son, Enos Osborn, grandfather of subject, grew to
manhood in that State, and was there married to Miss Naoma ------<sic>.
He tilled the soil there for many years and then moved with his family to
Otsego county, N.Y., and about 1840 from there to St. Joseph county, Mich.
There he made a permanent settlement, and there his death occurred about the
year 1870, at the advanced age of ninety-seven years.  His wife had passed
away several years prior to that.  Both were natives of the Old Bay State.
Their son, Daniel Osborn, was born in Massachusetts and was but a mere
child when his parents settled in New York State.  In that State he grew to
manhood and received a common-school education.  He learned the clothier
trade when young, but did not follow it to any great extent, being engaged
in other enterprises from which he realized big returns.  He was also a
minister of local fame, although he did not follow it at nay time as a
business, being an agriculturist for the most part.  He was married in
Otsego county, N.Y. to Miss Margaret Miller, a daughter of Michael and
Elizabeth Miller, both of whom were natives of New York and of German
descent.  Mr. Miller resided in New York until after the death of his wife
after which he went to Missouri and made his home with his children, all of
whom had emigrated to different parts of the West.  He lived to be nearly
one hundred years old and during his latter days was remarkably sprightly,
retaining his faculities in a wonderful manner until his death, which
occurred in Missouri.  In 1835 Daniel Osborn and family removed to St.
Joseph county, Mich., settled on wild land purchased from the Government
and covered with timber, and on this erected a hewn-log cabin, which was
considered a very good house for those days.  Having spent all his money in
the purchase of the farm and getting settled and purchasing an ax handle
for a pattern, began making these out of the limited amount of hickory
timber on his place, for the market.  During his first winter in Mihcigan
he made and sold about $80 worth of these handles and afterward often
wondered how he would have supported his family in any other way during
that first season.  On this farm Mr. Osborn lived until his death in 1860,
being nearly sixty years of age.  During his residence in St. Joseph county
he was officially connected with the same at different time in various
capacities and discharged his duties in a satisfactory and creditable
manner.  His wife survives him and resides with a daughter in Goshen, being
now over ninety-four years of age.  Their son, Albert Osborn, subject of
this sketch, was born in the Empire State, Otsego county, April 2, 1824,
and is not only one of the foremost agriculturists of Elkhart county, Ind.,
but one of its most influential citizens.  He was but eleven years of age
when parents emigrated from his native State to St. Joseph county, Mich.,
and in the latter State he finished his growth and learned habits of
econonmy and industry.  He attended the common schools fo the county and
walked two and a half miles morning and evening to obtain a limited
education, always improving his time when in the school-room.  He was
married in St. Joseph county, February 2, 1845 to Miss Catherine Kirkwood,
a native of Greene County Ohio, born in 1824, and the daughter of William
and Elizabeth (Schover) Kirkwood, the former a native of the Buckeye State
and the latter of Pennsylvania.  Mrs. Kirkwood died when Catherine was quite
small and Mr. Kirkwood's death occurred in Ohio a number of years later.
After marriage Mr. Osborn settled in St. Joseph county, Mich., and a few
years afterward in Ohio.  In 1852 Mr. Osborn made a trip to California,
going across the plains, and returned in December, 1855, the trip proving
a profitable one.  In the spring of 1863 he came to Elkhart county, settled
in Jackson township, and two years later removed to Jefferson township.
There he settled on the farm where he now resides and has since been classed
among the representative men of the county.  In 1872 he was elected to the
Legislature and served two years.  In 1890 he was nominated on the
Democratic ticket for the Legislature and although the county has a
Republican majority of 300 or more, he was elected, thus showing his
popularity.  He was renominated last year (1892) by his party.  Mr. Osborn
is a very conscientious man in all that perains to his official life and
work and votes for the best interests of the people, regardless of party
affiliations.  He is an upright, honorable man and is popular in his county
regardless of party.  He has never sought office, never solicited a vote,
his nominations and elections coming unsolicited.  Mr. Osborn has a farm of
200 acres of well-improved land, is progressive and enterprising, and one
of the properous men of his section.  He recently deeded on and superintends
the homestead.  He was born in St. Joseph county, Mich., February 2, 1846,
and passed his boyhood days on the farm.  He came to Jefferson township,
Elkhart county, Ind., with his parents in 1865 and there has made his home
since.  He was educated in the public schools and when he decided to take
unto himself a wife he selected Miss Josephine Chamberlain, a native of
Goshen, Ind., born August 8, 1853, and the daughter of Smith and Elizabeth
(Lathrop) Chamberlain, the former a native of New Jersey and the latter of
Ohio.  Mr. and Mrs. Osborn are the parents of two children: Frank A. and
Albert S.  Mr. Osborn is trustee of the township, has held that position
for four years, and is an energetic young man, a successful farmer, and a
leader in the Democratic party in Jefferson township.  He is a member of
the Farmer's Alliance.  His mother died January 8, 1891.  She was an
excellent woman and had many warm friends.


Alexander Osborn Rev. War


        

Pension Papers


BLWt 40711-160-55
?           Served as Col. in the Rowan Regiment, NC Troops in the Rev.
2/13/1786   Married Eleanor Lemmon in Mecklenburg Co., NC
1828        Died.
7/10/1855   Wife Eleanor allowed 160 acres bounty land on Warrant #40711,
                on her application executed 7/10/1855, at which time she was
                resident of Pontotoc Co., MS, age 90.

            It is stated that they raised a family of children, but names
            are not given.  A letter of inquiry to the Bureau of Pensions
            states Alexander Osborn had son James.


Bio. of Alexander Osborne-919


   Historical Sketches of North Carolina from 1584 to 1851, John
   Hill Wheeler, Philadelphia, Lippencott, Grambo, 1851.  Republished by
   Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1974.
   Page 216.  (transcript)

   ALEXANDER OSBORNE, who resided in Iredell County, when Rowan County, was
a native of New Jersey, and moved to Iredell about 1755.  He was a Colonel
under the Colonial Government, and as such marched in 1768, with a Regiment
of Rowan troops, to Hillsboro' to aid Governor Tryon to suppress the
Regulators.  His wife was a Miss McWhorter.  He and his wife died the same
day, and were buried at Centre Church.  They left one son,

   ADLAI, who was educated at Princeton College, where he graduated in 1768.
He was Clerk of the Court for Rowan under the royal rule, and continued
after Independence until 1809.  He was a man of fine literary attainments,
the firm friend of education, and one of the first Trustees of the
University.  He died in 1815, leaving a large family, among whom was Spruce
McCay Osborne, who was a graduate of Chapel Hill in 1806; studied medicine,
entered the army as surgeon, and was killed at the massacre at Fort Mimms;
and Edwin Jay Osborne, who was distinguished as a lawyer of eloquence and
learning, and was the father of James W. Osborne, Esq., the present
Superintendent of the U.S. Branch Mint at Charlotte.


Bio. of Alexander Osborne-919


   A History of Rowan County, North Carolina, Rev. Jethro Rumple,
   Salisbury, NC, J.J. Bruner, 1881.  Page 123.  (transcript)

ALEXANDER OSBORNE
was born in New Jersey in 1709, and came to Rowan County about 1755.  He
settled on the headwaters of Rocky River, and called his place "Belmont."  A
neighbor of his selected for residence the name of "Mount Mourne," after a
mountain in Ireland.  Another, not to be outdone in names called his place
"Purgatory."  These names are still familiar to the people of that section.
Osborne was a colonel in the Colonial Government, and a man of influence in
his day.  He married Agnes McWhorter, the sister of the Rev. Dr. McWhorter,
for some time president of Queens Museum, in Charlotte.  Their place was the
home of the early traveling missionaries to the South.  Here the Rev. Hugh
McAden stopped, in 1755, and preached at the "New Meeting House" nearby
(Center).  Here about the same time was established the "Crowfield Academy,"
where David Caldwell taught a few years later.  In Center Church yard is a
double headstone, telling the inquirer that Alexander Osborne died on the
eleventh day of July, 1776, and his wife, Agnes, two days later.  He
probably never heard of the Declaration of Independence, made seven days
before his death.  He had gone to a brighter world, where the alarms of war
never come.  These parents left two children -- Adlai Osborne and Jean
Osborne.  Adlai was graduated at Princeton College in 1768.  His name
appears as Clerk of the Rowan County Court under the Royal Government, and
he held that post in the New Government until 1809.  He died in 1815.  Among
his children were two sons whose names are distinguished.  The one was
Spruce Macay Osborne, who was graduated at the University of North Carolina
in 1806, became a surgeon in the army and was killed in the War of 1812, at
the massacre of Fort Mimms.  The other son, Edwin Jay Osborne, the father of
the late Hon. James W. Osborne, of Charlotte, was himself an eminent lawyer,
distingnished for his learning and eloquence.  Intimately connected with the
Osborne family, was the family of

MOSES WINSLOW
   Benjamin Winslow or Winsley, as it was first written, obtained a grant of
eight hundred and twenty-five acres of land, "on both sides of the South
Fork of Davises Creek -- waters of Catawba River," under date of May 11,
1757.  A still earlier grant to Benjamin Winslow, under date of March 25,
1752, is for five hundred and eighty-seven acres, in the same neighborhood,
adjoining the lands of John McConnell.  This is described as lying in Anson
County, Parish of -----. This was before Rowan erected into a county.  In
1758, Benjamin Winslow, Sr., made a deed of gift to his son, Benjamin
Winslow, Jr., of five hundred and thirty-five acres, adjoining the lands of
Hugh Lawson, Patrick Hamilton, Mrs. Baker, and Moses White.  From these
records we get a glimpse of families residing in the neighborhood.  The
first Moses White emigrated from Ireland about 1742, and married the
daughter of Hugh Lawson, named above James White, son of the above couple,
and the eldest of six brothers, was a soldier of the Revolution, but moved
to East Tennessee in 1786, and was one of the original founders of the now
flourishing city of Knoxville.  He was distinguished for his bravery,
energy, and talents, and was a brigadier-general in the Creek War.  His
illustrious son, Hugh Lawson White, was a Judge of the Supreme Court of
Tennessee, a Senator of the United States, president of the Senate, and in
1836 a candidate for President of the United States.  His remains sleep
peacefully under the vines and grass of the churchyard of the First
Presbyterian Church of Knoxville.
   From these deeds, and other sources, we learn that Benjamin Winslow had
three children -- Benjamin, Moses, and Mary.  Of these we propose to record
a few facts.
   Alexander Osborne and Benjamin Winslow were near neighbors, living only
two or three miles apart.  As a matter of course their boys, Moses and
Adlai, were early companions and associates.  Adlai Osborne had a fair young
sister -- pretty Jean Osborne, the rose of Belmont. It was the same old
story, told under the leafy oaks of Rowan, and pretty Jean Osborne became
the bride of young Moses Winslow.  This was in 1760.  They settled upon some
of the Winslow lands, according to the custom of the day; for the original
settlers, tinctured with European notions, rarely gave land to their
daughters, but divided the inheritance among the sons.  The home of this
couple was not far from Center Church -- the property owned by the late
Sidney Houston, Esq.  For sixteen years their home was without children.
But in the eventful year of 1776 came the first child, a daughter whom they
named Dovey.  She grew up to be a famous beauty and belle of that region.
Her heart was at length won by Dr. Joseph McKnitt Alexander, son of John
McKnitt Alexander.  Her life was not a long one, but she left one son, Moses
Winslow Alexander, who lived about ten miles north of Charlotte on the
Statesville Road.  Some of his children are still living.
   On the first day of February, 1771<sic>, Cornwallis' troops crossed the
Catawba River and marched towards Salisbury.  In their march several houses
were burned down.  When they reached the house of Moses Winslow, knowing
that he was prominent man, a member of the Provincial Congress, and on the
Rowan Committee of Safety, the soldiers applied the torch to his residence.
At the same time some ruffian soldiers were endeavoring to cut from Mrs.
Winslow the capacious outside pockets, so fashionable in that day, in which
she had deposited some of her household valuables.  While she was helplessly
submitting to the indignity Lord Cornwallis himself rode up, and in
obedience to the instincts of an English gentleman ordered them to desist,
and to extinguish the fire kindled against the house.
   Moses Winslow lived to be eighty-three years of age.  He and his wife
sleep in the graveyard of Center Church, where her father and mother are
resting side by side.
   Besides their beautiful daughter, Dovey, they had two other daughters,
named Cynthia and Roscinda.  The reader may have remarked that while these
venerable pioneers were apt to name their sons after one of the patriarchs,
prophets, or twelve apostles, with now and then a selection from the kings
of England, they gave poetical or fanciful names to their daughters --
Cynthia, Roscinda, Lillis, or Juliette.  Cynthia Winslow was married to
Samuel King, and was the mother of the well-known and talented Junius and
Albert King.  Roscinda Winslow married her cousin, William J. Wilson, and
their daughter, Mary Wilson, became the wife of Ezekiel Polk -- the
grandfather of the President, James Knox Polk.  Our illustrious North
Carolina statesman, the late Hon. William A. Graham, was also a descendant
of Mary, the sister of Moses Winslow.  So likewise was Col. Isaac Hayne, of
Charleston, with numerous other prominent and influential citizens.  The old
homesteads have fallen to ruins, and the plowshare of strangers, who never
heard the names of these noble old families, runs smoothly over the ground
where their altar fires once burned brightly.  Emigration has borne them
away, and in the new States the old names are found.  But North Carolina
should treasure up their history as an incentive to noble deeds in the days
of trial yet to come.

Page 248.  Information on the massacre at Fort Mimms.
   While the war was raging on the northern frontier, the Creek Indians in
Georgia and Alabama took up arms against the white settlers.  The celebrated
Tecumseh made a visit to the Southern Indians in the spring of 1812, and
excited them to resistance.  The white inhabitants on the Alabama River, in
August, 1813, having taken refuge in Fort Mimms, in the Tensaw Settlement,
were attacked by the Indians, under their chief, Billy Weatherford, and out
of the three hundred men, women, and children there assembled, only
seventeen escaped.  This was August 30, 1813.  In this massacre, Dr. Spruce
Macay Osborne, son of Col. Adlai Osborne, then a surgeon in the army, was
killed.  This unprovoked massacre aroused the whole country, and an army of
thirty-five hundred men was raised, chiefly in Tennessee, and placed under
the command of Gen. Andrew Jackson.


Bio. of Alexander G. Osburn-2387


   History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Eckley and
   Perry, Chicago and New York, The Lewis Publishing Co., 1921.
   Page 913.  (transcript)
   [See a bio. of John W. Osburn-2386]
   [See another bio. of John W. Osburn-2386]
   [See the bio. of Alexander G. Osburn-2387]
   [See the gen. of Samuel Osborn-2388]

   Alexander G. Osburn is an honored scion of a representative pioneer family
that was founded in Harrison County more than a century ago, and in all of
the relations of life he has effectively upheld the high prestige of the name
which he bears.  He was born in Archer Township, this county, April 10, 1857,
and he is now numbered among the progressive and successful exponents of
agricultural and livestock industry in Franklin Township, where his activities
are staged on the fine old homestead farm which his wife received as a
heritage from her father.
   The lineage of the Osburn family traces back to staunch Scotch origin.
His European ancestors were among those who, in the early days, left their
native Scotland in order to escape religious intolerance and became numbered
among the large number of co-religionists from Scotland who settled in the
north of Ireland and developed the strong Presbyterian element in that section
of the Emerald Isle.
   Samuel Osburn, great-grandfather of Alexander G. Osburn, was born in County
Derry, Ireland, and there was solemnized his marriage to Susanna Garven, their
children having been several in number.  In the seventeenth century Samuel
Osburn came with his family to America and settled in Westmoreland County,
Pennsylvania, where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives and
where he not only aided in development and progress but also participated in
the early conflicts with hostile Indians.  His son Alexander, founder of the
family in Harrison County, Ohio, was born on the 14th of May, 1785, and became
identified with pioneer farm enterprise in the old Keystone State, where, on
the 10th of May, 1808, he wedded Miss Mary Barnes, daughter of James and Mary
Barnes, who had come to Pennsylvania from their native Ireland.  Alexander and
Mary Osburn became the parents of six children, and early in the year 1816 the
family home was established in a pioneer log cabin on an unreclaimed farm in
Athens Township, Harrison County, Ohio.  Here Alexander Osburn girded himself
for the herculean task of developing a productive farm in the midst of the
forest wilds, and increasing prosperity attended his labors with the passing
years.  His devoted wife here passed away January 5, 1824, aged forty-three
years.  Later he married Miss Martha Rankin, of Washington County,
Pennsylvania, and they became the parents of one son and one daughter.  In
1829 Alexander Osburn removed to the farm later owned by his son, Samuel, in
Archer Township, and there he remained until his death, at the venerable age
of eighty-two years, his second wife having passed away December 25, 1848.
Mr. Osburn was a man of progressiveness and became specially successful in the
growing of sheep, it being a matter of record that he introduced on his farm
the first flock of fine sheep in Archer Township.  He was a whig in politics
and was a most zealous and influential member of the Presbyterian Church in
Harrison County.  He served many ears as ruling elder in the church and was a
delegate to the Presbyterian General Assembly in the year 1846.  He enlisted
for service in the War of 1812, which, however, came to a close before he was
called into active service.
   John Osburn, son of Alexander and Mary (Barnes) Osburn, was born in
Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, on the 31st of December, 1815, and thus
was an infant at the time of the family removal to Harrison County, Ohio, in
the following year.  He was reared under the conditions marking the early
pioneer history of this county and as a young man he operated an old-time
woolen mill, in which he carded wool and also did some weaving, in Archer
Township.  About the year 1852 he established his home on a farm in Archer
Township, and there he continued his successful association with agriculture
and the live-stock business during the remainder of his active career.  He
lived a godly and righteous life, earnest in good works, and he remained on
his old home farm until his death, July 16, 1903, as one of the venerable
and honored pioneer citizens of the county.  His loved and devoted wife did
not long survive him, as she passed to the life eternal on the 7th day of
January of the following year.
   In the year 1836 was solemnized the marriage of John Osburn to Miss Sarah
Amspoker, who was born in Harrison County April 3, 1818, a daughter of Samuel
Amspoker, who was another of the sterling pioneers of the county.  Mr. and
Mrs. Osburn became the parents of ten children: Emma, Samuel A., Mary,
Matthew, Martha M., Charles, Susan J., Gretta, Alexander G. and John J.
The parents were most earnes and zealous members of the Presbyterian Church.
   Alexander G. Osburn did not fail to profit fully from the advantages
offered by the district schools of Archer Township, and for many years
thereafter he continued his active association with the work and management
of the old home farm.  After his marriage, in the year 1900, he and his wife
established their residence on their present fine farm in Franklin Township,
the same having been inherited by Mrs. Osburn, as noted in the opening
paragraph of this review.  Mr. Osburn has had thorough experience in all
practical details of farm industry and is recognized as one of the progressive
and substantial exponents of agricultural and live-stock enterprise in his
native county, where he and his wife have a circle of friends that is limited
only by that of their acquaintances.  Both are earnest members of the
Presbyterian Church at Deersville, and of its choir Mr. Osburn has been a
valued member for fully twenty years.  He has an excellent bass voice, and
his musical ability is further attested when his proficient manipulation
draws dulcet harmonies from the rare and finely preserved old melodeon which
is an interesting and prized antique in the family home, its appearance and
still pleasing musical response recalling memories of vanished days.
   On the 22d of February, 1900, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Osburn
to Miss Nora Howell, who likewise was born and reared in Harrison County and
who is a daughter of James and Margaret (Jamison) Howell, whose marriage was
here recorded on the 7th of December, 1843.  Mr. Howell was born Novenber 2,
1818, in the State of Maryland, and his wife was born February 14, 1825, a
daughter of William Jamison, who became an early settler in Harrison County.
When a young man James Howell engaged in farm enterprise in Stock Township,
Harrison County, whence he removed eight years later, in 1851, to Franklin
Township and established his residence on the fine old homestead farm now
representing the abiding place of Mr. and Mrs. Osburn.  Here Mr. Howell
remained until his death, May 25, 1899, and his cherished and devoted wife
passed away on the 12th of the following September, their marital
companionship, ideal in all relations, having covered a period of more than
half a century.  Both were earnest members of the Presbyterian Church.  Of
their children the firstborn, William J., died in early childhood; Mary J.
died at the age of eight years; Sarah Belle died in 1897; and Nora (Mrs.
Osburn) and Ardena are the surviving members of this honored family.  Mr.
and Mrs. Osburn have no children.


Bio. of Alfred Osburn - 3817


        History of Jackson County, Indiana, Chicago, Brant + Fuller, 1886.
        Page 730.  (transcript)

   ALFRED OSBURN, a leading citizen of Owen Township, Jackson Co., Ind.,
is the second in the family of John and Frances (Blount) Osburn.  He was
born near Plymouth, Washington Co., N.C., October 7, 1827, and is of
English descent.  At the age of seven years he became a resident of
Jackson County, where his home has ever since been.  He attended the
subscription and common schools of his day, and until the age of twenty-two
was engaged in farming.  At that time he began the wagon-maker's trade,
which he has followed to some extent nearly ever since.  Mary J. Fish
became his wife April 27, 1848, and none of their three children are now
living.  Mr. Osburn became a minister of the gospel in the Christian
Church, in 1879, at Clear Spring, where the society has a good building and
a large membership.  In politics he is a Democrat, and has been township
trustee, besides holding several other minor offices.  He enjoys the
confidence and high regard of all his neighbors and others who know him.


Bio. of Alfred Osborn-12104


   History of Guthrie and Adair Counties, Iowa, Springfield, IL,
   Continental Historical Co., 1884.  Page 1040.  (transcript)

   Alfred Osborn, a stock-raiser and farmer, and a prominent citizen of
Lincoln township, was born in Maine, August 22, 1815, his parents being J.
and Betsy (Jackson) Osborn, both natives of Maine.  In 1836 Alfred left
Maine and went to Illinois, but received his education in the district
schools at Bloomfield, and at the Redfield seminary.  He has taught school
in Maine, Illinois, and Penn township, Guthrie county, Iowa.  About the year
1840 he commenced mercantile life in Oquauqua, and from there went to
Greenbush, where he combined stock-dealing.  In 1866 he moved to Omaha,
Nebraska, where he remained till 1869, when he came to Adair county and
bought four hundred acres of land.  He also owns a good stock-farm in
Guthrie county, and raises beef cattle.  Mr. Osborn has been married three
times, once in Maine, once in Illinois, and to his present wife, December
25, 1852.  Her maiden name was Elizabeth Bingham, the daughter of Person and
Maria (Keen) Bingham.  They have eight children -- Alfred H., Charles S.,
Kittie, Herbert, Giles C., Willis, Fanny and Rufus S.  Mr. Osborn's father
removed to Illinois and eventually died there.  Mrs. Osborn's parents
removed to Iowa, where they both died.  Kittie Osborn, a daughter of Alfred,
is a school-teacher, having graduated at Ames, Iowa, in 1883.  In politics
Mr. Osborn is an active republican.


Allen C. Osborn-182 Family Bible


        Photocopy from Phyllis Reed of Lakewood, OH

Marriages
Allen C. Osborn to Lucinda Gains m. 5/19/1886 (7 pencilled in)
Allen C. Osborn b. 12/23/1839
Lucinda McCormac b. 12/22/1867

Births
Martha Ann Gains        9/19/1883
Ace Poter Osborn        2/17/1887 (8 pencilled in)
Richard T. Osborn       4/11/1890
Sary Lisebeth Osborn    3/7/1893
James Willey Osborn     3/5/1895
Arther Osborn           1/5/189x (original erased out, 7 pencilled in)
Vick Osborn             8/12/1902
Ollie Osborn            3/4/1906

Deaths
James Willey Osborn     3/23/1896
Arther Osborn           4/19/1900
Matta Souder            9/28/1905
Lucinda Osborn          5/22/1906
Ollie Osborn            7/6/1906
Allen C. Osborn         3/8/1916


Allen C. Osborn-182 Civil War


        

Pension Papers


12/23/1838      Allen Osborn born in Covington, Campbell Co., KY.  Parents
                Richard Osborn and Sarah Hayes.

2/21/1863       Marriage bond for Allen Osborn and Cassie Honaker.

9/16/1864       Enrolled as private in Co. "G" 53 Regt. KY Infantry Volunteers.

9/15/1865       Discharged at Louisville, KY.

7/31/1876       Wife Cassa Jane Honaker died in Owen Co., KY.  Date given
                by Allen Osborn.  Witnesses for dependents pension for son
                Vick Osborn give 8//1882 as the date of her death.

5/18/1886       Married Lucinda McCormack who had just been divorced and
                had previously been married to Samuel Gaines.  5/19/1886 is
                also given.

5/15/1891       Allen C. Osborn applies for an invalid pension, age 50.
                Pension claim rejected.

5//1906         Wife Lucinda McCormack died in Owen Co., KY.

3/1/1907        Allen Osborn applies for pension, age 68.  Allen Osborn
                personal description: 5'8", dark complexion, black eys,
                black hair.  Four children living: Nancy Jane Osborn b.
                12/31/1863, Asa Porter Osborn b. 2/17/1887, Richard Thomas
                Osborn b. 4/11/----, Sarah Elizabeth Osborn b. 3/7/1893.

3/8/1916        Died in Owen Co., KY, leaving no widow and one boy, Vick
                Osborn b. 8/12/1902 in Owen Co., KY.  Birthplace of both
                parents given as Owen Co., KY.

3/27/1916       A.P. Holbert apptd gdn of Vick Osborne, son of A.C. Osborne
                dec'd and under 14 years old.


Bio. of Alonzo Osborn


   Biographical and Genealogical History of Wayne, Fayette, Union and
   Franklin Counties, Indiana, Chicago, Lewis Publishing Co., 1899.
   Vol. 1, page 1014.  (transcript)
   [Son of Chatfield Osborn - 1723]

ALONZO OSBORN.
   For almost three-score years one of the leading and highly respected
citizens of Union county was Alonzo Osborn, who departed this life at his
old home in Boston township, May 11, 1895.  His loss has been deeply and
sincerely felt by the hundres of friends he possessed in this section, for
his noble qualities endeared him to all, and his manly, upright life was
above reproach.  To his children he left a better heritage than mere wealth,
-- the heritage of a blameless name and of a well spent life.
   The birth of Alonzo Osborn occurred March 9, 1837, on the farm which is
now owned and managed by his widow, and on this place nearly all of his
years were spent, in quiet, industrious cultivation of the soil.  His
parents were Chatfield and Nellie (Davenport) Osborn, whose marriage was
celebrated in this state.  Chatfield Osborn was a native of Long Island and
was brought to this township by his parents, Daniel and Jane Osborn, who
settled on Elkhorn river at an early day.  After the marriage of our
subject's parents they took up their abode upon a farm adjoining that of
Mrs. Osborn's father.  This tract of land has never since left the hands of
the Osborns save for a year or two during the civil war, and is now owned by
the widow of Alonzo Osborn.  Here he spent his youth, receiving thorough
training in agriculture, and at the time that he had arrived at his majority
his parents sold the farm and thenceforth resided in the town of Richmond,
Indiana.  Their daughter Rebecca is the widow of Wright Lancaster, and her
present home is on North Eighth street, Richmond, in which place her brother
William also lives.  Pamela became the wife of William Lancaster, and
removed to Davenport, Iowa, where they both died.  Scott is an Indianapolis
grocer.
   When he was twenty-one years of age Alonzo Osborn went to his grandfather
Osborn's farm, on Elkhorn river, and carried on the place until 1863, when
he purchased this homestead, his birthplace.  He bought but forty acres at
first, but his father became the purchaser of forty acres more and
eventually made a present of the same to our subject.  For some fourteen
years, during the winter season, Alonzo Osborn worked in the packing house
of Reed & Bieler, of Richmond, receiving five dollars per day for his
services.  The remainder of the year he industriously cultivated his farm,
which he materially improved in many ways.  His well directed efforts to
acquire a competence met with deserved reward, and when he died he was well
off in this world's goods.  Desiring to extend the boundaries of his farm,
he bought adjoining land, thus making the place one of one hundred and
ninety acres.  Besides this he owned another farm of seventy acres, in
Center township.  Especially during his later years he dealt considerably in
live stock, feeding, buying and selling sheep, cattle and hogs, and in this
way made a large income.  Honorable and upright in all his business
transactions he had many warm friends in the commercial world, as well as in
his native community, where he was highly esteemed by those who had known
him for a lifetime.  Broadminded and progressive in all his views, and a
Republican in politics, he took a deep interest in whatever concerned the
land of his birth and the world in general.  For several years prior to his
death he had been somewhat troubled with heart disease, and though his death
was sudden it was peaceful, being accompanied with little suffering, and his
wife and son were at his side.
   November 12, 1861, Alonzo Osborn married Martha J., daughter of Stephen
and Nancy J. (Levison) Farlow.  Mrs. Osborn was born in Union county,
Indiana, and when she was eleven years old her father settled on the farm
now carried on by Homer Farlow.  Stephen Farlow also was a native of Union
county, a son of John and Catherine (Miller) Farlow; and the mother of Mrs.
Osborn is likewise a native of Union county, being a daughter of James and
Nancy (Templeton) Levison.  Stephen and Nancy J. Farlow are still living,
their home being at Myers Chapel, Boston township.  The marriage of Alonzo
Osborn and wife was blessed with three children, but they are all married
and have homes of their own, and Mrs. Osborn still remains on her old
homestead, with a young lady as her companion.  She is a lady of most
estimable qualities and was an able assistant to her husband in all his
undertakings.  Their elder son, Harry E., lives in Dayton, Ohio.  He married
Ada Drayea, and their three children are Mattie, Maud and Alonzo.  Frank,
the younger son, resides on part of his father's old homestead.  His wife
was formerly Lizzie Miller, and their children are Nellie, Walter and
Gertrude.  Mary Etta is the wife of Charles Scearce, a farmer of Preble
county, Ohio; and her only child is Russell.


Bio. of Alpheus Osborn-1356


   History of Hendricks County, Indiana, Indianapolis, IN, B.F.
   Bowen & Co., 1914.  Page 536.  (transcript)  (bio. accompanied by
   portrait)

ALPHEUS OSBORN.
   It is with marked satisfaction that the biographer reverts to the life of
one who has attained success in any vocation requiring definiteness of
purpose and determined action.  Such a life, whether it be one of calm,
consecutive endeavor or of sudden meteoric accomplishments, must abound in
both lesson and incentive and prove a guide to young men whose fortunes and
destinies are still matters for the future to determine.  The subject of
this sketch is distinctively one of the representative agriculturists of
Hendricks county.  For a number of years he directed his efforts toward the
goal of success and by patient continuance in well-doing succeeded at last
in overcoming the many obstacles by which his pathway was beset, and is
today considered one of the foremost farmers of the county.
   Alpheus Osborn, the son of Charles and Asenath (Hyatt) Osborn, was born
in Randolph county, North Carolina, November 27, 1841.  Charles Osborn
received only three months' schooling, but from early boyhood was compelled
to work early and late upon the farm.  Upon his father's death he inherited
the home farm and continued the operation of this tract until his marriage.
In the fall of 1850, when Alpheus was only nine years of age, the father
came to Indiana, settling in Clay township, Hendricks county.  He had
learned the blacksmith's trade in his native state and had followed this
vocation for some time, but when he came to Hendricks county he discontinued
the blacksmithing business and devoted all of his attention to his
agricultural interests, which he continued to follow until his death.  He
married Asenath Hyatt, the daughter of Cuthbert and Hannah Hyatt, and to
this union there were born five children: Elizabeth, the wife of Robert B.
Reynolds; Hannah, who became the wife of John Newman; Cuthbert, who married
Minerva Grime, and, after her death, wedded Asenath Carter; Martha Sybil,
the wife of Jonathan Carter, and Alpheus.
   Alpheus Osborn received some education in North Carolina and completed
his educational training in this county, having come with his parents to
Indiana when he was nine years of age.  He worked on the farm with his
father until he was twenty-one years of age.
   Mr. Osborn was married to Emily L. Wheeler, the daughter of Alfred and
Lydia Wheeler, on August 25, 1866, and to this union there were born five
children: Allen E., who married Ella Phillips, and after her death, Leona
Smith, and is the father of one child, Dewy H.; Senith E. is the wife of
Elmer Wells, and they have two children, Ernest and Alpheus; Lydia J. is the
wife of Morton Rudd, and they are the parents of three children, Albert,
Lewis and Cecil; Albert married Blanche Wymer, and has one child, Lydia,
who first married Roy Cooper and second Marshall Adams, and has one child,
Leslie by the first marriage, and two children, Mildred and Josephine, by
the second marriage; Cecil married Ruth Gladstone; Mary, the fourth child of
Mr. and Mrs. Osborn, married Arelius Dilworth, and has two children, Herman
and Mary; Charles, the youngest child of Mr. and Mrs. Osborne married Helen
Daniels.
   The father of Mrs. Osborn was born in Guilford county, North Carolina,
where he married Lydia May, also a native of that state, and in the fall of
1864 they came to this county and located in Clay township, where they
reared a family of ten children: Mary, the wife of Peyton Cox; Malissa died
at the age of twenty-seven; Lula married Frank Beard; Alonzo married Matilda
Smith; Emma, the wife of Mr. Osborne; Irene, deceased; Francis, deceased;
Alfred, deceased; Addison, deceased; Corina married first, John Burk and
later John Pate, who is dead.  The paternal grandparents had seven children:
Jesse, who married Lydia Bales; Charles, father of Alpheus Osborne; Samuel
and Nathan, deceased; Daniel married first Lydia Walker and after her death
Lydia Anthony and Rachel and Lydia, deceased.  The paternal<sic>
grandparents reared a family of nine children: Austin, who married Miss
Armfield; Manloe, who married Phoebe Beard; William married Ruth Beard;
Elijah married Miranda Fry; Alfred, who married Lydia Macy; John, who
married Miss Tucker; Mary became the wife of Dicks Coffin; Cynthia, the wife
of Isaiah Dillon; Kazia, who married William Davis.
   Mr. Osborn has been a Republican ever since the founding of the party,
having cast his first vote for Abraham Lincoln.  Although he has been a
Republican for a half century he has never appealed to his party for an
office.  He is a member of the Friends church and takes an active interest
in all of the work of the church.  His has been a useful life and one which
reflects credit upon himself, and through all the years in which he has
lived in this county his record has been such as to win him a place among
the representative men of Hendricks county.


Bio. of Andrew J. Osborn


   Biographical and Genealogical History of Cass, Miami, Howard,
   and Tipton Cos., IN, Chicago, Lewis Pub. Co., 1898.
   Page 486.  (transcript)
   [See the bio. of Isaac P. Osborn]

ANDREW J. OSBORN, one of the representative citizens of Logansport, Indiana,
is a passenger conductor on the Chicago division of the Pan Handle Railroad,
and has for more than a score of years been engaged in railroading.
   Mr. Osborn is a native of Indiana.  He comes from a family which, several
generations ago, lived at Saybrook, Connecticut, and which furnished Wayne
county, Indiana, with some of its earliest and most prominent pioneer
settlers.  Isaac P. Osborn, the father of Andrew J., was born in Wayne
county in 1823, passed a long and useful life and died in 1895.  His
occupation was that of an honest tiller of the soil.  He married a Miss
Sarah L. Neese, who was of German descent and whose parents were residents
of Lancaster, Pennsylvania.  Her mother was before marriage a Miss Moore
and lived in the vicinity of Myerstown, Pennsylvania.  To them were born
two children, a son and daughter, the first named being the subject of this
review.  The daughter is married and lives in Madison county, Indiana.
   Andrew J. Osborn was born in Madison county, Indiana, in October, 1851,
and spent the first eighteen years of his life on his father's farm.  At
that age he turned his attention to railroading, beginning his career as
a brakeman on the Richmond division of the Pan Handle.  His earnest,
faithful service as such was appreciated from the first and promotion
followed.  Then he served as freight conductor.  In 1883 he was again
promoted, this time to the passenger service, and since that date has
occupied his present position.  He has been a resident of the city of
Logansport since 1872.
   Mr. Osborn is thoroughly devoted to his work and is seldom off duty.
Nevertheless his travels are not confined to the route over which his
daily work takes him.  His vacations are spent largely in travel.  Few men
in his branch of railroad service are more familiar with the country and
better acquainted with railroads and railroad men than he.  He is an
intelligent sight-seer and each point of special interest is gathered the
more closely to him by the possession of its photograph, his collection
embracing a large number of Rocky mountain and Pacific coast views.
   In October, 1876, in Logansport, Mr. Osborn married Miss Mary A. Kirkham,
daughter of John Kirkham and wife, the latter having been before marriage
a Miss Henry.  The Henrys are of Scotch origin.  Mr. and Mrs. Osborn have
two children, -- Harry and Ethel.
   Fraternally, our subject is a Knight of Pythias and a Mason.  In the
last named order he has advanced to the Knight Templar degree and is a
member of St. John Commandery, No. 24.


Bio. of Andrew Lawrence Osborn-9396


        Biographical History of Eminent and Self-Made Men of the
        State of IN, Cincinnati, Western Bio. Pub. Co., 1880.
        Vol. 2, Page 48.  (transcript)

OSBORN, ANDREW LAWRENCE, of Laporte Laporte County, Indiana was born in New
Haven County, Connecticut, May 27, 1815, and received his early education
in that state.  At the age of twenty he removed to Chicago, where he worked
at the printer's trade in the office of the Chicago "Democrat", and also
studied law under William Stewart, Ewq., afterwards postmaster in that city,
and now a resident of Binghamton, New York.  Mr. Osborn cast his first
presidential vote, at Chicago, for William Henry Harrison in 1836.  In the
same year he removed to Michigan City, Indiana, where he pursued and
finished his studies, working at his trade during the day and burning the
midnight oil inthe acquisition of legal lore.  In 1838 he formed a
copartnership with Judge Evarts in the practice of the law, which continued
until 1843.  In May, 1844, he removed to Laporte, and entered into
partnership with Judge John B. Niles.  In August of that year he was elected
a member of the popular branch of the state Legislature, and, after a
service of two assemblies, was elevated to the Senate, where he served three
years.  With this his political life ceased, although repeated and urgent
calls for further service in the political arena were frequently made upon
him.  In 1857 he entered upon judicial life.  He was elected Judge of the
Circuit Court for the Ninth Judicial Circuit of Indiana, and fulfilled his
duties with distinguished ability for thirteen years.  In 1872 he was
appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court of Indiana, his term expiring
January, 1875.  His opinions written during this time rank with the foremost
expressions of judicial opinion.  Upon retiring from the bench he once more
entered upon practice.  He now occupies the position of attorney for the
Michigan Central Railroad Company, having his office in Chicago.  Judge
Osborn has filled many other positions of trust in the state, and has gained
for himself that respect and honor which follow naturally in the course of
an upright, honest life.


Bio. of August Ausborn


   Past and Present of Calhoun County, Iowa, Chicago, The Pioneer
   Publishing Co., 1915.  Vol. II, page 153.  (transcript)

AUGUST AUSBORN.
   It is astonishing to witness the success of young men who have emigrated
to America without capital and who from a position of comparative obscurity
have worked their way upward to success.  This is true of August Ausborn,
who is successfully engaged in stock dealing and in conducting a harness
business in Yetter.  He is a native of Holstein, Germany, his birth having
there occurred October 6, 1871.  He is one of a family of twelve children,
of whom one is deceased, and of whom four are residents of America, born of
the marriage of Christian and Augusta (Blass) Ausborn.  The father, a stone
cutter by trade, passed away in the fatherland, April 22, 1915.
   In 1887, when a youth of sixteen years, August Ausborn emigrated to the
new world in company with an uncle, who established his home in Iowa.  Mr.
Ausborn remained in his uncle's home on year, working for him upon the farm
and later became a stock buyer in the employ of Louis Henderson at Rockwell
City.  In 1901 a partnership was formed between them, which existed for
three years, or until 1904.  Subsequently Mr. Ausborn has continued in the
stock business alone and in the spring of 1909 he purchased his present
harness establishment of Dennis Shea.  He keeps a large stock of all kinds
of harness and saddlery on hand and is at all times able to meet the growing
demands of his trade.  In addition to these business interests he is also
stockholder in the Farmers Grain Company and the State Savings Bank at
Yetter.
   On the 1st of June, 1905, Mr. Ausborn was married to Miss Helena Zierka,
a daughter of Theodore Zierke, who emigrated to this state from Germany and
for many years was engaged in farming in Logan township, Calhoun county, but
is now making his home in Rockwell City. To Mr. and Mrs. Ausborn have been
born four children, Glenn, Helen, Letha and Vendora.
   In his political views Mr. Ausborn is a republican.  He takes an active
part in publick affairs and has been a member of the city council since
Yetter was incorporated in 1904.  He has also served as school director and
for two years was president of the school board.  In his religious belief he
is a Lutheran and his life is in harmony with his profession.  The
superiority of business opportunities and advantages in America was a fact
recoginized by Mr. Ausborn and making every possible use of advantages as
they have come to him he has worked his way upward to success.