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Bio. of John Ozbun-1759


   History of Randolph County, Indiana, E. Tucker, Chicago,
   A.L. Kingman, 1882.  Page 472.  (transcript)

   JOHN OZBUN, Farmland, born May 19, 1828, in this county.  His father
John, was orginally<sic> from North Carolina, where he was born about 1795.
Mr. Ozbun was married to Miss C. Hockett, who was born August 28, 1835.  Mr.
Ozbun received a good common school education, considering the early
disadvantages of the pioneer period.  He has seven children living -- Lydia
J., Lindley M., Emm, Eli, William C., Charles H. and Wesley.  He has
followed teaching school for a number of years during the winter season,
farming in the summer, and a minister in the Church of Friends.  He is
considered an honest, upright, true man and friend.


John Osborn-137 Family Bible


        From a genealogy in the Osborn family records file at the Owenton,
        KY Public Library.

Bible of John Osborn, sent by Mildred Harrod of Ind.
    John Osborn b Oct. 11, 1773, d Sept. 6, 1863.
married Nancy Robertson April 26, 1798.  His first wife having died July
13, 1825, he married Wlizabeth<sic> Foster<sic> May 27, 1827 (Owen Co.)
Children:
    Jesse b Nov. 9, 1800
    Sally b Nov. 3, 1802  md Bahlam<sic> Lett
    Luranis b Dec. 9, 1805  md John Cox
    Rebecca b July 13, 1808 md Henry Cobb
    Catherine b May 28, 1811 md Andrew Bennett
    Elizabeth b Dec. 22, 1813 md Leven Malcolm and Simeon Robinson
    Nancy b Aug. 8, 1816 md Williamson Dixson
    Polly b July 25, 1820 md John Cox and Mr. Wilson


Bio. of John Osborn-13725


        The History of Warren Co., Ohio, W.H. Beers & Co., Chicago, 1882.
        Page 768.  (transcript)
        [See the obit. of John Osborn-13720]

   JOHN OSBORN(deceased) was born in Lebanon, Warren Co., Ohio, in 1805;
his father, John Osborn, came to Lebanon in 1796, and settled on a farm
adjoining the eastern corporation of Lebanon, where he, in 1808, built a
house, which is still standing and which is yet considered a good residence.
He was with Daniel Boone when that famous Indian hunter discovered Mammoth
Cave in Kentucky, to which state Mr. Osborn had moved from Virginia when
very young.  Our subject's mother, Mary (Clark) Osborn, was a daughter of
Rev. Daniel Clark, a pioneer Baptist preacher, who preached in Lebanon about
the year 1800.  Our subject remained on the farm until 14 years of age in
the meantime obtaining a limited education by attending the Lebanon schools
during the winter months.  After leaving the farm, he learned and worked at
pottery-making several years, after which he conducted a manufactory of that
ware for several years more.  At the death of his father, he purchased the
interests of the other heirs in the estate and moved to the old farm, which
his estate still owns and which he farmed until he retired and moved to
Lebanon.  He traveled through the West from 1828 to 1854, and also spent
eight years in Springfield, Ohio, where he worked at his trade.  In 1827,
he married Miss Amy Ann Hackney, daughter of Obadiah Hackney, a prominent
plow manuufacturer of Lebanon.  She died in 1855, after having borne him
eleven children, four of whom still survive.  In 1856, he was again married,
to Mrs. Emeline (Dee) Grow, by whom he had no children.  Mr. Osborn died
in Lebanon Dec. 26, 1881.  He was a careful, frugal and economical man,
and had at his death amassed a considerable fortune.  He was a zealous
member of the M.E. Church, in which he was for many years and up to the
time of his death an officer.  His widow and a grandchild are the only
members of his family living in Lebanon.


Obit. of John Osborn-13720


   The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. XIII,
   Oct 1849.  Page 373-374.  (transcript)  (contributed by Kay Staub)
   [See the bio. of John Osborn-13725]

Osborn, John, Louisiana, a. 95.  Mr. Osborn went to Cincinnati six years
before any house was erected on the site where the city now stands, passed
down the river in a flat boat in company with seven others, on an exploring
expedition, and, with his brother and Daniel Boone, first discovered the
Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, by tracking a wounded bear, the party had shot,
into the mouth of the cave.  Mr. Osborn rambled over the Western country
when there was scarcely a cabin to be seen in the vast wilderness.  He
purchased 120 acres of land in Warren County, Ohio, adjoining where the town
of Lebanon now stands, for sixteen dollars, and has resided there ever since.
The land is now valued at $16,000.  He mad a visit to his son, the owner of
a large plantation on the Lower Mississippi, where he died.-- New York
Century, June 11.

Obit. of John Osborn-1655


   The Illiana Gen., V17#1 from the Rockville, Parke Co., IN
   Newspaper
   [See the obit. of Albert B. Andrew-6507]
   [See the obit. of George R. Osborn-6510]

JOHN OSBORN, son of Jesse and Nancy Osborn was born near Sylvania, Parke Co.,
IN on 3/30/1835.  His father died when he was less than one year old.  The
mother was left with 5 small children.  At age 25 John Osborn m. Susannah K.
Lindley.  They were the parents of 4 daus. and 3 sons.  He joined his wife's
church, Friends Church at Rushcreek, at age 52.  He died 7/18/1913 at home
in Bloomingdale.  Family surviving were his wife of 53 years, daus. Mrs. Miriam
O. Andrew, Martha Williams, and Ruth Williams and a son, Luther.


Rev. War Pension Papers of John Osborn


Pension Application S9446

1762        Born in Amelia Co., VA.  Parents' names not given.
1781        While a resident of Charlotte Co., VA, volunteered and served 5
                months as a private in Capt. James Holloway's Co., Col. James
                Speed's VA Regiment, was in the battle of Guilford.
?           Enlisted and served as a private in Capt. John Thompson's Co.,
                Col. Clements Read's VA Regiment, was at the siege of Yorktown
                and was discharged after having served about 3 months.
?           Moved from Charlotte Co., VA to Laurens Dist., SC.
10/15/1832  Allowed pension on his application executed 10/15/1832.

            No family data is given.


Rev. War Pension Papers of John Osborn-3355


Pension Application S32423

4/16/1763   Born in Shenandoah Co., VA
5/1/1780    While a resident of Montgomery Co. (that part which was later
                Patrick Co.), VA, he enlisted and served 4 months and 20 days
                in Capt Enoch Osborn's (his uncle) Co., Col. Preston's VA
                Regiment.
Spring 1781 Served 6 months in Capt. Enoch Osborn's Co., Col. Preston's Reg-
                iment;  6 months in Capt. Martin Gambrell's Co., Col. William
                Campbell's Regiment;  3 months in Capt. Nawl's Co., Col.
                Cleaveland's Regiment;  5 weeks in Captain Ward's Co., Col.
                Preston's Regiment;  1 year in Capt. Ward's Co., Col. Preston's
                Regiment.
?           After the Rev., lived in Ashe Co., NC, from which place he moved
                to Barren Co., KY, thence to Harrison Co., IN and from there
                to Fountain Co., IN.
11/12/1832  While a resident of Fountain Co., IN was allowed pension on his
                application executed 11/12/1832.
7/1/1833    Deposition by Robert Orsboun in Vermilion Co., IL:  He was living
                in VA when he first became acquainted with John Osborn in
                Montgomery Co., VA at the house of the father of the deponent.
1852        Was a resident of McDonough Co., IL, having moved there from
                Warren Co., IN.

            There is no family data and it is not stated that he was ever
            married.


John Orsborn Family Bible


        The CT Nutmegger, v5 #1, p25, June 1972.

Bible records copied from the Osborn family bible owned by Mrs. Paul W. Barden
(#1261).

JOHN ORSBORN was b. 9/22/1802.  He marr. 2/18/1830 Julieanna Phillips who was
b. 3/29/1810.  Children of John and Julieanna (Phillips) Orsborn:
(1)  Ralph, 3/8/1832
(2)  Saran Ann, 1/5/1835
(3)  George, 8/29/1837, d. 6/15/1839
(4)  Prudence, 7/21/1840, marr. Chester Lakin
(5)  Marthee Jane, 10/8/1842
(6)  Susan Adaline, 6/24/1845, d. 11/18/1871


Bio. of John Osborne


   History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Thomas Cushing, Chicago,
   A. Warne, 1889.  Page 711.  (transcript)
   [See the bio. of William Osborne]

   JOHN OSBORNE, M.D., Homestead, was born Feb. 1, 1858, in
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, son of John and Sarah (Abernethy) Osborne,
natives of County Armagh, Ireland; the former was a weaver by occupation; at
the age of nineteen was induced to go to England, where he soon found work
as a miner.  In 1863 he came to America, mined in Westmoreland county, Pa.,
one year, and then sent for his family.  His labors were rewarded, and he
now leads a retired life in Homestead.  He has a family of six children:
Hugh, Andrew William, John, Robert, Margaret and Eleanor.  Of these, Hugh
was a soldier in a New York regiment in the civil war.  The subject of this
sketch also mined in Westmoreland county, where he afterward kept a
grocery-store.  He helped to educate his brother William, who graduated at
the Chicago Medical College.  John worked and studied about ten years before
he graduated at the Cincinnati Medical College, in class of 1883, where he
took the prize in obstetrics.  He followed his profession in Westmoreland
county until 1887, when he took a special course on the eye and ear, and
graduated in that department.  In July of the same year he located in
Homestead, where he has built up a large practice, and since January, 1888,
has held the position of county physician at the city farm.  He married
Melissa Adams, by whom he has five children: William, Robert, Harold, Sadie
and Anna.  The doctor is a member of the Western Pennsylvania Medical
society; he is a republican.


Bio. of John Osborne


   Biographical and Historical Record of Greene and Carroll Counties, Iowa,
   Chicago, The Lewis Publishing Co., 1887.  Page 270.  (transcript)

JOHN OSBORNE, dealer in grain, lumber and coal and one of the prominent men
of Scranton, is a native of Crnwall, England, born in the year 1844, a son
of Robert Osborne.  The father immigrated to America when our subject was a
child, settling in Iowa County, Wisconsin, where he resided till his death
in May, 1878.  The father was a miner, and followed that occupation from the
time he came to America in 1848 until 1855 when he engaged in farming, which
he followed the remainder of his life.  His family consisted of six
children, three sons and three daughters.  John, the subject of this sketch;
Robert living in Iowa County, Wisconsin; Joseph, of Carroll County,
Illinois; Emma, wife of Fairfield Sylvester, of Ogden, Iowa; Ellen, wife of
W.J. Burns, of Ponca, Nebraska, and Margaret J., wife of J.W. Taylor, of
Iowa County, Wisconsin.  John Osborne, our subject grew to manhood in Iowa
County, being reared to agricultural pursuits.  He remained with his parents
till 1866, but remained near his home till 1872, when he came to Iowa, and
located at Ogden, Boone County, where he was engaged in dealing in live
stock and farm implements until 1877, when he came to Scranton, Greene
County.  The year before leaving Ogden he began dealing in grains in
connection with his other business.  In 1876 Mr. Osborne formed a
partnership with Sylvester & Huntley, they succeeding A.S. Omro in his grain
trade, and the same year this firm built the west elevator.  Mr. Osborne
bought out Sylvester and Huntley's interest in 1882 and has since conducted
the business alone, becoming one of the leading business men of Scranton.
His elevator has a capacity of about 14,000 bushels.  In the spring of 1885
he added the lumber trade to his business, in which he is meeting with good
success.  Mr. Osborne was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth A. Baker, a
daughter of John U. Baker, of Iowa County, Wisconsin.  In politics Mr.
Osborne affiliates with the Republican party.


John Osborne Death Notice


   West Bend Democrat, Wed., April 26, 1882, vol. XXII, #17, page 3

Died -- Mr. John Osborne of Jackson, aged about 65 years, died after a
protracted illness last Monday night.  Mr. Osborne was one of the oldset and
most respected farmers of that town.


Bio. of John Osborn


   Historical and Biographical Record of Black Hawk County, Iowa,
   Chicago, The Inter-State Publishing Co., 1886.  Page 415.  (transcript)

JOHN OSBORN, farmer and stock-raiser, section 19, Big Creek Township, was
born in Rutland County, England, April 20, 1827, a son of Thomas and
Elizabeth (Yates) Osborn.  May 2, 1852, he embarked for the United States
in a sailing vessel, the British Crown, and after a very perilous voyage of
storm and shipwreck landed in New York City, July 18.  He remained in the
State of New York two years, living in Aurora, Erie County, but met with
many discouragements, incident to a life in a strange land.  Being a
stranger and alone he had little idea of the boundless extent of the
agricultural interests of America, but learning of the Western country, he
came as far as De Kalb County, Illinois, and from there in January, 1855, to
Black Hawk County, Iowa, thus being among the pioneer settlers of the
county.  He has a fine farm of 287 acres, all well improved, but his special
attention is devoted to raising and dealing in fine stock.  He has a herd of
over seventy thoroughbred short horn cattle of good standard families
registered in the American Herd Book.  Sires that have been used in his herd
of late are Meadow Duke, 21,684, American Herd Book; Roses Duke, 40,758, a
Rose of Sharon and Major Jupiter, 42,209, the latter now at the head of the
herd.  He has constantly on hand and keeps for sale animals of either sex.
He has four one-year-old calves that will weigh 1,000 pounds each.  His
cattle are among the finest in the State of Iowa, and will compare favorably
with any in the United States.  He has been a diligent and untiring worker
in caring for and improving the grade of his cattle, and is rewarded by
seeing them come up to the high standard of excellence that is unsurpassed
by any in his county.  Mr. Osborn is truly a self-made man; his habits of
industry and economy, added to his indomitable will and perseverance, have
secured for him a fine property, and made him one of the prominent and
prosperous business men of Black Hawk County.  Mr. Osborn was married in
1861 to Amy Seamans, a native of New York, born in 1836, and to them were
born five children -- George; Mary, wife of William Henby; Amos, Ida and
Janie.  Mrs. Osborn died in 1870, and in 1871 Mr. Osborn married Sarah
Seamans, his first wife' sister.  They have two children -- Lenora and
Ettie.  Mr. Osborn meeting with success in his adventures in a new country,
brothers and relatives have followed after to this great land of promise,
and all are doing well.


Bio. of John Osborn


   History of Story County, Iowa, Chicago, The S.J. Clarke Publishing
   Co., 1911.  Vol. II, page 212.  (transcript)

JOHN OSBORN.
   Among the residents of Story county who have now passed away, there were
none more highly esteemed and respected than John Osborn, who was born in
Guernsey county, Ohio, on the 28th of December, 1846.  His life up to the
age of eighteen years was like that of the majority of the boys of fifty
years ago who were reared on the farm.  He attended school when his services
were not required at home and enjoyed such diversions as fell to the lot of
the young people of that period.
   At eighteen years of age he enlisted in the Union army and spent eleven
months of his early manhood in the service of his country on the
battlefields of the south.  There, as elsewhere throughout his life, he
discharged every duty assigned him to the best of his ability.  That he was
faithful in service, brave in the face of danger and reliable at all times
is fully attested by the honorable discharge accorded him at the end of his
period of enlistment.
   In 1865 Mr. Osborn removed with his parents to Shelby county, Illinois.
Four years later on the 18th of November, 1869, he was united in marriage to
Miss Sarah A. Shell, a native of Shelby county.  The first year of their
married life the young people continued to make their home in that county,
but at the end of that period they removed to a farm near Green Castle in
Jasper county, this state, and here, with the exception of one year, when
they lived in Madison county, they resided for thirteen years.  They went to
Polk county in 1884, where they lived for a time, but later removed to Mr.
Osborn's farm near Maxwell, this county.  They lived on this place until Mr.
Osborn retired in 1907, after which time they made their home in Maxwell and
there on the 24th of July, 1909, Mr. Osborn passed away.
   Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Osborn, two of whom survive: Eva
L., wife of William Hartung, a farmer in Indian Creek township; and Orlando,
who owns and lives on the home farm near Maxwell.
   Mr. Osborn was always a stanch adherent of the republican party,
believing that its basic principles were best adapted to protect the
interests of the general public and while he never sought political
preferment he served as township trustee and most capably discharged the
duties of other local offices while a resident of Polk county.  Mr. Osborn
was a Christian and a communicant of the Methodist Protestant church, in
which Mrs. Osborn also holds membership.  He was not a man who sought
publicity of reward for service but he was alway ready to respond to the
call of his country or fellowman in time of need, and he will long be
remembered in the community where he lived, for he was held in high esteem
by all who knew him.


John Osburn War of 1812 Pension Papers


        Robert G. Osborn Genealogical Collection

In Capt. Walker's Co., GA Militia
Made no bounty land claim.  Wife, Martha, WO 23123.
Her pension application revealed following data:  Martha's maiden name was
Durham;  she claimed she and John Osborn were married 2/3/1835 near
Watkinsville, Clark Co., GA & he died 6/28/1835 or 9/13/1835, near Watkins-
ville, Clark Co., GA.  (Clark Co. records do not show a marriage record for
John Osborn & Martha Durham).  John Osborn alledgedly served as a substitute
for Ned Maxey of Walker's Co.
Marha's claim for a widow's pension was filed 5/15/1878 from near Woodville,
Green Co., GA.  She gave her age as 94.  Her application sworn to by Samuel
D. Durham & A.M. Durham, was rejected because: Military records fail to show
either name of John Osburn or Ned Maxey on rolls.
Martha Osburn died near Woodville in March or April, 1879.  Pension office
received news of her death from Joseph Davison, Postmaster of Woodville, who
wrote: She must have been 100 years old.  Had been on charity of very poor
friends.  Have always understood her husband had been a soldier of War of
1812 for years.
No mention made of any children.
(Pension Application - War of 1812 - National Archives)


1895 Bio. of John A. Osborne-1571


   Portrait and Biographical Record of Boone, Clinton, and Hendricks
   Counties, Indiana, Chicago, A.W. Bowen and Co., 1895.  Page 1096.
   (transcript)
   [See the 1885 bio. of John A. Osborne-1571]

DR. JOHN A. OSBORNE, of New Winchester, Ind., is one of the leading
physicians of Hendricks county, and an ex-county official, of English
ancestry, who was among the founders of the Old Dominion.  Nathan Osborne,
the grandfather of our subject, was born about 1787, and went to Kentucky
among the original pioneers, when very young, with his father.  Nathan
Osborne married a Miss Roberts, and to them were born sevin children:
Hardin, Catherine, Sarah, Thomas J., Jesse, Bennett and Susannah.  Mr.
Osborne was a farmer of Rockcastle county, near Mount Vernon, and in 1824
removed with his family to Plainfield, Ind., and soon after entered land,
one mile north of Amo; then he sold out and bought within one mile west of
where Clayton now is, and here died, aged eighty-seven years.  Hardin
Osborne, the father of our subject, was born in Kentucky in March, 1804, and
was about twenty years old when he came to Hendricks county, Ind.  He
married Priscilla Tincher, and after marriage settled near Clayton.  He was
a substantial farmer, owning 120 acres.  He lived to be fifty-eight years
old, his death having been occasioned by an accident.  To himself and wife
eleven children were born: Thomas J., Nancy J., Melinda, Nicholas, Silas,
John A., William B., James H., George W., Henry C. and Sudie, all born in
Hendricks county.  Mrs. Osborne reached the great age of eighty-two years.
She was born in Kentucky, and came to Hendricks county, Ind., when it was a
wilderness.
   Dr. John A. Osborne was born May 6, 1841, in Hendricks county, near
Clayton.  When about nine years of age he was severely injured in his right
hip and for months was confined to his home and could not work, and for nine
years he used crutches.  He attended the Danville academy three years.  He
then taught school eight years in Marion township.  In 1863 he began the
study of medicine and in 1864 attended the Rush Medical college, Chicago.
He began the practice of medicine in Clinton county in 1866 and then at New
Winchester in 1869.  In 1871-72 he attended the Indiana Medical college at
Indianapolis, from which he graduated in 1872.  He continued his practice at
New Winchester until 1878, when he was elected, on the republican ticket,
recorder of Hendricks county and served four years, and then settled in
Stilesville in 1883 and ran a drug store, and was elected trustee of
Franklin township in 1884; in March, 1887, he came to New Winchester, where
he has since resided.  The subject is a member of the State Medical
association and County Medical association, in which he has held all the
offices.  The doctor was appointed trustee of Marion township in 1893 and
was elected for the short term in 1894.  In politics he is a republican and
fraternally a member of the I.O.O.F, Silcox lodge, of Danville.  On November
3, 1867, the doctor married Harriet W. Kay, daughter of William and
Elizabeth (Barnes) Kay.  To Dr. and Mrs. Osborne four children have been
born, viz: Maud, Inez, Harry and Agnes.


Bio. of John A. Osborne


   Portrait and Biographical Album of Champaign County, Ill.,
   Chicago, Chapman Brothers, 1887.  Page 745.  (transcript)
   (Biography is accompanied by a picture of John A. Osborne's residence
   on page 267.)

JOHN A. OSBORNE.  A prominent writer has said that "all history is only
biography."  We find this especially exempified<sic> in the community of
which our subject is a member.  Its history is principally the biography of
the lives of those men who have mostly lived worthily and left a good
impress upon the places which in time will know them no more.  Mr. Osborne
has fulfilled his duties as a good citizen and member of society, and has
built up one of the best homesteads in Rantoul Township.  Although perhaps
not at first attracting the eye to any special points it presents a picture
of an industrious and intelligent man.
   John A. Osborne is a native of this State, born near Griggsville, Pike
County, Nov. 3, 1847.  His father, Thomas Osborne, was a native of County
Tyrone, Ireland, where he grew to manhood on a farm, and after the death of
his father emigrated to America, accompanied by his mother and five
brothers.  The latter were George, James, Samuel, John and Charles.  Three
of these brothers located in this State, one in Kansas and one in Indiana.
Thomas settle in Ohio, where he worked on a farm for a few years, and was
married.  In 1844 he came to this State with his wife, making the journey
via the Ohio, Mississippi and Illinois Rivers.  He first rented a tract of
land in Pike County, which he operated successfully, and a few years later
purchased a farm in Brown County, which he has since occupied.  His wife,
the mother of our subject, in her girlhood was Miss Matilda Coulter.  She
was a native of the same county as her husband, and after becoming the
mother of six children passed to the other life at her home in Brown County,
in the summer of 1855.
   Our subject was the only son of his father's family, and was five years
old when they located in Brown County.  His first studies were carried on
in a log school-house with puncheon floor, slabs bor benches and
writing-desks, and in all respects finished and furnished after the fashion
of those days.  The system of teaching was widely different from that of the
present time, but the boys of those days grew up industrious and
self-reliant, and have since, in many cases, made their mark in the world.
Young Osborne lived with his parents until twenty-three years of age, then
married and located with his bride on a tract of land in Logan County, this
State, which he rented for three years.  At the end of this time he had
accumulated a small amount of money, and in 1874 became possessor of his
present homestead.  Upon this he has brought about great improvements.  It
includes 157 acres, all improved and in a fine condition for the raising of
grain and stock, to which he is now devoting most of his time and attention.
In 1879 he became interested in the bee industry and provided himself with
all the appliances necessary for the successful carrying on of an apiary.
He had at one time eighty-nine stands, and has become quite an expert in the
management of the industrious little workers, whose example may well be the
subject of attention by humanity.  In addition to his farming operations,
Mr. Osborne is engaged in breeding thoroughbred Poland-China hogs, which
have been carefully selected from the best families of that noted breed.  He
also owns a very fine thoroughbred Holstein bull registerd "The Rajah,"
No. 2269, and has several other high-grade thoroughbred animals.  He is also
breeding Percheron horses, and has at the head of his stables for breeding
purposes a very fine horse.
   The lady who, in 1870, consented to become a sharer in the fortunes of
our subject was Miss Margaret A. Rutledge, a native of Decatur, Macon Co.,
Ill., and the daughter of Charles and Elizabeth (Reed) Rutledge, the former
of Irish ancestry.  The four children who have added to the pleasures and
responsibilities of the household are Lilly M., John W., Cyrus E. and
Elizabeth E.  Our subject is Republican in politics, and with his wife a
consistent and valued member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  He is in
all respects a worthy representative of the pioneer element, his father
having been among the first who located in Brown County, endured the
hardships and privations of life in a new settlement, and received due honor
as one of the brave spirits who did not shrink at the thought of toil and
fatigue, but was willing to give the strength of his manhood for the sake of
those who should come after him.  A view of the fine thoroughbred stock and
home place of Mr. Osborne is shown else where in this work.