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Bio. of H.M. Carpenter


   History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky,
   William H. Perrin, Chicago, O.L. Baskin + Co., 1882.
   Page 453.  (transcript)

   CAPT. H.M. CARPENTER, farmer; P.0. Paris; the owner and proprietor of
"Prospect Hill" was born in Carlisle, Nicholas County, March 9, 1842; son of
Dr. J.H. Carpenter and Mary Martin.  Our subject remained at home until the
outbreak of the war, when he donned the "gray" and enlisted in the 2nd Ky.
Infantry, Co. F, July, 1861, and served until the close, coming out with the
rank of Captain, having passed through the different grades of rank until be
was placed in command of his company; he participated in all the battles in
which his regiment was engaged, and was thrice wounded, and at Fort Donelson
was taken prisoner and confined in Federal prison for eight months, and upon
his release joined his command and did effective service as an officer, and
manifested his allegiance to the cause he espoused by four years of active
service; upon his return home from the war he resumed agricultural pursuits,
and was married the following year, Jan., 1866, to Mary Osborne, daughter of
Charles and Melvina (Walton) Osborne; he was born 1808, in Charlotte County,
Va.; she, 1810, in Mason County, Ky.; the parents of Charles were Daniel and
Martha (Morgan) Osborne; the parents of Melvina were John and Susan
(Anderson) Walton; shortly after the marriage of Mr. Carpenter, he moved to
Mason County, this State, and engaged in farming; remaining here until
March, 1881, when he located on the Douglass Lewis farm, which he now owns,
consisting of 230 acres of choice land; his residence for location is one of
the finest in the country; of seven children born to him, five are living,
viz: Ida M., Melvina, Judith R., Maude and John Walton; the father of H.M.
was born Sept. 24, 1815, in Fleming County, Ky.; son of William, who married
a Miss Wilson.  William Carpenter was a native of New York, and of English
descent; the mother of our subject, Mary Martin, was born March 10, 1821, in
Nicholas County; daughter of Edmond and Rebecca (Stitt) Martin; eight
children were born to William Carpenter, viz: William, Sallie, John, Amanda,
Julia, J.H., Flemming and Jane; Flemming settled in Nodaway County, Mo., all
others in Nicholas County; J.H. continued a constant resident in Nicholas
County until October 1881, when he located in Lafayette County, Mo., and is
engaged in farming, and in the occasional practice of his profession; ten
children were born to him, viz: James A., William, Laura, James, Edmond,
Ella, Sanford, Mattie, Beauregard and H.M.; Mattie married to Conway;
William and James reside in Mason County; Sanford, in Nicholas; Edmond, in
Florida; H.M. in Bourbon County; the others are deceased; Mr. and Mrs.
Carpenter are members of the Christian Church; Mrs. Carpenter's father
was an Elder of that organization for forty years.


Bio. of Benj. F. Walls


   History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky,
   William H. Perrin, Chicago, O.L. Baskin + Co., 1882.
   Page 533.  (transcript)

   BENJ. F. WALLS, farmer; P.0. Cane Ridge; proprietor of Maple Grove Farm,
was born Aug. 12, 1840, to Zachariah and Tempa (Osbourn) Walls; she a
daughter of William and Keziah Osbourn, who emigrated from Germany to Clark
County, Kentucky, settling on Red River, where he raised a large family by
two wives.  Zachariah was a son of Thos. Walls, who removed with his family
from Richmond, Va., to Bath County, Ky., at an early date, he being the
youngest of two sons and four daughters; was born in Kentucky.  Thos. Walls
was a soldier, and was badly wounded in the Revolutionary War.  The parents
of our subject had ten sons and seven daughters, viz.: Olmstead, died in the
Mexican war; Betsy Ann, a Mrs. Myers, died in Illinois, whither she had
gone; William married Eliza Alexander and resides in Bates County, Mo.;
Reuben, also in Missouri; Isaac married Mary Simms, and died in Bates
County, Mo., where his widow now resides; Thomas married Sally Fulton, and
resides in Bates County, Mo.; James married Sarah Markwell and resides in
Illinois; Kittie A., now a Mrs. Anderson, residing in Cass County, Mo.;
Benjamin F., George, deceased; John, married first, Mary Sharp; second,
Annie Fletcher, and resides in Bates County, Mo.; Malvina, now a Mrs. Mark
Kimes, also in Bates County, Mo.; Violina, a Mrs. Cummins Kilbe, living in
Fleming County, Ky.; Tempa, a Mrs. William Williams, residing in the State
of Illinois; Keziah, a Mrs. Johnson, in Colorado, and Edgar in Missouri;
Malvina and Violina and Keziah and deceased infant were twins.  The parents
of our subject both died while he was yet young, and being thrown upon his
own resources at eighteen years of age, he came to Bourbon County and worked
on a farm one year at $15 per month; then went to Richmond, Va., where he
engaged in the mule trade for Green & Walker, at $25 per month, continuing
for about two years; he then came to the farm which is now his present home,
where he worked for his mother-in-law at $15 per month until his marriage,
Aug. 21, 1862, to Maria L. Wasson, daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Martin)
Wasson; he a native of Pennsylvania, she of North Carolina.  Maria L. is the
youngest of seven children, two only of whom are now living, the above and
Mrs. Elizabeth Summers, of Nicholas.  By this marriage Mr. Walls had three
children: a son, died in infancy; Carrie Martin, born June 10, 1866; and
Charles Robert, April 25, 1870. He is engaged in farming stock-raising and
trading.  He started in life a poor boy, but by persistent energy he has
accumulated property, and has been liberal in the improvement and education
of his children, who are his highest pride.


Bio. of B.M. Osborn-790


   History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky,
   William H. Perrin, Chicago, O.L. Baskin + Co., 1882.
   Page 607.  (transcript)

   B.M. OSBORN, farmer; P. 0. Georgetown; is a native of Scott County, and
the son of John and Nancy (Miller) Osborn; he was born near his present
residence, 1816; his father was a native of Abbeville District, South
Carolina, born Sept. 7, 1788; he emigrated to Scott County in about 1812;
during his life was a farmer; he died Nov. 7, 1822; his wife, mother of our
subject, was born in Pensylvania<sic>, in 1794, and died in Scott County,
Oct. 27, 1878; she was the mother of three children, two daughters and one
son, B.M. Osborn, being the oldest child; his early education was limited to
such as the neighborhood schools of Scott County afford; at the death of his
parents he lived with his Uncle Benjamin Osborn, and assisted him in all of
his business operations until he arrived at the age of twenty-seven years;
when he made several trading expeditions in the South with stock; in 1846,
he bought a small farm in his native county and began farming and stock
raising, at which he still continues, and now being one of the largest land
owners of Scott County, having 1,500 acres of land, which is somewhat hilly,
and particularly adapted to the raising of sheep, upon which he now has
nearly 1,000 of choice breeds.  Mr. Osborn is a man of great force of
character, sociable in disposition, and agreeable in manner, is a very
temperate man, having never tasted intoxicating liquor in over forty-five
years; he has always been a hard-working man, and now in the later years of
his life is surrounded with those comforts, and enjoying those pleasures
that are ever the result or honesty, industry and economy; he was married in
Scott County, in 1868, to Mrs. Agatha Osborn, a native of Scott County; he
is a Republican.


Bio. of George Osburn


   History of Kentucky, Vol. III, Connelley and Coulter, Chicago and
   New York, The American Historical Society, 1922.
   Page 130.  (transcript)

   GEORGE OSBURN, M.D.  A large share of the burdens of the medical
profession in the Sebree community of Webster County has been borne for many
years by a Dr. Osburn, formerly by the late Dr. George Osburn and in more
recent years by his son Dr. Roy Osburn.  Both have been physicians of the
highest attainments and the community has been singularly fortunate in the
possession of such representatives of the medical profession.
   The late Dr. George Osburn was born on a farm in Webster County, August
16, 1849, and died at Sebree February 11, 1905.  His father was James Worth
Osburn and his mother was a member of the King family.  Dr. Osburn grew up
on the farm, had a public school education, and attended his first medical
lecture at the University of Louisville.  Later he graduated from the
Medical College at Cincinnati and for four years practiced at Sorgho in
Daviess County.  He then gave up his professional labors to devote his
personal energies to his farming interests in Webster County.  Later, after
post-graduate work in medicine, he established his home at Sebree and
continued in active practice there from 1898 until the time of his death.
He was a democrat, and a member of the Masonic and Odd Fellows Orders.  Dr.
George Osburn married Miss Sarah Frances Snipes.  She died after becoming
the mother of three children, Roy, Ruby and L. Smith Osburn.
   Dr. Roy Osburn was born on his father's farm in Webster County August 2,
1879, lived on the farm to the age of nine and after that at Sebree.  His
early advantages were those of the common schools, and he subsequently
attended Vanderbilt and Cornell Universities, and studied medicine at
Louisville.  He graduated from the University of Louisville Medical School
in 1910, and for the past ten years has steadily practiced at Sebree.  He is
a member of the County and State Medical Associations, is a Mason, a
Methodist and a democrat.  Dr. Osburn also owns farm interests.  He married
Miss Clida Mae Price, of Webster County, and they are the parents of three
children, George P., Mary Catherine and Frances Louise.


Bio. of Charles G. Osborn


   History of Kentucky, Vol. III, Connelley and Coulter, Chicago and
   New York, The American Historical Society, 1922.
   Page 540.  (transcript)

   CHARLES G. OSBORN.  One of the well-known and highly respected figures
connected with the vast tobacco industry of Kentucky is Charles G. Osborn,
who is carrying on extensive operations at Bowling Green as a manufacturer.
Not only does he occupy a prominent position in business circles as
secretary and treasurer of the Scott Tobacco Company, but he is also well
known in civic affairs, having contributed his abilities and energies for
the past eight years to assisting in the management of the city as a
representative from the First Ward in the City council.
   Mr. Osborn was born at Chicago, Marion County, Kentucky, November 16,
1876, a son of John P. and Eliza Jane (Bullock) Osborn.  He traces his
ancestry back to England, whence the first of the name of this branch came
to America in Colonial times and settled in Maryland.  The family was
founded at an early date in Meade County, Kentucky, where in 1839 was born
John P. Osborn.  He was reared in his native locality, but as a young man
moved to Marion County, where he was married and where he became a
successful and extensive agriculturist.  He died at Chicago, Kentucky, in
1911, a highly esteemed and respected citizen.  Mr. Osborn was a democrat,
and in religious faith was a Roman Catholic, as was also his wife, who bore
the maiden name of Eliza Jane Bullock, born in 1845, near Chicago, Kentucky,
and died at that place in 1914.  They were the parents of four children:
Frank, who conducted a men's furnishings store at Lebanon, Kentucky, until
his death at the age of fifty-two years; Charles G.; Lee, first a telegraph
operator and later a wholesale dealer in liquors at San Jose, California,
who died at Chicago, Kentucky, at the age of thirty-two years; and
Catherine, the wife of Leo Mattingly, an employe of the Louisville &
Nashville Railroad Company at Louisville, in the auditor's office.
   The early education of Charles G. Osborn was secured in the Sisters'
School at Chicago, Kentucky, following which he pursued a course at
Gethsemane College, Gethsemane, Kentucky, which be left in 1894.  When he
entered upon his career it was as a telegraph operator for the Chicago &
Northwestern Railroad, but after one year he resigned and went to San Jose,
California, where he embarked in the wholesale liquor business.  He was thus
engaged for five years, following which be returned to Chicago, Kentucky,
and embarked in a general merchandise business, of which he was the
proprietor for two years.  In 1902 he came to Bowling Green and engaged in
the manufacture of tobacco, and at the present time is secretary and
treasurer of the Scott Tobacco Company, with large manufacturing plant and
offices at 1224 Indianola Street.  This concern manufactures twist and
smoking tobaccos and ships its products all over Kentucky and into the
adjoining states, where it meets with a big demand.  The company is
incorporated under the state laws of Kentucky for $160,000, and Mr. Osborn's
fellow officials are S.M. Matlock, president, and W.H. Mason, vice
president.  In addition to being secretary and treasurer Mr. Osborn acts as
general manager of the business and is a member of the Board of Directors.
He is one of the best known men in the trade in this part of the state and
enjoys a well-merited reputation for business integrity and high principles.
   A democrat in his political allegiance, Mr. Osborn has long taken an
active interest in local politics and civic affairs.  As representative of
the First Ward in the City Council he has worked effectively and
constructively in behalf of his constituents and his city, and has been able
to secure the passage of a number of measures during his eight years of
service which have contributed materially to the welfare and advancement of
the city of his adoption.  His religious faith is that of the Roman Catholic
Church.  As a fraternalist he is a fourth degree Knight and a member of
Bowling Green Council No. 1215, K. of C., and is an active worker in the
Bowling Green Chamber of Commerce.  During the World war period he
contributed liberally to the various movements and worked personally in
behalf of the Knights of Columbus, Young Men's Christian Association and Red
Cross organizations.
   In 1901, at Chicago, Kentucky, Mr. Osborn was united in marriage with
Miss Mary Rose Ballard, a graduate of Marshall Academy, Marshall, Missouri,
and daughter of C.N. and Lou B. (Smith) Ballard, now living in retirement at
Chicago, Kentucky, where Mr. Ballard was formerly engaged in farming and
merchandising.  Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Osborn: Edgar,
born March 13, 1902, a student at Ogden College, Bowling Green; and
Cornelia, born June 21, 1906, who is a student of the Sisters' School in
this city.  Mr. and Mrs. Osborn and their children occupy a pleasant, modern
home at 1227 High Street.


Bio. of Charles Orlando Osburn


   History of Kentucky, Vol. V, Connelley and Coulter, Chicago and
   New York, The American Historical Society, 1922.
   Page 514.  (transcript)
   [Son of William T. Osburn-10675]

   CHARLES ORLANDO OSBURN has had forty years of continuous association with
the commercial affairs of Madisonville, has been a merchant, banker and
public official, and is now secretary of Hopkins County's leading department
store, Dulin's Incorporated.
   The Osburns are an English family which settled in Virginia in Colonial
times.  The founder of the family in Kentucky was Isaac Osburn, grandfather
of the Madisonville merchant.  He was born at Leesburg, Virginia, in 1783,
and as a young man came West by one of the few available routes at that
time, floating down the Ohio River to Louisville and subsequently
establishing a home in Nelson County.  In 1843 he moved to Richland, Hopkins
County, developed a farm there, but spent his last days at Madisonville and
died in 1880.  William Thomas Osburn, his son, was born in Nelson County,
Kentucky, in 1831, and was twelve years of age when the family moved to
Hopkins County.  He was reared and educated in that county and after his
marriage moved to Madisonville.  He was an expert gunsmith, and that trade
was the basis of his business career.  He died at Madisonville in 1896.  He
was a democrat, a member of Madisonville Lodge No. 143, A.F. and A.M., and
Oriental Lodge No 99, of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.  William
Thomas Osburn married Ann Elizabeth Waetzell, who was born at Madisonville
in 1840 and died in her native city in 1900.
   Only child of his parents, Charles Orlando Osburn was born at
Madisonville September 3, 1861.  Most of his education was acquired in the
public schools of Madisonville when they were under the supervision of
Professor Boring.  Leaving school at the age of twenty he began his business
career as clerk in Bishop and Company's dry goods store.  During the next
eight years he laid a sound foundation of commercial knowledge and
experience.  Then for two years he sold the famous Pingree shoes,
manufactured by Pingree & Company of Detroit, to the retail trade in
Kentucky and Tennessee.  After leaving the road Mr. Osburn was in the
furniture and undertaking business at Madisonville for ten years.  He became
a banker in 1901 as cashier of Morton’s Bank at Madisonville and held that
post of responsibility for ten years.  It was while in the banking business
that he was elected and served as county treasurer of Hopkins County for
five years.  Mr. Osburn has always regarded his most congenial relationship
as one of a commercial and mercantile nature, and in 1911 he became a clerk
in Dulin's Incorporated, but has since improved his connections as
department manager, stockholder and secretary of the company.  Probably
every family in Hopkins County has patronized this model department store on
South Main Street.
   Mr. Osburn also served as city clerk of Madisonville six years.  He is a
democrat, a very interested worker and a deacon in the Christian Church, and
is prominent fraternally, being a past master and present secretary of
Madisonville Lodge No. 143 A.F. and A.M., past high priest and secretary of
Madisonville Chapter No. 123, R.A.M., is a past eminent commander and
present recorder of Madisonville Commandery No. 27, K.T., is recorder of
Rizpah Temple of the Mystic Shrine and is a past grand of Oriental Lodge No.
99 of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.  Through his personal
contributions and his influence he was associated with all the varied
activities promoting the success of the war.
   Mr. Osburn and family live in a modern home on South Main Street.  He
married at Madisonville in 1886 Miss Jessie Parker.  Her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. William B. Parker, are now deceased.  Her father was a farmer and also
a lumber merchant.  The only child of Mr. and Mrs. Osburn is William, who
was born July 27, 1889.  He is a graduate of the Tri-State College of
Angola, Indiana, and is an electrical engineer by profession.  He now lives
in Cincinnati.  During the war he entered the United States service and was
with the colors nearly two years.  His assignments to duty were at Fort
Thomas, Waco, Texas, Fort Sill, Oklahoma,,<sic> Anniston, Alabama, and from
thence in North Carolina.  He was in the Electrical Corps, and part of the
time in aerial service relaying messages from air ships to the artillery.
His rank was that of top sergeant.


Bio. of Thomas D. Osborne-220


   History of the Orphan Brigade, Ed Porter Thompson, Louisville, KY,
   Lewis N. Thompson, 1898.  Page 514.  (transcript) (Portrait accompanies
   bio.)

THOMAS D. OSBORNE
   From the time he was seventeen years old, he subject of this sketch has
been identified with those who did service for the South.  At first he was
engaged, in connection with his father, in business for the Confederate
Government; then, when but little past his eighteenth year, he entered the
ranks and took part thereafter in all the battles of the regiment till he
was so stricken as to be disabled for further field duty; and subsequent to
the close of the war has always been ready, in season and out of season, to
do a comrade's part in promoting the objects of fraternal organizations and
maintaining in civil life the fame that Kentuckians won during those years
of privation and sanguinary conflict.  He has long been the secretary of the
Orphan Brigade Association, the keeper of its archives, and devoted to its
interests.
   Thomas DeCoursey Osborne, son of Lee B. and Ann E. Osborne, was born near
Owenton, Owen County, Ky., November 8, 1844.  His paternal grandfather,
Bennett Osborne, was a lieutenant in the Revolutionary Army.
   In 1846, the family removed to Louisville, thence, eight years afterward
(1854), to Seymour, Ind.; but in 1859 they went to Murfreesboro, Tenn.,
where this son entered Union University, then presided over by Dr. Joseph H.
Eaton.  Among the students were Dr. R.W. Morehead, Dr. T.T. Eaton, Dr. H.C.
Irby, Dr. Wm. H. Whitsitt, Judge Hammond, and other leading men of the
South.
   When the war between the States opened, the university closed.  Having
engaged with his father, as indicated above, till early in 1863, he went to
Manchester and enlisted in Co. A., Sixth Kentucky Infantry (February 20th).
Thenceforth hewas the good and brave young soldier, campaigning with his
regiment wherever it was called to go and fighting wherever it joined battle
with the enemy during the next fifteen or sixteen months; as, at Jackson,
Chickamauga, Rocky Face, Resaca and Dallas, he fought with the foremost.  At
the latter place (May 28th, 1864), he was shot down and with others severely
wounded left on the field.  The Federal soldiers carried them, after the
Confederates retired, to New Hope Church, and placed them therein on cotton
pallets, but soon abandoned them, after which they were found by Surgeon
Newberry and a detail, sent to take charge of them, in a sad state of
neglect and suffering.
   Young Osborne was taken to the Fair Grounds Hospital, Atlanta, later to
Macon, and at Augusta was honorably retired.  His father and family had
refugeed South, and when peace came they returned to some property at
Stevenson, Ala., where he engaged in merchandising and planting.  In 1868 he
became half-owner and editor of the New Era, a weekly and afterward a
semi-weekly Democratic paper.
   In 1870, by appointment of Gov. R.B. Lindsay, he, with five other
commissioners, located and organized the A. & M. College at Auburn, Ala.
Through his instrumentality Dr. I.T. Tichenor, an ex-Kentuckian, was elected
president of the college.
   September 1st, 1870, he was married in Louisville, Ky., to Miss Christina
C. Ray, daughter of Co. W.R. Ray.  In 1872, his father having died, he moved
to Louisville, and was a short time managing editor of the Daily Ledger.  In
1876, associated with O.H. Rothaker and W.H. Gardner, he started the Sunday
Argus.  In 1879 he was elected assistant city license inspector, which
office he has held ever since.  Has never held any political office except
delegate and alternate delegate to State and National Democratic
Conventions.  He has served as secretary of many organizations, namely,
Alabama Press Association, Tennessee River Association, General Association,
(State Board), Long Run Association, Louisville Charity Organization
Society, Confederate Association, Orphan Brigade, etc,, etc.
   He is a member of the Baptist Church.  When fifteen years old he was
baptized in Stone River near Murfreesboro, Tenn., by Dr. J.M. Pendleton, and
has ever since been a quiet worker among the Baptists.  Aided in organizing
the Baptist Book Concern of Louisville, was the first secretary, and was a
member of the board of directors till he resigned.  Recently he joined in
founding the Baptist Argus, in which corporation he is a director.
   For twenty years or more he has been a delegate to the Southern Baptist
Convention and other denominational assemblies.  His membership is at
Broadway Baptist Church, where he is chairman of the deacons,
assistant-superintendent of the Sunday-school, and superintendent of the
Foreign Sunday-school, also member of the Board of Managers of the Baptist
Orphans' Home.
   He has for many years had charge of the religious department of a
well-known city paper, being called "the religious editor."
   He is also prominent in fraternal circles.  Is one of the founders of the
Fraternal Congress, over which he presided several years.  At the death of
James A. Demaree, grand reporter, founder of the Knights of Honor, in
accordance with his request Osborne was appointed grand reporter, but
declined to accept the office.  He has filled leading offices in Grand Lodge
K. of H., A.O.U.W., Golden Cross, Royal Arcanum, Chosen Friends, and Knights
of Honor Commandery.


Bio. of Thomas D. Osborne-220


   History of Kentucky and Kentuckians, Vol. II, E. Polk Johnson,
   Chicago, The Lewis Publishing Co., 1912.  Page 1016.  (transcript)
   (Portrait accompanies bio.)

   THOMAS DE COURCY OSBORNE. -- Louisvile has been the home and scene of
labor of many men who have not only led lives that should serve as an
example to those who come after them, but have also been of important
service to their town.  As the years have rolled their course and been added
to the cycle of the centuries each one has been filled with successful
accomplishments and good deeds.  The subject of our sketch, Mr. Osborne, has
also possessed the thorough understanding of life, its principles and its
possibilities, that have led him to aid his fellowment and work for
individual character development, for civic virtue and for national
progress.  Others have figured more prominently before the public, winning
military or political distinction, but few have attained larger or more
honorable successes in business or have done more direct and immediate
service for their fellowment in promoting those principles which find their
basis in high ideals and which rest upon a recognition of man's obligation
to his fellow men.
   Thomas De Courcy Osborne, of Louisville, was born near Owenton, Owen
county, Kentucky, November 8, 1844, the son of Lee Byrd and Anne F. Weaver
(nee Fox) Osborne, both natives of Virginia.  His grandfather was Lieutenant
Bennett Osborne, an officer in the Revolutionary war, who drew his land as a
Revolutionary soldier in Scott county, Kentucky.  He married Miss Letitia
Redding, daughter of the pioneer Baptist preacher, Joseph Redding, and
settling there, spent the remainder of his life on his farm.  The maternal
grandfather, Amos Fox, was the owner of Fox Forest, not far from Fairfax
Court House in Virginia, where he spent his entire life.  The parents of Mr.
Osborne were married near Shelbyville, Kentucky, and in 1840 removed to
Louisville.  They removed to Seymour, Indiana, in 1854, and in 1859 to
Murfreesboro, Tennessee.  From the latter place they went to Alabama, thence
to near Atlanta, Georgia, and still later to Alabama, where the father has
previously purchased land and where he died in 1872.  His widow then
returned to Louisville, in which city she died in 1881.
   The early education of our subject was secured in the Louisville public
schools, and when the family removed to Murfreesboro, Tennessee, he entered
Union University at that place, where he was a student when the war between
the states came on.  In the early part of 1863 young Osborne went to
Manchester, Tennessee, and on February 20th enlisted in Company A, Sixth
Kentucky Infantry.  He was with his regiment in all its campaigns, including
Jackson, Chickamauga, Rocky Face, Resaca and Dallas.  At the latter place on
May 28, 1864, he was shot down and with others seriously wounded left on the
battle field.  After the Confederates had retired, the Federal soldiers
carried them to New Hope Church and placed them on cotton pallets, but soon
abandoned them, after which they were found by Surgeon Newberry and a detail
in a sad state of suffering and neglect.  Mr. Osborne was taken to Fair
Grounds Hospital, Atlanta, thence to Macon, and at Augusta was honorably
retired in April, 1865.
   After the war he with his parents located at Stevenson, Alabama, where he
engaged in merchandising and planting.  Perhaps no business association has
kept Mr. Osborne more continually before the public than his identification
with various newspapers, but he is a moving force in every line of business
with which he is connected and the value of his opinions are quickly
recognized and their adoption followed by gratifying results.  In 1868 he
became editor of the "New Era," a weekly paper of which he was half owner.
In 1869 he was secretary of the Alabama Press Association and in 1870 was
clerk of the Tennessee River Baptist Association.  In 1871 he was appointed
with others to organize the Agricultural and Mechanical College at Auburn,
Alabama, became a director of the same institution, and by his vote elected
the famous Kentucky Baptist preacher Dr. Isaac T. Tichenor, first president
of the college.  Returning to Louisville with his mother he in 1872 became
editor of the Louisville Ledger newspaper.  The next year he varied his work
by becoming secretary and treasurer of the Great American Fire Extinguisher
Company, Limited, and in 1876 he returned to his newspaper work by founding
the Louisville Argus newspaper.
   He has been a director of the Louisville Baptist Orphans Home since 1881,
since 1886, a member of the Council Associated Charities and is now the
vice-president of the latter.  In 1885 he became a member of the board of
visitors to the Kentucky Institution for the Blind, a position he now fills.
In 1892 he aided in organizing the Baptist Book Concern.  He was one of the
orgainizers of the "Baptist Argus," now the "Baptist World," in 1896; has
has been a member of the Baptist Congress since 1897; and has been secretary
of the Baptist Convention of North America since 1906.
   Mr. Osborne has put forth earnest and effective effort to produce that
character development which has its basis in a belief in Christianity, and
the church finds in him a strong worker.  He has been president of the Union
Gospel Mission since 1896, and was clerk of the Long Run Association and
chairman of its executive board until he resigned in 1909.  He was one of
the founders of and first president of the State Conference Charities and
Conventions, which was organized in 1904 and from which position he resigned
in 1909.  In 1906 he was one of the first organizers of the Kentucky Child
Labor Association, became its first president and is now first
vice-president of the National Convention of Charities and Corrections.
Since 1898 he has been a member of the executive committee of the Kentucky
Children's Home Society.  Mr. Osborne countenances and generously supports
all religious and moral movements, as may be seen by the numerous positions
he holds in many societies and associations, for he does not withhold his
aid from any cause that needs and claims it.  Since 1894 he has been a
member of the board of the Louisville Industrial School, elected by the City
Council, and since 1896 he has been one of the trustees of the All Prayer
Foundling Home.  In 1810 he was unanimously elected Secretary and Treasurer
of the Commissioners of Hospital of Louisville.
   He was one of the founders of and for twelve years secretary of the
Confederate Association of Kentucky, was one of the incorporators and
secretary of the Jefferson Davis Home Association and for over fifteen years
was secretary of the "Orphan Brigade" Association; he has served as
secretary of all the national reunions of the Confederate Veterans ever held
in Louisville.  Mr. Osborne has served on the staffs of Generals Lee and
Gordon, also of Colonel Bennett H. Young and Colonel John H. Leathers.  He
helped organize and since its organization has been chairman of the Baptist
Layman's Movement of Kentucky.  He is also Treasurer of the State Executive
Board of Kentucky Baptists.
   Mr. Osborne is a grand officer and grand trustee of the Knights of Honor;
a grand trustee of the Royal Arcanum; supreme representative from Kentucky
in the Ancient Order of United Workmen; for years a member of the Executive
Committee of the Kentucky State Sunday-school Association; chairman of the
Deacon's Board of the Baptist church; and for twenty eyars was license
inspector of Louisville.  Bethel College conferred the degree of L.L.D. on
him in 1908.
   Mr. Osborne and Christina C., the daughter of the late Colonel W.R. Ray,
of Louisville, were united in marriage on the 1st day of September, 1870,
and they have had children as follows: Lee B., deceased, leaving one son,
Thomas H. Ray, who married the Rev. W.B. McGarrity, and now in Texas;
Charlotte, who married John L. Woodbury, an attorney of Louisville; Agnes,
who married Christopher Urwick, a business man of Louisville; Julia, who
married Mr. Chs. H. Bauer, and Isabel, who died in Egypt, January 7, 1910,
while she and her parents were on a trip around the world.  Following this
trip Mr. Osborne wrote "Koran Christ" an analysis of the Koran; also
Mohammedan Memorabilia and Notes of Travel; other books he has written are
Kentucky Charities and Corrections, Churches Caring for the Poor, Yellow
Fever Heroes, etc.
   Mr. Osborne's zealous and unabating efforts have been attended with most
gratifying results in both a spiritual and a temporal way, in the work of
the church and the various organizations with which he is connected; and
their collateral benevolences have been materially advanced and have gained
further precedence in the diocese.  That he has been so continuously sought
for office is indicative of his faithful service and the practical methods
which he follows in working for the public good.  At all times he stands for
truth, justice and advancement, and his fellow townsmen regard him as one of
the representative men in Louisville.


Bio. of Charles Osborn-1016


   History of Randolph County, Indiana, E. Tucker, Chicago,
   A.L. Kingman, 1882.  Page 169.  (transcript)
   [See an 1872 bio. of Charles Osborn-1016]
   [See an 1884 bio. of Charles Osborn-1016]
   [See a bio. of Isaiah Osborn-1224]

   Charles Osborn, Wayne County, Anti-slavery Friend, was born in North
Carolina in 1775; came to Wayne County, Ind., in 1819, laid out Economy in
1825; married Sarah Moorman, and afterward, Hannah Swain.  He had sixteen
children; their names were James, Josiah, John, Isaiah, Lydia, Elijah,
Elihu, Gideon, Charles N., Parker, Narcissa, Cynthia, Jordan, Sarah,
Benjamin, Anna. Six are living still -- Elijah, Charles N., Parker, Jordan,
Sarah and Anna (1880).  Charles Osborn published the first anti-slavery
paper in the United States, the Philanthropist, at Mt. Pleasant, Ohio,
in 1817 and 1818.  Its motto was "Emancipation, immediate and
unconditional."   This was several years before Benjamin Lundy established the
Genius of Universal Emancipation, and thirteen or fourteen years before
Garrison began the Liberator, at Boston, in 1831.  He was recorded a
minister among Friends in 1808, traveled and preached a full anti-slavery
Gospel, establishing manumission societies in North Carolina and Tennessee,
in 1814 and 1815; and, in 1816, removing to Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, he
established the Philanthropist, as stated above.  He traveled extensively
as a minister among Friends in America, and visited Europe, also preaching
in England, Ireland, France, Germany, Prussia and Holland, spending eighteen
months across the ocean -- 1832 and 1834.  He had been a worthy and trusted
member of Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends, but he was proscribed and
deprived of his position in society on account of his opposition to slavery
and colonization, in 1842 and 1843.  He was dropped from the "Meeting for
Sufferings" of the Richmond Yearly Meeting, nominally because he had
co-operated with Arthur Tappan, William Lloyd Garrison and others outside
the "Body of Friends," in earnest anti-slavery work.  He was active in the
"Separation," in 1842 and 1843, which resulted in the formation of another
distinct Yearly Meeting, called Anti-slavery Friends.  He moved to Michigan
in 1842, and to Clear Lake, Ind., in 1848; he died at Clear Lake in 1850, in
Christian love and joyful hope, seventy-five years old.  His life was indeed
one of earnest labor and endurance for Christ.  God vouchsafed to his
patient, waiting spirit abundance of peace and high views of heavenly
things, and often a strong power to speak for His holy truth and a clear
witness of gracious acceptance in the earnest service of a humble heart, and
he has doubtless been called home to behold the glory of the Lord in His
upper and better sanctuary.  Charles Osborn's father, Daniel Osborn, was
born in Sussex County, Del., in 1745, and his mother Margaret Stout, in
1744, in York County, Penn.  His grandfather, Matthew Osborn, was a native
of England.


Bio. of Charles W. Osborn-1207


   History of Randolph County, Indiana, E. Tucker, Chicago,
   A.L. Kingman, 1882.  Pages 169 and 403(two biographies within this
   county history).  (transcript)
   [See an 1884 bio. of Charles W. Osborn-1207]
   [See a bio. of Isaiah Osborn-1224]

Page 169.
   Charles W. Osborn, West River, Anti-slavery Friend, son of Isaiah Osborn,
and grandson of Charles Osborn of famous anti-slavery memory, was born near
Economy, Wayne Co., Ind., in 1833; attended school at Union Literary
Institute and Antioch College.  He married Asenath W. Wood, in 1858, and
and came to Randolph County, Ind., in 1860; they have had six children; he
has taught school six years; he is a farmer; was an Abolitionist, an
Anti-slavery man and is a Republican; he is a minister among Friends, and
has been Clerk of Monthly Meeting for seventeen years; he is active in
temperance, in Sunday schools and in all good things.  Mr. O. is highly
esteemed as a Christian and a citizen.  Largely under his auspices, a grove
temperance and prohibition convention was held in the summer of 1881, in a
grove not far from Economy, Wayne Co., Ind., lasting three days, addressed
by Mrs. Malloy, Mrs. Trego, Mr. Reynolds and other temperance workers and
attended by a large earnest and enthusiastic assembly.

Page 403.
CHARLES W. OSBORN.
   Charles Worth Osborn, son of Isaiah and Lydia Osborn, was born in
Economy, Wayne Co., Ind., February 8, 1833.  He is he second of a family of
eight children, of whom four are now living.  His boyhood was uneventful up
to the death of his father, which occurred when he was thirteen years of
age.  After this sad affliction, the responsibility of the care of the farm
rested principally upon Charles' shoulders.  Although young in years, he was
ripe in experience, and he was indeed a great stay to his mother in managing
the farm and raising the family.
   His education was principally confined to the common district schools.
He attended the Union Literary Institute of this county in the year 1853.
He also attended Antioch College for six months in the fall of 1856, and
winter of 1857.  His education was obtained at great sacrifice, having to
work his way through.  While attending the Literary Institute, a kind of
agricultural institution, he paid his own way, and also that of a sister, by
working on and superintending the farm connected with the institution.  It
is needless to state that in all of this work, Charles made the most of his
advantages, was of untiring industry and succeeded in obtaining an education
above that of the average young men of his time.
   He began teaching school in the fall of 1854, and continued teaching
during the winter, until 1866, with the exception of the fall and winter of
his attendance at Antioch College.  During the summer months he was
generally engaged in farming.  As a teacher, Charles was eminently
successful, being a young man of more than ordinary energy and of
unquestioned moral character.  He was a living example to his pupils of
purity of life and Christian deportment.  He was especially adapted to the
profession of teaching, and, after nearly twelve years of faithful work in
the school room, left the profession with many regrets.  He not only
attempted to train the minds of his pupils, but their hearts as well.
   He was married to Asenith W. Wood, daughter of Jacob and Phoebe Wood, of
Henry County, Ind., March 25, 1858.  After marriage, he settled on his
father's old homestead, in Wayne County, where he remained until the spring
of 1860, when he removed to the farm where he now resides.  He purchased
this farm in 1857, and it consisted of fifty-three acres, with about twenty
under cultivation.  He is comfortably situated, farm in good repair and
provided with convenient and commodious buildings.
   Mr. and Mrs. Osborn are the parents of six children, three of whom are
now living -- Arthur W, born January 7, 1859; Daniel W., October 19, 1860;
Laura C., born June 4, 1865, deceased January 26, 1877; Edgar C., born
October 25, 1872, decease October 7, 1874; Carrie, born June 23, 1876, and
deceased the same date, and William E, born June 23, 1876.  Mr. and Mrs.
Osborn have been active and useful members of the Society of Friends all of
their lives.  Charles was recorded a minister of this church in 1876, and
his services in this capacity have been highly acceptable.  He has been a
strong advocate of the temperance cause for years, and has done much to
mould public sentiment in favor of prohibition.  He has acted as
Superintendent of the Sabbathschool at Economy continuously for ten years.
He is a Republican in political preferment, and has always been anti-slavery
in sentiment.  Charles Osborn is a useful man in the community in which he
lives.  He is well qualified to serve in any capacity to which he may be
called.  He is systematical in all of his transactions and honest in all of
his dealings.
   Mr. and Mrs. Osborn lead a quiet and happy life, surrounded by loving and
obedient children, endeavoring to make all around them better and happier by
their presence.  They are honored members of the church and society, and it
is to be hoped that they will have mnay years of usefulness to come.


Bio. of Isaiah Osborn-1224


   History of Randolph County, Indiana, E. Tucker, Chicago,
   A.L. Kingman, 1882.  Pages 169 and 403(two biographies within this
   county history).  (transcript)
   [See a bio. of Charles Osborn-1016]
   [See a bio. of Charles W. Osborn-1207]
   [See the bio. of Jefferson Osborn-1254]

Page 169.
   Isaiah Osborn, Economy, Wayne County, Anti-slavery Friend, fourth son of
Charles Osborn, was born in Tennessee in 1803.  Married Lydia Worth, sister
of Rev. Daniel Worth, in 1829; had eight children and died in 1846, in Wayne
County, Ind.; he was a Friend, and held with the Anti-slavery Friends in the
"Separation."  He came to Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, in 1816; became a printer, and
came to Wayne County, Ind., in 1819; went to Tennessee in 1822 and worked
for Benjamin Lundy on the Genius of Emancipation till 1824 (in
Tennessee); worked at Centerville, Ind., for John Scott till 1827, and at
Indianapolis till 1828, when he came to Wayne County.  He married Lydia
Worth and took to farming and teaching.  He settled a short distance north
of Economy, Wayne County.  After his death, his widow married Mr. Baldwin,
of Union County; her second husband is also dead, and she lives a widow,
gentle spirited and peaceful, with her son, Charles Osborn, in West River
Township, Randolph Co., Ind.  The Osborns have been noted for their
steadfast adherence to principle, and their unflinching devotion to truth
and right.  Isaiah settled on a farm near Economy, Ind.; was at one time
Justice of the Peace, and, for many years, Assessor and Collector of Taxes,
was an active member of Friends and a warm and earnest advocate of the
slave, being a stern and outspoken Abolitionist of the earliest time.

Page 403.
ISAIAH OSBORN.
   ISAIAH OSBORN, the father of C.W. Osborn, and son of Charles and Sarah
Osborn, was born in Knox County, Tenn., November 25, 1803.  He was the
fourth of a family of sixteen children, of whom six are now living.  Charles
Osborn, the father of Isaiah, was born in Guilford County, N.C., in the year
1775, and Sarah Newman, his mother, was born in Virginia in the year 1773.
After marriage, they settled in Tennessee, and while residents here, Charles
became the founder of the Manumission Societies of Tennessee and North
Carolina.  As the name indicates, these societies were formed for the
purpose of liberating slaves from bondage.  They removed to Mount Pleasant,
Ohio, about the year 1817, where Charles commenced the publication of a
paper entitled The Philanthropist, the first anti-slavery paper
published in America.  This paper boldly advocated the immediate and
unconditional emancipation of the slaves.  It was ably edited, and though
taking a tep far beyond public sentiment, had its influence in the final
consummation of the cause that brought it into existence.
   Benjamin Lundy, who subsequently published an anti-slavery paper entitled
the Genius of Universal Emancipation, was a disciple of Osborn.
   Charles and his family moved to Indiana about the year 1819, and settled
in Wayne County, where he entered land and laid out the town of Economy,
where he lived until the eyar 1842, when he removed to Michigan, and from
thence to Porter County, Ind., where he died in the year 1850.  He was an
honored member of the Society of Friends, and was recorded a minister of the
Gospel about the year 1808.  As a minister, he traveled extensively over the
United States, and in the years 1832 and 1833, he visited the Continent of
Europe for the purpose of proclaiming the Gospel.
   Charles Osborn was a remarkable man, noted for his strong convictions on
all public questions, expecially that of slavery, when he stood almost
alone, and uncompromising in principle.  He saw from the beginning the true
nature of the Colonization Society, and voted alone against merging the
Manumission Society, which he had founded, into that of colonization, thus
placing conditions on emancipation which should be unconditional.  He was
devoted to the church, but his firm stand on the slavery question cost him
his position; believing that he was right, as God gave him to see the right,
he yielded up his membership in the church rather than retract from the
stand he had taken.  He died full of the faith he had so long preached, and
which had sustained him during a long, eventful and useful life.
   Isaiah lived with his father until the year 1822, when he emigrated to
Greenville, Tenn., and engaged to Benjamin Lundy as a printer on his
anti-slavery paper.  He returned to Indiana in the year 1824, and located at
Centerville, Wayne County, where he continued to work at the printer's trade
in the employ of John Scott.  He remained here until the spring of 1827,
when he removed to Indianapolis, and worked in the office of John Douglass
in the same capacity.  He remained here for one year, when he returned to
Wayne County and entered eighty acres of land.  He was married to Lydia
Worth, daughter of Job and Rhoda Worth, of Randolph County, June 24, 1829.
His wife, who is the only living child of Job Worth's family, is a woman of
more than ordinary ability, and was eminently fitted to be the wife of the
honored subject of this sketch.  After marriage, they settled in Economy,
where they remained for four years, Isaiah serving as Justice of the Peace
during the entire time.  They then moved on a farm situated one mile
northeast of Economy, where they remained until the death of Isaiah, which
occurred June 16, 1846.  Mr. and Mrs. Osborn were the parents of eight
children, of whom four are now living.  Two of their children reside in
Randolph County, one in Wayne County and the other in Henry County, this
State.  They were both acceptable and useful members of the Society of
Friends, and remained so all of their lives.  Isaiah entertained a strong
anti-slavery sentiment from his youth, was a fine business man and had
extensive experience in public life, of unquestioned integrity, and beloved
by all who knew him.  He had stron convictions for the right on all
questions, and dared maintain them.  He was particularly qualified for
usefulness in either church or state, and, it may be truly said, he lived up
to the full measure of his ability, and died honored and respected by all
who knew him.


Misc. Scott Co., KY Osborne info.


   History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky,
   William H. Perrin, Chicago, O.L. Baskin + Co., 1882.

Page 187.
   James B. Crawford settled in Georgetown in 1807.  He was, for a great
many years, the jailer of Scott County, while the jail was on the public
square his residence was in the house on Main Cross street, west side, now
occupied by Mrs. Oliver Gaines; after the new jail was built, he occupied
the house of the jailer on the Spring Branch.  Mr. Crawford was often a
member of the Board of Trustees.  He married a daughter of Mrs. Miller, of
the county, the first wife of the late Benjamin Osborn, of this county.
Mrs. Crawford was a most devoted and pious member of Methodist Church, a
highly intelligent and gifted lady.

Page 188.
   Applegate & McPhatridge were conducting a tailoring establishment in
Georgetown in 1805-6.  John Applegate was the son of Mrs. Osborn, by her
first husband.  William Applegate (killed by the Indians) was born in Scott
County; carried on a large tailoring establishment for many years, and died
in 1866.


Bio. of Benjamin Osburn Branham


   A History of Kentucky Baptists from 1769 to 1885, J.H. Spencer,
   by the author, 1886.  Page 188.  (transcript)

   BENJAMIN OSBURN BRANHAM* was born in Georgetown, Ky., March, 1829.  Being
left an orphan almost in his infancy, he was raised by his uncle Ben.
Osburn, a wealthy farmer of Scott county.  About 1844, he went to Frankfort,
and apprenticed himself to a house carpenter.  Here he joined the church,
and was baptized by Abner Goodell.  In 1846, he went to Mexico as a
volunteer, and, in the Battle of Buena Vista, lost his left arm.  On his
return home, he entered Georgetown College, where he remained a short time.
In the winter of 1847-8, he was Door-keeper of the House of Representatives.
At the expiration of his term of office, he went to Port Royal, in Henry
county.  Meanwhile he had become "religiously demoralized," and was excluded
from Frankfort church.  At Port Royal he was awakened to a sense of duty,
was restored to Frankfort church, and was soon afterwards set apart to the
ministry.  He was, at different times, pastor of Long Ridge, Lancaster,
Shawnee Run, Salvisa and other churches, in Kentucky, and Greenfield, in
Indiana.  During the last few years of his life, he was pastor of the
churches at Taylorsville, in Spencer county, and Buck Creek, in Shelby.  He
died of softening of the brain, Jan. 28, 1871.
   Of the living ministers of this old fraternity, a number of whom are men
of eminent distinction, there is space to say but very little.
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*From E. Burrus


Bio. of Elijah H. Bland


   Kentucky. A History of the State, 4th ed., Perrin, Battle,
   and Kniffin, Louisville, KY, F.A. Battey and Co., 1887.
   Page 791.  (transcript)

   ELIJAH H. BLAND was born December 15, 1814, in Nelson County, seven miles
north of Bardstown.  He is the eleventh of five sons and nine daughters, all
of whom lived to be grown, born to William and Sarah (Peak) Bland.  William
Bland was born in Prince William County, Va., in 1777.  In 1784, with his
parents, he landed at Louisville, and settled near Bloomheld, Nelson County,
where he became a substantial farmer and slave owner.  He was a soldier
under Gen. Wayne through the Indiana and Ohio campaign.  A brother, Osborn
Bland, and wife, were taken prisoners by the Indians at the burned station
on Simpson Creek, Nelson County; also, their son.  He was bound, but his
wife succeeded in slipping away, and was in the woods for seventeen days
before she was found by some hunters; her husband returned after an absence
of three years, and they reared a large and influential family. William
Bland moved to Hardin County in 1831, and settled on Nolin Creek, where he
remained until his death, at the age of about eighty-five.  He was the son
of John Bland, who married a Miss Osburn, natives of England and Ireland
respectively, who immigrated to Virginia in colonial days.  From Virginia
they came down the Ohio River in flatboats, and landed at Louisville; thence
proceeded inland to Nelson County, where he became an active and influential
farmer.  Mrs. Sarah (Peak) Bland was born near Frankfort, KY.; she was a
daughter of Daniel Peak, who married a Miss Holderman.  He lived to be over
ninety years old, and participated in several Indian wars in colonial times.
Elijah H. Bland was reared on a farm, and received a plain English
education.  At the age of twenty-three he left home, went to Louisville and
engaged in teaming, which proved to be a very lucrative business.  Having
accumulated considerable money, in 1837-38 he embarked in the hog trade, in
which he lost half his capital.  He then returned to the farm in Hardin
County, and also rode sheriff for several years.  In 1846 he entered the
grocery and dry goods business in Louisville, which he followed for
twenty-eight years, in which time he had accumulated a snug fortune; after
which he became a contractor in Louisville on public wells and cisterns,
speculated in bonds and stocks of various kinds, and lost considerable
during the panic of 1873.  At present he owns eight houses and lots in
Louisville, 1,200 acres of land in Nelson County, and 300 acres in Richland
County, Ill.  He was married October 29, 1841, to Corrilla Willett, a
daughter of Griffith and Rhoda (Stiles) Willett, natives of Nelson County
and New Jersey and born in 1798 and 1800 respectively.  Rhoda (Stiles)
Willett is still living.  Griffith was a moderate farmer, and died in 1875.
He was a son of George Willett, who married and settled on Pottinger's
Creek, near New Haven, in a very early day.  Mr. and Mrs. Bland had born to
them seven children: Stiles P., William M., George G. (all of whom are
dead), Bell (now Rush), Annie C. (now Stiles), Dr. Joseph E. and Mattie M.
(now Farnsworth).  Mr. and Mrs. Bland are devoted members of the Christian
Church, as also are all their children.


Bio. of John Burke


   Kentucky. A History of the State, 7th ed., Perrin, Battle,
   and Kniffin, Louisville, KY, F.A. Battey and Co., 1887.
   Page 759.  (transcript)

   JOHN BURKE, a native of Lawrence County, Ohio, was born in 1848, and is a
son of Samuel and Mary (Griffith) Burke.  Samuel Burke, a son of William
Burke, was born in 1807, emigrated from Greenbrier County, Va., to Ohio in
1809; he was a farmer by occupation, and was commissioner of Lawrence many
years; he died in 1879.  William Burke was an Irishman by birth, and was a
leading citizen of the county in early times.  Mrs. Burke, the mother of our
subject, was a daughter of Frederick and Ruth (Osborn) Griffith, of
Pennsylvania but of German descent.  Frederick Griffith was a farmer and
also a collier.  Mrs. Burke was born in Lawrence County, Ohio, in 1816, and
died in 1872 a member of the United Brethren Church.  John Burke, the
seventh in a family of eight children, was reared on the farm, and received
his education at Lebanon, Ohio, having had but two months' schooling a year
until he was twenty-one years of age.  He graduated in 1871, since which
time he has taught eight years in normal school, and also served as county
examiner of Lawrence County.  From the latter county he moved to Newport,
Ky., where for four years he was principal of the First District schools,
and afterward superintendent of the public schools and principal of the high
school.  In 1872 he married Miss Lena M. Johnson, of Lawrence County, Ohio.
Eight children blessed their union, six of whom are living: Blanche, Alma,
Myrtle, Lena, Roxy and John V.  Mr. Burke is a member of the I.0.0.F. and
Masonic fraternity, is a Republican in politics, and, with his wife, is a
member of the Baptist Church.


Gen. of Harrison W. Osborne-6139


   Jacksonville Daily Journal, Thurs., Aug. 22, 1918, Jacksonville, IL.
   Contributed by William W. Osborne.
   [See the bio. of Robert Tilton Osborne-6143]

OLD JACKSONVILLE
THE OSBORNES
By Ensley Moore
(Member Illinois State Historical Society)

   In Lower's English surnames published in London, 1875, by John Russell
Smith, the following extract was found.

"Osborne"
   "Walter, a Norman knight, and a great favorite of king William the First,
playing at chess with that king on a summer evening, on the banks of the
Ouse, won all he played for.  The king threw down the board, saying he had
nothing to play for.  'Sir', said Sir Walter, 'here is the land'.  'There is
so', said the king, 'and if thou beatest me this game also, thine be the
land on this side the bourne, or river, which thous canst see as thou
sittest.'  He had the good fortune to win; and the king clapping him on the
shoulder, said, Henceforth thou shalt be called Ousebourne'.  Hence it is
supposed came the name 'Osborne'."
   Lower's work also had this:
   "Among the surnames said to have originated at the Battle of Hastings,
and shortly afterwards are those of Fortescue, Eyre and Osborne."

      The Osbornes of Illinois
   Three brothers, namely Jesse, Thomas and William came to America from
England in 1632, and settled in New Jersey, the Osborne family in Illinois
are the direct descendants of the brother William.
   Thomas K. Osborne, son of William, was born in Mecklenburg county,
Virginia, in 1740; served during the Revolutionary war under General
Nathaniel Greene.
   William Harrison Osborne, son of Thomas K., was born in Rockingham
County, North Carolina, in the year 1773; went to Georgia, Lincoln county in
1796; married a widow, Mrs. Charity Ann Black (who had one son).  There were
two children born of this union, namely Nelson Osborne and Harrison W.
Osborne.
   William Harrison Osborne served in the war of 1812 under General William
H. Harrison.  Osborne was a remarkable walker and Robert T., related how he
walked from Jacksonville, Ill., to his home in Connersville, Ind.  J.T.
Osborne, now owns the cane that he used on this walk.  Robert T. Osborne
went to the station with his grandfather to purchase his ticket to
Connersville, but William H. decided to walk instead of taking the journey
by train.  He died in Connersville, Ind., and is buried there.
   Harrison W. Osborne married Eliza Voorhees Cassell in Kentucky, near
Lexington, and they came to Illinois in 1830, locating near Jacksonville.
H.W. was one of the pioneer preachers of the Christian church and was noted
for his eloquence.  He with Barton W. Stone, organized the Antioch Christian
church, east of Jacksonville.  The children of Harrison W. Osborne and Eliza
Voorhees Cassell were:
   I.   David W. Osborne, married Ellen F. Heddington.
   II.  Robert Tilton Osborne, married Elizabeth Jane Deweese.
   III. John N. Osborne, married Irene Smedley.
   IV.  Barton Stone Osborne, married Eliza Smedley.
   V.   Anna Eliza Osborne, married Henry Babb.

      David W. Osborne.
   David W. Osborne and Ellen F. Heddington were married at Jacksonville,
Ill., Dec. 18, 1845.  They lived in Morgan county and in Clinton county, Mo.
Mr. Osborne died March 9, 1898, at Lathrop, Mo.  Mrs. Osborne died March 11,
1913, at the same place, and both husband and wife were buried at Lathrop.
   David P. Heddington was a member of Co. D, 101st Illinois Infantry.  Joel
A. was a minister in the Christian church.  J.T. Osborne was in Co. C., 145
Illinois Infantry in the Civil War.
   The children of D.W. and Ellen F. Osborne were:
   1. J.T. married Mary A. Hicks, daughter of sheriff Isaac S. Hicks
   2. Charles A., married martha Acom.
   3. David W., married Nettie Kirk.
   4. Oscar M., married, and both husband and wife dead, Tacoma, Wash.
   5. George W., unmarried, Lanthrop<sic>, Mo.
   6. S. Maxcy, name of wife not known, Tacoma, Wash.
   7. Elida M., married E.L. Hockaday, Tacoma, Wsh.
   8. Dora E., married Dr. W.C. Gant, Hardin, Mo.
   9. Margaret, married Newton McWilliams, Tacoma, Wsh.
   10. Nellie, married Earl McKee, Lathrop, Mo.  She is dead.
   Mr. D.W. Osborne, the father of those children, was a farmer; in
Jacksonville; C.A., is an insurance agent; D.W., Jr., is an express agent,
both in Jacksonville; O.M. is a railroad man at Tacoma, Wsh; George W., a
farmer in Clinton Co., Mo., and S.M., a railroad carpenter at Tacoma, Wash.
   J.T. Osborne was grand sentinel of Grand Encampment I.O.O.F., Illinois.
   All members of David W., Sr's., family were members of the tian<sic>
church.
      Robert T. Osborne.
   Robert T. Osborne, married Elizabeth Jane Deweese, Oct. 14, 1847, at
Palmyra, Mo.  Mrs. Osborne was a "snow bird", and rode on the first
excursion on the "Northern Cross" R.R., from Jacksonville to Meredosia, in
1839.
   R.T. and Elizabeth Jane Osborne were parents of:
   1. Edward Austin Osborne, (deceased).
   2. Mary Eliza Osborne, (decease).
   3. Almira Osborne (Mrs. Charles C. Phelps, Jacksonville, Ill.)
   4. Samuel Deweese Osborne, (deceased), married Lilliam Wood.
   5. Georgia L. Osborne, assistant Librarian Illinois State Historical
society, Springfield, Ill.
   6. Jessie Cassell Osborne, Mrs. Jesse M. Metcalf, Girard, Ill.
   7. Robert Nimrod Osborne, (deceased), married Stella Smedley.
   8. William Campbell Osborne, with Butler Bros., wholesale, Chicago, Ill.
Married Lydia Widmayer.
   9. Elizabeth Deweese Osborne, Mrs. Frank L. Best, Bloomington, Ill.
   Robert T. Osborne died in Jacksonville, Sept. 10, 1887.
   Elizabeth J. Osborne, died in Jacksonville, April 14, 1914.
   Both are buried in Diamond Grove cemetery.
   Robert T. Osborne at first farmed, after moving to Jacksonville, was a
cattle dealer.  Built the three story brick building occupied at present by
the C.C. Phelps Dry Goods Co.  He served in the first city council as
alderman in 1867.
      John N. Osborne.
   John N. Osborne and Irene Smedley were married November 24, 1853 at
Petersburg, Ill.  They spent part of their lives on a farm in Menard county,
and part in Jacksonville, Ill., Mrs. Osborne died in Jacksonville., John N.,
in Kansas, date not known.  They were buried in Jacksonville.
   The children of John N., and Irene Osborne were:
   1. Annette, married John Hughes.
   2. Virginia, married Vance Green, both dead.
   3. Thomas H., name of wife unknown, Portland, Ore.  Mrs. Osborne dead.
   John N. Osborne was a farmer and stock raiser; Thomas H. a railroad man.
      Barton Stone Osborne.
   Barton S. Osborne married Eliza M. Smedley, Nov. 24, 1853, and they spent
their lived on the farm west of Petersburg, Ill.  Mr. Osborne died in 1889;
Mrs. Osborne died in march, 1904.  They were buried in Rose Hill cemetery,
Petersburg, Ill.
   The children of Barton S., and Eliza M. Osborne were:
   1. Alva M., married J.S. Self, and they were in Geary, Okala., Self died
March 27, 1918.
   2. Effie M., married R.J. Childers, now in Gotobo, Okla.
   3. George S., and wife Pearl, now in Chadron, Neb.
   4. H.W. lives in Geary, Okla.
   5. Anna E., married A.J. Hodgen.  She died in 1898.
   6. Barton S., Jr., married Belle Harrison.  They live on a farm south of
Petersburg, Ill.
   7. Mary B., married F.R. Henninger, Petersburg, Ill.
   Barton S., senior and junior were farmers, H.W., and George S.,
carpenters.
   Barton S., Sr., was a member of Co. E., 114th Illinois Infantry.
      Anne Eliza Babb.
   Anne Eliza Osborne was married to Henry R. Babb, on the farm east of
Jacksonville, and they made their home on a farm.  Both are dead.  Mrs. Babb
was buried at Antioch church, and Mr. Babb at Lathrop, Mo.
   Mr. and Mrs. Babb were the parents of:
   1. Harrison W. Babb, wife's name unknown.  He was buried at Lincoln, Neb.
   2. Maria L., married Asa Brookings, both deceased.  Buried at
Lathropo<sic>, Mo.
   Henry R. Babb was a farmer in Morgan county, Ill., Harrison W., a lawyer
in Lincoln, Neb.
   All the Osbornes were members of the Christian church.
      Miss Georgia L. Osborne.
   Miss Osborne, a graduate of the Young Ladies Athenaeum, of Jacksonville,
with her aunt, Mrs. M.L.D. Kaiser, was among the first to tramp into the
Yukon region.  She has since become assistant librarian of the State
Historical Library of Illinois, in which she is now serving, making a
specialty of geneology.  She attended the World's Exposition at San
Francisco in charge of the Lincoln exhibit.