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Bio. of K.B. Osborn-2933


        The Early Hist. of Greene Co., IN, Jack Baber, Worthington, IN,
        N.B. Milleson, 1875.  p93.  (transcript)
        [See the bio. of William H. Osborn]

K.B. OSBORN
was born in Cayuga county, New York, and came to Indiana in 1842.  He was
first engaged as superintendent of the Wabash & Erie canal, from Lafayette
to Evansville.  He came to Greene county in 1849, and is now engaged in
the hotel business.  He is fifty-three years of age.


Leonard Osburn War of 1812 Pension Papers


        Robert G. Osborn Genealogical Collection

Pvt., Capt. McClung's Co., VA Militia
Wt #47375;  Wife, Elizabeth WO #6083
Date of application: 1871;  Res.: Little Sewell Mt., Greenbrier Co., WV.
Rejected, 4/11/1873 for want of proof of marriage, death of soldier, widow-
hood of applicant & abandonment of claim (three months having elapsed since
special circular was sent to her.)
In 1871, widow gave her age as 74.  Other data in application:  Soldier
discharged near Norfolk in spring of 1815;  Elizabeth (nee Mylor) married
Leonard Osburn 9/4/1813 was attested to by Josiah Osburn in Greenbrier Co.,
VA (now WV);  soldier died in his home in Meadow Bluff, in Greenbrier Co., WV,
12/20/1870 & she has not remarried.  Papers witnessed by: Thomas H Campbell &
Joseph Patterson.
Rejection papers handed by Elizabeth to C.A. Rupert who looked up marriage
in records and found she was married to Leonard Osburn on 9/4/1815 and not
in 1813 as she claimed.
In National Archives records, a mis-placed letter was found in file of
Nicholas Osburn, letter written by Henry Osborn states that he had plenty of
proof that Elizabeth was widow of Leonard Osburn & that she had asked Dr.
Rupert to straighten thins out;  that he said she had been married too short
a time to receive a pension.  No further record.
(War of 1812 Pension Records - National Archives)


Bio. of Linden Osborn-1023


   History of Wayne County, Indiana, Chicago, Inter-State Publishing
   Co., 1884.  Vol. II, page 664.  (transcript)

   Linden Osborn, wagon-maker, Fountain City, Ind., was born in New Garden
Township, Wayne Co., Ind., in 1825.  His father, Eli Osborn, was born in
North Carolina, Nov. 29, 1802, a son of William and Anna (Macy) Osborn, and
a grandson of Mathew and Hannah (Reynolds) Osborn, who were natives of
England.  He was married in 1825 to Edith Reynolds, and the same year
emigrated to Indiana.  Our subject's maternal great-great-grandfather, when
small, in company with another boy about the same age, was enticed on a ship
and brought to America, and here sold to pay their passage.  His name was
changed and he never knew his right name.  He grew to manhood nad bought
three surveys of land enar Philadelphia, and several lots in the city.  He
was lost at sea while en route for England.  Linden Osborn was reared on a
farm.  He received his early education in the common school, and afterward
attended a part of a session at Farmer's College, Ohio, and one session at
Greenmount, near Richmond.  In 1850 he went to Washington and Oregon
Territories and spent some time gold-digging, returning home via Panama.
Mr. Osborn is a birthright member of the Society of Friends.  He is a member
of the Good Templars and Sons of Temperance.  He is politically a
Republican.  He was early taught that it was wrong for one man to hold
another in servitude, and therefore was foremost in upholding the principles
of the anti-slavery party.  The greater part of Mr. Osborn's life has been
spent at his trade in Fountain City.  He has never married.


Bio. of Mrs. Luranah (Pigman-1126) Osborn


   History of Fayette County, Indiana, Chicago, Warner, Beers and Co.,
   1885.  Page 302.  (transcript)

   MRS. LURANAH OSBORN, Jennings Township, is the eldest and the only
survivor of twelve children born to Adam and Mary (Eli) Pigman, early
pioneers of what are now Union and Fayette Counties, Ind., and whose lives,
early struggles and privations are fully detailed in the history proper of
Jennings Township in this work, to which the reader is referred.  Our
subject was born in Jennings Township, this county and State, September 4,
1816.  She was married April 14, 1853, to Benjamin Osborn.  After marriage
she and her husband moved to Union County, this State, locating on the farm
upon which Mrs. Osborn now resides.  Mr. Osborn was a native of Kentucky,
born August 20, 1809, a son of Thomas and Mary (Johnson) Osborn, the former
of whom was a native of South Carolina.  From thence he settled in Kentucky;
later removed to Indiana and located in Franklin County, where both he and
his wife died, having lived in the faith of the Old School Baptist Church.
The husband of our subject was a respected citizen, highly esteemed by his
neighbors and the community at large.  His death occurred June 5, 1884,
after having been an invalid for seven years.


Bio. of M.C. Osborn


   The Biographical Record of Clinton County, Iowa, Chicago,
   The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1901.  Page 516.  (Transcript)

M.C. OSBORN, M.D.
   The death of Dr. M.C. Osborn at his home in Delmar, Iowa, on April 23,
1894, removed from social and professional life one of the leading and
influential citizens of this part of the state.
   Dr. Osborn was a native of Concord, New Hampshire, where he was born on
December 18, 1856, and he was a son of Thomas F. and Jane (Merrill) Osborn,
both of whom were natives of the same New England state.  Our subject was
but one year old when his parents moved to Benton county, Iowas, and there
Mr. Osborn purchased a farm located four miles from Walker, where, in 1874,
the mother of our subject died.  The father resides in Walker and has
extensive farm interests in the surrounding country.  Dr. Osborn was one in
a family of six children born to his parents, and was the eldest of the
family, the others being: John, who is settled on the homestead farm at
Walker, with wife and one son; Sarah Evans, deceased; Edward, who married
Florence Hurd, resides in Benton county, Iowa, and has three children; Mary,
who married Harry Reynolds, resides near Waverly, Iowa, and has one child;
and Dora, who married Charles Hawley, resides in Marysville, Iowa, and has
four children.
   As his father was a teacher by profession, Dr. Osborn received special
educational training in his youth and was kept continually at school until
he was sixteen years of age, his first school-house being one of logs,
located in Spencer's Grove.  Later he was sent to Tobin's Academy, at that
time a noted institution, in Vinton, Iowa, and from which he graduated in
1868, immediately becoming a teacher.  His assistance was given to his
father on the farm when other duties did not engage his time, but until 1872
his services as an instructor were in demand through the county.
   In the latter year Dr. Osborn entered the Baptist College at Wilton,
Muscatine county, Iowa, at which well-known educational center he graduated
with honors, in the class of 1874.  The intervening years until 1879 were
occupied in teaching, during which time he quietly read on the science of
medicine, this being the goal toward which he was working.  In 1881 he
graduated from the medical department in the Iowa State University, his
preliminary preparation being so thorough that his preceptors gave him an
unusual advance of two years in the medical course.
   On April 23, which later became a sad anniversary, it being the date of
his death, Dr. Osborn located in Delmar, Iowa, and began the practice of his
profession.  Some physicians are undoubtedly born, not made, and to this
class belonged our lamented subject.  His success was immediate, although
steady and advancing until the date of his death, extending over a wide
ranged of country, and, connected with every condition of life.  Not only
was he a public-spirited citizen, but he was one of the most charitable and
benevolent of physicians, a friend to those who needed his services,
irrespective of their ability to remunerate him.  Not only was he mourned by
his immediate family, but also by hundreds of those who had benefited by his
kindness and skill.
   Dr. Osborn was taken ill on the anniversary of his wedding and passed out
of life on the anniversary of his location in this city.  He had provided
well for the welfare of his family, leaving them property, including a large
farm in Kansas, a store building and several residences and an elegant home
in this city, and also an insurance of ten thousan dollars.  His political
sympathies were ever with the Republican party, although he never would
accept public office.  His social connections were with the State Medical
Association; the Clinton and Jackson County Association; the American
Medical Association; the Modern Woodmen of America of Delmar, in all of
these organizations possessing the esteem and affection of his comrades.
For many years he was a steward and trustee of the Methodist church.
   Dr. Osborn came of fine old Mayflower stock, and two of his uncles, both
physicians, Dr. Moses and Dr. William Osborn, took loyal part in the
Revolutionary war, the latter dying of yellow fever while in the service of
his country.
   The marriage of Dr. Osborn was on April 17, 1879, at Wilton Junction,
Iowa, to Miss Hattie M. Strickland, who was born in Muscatine, Iowa, and who
was a daughter of A.F. and W.J. (Covell) Strickland, both of whom were
natives of Hartford, Connecticut.  Mr. and Mrs. Strickland came west in
February, 1856, riding on the first train that made the trip west of
Davenport.  They located twelve miles east of Muscatine, where Mr.
Strickland bought a farm of raw prairie land, erected a log cabin, and for
nine years he labored there, bringing his farm to a fine state of
cultivation.  Selling this farm, he then retired to Wilton, and for a period
engaged in the harness business there, but prior to his death on March 31,
1874, he had lived retired from active endeavor.  The mother of Mrs. Osborn
is still a resident of Wilton.
   Dr. and Mrs. Osborn were the parents of one daughter, Florence E., who
was born on June 8, 1890, and is one of the bright pupils of the public
school in this city.


Bio. of M.H. Osburn


   A Reminiscent History of the Ozark Region, Chicago, Goodspeed Brothers,
   1894.  Page 264.  (transcript)
   [See the bio. of George W. Osburn]

   M.H. OSBURN, M.D.  There are always in the medical profession some
individuals who become eminent and command a large patronage, and among
those who deserve special recognition is Dr. M.H. Osburn, whose face is a
familiar one in the home of the sick and afflicted.  He has practiced his
profession in his section of Missouri for twenty years and his name has
become almost a household word.  He is a Georgian by birth, born March 27,
1838, a son of Ectyl and Cynthia (Nelson) Osburn, who were born in the
Palmetto State and Georgia, respectively.  The paternal grandfather, William
Osburn, was born in South Carolina also, was of English-Irish descent, and
throughout life followed the occupation of farming, to which occupation he
reared his son, Ectyl.  The latter, with his wife, emigrated to Missouri in
1867 and settled on a farm three miles from Rome, but eventually died in
Ozark County, Mo., in 1886.  He was a minister of the Missionary Baptist
Church for a number of years, and during the great Civil War was a member of
a Tennessee regiment.  His wife, who was a daughter of Wiley Nelson, died in
1883, after having borne him ten children, the following of whom are living:
Dr. M.H., G.W., J.H.E., Howell C., Mariah, Frances and Mary A.  Those
deceased are William N., Sarah J. and Cynthia C.  The boyhood days of Dr.
Osburn were passed in the State of his birth, and there he received such
education as could be obtained in the common schools of that section and
period.  At the age of twenty-two years he went to Ohio, thence to Illinois;
in 1867 located in Berry County, Mo., and at the end of five years came to
Douglas County and has made his home at Roy ever since.  His professional
education was acquired in the St. Louis Medical College, and in the year
1870 he did his first work as a physician, and has since practiced all
branches of his profession.  His experience as a medical practitioner has
extended over a period of twenty-two years and during this time he has had
many difficult cases under his care, in the conduct of which he has always
acquitted himself with credit.  He is always quick to see and prompt to act,
is accurate in the diagnosis of his cases and in his treatment is bold and
prompt, yet always sure.  In 1864 he served four months in the One Hundred
and Forty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and since the war has been a stanch
Republican in politics, and for some time has been a member of Roy Post No.
307 of the G.A.R., and holds the position of post surgeon.  He was married
in Georgia to Miss Eliza J. Dodd, a daughter of William and Eliza Dodd, both
of whom died in that State, and in which State Mrs. Osburn was born.  She
and her husband have six children: Almer O., Cynthia E., William H., Emily,
Alice and Sarah.  The Doctor and his wife are members of the Missionary
Baptist Church, and are prominent in the social circles in which they live.
The Doctor owns a good farm of eighty acres and also has other valuable
property.


Bio. of Mack D. (McDonald) Osborne-6929


   History of Gentry and Worth Counties, Missouri, St. Joseph, MO,
   National Historical Co., 1882.  Page 741.  (transcript)

MACK D. OSBORNE, M.D.
section 24, post office, Grant City.  This gentleman is one of the oldest
medical practitioners of Worth and Gentry Counties, and a man who is
prominently known throughout this section of country.  He is a native of
Barren County, Kentucky, where he was born May 5, 1815.  In 1818 he was
taken by the family to Champaign County, Illinois, then known as Edgar
County.  He was there reared, following the occupation of farming.  In 1837
he began the study of medicine under the instructions of Drs. McMurphy and
Parsons, at New London, Henry County, Iowa, remaining so engaged for two and
one-half years.  He then commenced practicing under the direction of Dr.
Heath, at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, and after six months he settled in Trenton,
Iowa, where he was occupied in practice till 1844.  In that year he came to
Gentry County, Missouri, and continued laboring at his profession, together
with farming, till 1849, when he moved to Bates County, Missouri, stopping
in that locality till 1862.  While a resident of that county he held, for a
season, the office of public administrator, and also the position of justice
of the peace for eight years.  In 1862 he returned to Gentry County, and in
1867 he came to Worth County and settled where he now resides.  He has an
excellent farm of ninety-two acres, eighty-five of which are under fence.
Dr. Osborne has been twice married: first, December 10, 1837, to Miss
Rebecca Wells, a native of Indiana.  They had five children, four of whom
are now living: Lydia, Samuel W., Anna and Stephen H.  His wife's death
occurred February 10, 1847.  The Doctor was again married December 10, 1849,
to Miss Salena Osborn, a native of Illinois.  They have six children: Jerome
M., Clayborne B., Naomi, David C., James R. and Mary F.  During Dr. O's
residence in the west he has been a minister in the Christian Church and a
zealous and faithful worker in the cause of religion.


Bio. of Marmaduke Osborn


   A Pictorial History of Arkansas, Fay Hempsted, St. Louis, N.D.
   Thompson Publishing Co., 1890.  Page 794.  (transcript)

   Marmaduke Osborn settled in Little Rock in 1849, and clerked first for
Mr. Parker and then for Major John D. Adams.  He soon went into business
with Joseph Newton, brother of the first Thomas W. Newton, and afterwards
was in business for himself at the corner of Markham and Commerce streets,
where Charles F. Penzel's store now is.  In 1864 he went to Louisville,
Kentucky, but returned to Little Rock in 1871, and died there October 19th,
1882, aged 67 years.  He was born in South Carolina, February 10th, 1815.
When he came to Little Rock he was a widower.  On the 31st of March, 1856,
he married Mrs. Anna Perdue, of Kentucky, who survives him.


Bio. of Mrs. Mary (Harris-1727) Osborn


   History of La Porte County, Indiana, Chicago, Chas. G. Chapman
   & Co., 1880.  Page 677.  (transcript)

   Mrs. Mary Osborn, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Shugart) Harris, is a
native of Indiana, and was born in 1830.  Her father was a native of North
Carolina, and her mother of South Carolina.  They were of German descent.
In 1845 she came to this county and settled where she now is, on sec. 19, of
Clinton tp.  She was married in 1845 to David Osborn.  She is the mother of
8 children, of whom 4 are now living.  Their names are May, Thomas, Charles
and Florence.  She owns 115 acres of land, worth about $40 per acre.
Religiously, she and her family are members of the M.E. Church.


Bio. of Mary E. (Ozbun-6267) Hinshaw


   A Portrait and Biographical Record of Delaware and Randolph
   Counties, Ind., Chicago, A.W. Bowen & Co., 1894.
   Page 1253.  (transcript)

   MRS. MARY E. HINSHAW, who resided in Washington township, Randolph
county, Ind., was born here November 12, 1858, and is a daughter of Isaac
and Mary (Davis) Ozbun.  Her parents were born in North Carolina, and were
of English descent.  With their respective families they came to Henry
county, Ind., where they were married in 1833.  The father taught school for
several years and also successfully engaged in farming.  The family numbered
five sons and three daughters -- John, a farmer of Kansas; Isaac, an
agriculturist; Jonathan; Hulda; Joseph, a Kansas farmer; Ruth, deceased;
Harvey, who follows farming; and Mary E.  The mother of this family died in
1865, and was buried in Cherry Grove cemetery.  She was a member of the
Society of Friends, as is her husband, who is still living on the old
homestead.  In March, 1879, Mary E. Ozbun became the wife of John C.
Hinshaw, who was born September 23, 1844, and was the son of Timothy and
Sarah (Wright) Hinshaw, who were of English and Irish lineage.  The father
died in February 1881, and the mother in February, 1889.  Their children
were: David M., who died at seventeen years; John C.; Armenous, a farmer;
Melcena, who was the wife of Ed Brown; and Ruth, who was the wife of Joseph
Ruby.
   J.C. Hinshaw was reared on a farm until eighteen years of age, and
enlisted in an Indiana regiment for the three years' service during the late
war.  After his return he was married, March 1, 1871, to Josephine
Middleton, who died in 1873.  After remaining single for five years he
wedded Miss Ozbun and brought her to his home.  He was extensively engaged
in the breeding of thoroughbred hogs, and was the owner of a fine farm of
280 acres of land, which yielded him a golden tribute in return for the care
and labor he bestowed upon it.  In his business he was successful, for he
carefully attended to all details and was enterprising and progressive.  By
his first union Mr. Hinshaw had a daughter, Eva R.  By the secon marriage
were born three children: Pearl J., Carl T. and Mitchell A.  Mr. Hinshaw
died April 3, 1891, respected by all who knew him, and his remains were
interred in Fountain Park cemetery, where a fine monument has been erected
to his memory.  He was a prominent and active worker in the Society of
Friends and helped to build their house of worship in this neighborhood.
Mr. Hinshaw was one of the leading men of Washington township and one of the
most highly respected and successful farmers of the county.  His life was
well and worthily spent, and his example is deserving of emulation.  He left
his widow one of the most desirably located and finest and most tastefully
arranged farms in the township.  Mrs. Hinshaw still manages the property.
She is a woman of good business ability and is a highly respected member of
society.  She is an active worker in the Society of Friends, and, like her
husband, delights in doing good.


Bio. of Matthew Osburn


   Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County,
   Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.
   Page 619.  (transcript)

MATTHEW OSBURN, one of the thorough-going, energetic, live business men of
Westmoreland county and the popular proprietor of the splendid and
commodious Osburn House of Sutersville, is a son of George and Jane (Cowen)
Osburn and was born in North Huntingdon township, Westmoreland county, Pa.,
August 25, 1836.  His paternal grandfather, Archibald Osburn, was born in
Ireland and received a good education.  He emigrated to Westmoreland county
where he settled near Stewartsville.  He was a presbyterian of the "Old
Union" as it existed before the church separated and was a prominent man in
his community.  His maternal grandfather, Joseph Cowen, was born in New
Jersey and served in the War of 1812.  For his services in that struggle he
received a land warrant for 160 acres of land.  He came to Westmoreland
county about the beginning of the present century, was of Scotch descent and
of the same Cowan family from which United States Senator Edgar Cowan was
descended.  His mother was a cousin to Joseph Cowan, the grandfather of the
subject of this sketch.  George Osburn (father) was a hatter by trade.  He
was a good workman, an industrious man and died in 1839.  He was a native of
this county and married Jane Cowan, who died in 1862.  They had four
children, of whom three are living.
   Matthew Osburn received his education in the common schools.  His father
died when he (Matthew) was only three years of age and he was compelled to
do for himself at an early age.  With untiring energy and commendable zeal
he labored at all kinds of work.  He was a driver in the Westmoreland Coal
company's mines for some time and in 1862 became superintendent of Y.C.H.
Coal company's coal mines on the B. & 0. railroad.  After fifteen years
efficient service as superintendent for that company he (1880) engaged as
inspector of cars for the B. & 0. railroad.  In 1883 he opened a hotel at
Smithton but the next year removed to Sutersville, where he erected his
present hotel, which is one of the best hotels in the county.  The Osburn
House is a fine conspicuous frame building, 40 x 80 feet in dimensions,
four-stories in height and is well arranged and completely furnished
throughout for the comfort and accommodation of its many patrons.  Mr.
Osburn well understands his business and the cuisine and bill of fare are
equal to those of a first-class city hotel.
   On September 12, 1857, he united in marriage with Elizabeth Gregg of near
Saltsburg, Pa.  They have nine children: James H., George E., Oliver O.,
Anne G. and Jennie C. (twins), Lawrence E., Maud H., Edith L. and Eva A.
   Matthew Osburn is a democrat in politics and has served as school
director.  He has been a member of the Masonic Fraternity for twenty-one
years and is a Knight Templar of Kedron Commandery, No. 18, of Greensburg.


Bio. of Moses Osborn-3736


   History of Dearborn, Ohio and Switzerland Counties, Indiana,
   Chicago, Weakley, Harraman & Co., 1885.  Page 1256.  (Switzerland Co.)
   (transcript)

   MOSES OSBORN, farming, and stock dealer, Pleasant Township, was born
within one half mile of where he now resides July 12, 1823.  His parents,
Aaron and Lydia (Sisson) Osborn, were born in New York, his father in 1789,
mother in 1796.  Aaron Osborn was through the war of 1812, and immigrated to
Indiana in 1821, where he engaged in farming, and raised 12 children.  He
was constable for over thirty years, and school trustee for many years.  He
was a member of the United Brethren Church; his first wife of the Methodist
Church; his second wife a member of the United Brethren Church.  The former
died in 1863; the latter in 1859.  Moses Osborn worked hard all through
life, and a reward for his labors has secured a comfortable fortune.  He was
married, in 1844, to Miss Mary Pierce, who was born in September, 1829, and
they have one child -- Mary.  This wife died May 30, 1847, and Mr. Osborn
was married, March 11, 1849, to Miss Elizabeth Pierce, born in November,
1831.  The fruits of this union were ten children.  during the late war Mr.
Osborn served four years as sergeant of a company of home guards without
receiving any remuneration, though, by being called away at different times,
he lost considerable by damage to crops and otherwise.  Aaron Osborn was
liberal in his support of schools and churches, and assisted in building
most of the houses for those purposes for many miles around him.


Letter by N.L. Osborn


        An Osborn Occurence, issue one, Mary Osborn Hemmingsen,
        Chadron, NE, 1990.  The letter is attributed to Pontotoc Co.
        Quarterly, Vol. XVI, #1, Oct. 1984, pp90+91.

                                                        May 2nd, 1887
                                                        Mountaintown, GA

Albert H. Osborn, Brooklyn, N.Y.

Dear Sir:

I received a circular from Toledo, O asking for any information I could give
of the records of the Osborn family.  I have _____ record back to the VA
Osborn's as far as _____ have their history.  My great-grandfather, Jeremiah
Osborn lived on North Fork P_?__ River, VA.  Moved from there to Western
NC about the close of the revolutionary war, was married to Miss Newman.  He
had five sons: John, Jeremiah, Josiah, Reuben & Jonathan.  He moved to KY where
he died.  His son Jonathan moved to O about 1800, married a Miss Claypool & had
children: his sons Reuben & Josiah moved to KY about 1800 where some of the
family now live, his son Jeremiah lived & died in NC, had 4 sons, Jesse, James,
John & Champion.  Sove of his sons live in NC yet, some of them in North GA,
his son John, my grandfather, was married to a Miss Claypool.  Misses(?) family
in Buncombe, NC.  Had five sons: Newman, Jeremiah, John, Nicholas & Jonathan.
He moved to North GA where he died.  Newman married, moved to North GA & then
to TX where he died, has a son Jeremiah living in TX, has a son John living in
Gilmer Co., GA, both(?) of these sons raised families.  Jeremiah lives in NC,
has three sons, Charley, Blyth & Henry.  John moved to IL about 1830, is dead,
has one son, George, living.  Jonathan married a Miss Grady, moved from NC to
North GA, raised 4 boys.  Henry, Griffin & George now live in Parker Co., TX.
Joshua was killed in the war & Nicholas R. Osborn, my father, was married to
Miss Johnson in Henderson Co., NC, moved to Gilmer Co., GA about 1839.  Had me,
N.L. Osborn, W.H. Osborn, John J. Osborn, James & Samuel.  Two daughters, Ann &
Margaret lived and married Hill & Harper.  The undersigned, N.L. Osborn and two
bros. W.H. & Samuel live in Gordon Co., GA.  My bro. John married a Miss Cave,
had three sons, James, Thomas & John.  He died in Gordon Co., GA about 1868,
his three sons live now at __?__, MS.  My bro. W.H. married a Miss
Waddell, had 4 sons, Nicholas, Samuel, James & John.  All live in Gilmer Co.,
GA.  My brother, Samuel, married a Miss Cole, has sons John, Nicholas,
Lafayette, James, daughters Jennie, Annie and Maggie.  I married a Miss Goddard
of Sweetwater, TN about 1855, have had two sons, Robert & John, one daughter,
Alice.  Robert & Alice died when children.  John lived to be of age, married
a Miss Parks, had one daughter, Lilly Belzonia, he died when his child was
only a few months old, his wife and child and my wife constitued my family.
My bro. James, was killed in the Civil War.

                                        N.L. Osborn


Nathaniel Osbourne Rev. War


Pension Papers

        Contributed by Tamara Prichard

S38977.  Enlisted in NJ.  Served on both land and in the navy with continental
line.  Resided in Sullivan Co., TN for 20 years from about 1798, and was living
there when he applied for pension.  He was 68 years old on 19 Nov 1818.  He
had two wives, both dec'd prior to application, and 7 children.


Nicholas Osburn-4221 War of 1812


        

Pension Papers


WO-5391

Application for Pension, Anna Osburn widow of Nicholas Osburn, War of 1812.
Widows decleration for a Pension for Soldier of War of 1812.
State of Iowa, Madison County.  On this 19th day of June 1871, personally
appeared Anna Osburn before me D.E. Cooper Clerk District Court of Madison
County Iowa who is a resident of Madison County Iowas aged 82 years who
being duly sworn according to law says she is the widow of Nicholas Osburn,
who was a Soldier in the War of 1812, that he was in Capt. Peacock's Company,
Regiment of Volunteers enlisted from Kentucky.  That he enlisted on __ day
of ____ 1812 and that he was discharged from the service at the close of said
war.  And that afterwards October 1841 the said Nicholas Osburn died.
   She futher declares that she has not re-married since the death of her
said husband.  And she futher declares that she did not aid or abet the
rebellion in the United States, but has remained true and loyal to the
government.  And She hereby constitutes and appoints B.F. Murray of Winterset
Iowa her Atty to prosecute this claim for which she is to pay ten dollars.
And where she desires the certificate sent:
  Her Post Office adress is Winterset Iowa.
Signed Anna Osburn, her mark;  Wit: J.J. Hutchings + D.E. Cooper.

Also personally appeared Samuel Crawford and Polly Crawford residents of
Madison County Iowa, whom I certify to be respectable and entitled to credit;
who being by me duly sworn according to law, say they were present and saw
Anna Osburn make her mark to the foregoing decleration and they futher swear
they were personally acquainted with Nicholas Osburn and know he was in the
War of 1812 as represented by her and knows he is the person she represents
herself to be.  And that they have no interest in prosecution of this claim.
Signed Samuel Crawford + Polly Crawford.

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 19th of June 1871 and I certify I have
no interest in prosecution of this claim.  And that declerant acknowledged the
foregoing power of Atty to be her free act and deed.  Signed D.E. Cooper,
Clerk, District Court
****
Certificate from Treasury Department, Third Auditor's Office, May 11, 1872,
that Nicholas Osborn is not borne on the Rolls of Capt. Jacob Peacock's
Co. of KY Militia, War of 1812, on file in this office.
****
Claim for Pension was rejected March 24, 1873.


Bio. of Nicholas W. Osburn-2146


        Bio. Memoirs of Greene Co., IN, Indianapolis, B.F. Bowen, 1908.
        p508.  (transcript)

NICHOLAS WHITSON OSBURN
   Nicholas W. Osburn, a well known farmer in Richland township, was born
April 4, 1843, in Highland township, the son of Jesse and Charity C.
(Hodge) Osburn, the former a native of central Tennessee.  He was the son
of Thomas Osburn, also a native of Tennessee who came to Greene county,
Indiana, in 1819 when the father of the subject was seven years old.
Thomas, the subject's grandfather, was a soldier in the War of 1812.  He
entered land from the government in Highland township, Greene county,
Indiana, where he spent the remainder of his life, dying at the age of
seventy-seven years.  He was a member of the Methodist church.  Jesse, the
father of the subject, also secured land of the government in that locality
when he became a man, on which he made a good farm on which he spent the
remainder of his life.  He was a strong Democrat and a religious man.
Charity Hodge was a native of North Carolina.  She was the daughter of Rev.
Gentry C. Hodge, a Baptist minister, who came to Greene county, Indiana,
in an early day, locating in Highland township, where he spent his life.
Charity Osburn, the mother of the subject, died at the age of fifty-six
years.  She was the mother of eleven children, namely: Gentry, Thomas,
Polly, Nicholas, Simpson, Abraham, Isaac, Margaret, Jesse, Martha and
Charity.
   Nicholas W. Osburn was raised to manhood on his father's farm and
educated in the old-time subscription schools, taught in log school houses.
In August, 1862, he enlisted in Company H, Seventy-first Indiana Volunteer
Regiment, in which he served until it was changed in the fall of 1863 to
the Sixth Indiana Cavalry.  His regiment scouted in the eastern part of
Tennessee and Kentucky until the winter of 1863-64.  In the following spring
it was attached to Sherman's army, in which it took part in the fighting
around Atlanta.  It was sent from that city on a raid to Macon, Georgia,
and on the way back met Joe Wheeler's cavalry at Clinton, Georgia, where
they were surrounded but escaped.  Three days later they were captured near
Atlanta and taken first to Augusta, Georgia, where they remained a while,
and were later sent to Andersonville on August 3, 1864, but in the following
November the subject was taken back to Macon.  The Confederates started
with him to Mellon prison, in Georgia, but he mad good his escape while on
the way by jumping off the train.  However, he was recaptured five days
later by bloodhounds and taken back to Macon, and from there to Mellon,
Georgia, where he remained until December, 1864, when he and many of his
comrades escaped, but were captured again several days afterward by cavalry
and taken to Augusta, Georgia, where he remained until he and six others
made good their escape and came to the Union lines at Resaca, Georgia,
May 11, 1865.  This was after peace had been declared.  He was sent to
Nashville, where he joined his regiment, but was mustered out at Pulaski,
Tennessee, and discharged in Indianapolis, June 27, 1865.
   Mr. Osburn came home after the war and went to farming, at first renting
land, but in 1887 he bought his present farm of forty-three acres in
Richland township, Greene county, Indiana.  On December 6, 1866, he married
Elizabeth Sarver, a native of that community, and the daughter of Thomas J.
and Matilda (Terra) Sarver, natives of Tennessee.  Her parents were early
settlers in Greene county, Indiana.  Thomas J. Sarver was the son of George
Sarver, also a native of Tennessee, who came to Greene county at an early
date.  Thomas Sarver was a farmer, who died in 1864, his wife having
preceded him by one year.  Thirteen children were born to this union, as
follows: Margaret and John, both deceased; Rachael, who lives in Missouri,
in which state George also lives; Jane lives in Greene county; William,
deceased; Elizabeth, wife of the subject; Jacob lives in Kansas; Eliza is
deceased; David is also deceased; Frank is living in Kansas; Henry lives
in Nebraska; Carrie lives in Greene county; John and George were soldiers
in the Civil war, the former dying while in service.
   The subject and wife had eight children: The first two died unnamed;
Andrew, who lives in Portland, Oregon, married Rosa Clark; Edward, the
subject's fourth son, who lives in Worthington, Indiana, married Emma Love
and they have two children, Iris and Albert; Aderella is the name of the
subject's fifth child, who is the wife of Granville Stewart, a farmer in
Richland township; they have four children, Ruby Dessa, John W., Dexter
and Lexie Lee.  The subject's sixth child is Tona, who lives at Jasonville,
Indiana.  She married Ray Baker.  They have three children, John D.,
Mildred E. and Elnora.  Charles, the subject's seventh child, died in
infancy, and the last one died unnamed.
   Mr. Osburn is a Republican and he held the office of supervisor of his
home township for a period of twelve years.  He is a member of the Methodist
church, while Mrs. Osburn is a member of the Church of God.


Bio. of O.E. Osborn


   History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, Chicago, The S.J. Clarke
   Publishing Co, 1907.  Vol. II, page 1091.  (transcript)
   [See the bio. of George H. Osborn]
   [See the bio. of James Henry Osborn]

O.E. OSBORN.
   O.E. Osborn, who is engaged in carrying on general agricultural pursuits
in Hazel Dell township, was born in Virginia on the 4th of March, 1858.  He
is a son of J.W. Osborn, of whom further mention is made in connection with
the sketch of G.H. Osborn on another page of this volume.  He pursued his
education in the common schools and remained at home until twenty-five years
of age, during which time he received ample training in the work of the
farm, becoming familiar with the best methods of tilling the soil and
planting and harvesting the crops.  When twenty-three years of age he bought
eighty acres of unimproved land, whereon he now resides, and with
characteristic energy began its development and cultivation.  He has made
all the modern improvements upon it, including the erection of a large frame
dwelling and barns.  He now owns one hundred and sixty acres of land,
one-half of this being received by him as his share of his father's estate.
In tilling the soil he has brought his fields under a high state of
cultivation and his farm therefore presents a neat and attractive
appearance.  For sixteen years he has been making a specialty of Duroc
Jersey hogs and now has upon his place two hundred head which are eligible
to registry.  He holds two stock sales each year and disposes of about one
hundred head of hogs annually.  This branch of his business is proving
profitable to him.
   Mr. Osborn was married to Miss Sarah Roosa, a daughter of Isaiah and Mary
L. (Turner) Roosa, residing in Garner township.  Unto Mr. and Mrs. Osborn
have been born the following children;  Margaret, the wife of Richard Hough,
of Hazel Dell township; Frank, who is a student in Simpson College at
Indianola, Iowa; Ernest, who attends the Agricultural College at Ames, Iowa;
Grace, a student in the school at Cedar Falls, Iowa; Olive, pursuing her
education at Council Bluffs; Mary, at home; and Charles L.
   Mr. Osborn and his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church,
in the work of which he is actively interested, while to its support he
contributes generously.  He does everything in his power to advance the
growth of the church and to extend its influence, is now serving as one of
its trustees and for four years has been superintendent of the Sunday
school.  His life accords with its teachings, for he has ever been an
upright, honorable man, well meriting the confidence and esteem which are so
uniformly extended him.  In politics he is a stalwart republican.  For four
years he served as justice of the peace and for four years has been school
director, filling this position at the present time.  In all of his farm
work he is practical, following methods that produce good results, and today
has a valuable property which presents a very attractive appearance, owing
to the care and labor that Mr. Osborn has bestowed upon it.


Bio. of Oscar F. Osborne


        A Hist. of the State of WA, Lancaster Pollard, v4, New York,
        The American Hist. Soc., Inc., 1937.

   Oscar F. Osborne moved to Coulee in 1883 from his native TN where he was
born in Loudon Co. in 1859, the son of Thomas and Evelin (Matlock) Osborne.
His father was a native of NC and died in TN in 1866, while his wife, a native
of TN, died in 1872.  In 1896 Oscar Osborne marr. Nellie Scheibener, dau. of
F.M. Scheibener.


Bio. of Oscar H. Osborn


   Portrait and Biographical Album of Fayette County, Iowa, Chicago,
   Lake City Publishing Co., 1891.  Page 452.  (transcript)

OSCAR H. OSBORN, editor of the Brush Creek News and the Postmaster of that
place, was born in Oneida County, N.Y., July 29, 1836, and traces his
ancestry back to one of seven brothers of the name of Osborn who came from
France to America and located on Long Island during the Colonial days.  His
grandfather, William Osborn, was born in Springfield, N.H., there married
and spent his entire life.  He served as a Revolutionary soldier.  His son
Jedediah and the father of our subject was born near Springfield, January
16, 1787, and among his teachers was Daniel Webster, he attending the first
school that statesman taught.  He became a farmer and through many years of
his life followed that occupation.  In Springfield he married Jane Webster
in 1805, and unto them were born ten children.  A few years later he removed
to Fairfax, Franklin County, Vt., where his wife died.  In 1824 he was a
second time married, the lady of his choice being Cynthia Wilkins, who was
born in Fairfax and was a daughter of Capt. Asa Wilkins who gained his title
in the War of 1812.  In 1827 Mr. and Mrs. Osborn removed to Rome, Oneida
County, N.Y., where twenty years of their lives were spent, when in 1847
they went to East Florence, of the same county.  They were highly respected
citizens and both were church members.  Mr. Osborn being a Univeralist and
his wife a Baptist.  He was a well-to-do farmer and in politics was an old
line Democrat.  His death occurred January 23, 1870, and the mother of our
subject died in 1880.  By the second marriage were born nine children, thus
making Mr. Osborn the father of nineteen children, all of whom lived to
mature years, while eight are now living, two by the first and six by the
second marriage.
   Our subject is the seventh son and seventeenth child.  His early life
passed uneventfully, his days being spent in the usual manner of farmer
lads.  He acquired a common school education and at the early age of
thirteen years started out in life for himself.  Thus, depending upon his
own resources, he has steadily worked his way upward and may truly be
called a self-made man.  Going to Illinois he engaged in peddling notions
from a wagon.  On one occasion he stopped with a man who had a clock that
needed repairing and asked Mr. Osborn if he could not perform the job.  With
supreme ignorance of the mechanism of a clock he undertook it and succeeded,
and soone gained quite a reputation as a clock tinker.  He followed peddling
some four years, then clerked in a store, was a brakesman on the railroad,
or followed any pursuit which would yield him an honest dollar.  He built
the first house in Ridott, Stephenson County, Ill., and during his residence
there was joined in wedlock with Mis Mary C. Gitchel on the 24th of June,
1858.  The lady was born in Ridott, November 10, 1841, and was the daughter
of David L. Gitchel, a native of Vermont, who in early life removed to
Steuben County, N.Y., where he married Elizabeth Bennett who was born
November 15, 1821; she was born in Steuben County, N.Y., November 1, 1802,
and died in Brush Creek, Iowa, March 5, 1874, having survived Mr. Gitchel
many years.  His death occurred in Ridott, Ill., December 11, 1848.  They
were the parents of nine children.
   On the 7th of November, 1861, Mr. Osborn enlisted in Company K,
Forty-sixth Illinois Infantry, and was first under fire at the battle of Ft.
Donelson.  He was Sergeant about a year and a half and with his company
participated in the battle of Shiloh, the siege of Corinth and of Vicksburg,
Spanish Fort and Ft. Blakely.  Afterward he was detailed on special service
as messenger of mails, orders, etc., a position he filled two years, when he
was mustered out at Baton Rouge, Lu., January 20, 1866, after a service of
four years, two months and thirteen days.
   Returning to Illinois Mr. Osborn removed his family to Brush Creek in
May, 1866, and engaged in the mercantile business.  In March, 1874, having
sold out and not wishing to be idle, in order to have something to occupy
his time he issued the first number of the Brush Creek News then a
two-column journal, six by ten inches.  So well did he succeed in the
venture that he increased the paper to a five column, then a six, and in
1882 to an eight-column journal and put in a power press.  In 1870 he was
appointed Postmaster of Brush Creek, and with the exception of four years
has held the office continuously since.  Since his arrival in this place he
has continuously filled the office of Notary, is a Republican in politics,
a Knight Templar mason and a member of the Grand Army of the
Republican<sic>.
   Unto Mr. and Mrs. Osborn have been born ten children: Rosalin C. who died
in infancy; Irwin E. city passenger agent for the Chicago & Northwestern
Railroad at Sioux City; Emma A. wife of William F. Newcomb, a resident of
Cherokee, Iowa; Lewis who died at the age of one year; Arthur D., of
Whatcom, Wash.; Cora M., wife of Lester I. Walrath, of Union City, Wash.;
Walter died in infancy; Guy R. who runs the Star Poultry Yard and is
connected with the Brush Creek News; Dwight D., who is serving as Deputy
Postmaster under his father, and Ralph who is yet at school.