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Bio. of C.B. Osborn-14900


   History of Cass County, Iowa, Springfield, IL, Continental
   Historical Co., 1884.  Page 861.  (transcript)

   C.B. Osborn, the prominent furniture dealer of Atlantic, established his
business, first at the town of Lewis in February, 1866, but removed to
Atlantic in the fall of 1868, being among the pioneer business men of the
latter city.  His salesroom, one of the pleasantest in the place, is one
hundred feet long by twenty-four wide, with a work room 40x24, besides.  In
the second story, he has another room 24x50.  Mr. Osborn carries a large
stock of both fine and common furniture that will invoice upwards of $8,000.
He also carries an undertaking department, having almost a monoply of this
important branch of this business, although he takes no advantage of the
want of competition.  He owns a hadsome hearse, and attends to all details
of a funeral nature, personally.  C.B. Osborn is a native of New Haven
county, Connecticut, where he was born in 1840.  His parents were Amos and
Polly (Bristol) Osborn, both of them natives of the State of Connecticut.
He was reared to manhood there, and received a liberal education.  In 1860
he went to Illinois, and enlisted in the 134th Volunteer Infantry, in the
hundred day service.  He was stationed in Kentucky and Missouri, and while
in the latter State, participated in the defense made against Price's raid.
After leaving the service, Mr. Osborn went to Chicago to reside, and
remained there until 1866, when he came to Lewis, in this county.  On
arriving there, he embarked in the furniture business.  When the building up
of Atlantic commenced, he removed to this city, and has since been
prominently identified with its business interests.  He was united in
marriage at Chicago, in 1872, to Belle Tiffany, a native of Waukegan,
Illinois.  Two children have blessed their union.  Their names are Zeta and
Corrie.  He is prominently identified with the Masonic order, and is a
member of the Blue Lodge, Chapter and Commandery.  He also belongs to the
Knights of Pythias.  In 1880 and 1881, he held the office of Senior Warden
in the Blue Lodge, and has also held the office of Senior Deacon.  Mr.
Osborn is known as one of Atlantic's enterprising men, and is always among
the first in taking hold of anything looking to the advancement of the
city's interests.


Caleb Osborn-8853 Family Bible


        Osborne Family Records, Robert G. Osborn  (SLFHL 0540236)
        [See the Isaac Paul Osborne Family Bible]

Father:  Thomas Osborn          Mother: Elizabeth
Married: 1781 to Susannah Jewell
Born: 1751      Died: 1799, Lyons Farms, NJ
Children:
  a child  b. 1782
  Rhoda  b. 1782,  m. David Jones
  Rachel  b. 1782,  m. David Harrison
  Twins  b. 1787
  William  b. 1789,  m. Mary Kelley
  a child  b. 1792
  Jonathan  b. 1793,  m. Hannah Spinning
  Caleb J.  b. 1796,  m. Susan Peppard
  Susannah  b. 1799,  m. Caleb Duell
(From family Bible in possession of Royster McKee Osborn, age 80 (in 1966),
 426 Brandon St., Greensboro, NC)


Caroline M. Osborn - 3640 Marr. Notice


        California Information File  (SClPL)

Osborn, Caroline Matilda -- Goodrich, Samuel Wedding, Alta 1/9/1851  3-1
   "At San Jose, Dec. 20th, by the Rev. Charles Campbell, Mr. Samuel Goodrich
to Miss Caroline Matilda, youngest dau. of Jeptha and ---- Osborn all of that
place.  Quite a large number of guests assembled on the joyful occasion."


Bio. of Charles C. Osborn


   Quincy and Adams County, Vol. II, Chicago and New York, The Lewis
   Publishing Co., 1919.  Page 960.  (transcript)
   [See the bio. of H.S. Osborn]

   CHARLES C. OSBORN.  One of the oldest names of the commercial life of
Quincy is that of Osborn.  The Osborn family came here over seventy years
ago and they have been successively identified with milling, the coal
business, and other extensive affairs.
   The founder of the family was the late Henry S. Osborn, who was born in
London, England, in 1814.  He settled in Rochester, New York, in 1834, moved
in 1837 to Pike County, Ohio, where he was in the milling business, and in
1846 came to Quincy and erected the Eagle Mills.  He came to Quincy by way
of canal and river.  His partner in the Eagle Mills was John Wheeler.  Their
first plant was at the foot of Broadway on Front Street.  When the
Burlington Railroad was built to Quincy they moved their property to Second
Street and Broadway.  The mill was burned about 1855, and soon afterwards
the railway acquired the property for their present freight house.  About
that time Mr. Wheeler retired from the business.  Henry S. Osborn then
became interested in the coal business about 1859, and for many years was
president of the Quincy Coal Company, a wholesale and retail and mining
business.  The company had extensive mines at Colchester, Illinois, where
they sunk and drained thirty-one coal shafts.  The product from these mines
was widely distributed at Quincy and for many of the river boats then plying
up and down the Mississippi.  The mines were continued until they were
exhausted in 1912.  For many years the Quincy Coal Company has had its
offices at the foot of Broadway.  Henry S. Osborn continued the active
management of the business until his death in 1895, and he was then
succeeded by his son Charles C. Osborn, who finally sold his interests to
Mr. M.E. White.
   Henry S. Osborn married Sarah A. Carter. Henry S. Osborn was a republican
and served a number of years as alderman from the First Ward.  He and his
wife had two sons, William H., born in 1840 and Charles C., born in 1842.
   After selling his interest in the coal business Charles C. Osborn
retired, and is now spending his declining years in a comfortable home at
816 Spring Street.  He has always been one of the good and stanch citizens
of Quincy, and has contributed largely to the hospitals and other worthy
causes.  His brother William was for a number of years a Mississippi River
boatman and was clerk on the old "Divernon" running between St. Louis and
Keokuk.  He died in 1877, leaving a widow and two sons.
   On April 14, 1864, Charles C. Osborn married at Quincy Miss Mary Arthur,
who was born in St. Louis June 30, 1841.  They lived together a happy period
of half a century and on April 14, 1914, were privileged to celebrate their
golden wedding anniversary.  Mrs. Osborn died a few months later, in
November of the same year.  She was reared and educated in St. Louis.  Her
parents were natives of Ireland but were members of the Methodist Church.
Mr. and Mrs. Osborn had their church home in the Vermont Street Church for
many years.  Mrs. Osborn was a teacher of the primary department of the
Sunday school for twenty years.  For over a dozen years Mr. Osborn served as
trustee of the church.  When his wife died the church presented him and his
children with a splendid testimonial as to her long continued and faithful
membership.
   Mr. Osborn's oldest child is Charles A., born January 19, 1865.  He is a
resident of Quincy and married Olive Smith.  Frank W., the second son, was
born August 24, 1867, and is now in the real estate and loan business at
Kansas City under the firm name of Lemley and Osborn.  He married Jennie
Hull and they have a son, Arthur, born in 1900.  Alice Osborn, born May 24,
1872, is the widow of Mr. Hedges, and she and her daughter Mary E. Hedges,
now a student in the Quincy High School, reside with her father.  Mary Ann,
the youngest child, born November 24, 1876, is the wife of William R.
Lemley, of the firm Lemley & osborn at Kansas City.  Mr. and Mrs. Lemley
have two sons, Frank and Robert, both students in the Kansas City High
School.


Bio. of Charles W. Osborn-1207


   A Portrait and Biographical Record of Delaware and Randolph
   Counties, Ind., Chicago, A.W. Bowen & Co., 1894.
   Page 1335.  (transcript)

   CHARLES W. OSBORN, who owns and operates a good farm on section 16, West
River township, was born in Perry township, Wayne county, Ind., February 8,
1833, and is a son of Isaiah and Lydia (Worth) Osborn.  Matthew Osborn, a
native of England, was the founder of the family in America.  The
great-grandparents were Daniel and Margaret (Stout) Osborn, the former a
native of Sussex county, Del., and the latter of York county, Pa., where
their marriage was celebrated.  The grandfather, Charles Osborn, was born in
Guilford county, N.C., in 1775, and at the age of nineteen went to
Tennessee.  In 1798 he married Sarah Newman, daughter of John and Sarah
(Fielder) Newman, natives of England.  Charles was a farmer and preacher of
the Society of Friends.  Removing to Mr. Pleasant, Ohio, in 1816, he there
published the Philanthropist, the first abolition paper ever published in
the United States.  In 1819, he went to Wayne county, Ind., and laid ou the
town of Economy.  Subsequently, in 1842, he resided in Cass county, Mich.,
but his last days were spent in Porter county, Ind., where he died in 1850.
He was twice married and was the father of sixteen children, all of whom
reached mature years.  He traveled extensively as a minister of the gospel,
visiting every state where there were meeting of his denomination, much of
the time riding on horseback and preaching two or three times a day.  Mr.
Osborn spent the years 1832 and 1833 in Europe, engage in church work.  He
was a man of much more than ordinary ability, was prominent in abolition
work and was a leading citizen of this state.  A sketch of his life as an
anti-slavery worker has been published by the Indiana State Historical
society, prepared by the Hon. G.W. Julian.
   Isaiah Osborn was born in Knox county, Tenn., November 25, 1803.  Went
from there to Jefferson county, with his father, and thence to Mount
Pleasant, Ohio, in 1816, where he was put to the printing business.  In 1819
he went with his parents to Wayne county, Ind., worked on a farm till 1822,
when he went to Greenville, Tenn., and worked with Benjamin Lundy at
printing in the office of the Genius of Universal Emancipation.  Returning
to Indiana in 1825, he worked at printing at Centerville and Indianapolis
till 1828, when he went to Economy, taught school, served as justice of the
peace and was married to Lydia Worth, June 24, 1829.  He entered eighty
acres of land about this time, built a log cabin in the midst of the forest,
and began the development of a farm, upon which he lived till his death,
which occurred June 16, 1846.  His wife, the daughter of Job and Rhoda
(Macy) Worth, was born November 1, 1805, and came to this state at the age
of eighteen, residing with her mother in West River township, Randolph
county, teaching school up to the time of her marriage.  She is still living
in Dunreith, Ind., with her son-in-law, at the advanced age of eighty-eight
years, her mental faculties but little impaired.  Both were members of the
Friends' church, both were elders, and both served as clerks of their
monthly meetings (for formerly men and women held separate business
meetings) and the office of clerk included that of presiding officer.
   Of the eight children of the family Caroline is the wife of William
Edgerton, a successful farmer of Henry county.  She is a woman of ability,
is a member of the Friends' church and of the W.C.T.U.; is president of the
Organizer Publishing company, of Indianapolis, the state organ of the union,
conducted and worked entirely by women.  She is also a member of the board
of managers of the Hadley Industrial School for Girls, also conducted by
women alone; is state superintendent of temperance literature for the union
and is actively engaged in temperance and philanthropic work.  Rhoda
received a good education in the common schools, at the Union Literary
institute in Randolph county, and at Antioch college, Ohio.  She was a
successful teacher and died in 1859, at the age of twenty-four.  Edmund is
a farmer of Wayne county residing on the old homestead.
   Laurinda received a good common school education.  For more than twenty
years she was a successful teacher in the public and private schools,
teaching in Randolph, Wayne, Henry and Union counties.  In 1876 she married
Thomas Ward, a banker of Winchester.  She is a member of the Friends'
church, also of the W.C.T.U., and is actively engaged in temperance,
benevolent and church work.
   Narcissa obtained a fair education in the public schools and at select
schools at Economy and Fountain City.  She also was a teacher, and was
married to Henry Charles, a farmer of Wayne county.  She died in 1878 at the
age of thirty-seven years.  Martha and Eunice died in 1848, aged five and
two years respectively.
   Charles W. Osborn was learned to spell and read by his mother as she sat
him at the head of her spinning wheel while she worked to clothe her family.
Until large enough to work on the farm he attended the denominational or
Friends' school under the control of the monthly meeting.  For in early
times, before the public school system was developed, the Friends always
built a church and a school house side by side.  His father died when he was
thirteen years old, and the work of the farm devolved on him, so that he
seldom got more than two months' schooling out of the year till he was
twenty years old.  In 1853 he attended the Union Literary institute, a
manual labor school in the eastern part of Randolph county, where students
could work out a part of their board and tuition.  He was in the school
twelve months under Prof. E. Tucker, meeting most of his own expense and a
part of his sister Rhoda's, by his own labor and keeping up his studies.
For four months he had the entire superintendency of the work on the farm,
the providing for the forty boarders, attending to the correspondence,
keeping the books, etc., in addition to five studies and hearing a class
recite each day.  Seven years' experience and training at home had made it
possible to attend to such business, and it was any way to get an education
so it was honest and honorable.  Leaving the institute he taught two terms
of school in Wayne county; one in Henry county, and then raised a crop on
the farm, and entered Antioch college in the fall of 1856.  Here he
supported himself in part by sweeping the floors of the college and
dormitory.  A portion of his earning heretofore were given to his mother for
support of the family.  He was at Antioch six months, then returned to Wayne
county, and farmed in the summer and taught school in the winter, and in the
spring of 1858 married Asenath W. Wood, daughter of Jacob and Phoebe
(Pickering) Wood of Henry county, and continued the operation of the old
homestead, teaching in the winter till 1860, when he removed to the farm
where he now resides.  He has taught school for ten years, proving an able
and efficient instructor.  His farm of sixty acres is a valuable and
desirable home, highly cultivated and improved.
   Mr. Osborn was an abolitionist from boyhood, as were his parents before
him.  His father cast the only vote for James G. Birney in 1840 that was
cast at Economy.  As the republican party was pledged to the non-extension
of slavery, C.W. Osborn was identified with it from the first, and got leave
of absence from Antioch college to go home and cast his first presidential
vote for John C. Fremont.  When the slaves were liberated and their rights
secured by constitutional law, he turned his attention to the prohibition of
the drink traffic.  On becoming convinced that it could not be effected
through the republican party, he assisted, in 1884, in the organization of
the prohibition party in Indiana, and has since voted with that party and
labored for its success.
   Unto Mr. and Mrs. Osborn have been born six children -- Arthur W., who is
a well informed man from extensive reading and close observation, is engaged
in making tubular wells and erecting wind mills; Daniel Worth is a
successful farmer and stock grower of Washington township; Laura Cordelia,
died at the age of eleven years, Edgar C., at the age of two years, and
Carrie while an infant; William E., is at home attending school and working
on the farm during vacation.  The parents are active and faithful members of
the Society of Friends, of which Mr. Osborn is a local preacher.  For
eighteen years he served his monthly meeting as clerk and presiding officer.
He has been prominent in Sabbath school and temperance work, and has done
everything in his power to advance the cause of christianity.  His life has
been an exemplary one, and the honorable, upright career of this worthy man
is well deserving of emulation.


Claibourn Osborne Rev. War


Pension Papers

        S5866  (M804-1850, starts frame 887)

Claibourn Osborne appeared on 1/7/1833 in Charlotte Co., VA County Court
to apply for Rev. War Pension.  He was drafted in the winter of 1779
in Charlotte Co., VA, and served 5 months.  In the company commanded by Capt.
Mack Goode + Lieut. Langston Bacon.  Attached to the Regiment commanded by
Col. John Rogers and marched to Salsberg, NC.  In the spring of 1781 he was
again drafted and served 6 weeks in NC in the company commanded by Capt.
James Holloway.  The applicant was born in Amelia Co., VA in 1757.  His father
moved to SC.


Bio. of Clarence E. Osborne-5815


        Indiana and Indianans, Jacob Piatt Dunn, Chicago & New York,
        American Hist. Soc., 1919.  Vol. 3, page 1509.  (transcript)
        [Son of Jason Osborn - 2140]

   CLARENCE EUGENE OSBORNE has for many years been one of the useful
public-spirited citizens of the Wanatah Community in LaPorte County.  The
family is an old and honored one in northern Indiana, especially in Porter
and LaPorte Counties.
   His grandfather Jonathan Osborne, Sr. was a native of North Carolina,
and married Rachel Small, a native of South Carolina.  Jonathan was a small
boy when his family moved to Ohio and settled near Chillicothe. From there
after his marriage he moved to Wayne County, Indiana, and in 1834 bought at
a government land sale 120 acres in Clinton Township of LaPorte County.  He
improved this property and spent the rest of his days there.  He and his
wife had a large family of children, including David, Nathan, John, William,
Jason, Jonathan, Jr., and Eli.
   Jason Osborne, father of Clarence E., was born in West Virginia, but grew
up in LaPorte County and was trained to the life of a farmer.  He bought
farms in Clinton Township and also acquired other land across the county
line in Essex Township of Porter County.  He was a general farmer and stock
raiser there until about fifty years of age, and passed the last three years
of his life in Wanatah.  He married Eliza Graham, a native of West Virginia.
She is still living in Wanatah, mother of six children: Frank E., of LaPorte;
Charles S., of Chicago; Clarence E., Carlton R., of Oklahoma; William G.,
of Gary, Indiana; and George, who died at the age of eighteen years.
   Clarence Eugene Osborne was born on a farm in what was then Essex but is
now Morgan Township in Porter County.  He attended the rural schools during
his youth, also the LaPorte Business College, and was a pupil in Valparaiso
University.  For two years after his marriage he farmed a part of the old
homestead and then removed to Wanatah and engaged in the livery business
for ten years.  Since then he has conducted a well established real estate
and insurance business.
   At the age of twenty-two Mr. Osborne married Dee N. Higgins.  Her father,
James H. Higgins, was born near Danville, Indiana, and for many years was
a merchant at New Winchester, Indiana, later at Francisville, and then
removed to Wanatah and was agent of the Monon Railroad for twenty-five years,
until he was retired on a pension from the railroad company.  He dieda few
weeks after giving up his duties.  He married Clara J. Dodge, who was born
near Coatsville, Indiana.
   Mr. and Mrs. Osborne have one daughter, Mabel Florence, the wife of
Oliver M. Bailey.  Mr. and Mrs. Bailey have a son named Stephen Eugene.  Mr.
and Mrs. Osborne are members of the Christian Church.  Mr. Osborne served
several years as assessor of Cass Township and has been chairman of the
Wanatah Town Board and for two terms deputy sheriff.  He has used all his
influence and resources to keep his locality in line with the strictest
standards of patriotism during the war.  He has given his asistance to many
war activities, and during 1918 was assistant deputy food commissioner of
LaPorte County.


Bio. of Clarence W. Osborne


   Biographical and Genealogical History of Wayne, Fayette, Union and
   Franklin Counties, Indiana, Chicago, Lewis Publishing Co., 1899.
   Vol. 1, page 616.  (transcript)  (Bio. accompanied by portrait)

PROFESSOR CLARENCE W. OSBORNE.
   Professor Clarence W. Osborne, county superintendent of the Union county
schools, was born in Union county, Indiana, near the town of College Corner,
Ohio, June 5, 1853, a son of William W. and Huldah (Tucker) Osborne.  His
father was born in England and was the son of a prominent English silk
manufacturer who with his family emigrated to Toronto, Canada, where he
engaged extensively in the real estate business.  William W. Osborne was
then but a youth.  He completed an excellent education and mastered the
carpenter's trade under the rigid Canadian law governing the same.  While
yet a young man he left Toronto and took up his residence in College Corner,
Ohio, where he married Huldah Tucker.  He located near the town, in Indiana,
and taught school for some years in Ohio and Indiana, gaining a high
reputation as an educator.  In the vacation he contracted or did extra work
in the line of his trade.  Subsequently he purchased a farm in Union county,
Indiana, and devoted his time to agricultural pursuits.  He died in 1866.
His widow survived him twenty-nine years and devoted herself to the
interests of her children, giving careful attention to their education.
They had two sons and four daughters, but the younger son died in childhood.
The four sisters, however, survive, and all became successful teachers.
   At the age of eighteen years Clarence W. Osborne entered Miami
University, at Oxford, Ohio, and took two years of the course.  He then
spent the succeeding two years as a student in the National Normal
University, at Lebanon, Ohio, meantime operating his mother's farm.  He
graduated at the commercial course, but would have had to continue his
studies for at least another term of eleven weeks in order to complete the
classical course, and a ripening harvest demanded his attention on the farm.
Subsequently he began teaching, and after four years' service in the
district schools was for one year principal of the West College Corner
school.  He was then elected county superintendent of the public schools of
Union county, in 1881, and has been re-elected at every election since, and
has held the office continuously for more than eighteen years.  No other
county superintendent in this state has served for so long a time.  He has
attended as a member thirty-six County Superintendents' State Associations
and eighteen State Teachers' Associations.  He has conducted nineteen county
institutes and all have, by general consent, been conceded to be of the
highest character.  He has held two hundred and eighteen teachers'
examinations, and attended about one hundred and fifteen township and
corporation commencements.  Since coming into office Mr. Osborne
matriculated in the National University, at Chicago, and fulfilled its
conditions by correspondence, receiving in due succession the degrees of
A.B., A.M. and Ph.D.  He has made a model official, and, keenly alive to the
educational interests of the county, has been instrumental in advancing the
cause of public education along all lines.  He is the soul of geniality and
is greatly esteemed by the teachers, pupils and the general public, and is
one of the most practical, efficient and best known educators in this part
of the state.  Within his term of office the County Superintendents' State
Association has honored him with the secretaryship and the presidency of the
association and with positions on several important committees.  The
Professor is a member and has passed all the chairs of Tallawanda Lodge,
Knights of Pythias, of College Corner.


Clyde R. Osborn-3893 Delayed Birth


Registration


Clyde Randolph Osborn, born Sept. 28, 1879
White, male, born Daviess, MO
Father: Robert Sanford Osborn, born MO
Mother: Nancy Agnes Randolph, born IL
Signed Clyde R. Osborn, address Gallatin, MO.

Supporting affidavit by Alice Reid, age 78 who states Clyde R. Osborn was
born in Daviess Co., MO on Setp. 28, 1879.  She is his half-sister.
Her address is Winston, MO.  Sworn to 9 March 1942.

Additional information with delayed birth registration:
Registrant's Father was Robert Sanford Osborn, who was born in Boone, Co., MO,
  on Oct. 30, 1826, and who died in Daviess Co., MO on Aug. 27, 1907
and his mother was Nancy Agnes Randolph-Reid, who was born in Sangamon Co., IL,
  on Sep. 11, 1842, and who died in Winston, Daviess Co., MO on March 12, 1927.

  Robert Sanford Osborn and Nancy Agnes Randolph-Reid were marr. in Daviess
  Co., MO on Feb. 2, 1873.

  Clyde R. Osborn and Maud S. Napier were marr. in Hamilton, Caldwell Co., MO
    on Nov. 26, 1902.
  Riley Randolph Osborn, born July 12, 1905, in Winston, Daviess Co., MO.
  Jean Napier Osborn, born Aug. 7, 1914, in Winston, Daviess Co., MO.
  Beth Elaine Osborn, born Dec. 7, 1916, in Winston, Daviess Co., MO.