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Bio. of D.A. Osborn


   The Centennial History of Oregon, 1811-1912, Gaston,
   Chicago, The S.J. Clark Publishing Co., 1912.  Vol. ?, page 868.
   (transcript)

   D.A. OSBORN, who is a representative agriculturist of Umatilla county,
was born in that county, January 17, 1872, a son of A.R. and Satirah A.
(McDowell) Osborn.  The mother was born in Ohio but the father was born
while his parents were crossing the plains in 1842.  They are still living
in this state.  To them were born ten children, seven of whom yet survive.
   D.A. Osborn received a common-school education and remained at home
until he was twenty-seven years of age, when he began farming for himself,
and has since continued in that occupation.  He now operates a tract of
eight hundred acres of land and is engaged in general farming.
   In 1898 Mr. Osborn married Miss Bertha Garn, who was born in Union
county and is a daughter of E. D. and M. M. (Eldredge) Garn.  Her father is
a native of Ohio and her mother of Wyoming.  The parents came to Oregon in
1879 and located in Union county, where they are still residing.  In their
family were five children, four of whom are yet living.  Mr. and Mrs.
Osborn are the parents of three children: Irene L., born January 10, 1900;
David C., born January 19, 1906; and Bonnie B., born September 29, 1910.
   In politics Mr. Osborn is a republican and gives much attention to the
interests of education, having served as a member of the school board.
Mrs. Osborn was reared in the faith of the Methodist Episcopal church.  Mr.
Osborn is one of the representative citizens of his county, and all with
whom he comes in contact accord him the highest respect and esteem.


Bio. of Osborn Daniel-1585


   History of Hendricks County, Indiana, Chicago, Interstate Publishing
   Co., 1885.  Page 556.  (Clay Twp)  (transcript)

   Daniel Osborn, one of the pioneers of Hendricks County, was born in Hart
County, Ky., in 1811.  In 1829 his father, Daniel Osborn, Sr., emigrated
with his family to Hendricks County, and settled in what is now Franklin
Township, and lived where he first settled till his death, in 1839.  His
wife survived her husband till 1855.  They had a family of seven children,
two sons and five daughters.  Of these there are living Margaret, Christina,
Daniel and Mary.  Daniel Osborn, Jr.,  married Mary Broadstreet, a native of
Clark County, Ind.  She died in 1882.  Mr. and Mrs. Osborn had twelve
children, nine of whom are living, eight sons and one daughter.


Bio. of Daniel Osborn-1714


   History of Wayne County, Indiana, Vol. II, Chicago, Inter-State
   Publishing Co., 1884.  Page 295.  (transcript)
   [This history incorrectly calls Daniel Osborn "David"]
   [See the bio. of Zachariah Osborn-1715]

   DAVID OSBORN, deceased, was born in Suffolk County, N.Y., June 29, 1764.
He was married June 20, 1791, to Jane Greene, who was born Jan. 3, 1767.
They had a family of eight children, but three of whom are living --
Abigail, born Jan. 4, 1794; Jane, born Aug. 21, 1802; Emeline, born May 27,
1807.  The deceased are, Daniel, Jr., born May 27, 1792; Alonzo, born Sept.
7, 1798; Sivonia, born Aug. 12, 1800; Samuel, born July 22, 1805; Chatfield,
born Jan. 6, 1809.  In 1821 they came, with their eight children, to Wayne
County, Ind., and located where their daughter Emeline now lives.  Mr.
Osborn was a good citizen and was widely known and respected.  He was an
industrious, energetic farmer and accumulated a good property.  He died
May 13, 1846.  Mrs. Osborn died June 9, 1840.


Bio. of Daniel Osborn - 2452


        History of Cannon, Coffee, DeKalb, Warren and White Cos.,
        Tennessee, The Goodspeed Pub. Co., Nashville, 1887.
        Page 912.  (transcript)
        [See the bio. of Zachariah Osborn-1715]
        [See the bio. of Daniel Osborn-1714]

   Daniel Osborn, a prosperous planter of this county and a resident of
McMinnville, was born October 6, 1822, in Wayne County, Ind.  His father,
Daniel Osborn, Sr., was born about the year 1792, at Long Island, N.Y.,
engaged during life at the different occupations of teaching, merchandising
and farming, was a Universalist in religion and died in 1849 in Sioux
County, Wis.  Mary Washington, his wife and the mother of our subject, was
a native of England, came to the United States with her parents when
fourteen years old, and at an early day settled in Indiana, where she became
Mrs. Osborn about the year 1820.  She was a Baptist and died in Iowa, in
1876.  Our subject is the eldest of twelve children.  He obtained a fair
education in youth, worked at the mechanic's trade for a time, but in 1852
began merchandising in Richland County, Wis., where he remained eight years.
He then moved to Grant County, where he sold goods about four years, then
went to Dexter, Iowa, and still later to Des Moines.  He remained in the
latter city five years as merchant, and in 1876 moved to McMinnville, Tenn.,
which has since been his home, and near which he owns a farm of 176 acres.
He also owns two farms of 250 acres near McMinnville, and two fine
residences in town.  A large portion of his fund are in bonds.  He wedded
Miss Mary, daughter of Abraham Heed, March 31, 1858, and by her is the
father of four children, only one, Daniel, now living.  The mother was born
in Belmont County, Ohio, December 28, 1836, and is a member of the Christian
Church.  Mr. Osborn is a Universalist in belief.


Bio. of David Osborn-6577


   Progressive Men of Bannock, Bear Lake, Bingham, Fremont, and Oneida
   Counties, Idaho, Chicago, A.W. Bowen and Co., 1904.
   Page 335.  (transcript)

DAVID OSBORN, Jr.
   The origin of the Osborn family in America is lost in the mists
surrounding the early settlement of Virginia, where representatives of this
branch came to the Old Dominion from England and were large tobacco planters
and prominent personages in the civil affairs of the Colonial epoch and the
name often appears in the ancient chronicles of deeds of chivalry and
service to the state.  The great-grandfather of David Osborn, Jr. of
Rexburg, Idaho, John Osborn, was a reputable planter and farmer of
Greenbrier county, Va., and served also in official capacities of scope and
importance, while his son David, native to and educated in the same county,
was a gallant defender of the Colonial cause of the American Revolution.  He
died in 1808 at about fifty years of age, leaving four children, Elizabeth,
John, William, and David, born unto his marriage with Mary Harrah, a
daughter of Charles and Mary (Tincher) Harrah.  David Osborn, Sr., the
grandson of the original John, was born on March 31, 1807, on the ancestral
acres in Greenbrier county, which, tradition says, has been occupied by the
family from the early days of settlement.  The widowed mother took part in
the emigration of a large number of the Osborn family, herself and children
being accompanied by her mother, who was also a widow, their new home being
made on Locust Creek in Fleming county, Ky., in the early years of the life
of her youngest son David.  The Virginian house and estate of the father was
rented until the children were all of age and then sold.  Originally a
Baptist, in her later life the mother, a noble, God-fearing woman, married
with Leonard Wines, a Presbyterian, whith which church she was afterwards
connected.  In 1819 the family removed from Montgomery county, Ky. where
they had lived for a few years, to Monroe county, Ind., in the heart of an
almost primeval forest.  There was but little land under cultivation, few
mills and but little grain.  The little corn they raised was ground in a
handmill and schools were few and the winter terms, the only ones the boys
could attend, extremely short.  The mother, however, encouraged them to home
study with the result that they became more than usually well educated.  In
1821 or 1822 the family began to develop a farm in the heavily timbered
lands of Owen county, beech, maple, poplar and walnut trees covering the
ground.  Here, before he was sixteen, David was placed in charge of a school
of about twenty-five scholars, which he successfully taught and then
returned to Kentucky and added to his educational equipment by over a year's
attendance at good schools, thereafter going back to Indiana and teaching
again successfully for several years.  In 1826 the family removed to Green
county and here young David had a truly pioneer experience.  One morning he
heard a hog squeal and ran to its assistance, finding a black bear holding
it down and trying to devour it.  He shouted to frighten the bear when it
left its feast to pursue the intruder, who being weaponless, ran and sprang
up a small sapling.  The bear followed and climbed the tree, catching hold
of a foot and letting go fell to the ground, thinking to bring young Osborn
down with it.  The shoe came off, but the bear again came up the tree, took
sharp hold with its teeth of the other knee, then the calf of the leg, then
tore deep wounds in the other thigh, tearing the flesh and muscles badly in
each instance.  The bear finally returned to its feast and the wounded youth
returned home so faint from loss of blood as to collapse before reaching the
house and for six weeks was confined indoors.  On April 10, 1828, he married
Miss Cynthia Butler, a daughter of Thomas and Polly Butler and settled down
to farming and teaching, being prospered in his labors, and having several
children born to their marriage.  He had for years deep thoughts on
religious subjects, but at this period began to feel strongly affected in
this direction, finding no comfort in various churches represented in his
neighborhood except the Campbellites, with which himself and wife
affiliated, until the truth came to them in July, 1835, in the preaching of
George M. Hinkley, a Mormon missionary.  From that time, during many
eventful years these good people were devout and earnest members of the
Church of Latter Day Saints, receiving the persecutions of its enemies and
suffering in bodies and in loss of property by their desire to worship God
according to the dictates of their consciences.  In 1835 Mr. Osborne went to
Missouri and bought land in Clay county, sold his Indiana farm and farm
property on his return, and in 1836 started for his new Western home.  Here
he settled in Davis<sic> county, ten miles north of Far West, as the Mormon
colony was located there and in Caldwell county, and began the development
of a good farm, raising fine crops on the land he brought into subjection.
In 1838 commenced those terrible persecutions that brought such a stain on
the fair name of the state.  During this year he was made a prisoner, after
some weeks later being released after having signed a stipulation, as did
all the Mormons, that he would leave Davis county that fall and the state
the next spring.  On his return to his home he found it vacated, his hogs
slaughtered and much valuable property destroyed.  His family, in terror of
expected death, were camping out in the snow and frost in a secluded place
in the woods, exposed to the inclement weather, from the effects of which
his young son, William, not long after expired in his arms.  The family was
not allowed to occupy their comfortable house during the winter, but Mr.
Osborn built a rude cabin four miles distant, just over the Davis county
line, while, if he wished to procure any of the crops he had raised, he was
forced to go after them, like a thief, under the cover of darkness.  In 1839
the family removed to Hancock county, Ill., where, in 1841, he again started
a home and remained until 1846, then started on the great trail toward the
new home of the church in the Rocky Mountains.  The comfortable Illinois
farm he had started he sold for "an old cloth coat and a few pounds of pork
by throwing in a good table and some articles too heavy to take" and, with a
little gray mare and an old spavined horse and a cow and a steer yoked
together and hitched to a wagon, they started westward, following the track
made by the pioneers.  It would be very interesting to follow in detail the
journey westward, with its accompanying trials, but space forbids.  They
stopped at Garden Grove, Iowa, for the winter, Mr. Osborn going sixty miles
away and teaching school, and in 1847 came to Council Bluffs, where he
remained until 1852, when he had acquired a suitable outfit to cross the
plains and started Zionward.  His devoted wife, who had so loyally and
uncomplainingly shared his sorrows, failed on the journey, dying on July 2,
1852 at Grand Island, on the Platte River, 250 miles west of the Missouri.
A rude coffin of poles was hastily made to protect the wornout remains from
the ravages of the wolves and here her body was buried to await the
resurrection.  The surviving members of the family reached Salt Lake on
September 12, 1852, located for a year at Centerville, Utah, where the
father taught school for the winter, then moved to East Weber, where he
devoted himself to agriculture.  In 1860 he became a pioneer settler of
Hyrum, in the Cache Valley, where was his home until his death June 12,
1893.  He survived his second wife, Mrs. Lena Larsen whom he married on
February 14, 1857 at Salt Lake.  A sterling man of strong religious faith,
he stood high in the favor of the church, rising to be the president of the
High Priests' Quorum of Cache county.  He had ten children, Thomas J.; Mary
E. (Mrs. D.M. Perkins); Elizabeth (Mrs. J. Hammer); William died at 30
months of age; David Jr.; Nancy M. (Mrs. H. Neilson); John died in infancy;
Rebecca (Mrs. R. Thorn); Harriet J. (Mrs. J.M. Davis); and Cynthia A. died
young.
   David Osborn, Jr., the popular landlord and useful citizen of Rexburg,
Idaho, as a lad suffered all the sad effects of the unjust persecutions with
his father's family, who were rendered poor and driven from place to place
by religious bigotry, under the capable instruction of his father, however,
receiving much more education than fell to the lot of most of the children
of his association.  He drove a team of three yokes of oxen and one yoke of
cows all the way along the emigrants' trail to Utah, walking all the
distance.  In Utah he remained with his father until December 25, 1857, when
occurred his marriage with Miss Nancy Thorn, a daughter of Ashal and Sarah
(Lester) Thorn.  She was born in Crawford county, Pa., on October 24, 1841,
and accompanied her parents to Utah in 1853, being a resident of Box Elder
county at the time of her marriage.  For three years after marriage Mr.
Osborn was employed on the farm of his eldest brother, then moved to the
Cache Valley and took a homestead in the new settlement at Hyrum, where he
erected the first residence of the place.  In June, 1861, his brother,
Thomas J., died at East Weber, and at the request of the family, Mr. Osborn
removed thither for one year to take charge of the farm and settle the
estate.  He then bought a farm at Three Mile Creek in Box Elder county, near
Mrs. Osborn's people, and conducted this until July, 1865, when he moved to
the new settlement of Montpelier, in Bear Lake county, Idaho, where for
seven successive years he gave his entire time to vigorous farming
operations, during all of this time harvesting not a crop of value, on
account of frosts and the depredations of grasshoppers.  He persevered,
however, and in time his diligent industry was rewarded by the possession of
a fine farm and a pleasant home on the main street of the city.  During his
life in Montpelier he was the very capable postmaster for fourteen years, a
popular justice of the peace for sixteen years, and he was the efficient
captain of the Montpelier company of the Nauvoo Legion during the entire
life of that organization.  An active man of business for twelve years while
making his home in Bear lake county, Mr. Osborn was engaged in filling large
contracts of railroad construction, building the line from Nampa to Boise
and for years being employed in charge of highly important and especially
difficult work at various points on the Oregon Short Line.  Not having land
enough to supply his sons with labor, in 1895 he sold his Bear Lake
possessions, and, in the spring of 1896, came to Rexburg, his present
residence.  Here he purchased land with a partially finished house upon it,
which he enlarged and completed for hotel purposes, opening the Osborn
House, which has proved a very popular place of entertainment, in the spring
of 1900.  Mr. and Mrs. Osborn have been most diligent and effective in the
care of their guests and their house has a well-earned reputation.  Mr.
Osborn is a strong Republican and is serving his third term of justice of
the peace in this city, having also been a member of the city council for
two terms, also holding the important offices of supervisor and watermaster
with conceded ability.  In church relations he has been very active and
useful.  While living at Three Mile Creek he was the president of the local
branch of Brigham City ward, and at Montpelier he as a highly serviceable
counsellor to five biships, holding the office until his removal to Rexburg;
in this city he has been a member of the High Council of the stake for three
years.  In all his relations, civil, religious and social, he has received
the encomiums of his associates for his faithfulness and ability, and won
the friendship of the best citizens of the various communities where he has
maintained his residence.
   The children of this honored couple, with a brief record, concludes most
fittingly this interesting sketch: David A., born on September 4, 1859, a
rancher, resides in Lemhi county; Cynthia A., born on June 6, 1861, married
A.J. Bird and resides in Rexburg; Sarah Vianca<sic>, born February 1, 1863,
married R.C. Young and died on January 18, 1892, leaving one child, David
R.; Mary M. born on January 14, 1865, married J.M. Phelps, and lives in
Montpelier; Lydia J., born on March 12, 1867, resides in Rexburg; Nancy A.,
born on April 26, 1869, is also at the parental home; Margaret A., born July
21, 1871, married H.E. Rigby and lives in Rexburg; Jefferson L., born
October 19, 1873, lives at Gransville, Utah, and is a teacher; William W.,
born on February 14, 1876, has filled a two-years mission in Kentucky, and
is now at the Osborn House; John Richard, born November 18, 1877, at the
present writing is filling a mission in British Columbia; Isaac Melvin, born
on April 7, 1880, is teaching at Hibbard, Idaho; Glenn Milton, on January 1,
1887, is a student at Ricks Academy.


Bio. of David S. Osborn-1998


   Portrait + Bio. Record of Madison and Hamilton Cos., IN,
   Chicago, Biographical Pub. Co., 1893.  p714.  (transcript)
   [See the bio. of George W. Osborn-5745]

   DAVID S. OSBORN, who is engaged in farming and stock-raising in Clay
Township, claims Indiana as the state of his nativity.  He was born in
Marion County, in 1842.  His grandparents, James and Elizabeth Osborn,
were natives of Virginia, and were of Irish descent.  The former was a
well-to-do planter and slave owner, and served in the Revolutionary War.
His children were Elizabeth T., Jonathan, Solomon, David and Nina.  The
latter was captured by the Indians at the age of fourteen, and after seven
years was obtained through a treaty.  She was well treated, but two others
who were captured at the same time were burned at the stake before her eyes.
   Jonathan Osborn, father of David, was born in Virginia in 1779, and on
attaining his majority was married.  Five children were born of that union:
Comfort; Stephen, deceased; Hester; Polly and Eliza, both deceased.  After
the death of his first wife, Mr. Osborn married Mrs. Fuller, who had two
sons, Shelby and John, by her first marriage.  They had three children,
Jonathan, Sarah and James.  After the death of his second wife, Mr. Osborn
married Nancy Hines, and their children were David, Hulda and Nancy.  In
1836, the father went to Marion, County,<sic> Ind., where he bought eighty
acres of land, and entered forty acres adjoining.  He died in 1874.  After
the death of the mother of our subject, he wedded Mrs. Warenfeits, and after
her death Mrs. Jincy Hushaw.
   In the usual manner of farmer lads, David Osborn was reared to manhood,
and in the common schools was educated.  On reaching man's estate he chose
as a companion and helpmate on life's journey Miss Hannah Roberts, a native
of this state, and a daughter of Jacob and Ruth Roberts, the former born
in Maryland, and the latter in Indiana.  Eight children graced the union of
our subject and his wife: John W.; Jacob; Cora, wife of Charles Taylor;
Emsley, Mellie, George, Francis Martin, and one who died in childhood.
   The parents hold membership with the Lutheran Church.  Mr. Osborn votes
with the Democratic party and takes quite an active part in local politics.
He began farming for himself on rented land in Marion County, and in 1882
came to Hamilton County, where he purchased eighty acres of his present
farm, which now comprises one hundred and four and one-half acres.  In
connection with its cultivation, he is engaged in running a threshing
machine and in raising fine draft horses.  He is a man of good business
ability, and has become a substantial citizen, his success having been
achieved through well directed effors, perseverance and industry.


Bio. of David W. Osborn


   A Portrait and Biographical Record of Boone and Clinton Counties, Ind.,
   Chicago, A.W. Bowen & Co., 1895.  Page 408.  (transcript)  (Bio. is
   accompanied by a portrait.)

   DAVID W. OSBORN, the popular county treasurer of Boone county, Ind., was
born in Jackson township, same county, July 8, 1854, and is of English
extraction.  His father, Caleb Osborn, came from Russell county, Va., by
wagon, in 1851<sic>.  He had married a Miss Gose in Virginia, and there were
born to him six children, viz: Judith, Elizabeth, Eliza, Mary A., Josephine
and James C. -- the latter dying as a soldier in the Fifty-fourth Indiana
volunteer infantry during the Civil war.  On coming to Indiana Mr. Osborn
settled on wild land in Boone county, Jackson township, entering eighty
acres, which by industry and good management he increased to 240 acres.
Caleb Osborn lost his first wife in 1851, and for his second life-companion
married Mrs. Matilda (Gose) Hudson, who bore him one child, David W., the
gentleman whose name opens this notice.  Caleb Osborn had been a democrat in
politics until the breaking out of the Civil war, when he became a
republican.  He was an influential citizen among the old settlers, and was
greatly missed from the rural districts when he sold his farm and retired to
Jamestown, where he passed from earth a few years later, in the month of
February, 1878, at the age of sixty-eight years.
   David W. Osborn attended the common schools until the age of eighteen,
and then entered Asbury (now DePauw) university, where he devoted himself to
hard study for three years.  He then engaged in the hardware trade at
Jamestown, Ind., for five years; for twelve years he was deputy auditor, and
in 1892 was elected treasurer of Boone county on the republican ticket,
which office he filled with much credit to himself and for which he was
thoroughly qualified through his liberal education and his practical
business experience.  So well, indeed, did he perform his duties, that he
was renominated for the same position June 23, 1894.  Fraternally, Mr.
Osborn is a Mason -- a member of Boone lodge, No. 9; he is also a member of
the Lebanon lodge, Knights of Pythias, and has passed all the chairs both in
the Lebanon and Jamestown lodges.  In his domestic relations, Mr. Osborn is
most felicitously situated, having married at Lebanon, in 1894, January 3,
Miss Mary E. Houston, daughter of the well-known F.M. Houston.  Mr. Osborn
is considered to be one of the most able officials in the county, and his
personal amiability has made him one of its greatest favorites socially.
Indeed, so popular id he become during his first term as county treasurer,
that as a sequence of his nomination to succeed himself, he was re-elected
triumphantly, November 6, 1894, carrying the whole strength of the
republican majority, that party making a clean sweep of the county at the
date mentioned, thus giving evidence of the wisdom of the republican county
convention in making the renomination, and the popularity of Mr. Osborn with
the people.  The attention of the reader is called to a truthfull likeness
of Mr. Osborn on the opposite page, the life-like lineaments of which will
be readily recognized by all who have ever met the genial official.  Indeed,
in all his relations in life Mr. Osborn has held a most prominent position,
and his generous disposition and broad views have place him in the lead of
his fellow-citizens.


Bio. of David Warren Osborne


   History of Clinton County, Indiana, Chicago, Inter-State Publishing
   Co., 1886.  Page 577.  (transcript)

   DAVID WARREN OSBORNE, grocer at Frankfort, is a native of the State of
Ohio.  He was born on Christmas day, 1851, in Troy, in that State, and is
the son of Elijah and Elizabeth (Daily) Osborne.  The death of his father,
which occurred while he was yet in infancy, naturally consigned him to the
sole care of his mother, with whom he resided in his native place until he
reached his sixteenth year.  In 1867 he went to Homer, Illinois, for the
purpose of learning the business of a baker.  After an apprenticeship of
three years he went thence to Covington, Ohio, where he remained until 1871.
In that year he removed to La Fayette, Indiana, where he operated in the
capacity of shipping clerk in a wholesale confectionery establishment one
year.  While there he utilized his evenings by attending the night sessions
of the Star City Commercial College.  In 1872 he became a traveling salesman
for the same house and officiated in that employ about four years.  In 1876
he became an attache of the business house of Ruger & Rodgers, of the same
place, and in the same avenue of employ.  A few months later he entered the
service of C. Paige, a grocer at La Fayette.  He remained in that situation
but a short time, going thence to Homer again where he commenced his first
independent business venture, associated with Mr. E. Stearns.  The house of
Osborne & Stearns embarked in a satisfactory connection in the business of
bakers and confectioners and continued to operate until 1877, when they sold
their joint interests and Mr. Osborne entered the employ of Robinson & Hale,
wholesale grocers, at La Fayette and was engaged as a traveling salesman in
their interest through one season.  In January, 1878, he came to Frankfort
and again embarked in business in his own behalf.  The grocery and provision
house of Osborne & Adair was established and they conducted their business
together until 1880 when Mr. Osborne retired from active participation
therein.  He became bookkeeper in the hardware store of John M. Cast at
Frankfort, with whom he remained until August of the year last mentioned.
In that month he commenced operations in the grocery business in partnership
with G.A. Smith, the firm style being Smith & Osborne.  Their relations were
severed in 1883 by the retirement of Mr. Osborne, and in the month of
November following he opened the business which he still continues.  In
political bias he is a Republican.  He has served as councilman of the
Second Ward of Frankfort two years, to which position he was elected in May,
1881.  The organization known as the Building and Loan Association, No. 5,
at Frankfort, was incorporated in June, 1884, in which he was one of the
charter members.  He was elected its first secretary and is now the
incumbent of the same position which he has occupied continuously.  The
marriage of Mr. Osborne to Miss Anna Paris took place October 30, 1879, at
Frankfort.  Mabel Paris, only child of Mr. and Mrs. Osborne, was born on the
thirtieth anniversary of the birthday of her father -- Christmas, 1881.  The
mother is the daughter of J.H. and Julia A. (Blinn) Paris.  She is a member
of the Methodist church.


Bio. of David Warren Osborne


   A Portrait and Biographical Record of Boone and Clinton Counties, Ind.,
   Chicago, A.W. Bowen & Co., 1895.  Page 820.  (transcript)

   DAVID WARREN OSBORNE, a most successful business man of Frankfort, Ind.,
was born in Troy, Ohio, December 25, 1851, and is a son of Elijah and
Elizabeth (Daily) Osborne.  The father died while David W. was but an
infant, and the latter remained with his mother until he was sixteen years
of age.  He then went to Homer, Ill., served three years at the baker's
trade, and then passed a year in Covington, Ohio.  In 1871 he came to
Indiana and for a year acted as shipping clerk for a wholesale confectionery
establishment in La Fayette, attending, at the same time, the night sessions
of the Star City Commercial college; for the next four years he was employed
on the road for the confectionery, and then traveled, in 1876, for Ruger &
Rodgers, wholesale confectioners of the same city; then, for a brief period,
was on the road for C. Paige, wholesale grocer of La Fayette.  The same year
he and E. Stearns established a confectionery and bakery business at Homer,
Ill., under the firm name of Osborne & Stearns, but in 1877 they sold out
and Mr. Osborne returned to La Fayette and went on the road for Robinson &
Hale, wholesale grocers.  In January, 1878, Mr. Osborne came to Frankfort
and established the firm of Osborne & Adair in the grocery and provision
trade, which was prosperously conducted until 1880, when Mr. Osborne
withdrew and became book-keeper for John M. Cast, hardware merchant, until
August, when the grocery firm of Smith & Osborne was organized.  From this
Mr. Osborne withdrew in 1883, and in November of the same year again engaged
in the grocery trade, and in 1888 the present firm of Osborne & Swan,
grocers, were placed upon a sound foundation.  In 1888 Mr. Osborne and
others organized the Clinton Natural Gas & Oil company, of which he was
auditor and secretary, but in 1893 this company was succeeded, through sale,
by the Indiana Naturaly & Illuminating Gas company, of which Mr. Osborne is
cashier.  In addition to attending to his legitimate business duties Mr.
Osborne has found time to assist in founding the Building & Loan
association, No. 5, of Frankfort, organized in June, 1884, and has always
been its secretary; in 1886 he became a director of the First National Bank
of Frankfort, a position he still holds, and of which he was elected
vice-president early in 1894.  Politically, Mr. Osborne is a republican, and
in May, 1881, was first elected city councilman, a position he has filled
with much credit to himself several terms.  The marriage of Mr. Osborne took
place October 30, 1879, to Miss Anna Paris, at Frankfort.  Their only child,
Mabel Paris, was born December 25, 1881, the thirtieth anniversary of her
father's birthbay<sic>.  When it is taken into consideration that Mr.
Osborne was left an orphan in his infancy, that he began his business life
absolutely without capital and was unassisted by extraneous pecuniary aid,
and that he has reached his present prominent position in the business world
simply through his own business energy and sagacity, the conclusion may be
reached that his career has been phenomenal and is well worthy the emulation
of the rising generation of Clinton county.


Doctor Franklin Osborne-41 Obit.


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

   Doctor Franklin Osborne died July 20th at 81 years at the residence of his
only surviving son, W.A. Osborne.  He marr. Mary Jane Taylor, an aunt of B.F.
Taylor and F.A. Taylor.  To them 3 sons were born, S.G., W.A., and Tandy, 2 0f
whom died years ago.  In 1875 he moved to TX, but after a brief stay, they
moved near Keefer in Grant Co. (KY).  Obit. by J.H.S., Owenton, KY, 7/26/1920.


Doctor Frank Osborne-52 Family Bible


        Frank Osborne Family Bible in possesion of Mildred Butler

  D.F. Osborne married Amintie Skirvin June 13,1875

  D.F. Osborne     b. 11 Feb 1851
  Amintie Skirvin  b. 23 Oct 1852

  Ross Elmer Osborne       b. 6 April 1876
  James Franklin Osborne   b. 7 March 1878
  Robert Parker Osborne    b. 7 May 1880
  John G. Carlisle Osborne b. 16 October 1886
  Virgie Mary Osborne      b. 20 April 1894


1889 Bio. of Ebenezer Osburn


   Portrait and Biographical Album of Jackson county, Iowa, Chicago,
   Chapman Brothers, 1889.  Page 425.  (transcript)
   [See the 1910 bio. of Ebenezer Osburn]
   [See the bio. of Benjamin Franklin Osburn]

EBENEZER OSBURN.  The subject of this notice is accounted one of the
well-to-do and properous men of Van Buren Township.  His worldly possessions
have been accumulated by the labor of his hands and brain, and indicate the
industry which he has exercised since coming to this county in its pioneer
days.  He has one of the best farms in the township, comprising 220 acres on
section 10 and 3, and there with his family lives pleasantly surrounded by
all the comforts of life.  His idea has been not to make a great display in
the world, but simply to gather around himself and his family those things
which should conduce to their welfare and happiness.  They occupy a
commodious frame dwelling, and dispense a cheerful hospitality not only to
their friends but to the stranger who comes within their door.
   Adjacent to the residence of Mr. Osburn are the buildings which he
utilizes in transacting his farming business, these comprising barns and
cattle-sheds equipped with special reference to the prosecution of
stock-raising, of which he makes a specialty.  He has made it a rule of his
life to "pay as he goes," and his property is consequently unincumbered,
while he has besides a snug bank account.  He is fond of the finer
employments, bee-keeping and horticulture, and keeps himself well posted in
these matters by the perusal of the best works pertaining thereto.  His
well-stocked library indicates the bent of his thoughts, being furnished as
it is with solid and instructive reading.  When found by the writer he was
making his selection of seeds, shrubs, etc., for the season of 1889, and he
sends his orders East.  He is called the model farmer of Van Buren Township,
and quoted as an example for younger men to imitate.
   The native place of our subject was Tioga County, N.Y., and he was born
Jan. 4, 1832.  His father, Samuel Osburn, also a native of the Empire State,
was born in Westchester County, and married Miss Betsy Barker, a native of
Tompkins County.  The paternal grandfather was Samuel Osburn, Sr., who
served as a solder in the War of 1812.  The family came to America during
the Colonial times, and comprised a large following, representing in the
highest degree respectability and worth.
   The parents of our subject were married in Tioga County, N.Y., where the
father carried on farming, and where eight children were born.  One child
was added to the household circle after hey took up their residence in Iowa.
They started for the far West in the summer of 1849, crossing the
Mississippi on the 8th of June.  Our subject, the eldest of the family, was
then a youth of seventeen years.  The other five living were: Louisa, Jane,
Angenette, Emily, and Alvira.  Ozias died, aged ten months, in New York, and
the other child was an infant unnamed.  The one born in Iowa was Franklin,
and who is now residing on the old homestead.  Seven grew to maturity, and
received their education in the district school.  The father died at his
home in Van Buren Township in 1878, aged seventy-tree years; the mother is
still living at the old homestead with her son Franklin; she is now
seventy-seven years old.
   In coming to the West the Osburn family, at Ithica, N.Y., embarked on the
Erie Canal, by which they traveled to Buffalo.  Thence they took a lake
steamer to Chicago, which was then an unimportant village.  There the father
hired a four-horse team to convey them to Savanna, Ill., for which he paid
the sum of $15.  He had visited this section three or four years before,
traveling on foot, and had chosen Iowa as the place of his future residence.
From Savanna they crossed the Mississippi to Sabula, and thence made their
way directly to Van Buren Township, this county, where the father entered
eighty acres of land, and subsequently purchased ninety-five acres of a
settler, and the son, Ebenezer, three years later, entered the same amount
-- eighty acres.  This the latter still owns and occupies, and also sixty
acres of the old farm.
   The 12th of March, 1856, witnessed the marriage of our subject with Miss
Mary Osburn, who was likewise a native of Tioga County, N.Y., and came to
Iowa with here parents in August, 1839, and settled in Van Buren Township,
this county.  She was then a child of six and a half years, and consequently
has little recollection of her birthplace.  The young people began their
wedded life together in true pioneer style, and in a manner corresponding to
their means.  The exercise of industry and economy served in a few years to
affect a great change in their curcumstances, although at the time of his
marriage Mr. Osburn had already "a cage for his bird" and other
improvements.  He never allowed himself to run in debt, being strictly a
"cash man," and the only notes he ever gave were drawn thirty years ago in
order to procure a horse and wagon.
   The property of Mr. Osburn comprises his farm of 220 acres in Van Buren
Township, and he has ten acres of choice white oak timber in Washington
Township.  In his stock operations he makes a specialty of full-blooded and
graded stock, and has been very successful.  Thirty years ago he captured a
swarm of wild bees and hived them in a common wooden box.  by a course of
extensive reading in connection with bee-keeping he has been enabled from
this humble beginning to branch out into a considerable business in this
line, which has not only been pleasant but profitable.  He is also
interested in Shropshire sheep and Southdowns, having a flock of 108 head.
He has an imported Southdown, "Brandy" by name, which is a remarkably fine
animal and valuable.  In cattle his favorites are the Short-horns, and in
swine he is chiefly interested in Chester-Whites.  From these latter he has
realized quite a fortune, having shipped for years a car load annually,
receiving therefor a handsome sum.
   Politically, Mr. Osburn affiliates with the Democratic party.  He has
made a specialty of attending to his own business, and consequently has
spent no time in seeking official honors.  Beyond serving as school Director
he has carefully avoided the responsibilities of public life.  Of the four
children born to Mr. and Mrs. Osburn only one is living, a son, Albert, who
still remains under the home roof, and is a promising young man of
twenty-two years.  Their first born son, Warren, died when a lad of thirteen
years.  Willis died when a babe of six months, and Eugene also died in
infancy.  They have also an adopted daughter, Henrietta, to whom they gave
the benefitss of a good common school education, and who with their son
comprises the home circle.


Bio. of Edgar Guy Osborne-5753


        History of Porter County, Indiana, Vol. II, The Lewis Publishing Co.,
        Chicago & NY, 1912.  Page 870.  (transcript)
        [See the bio. of Jonathan Osborne-2141]

   EDGAR GUY OSBORNE is one of the popular and prominent professional men
of the younger class in Valparaiso, which city has represented his home
since he was a lad of seven years.  Mr. Osborne is a lawyer of admitted
ability, and has made a specialty of insurance and real estate law.  His
progress in the years that have elapsed since he launched out in an
independent career has been of an especially brilliant order, and he enjoys
the esteem and confidence of a large circle of his fellow citizens who have
known him from boyhood.
   Born in LaPorte county, Indiana, on January 14, 1871, Mr. Osborne is the
son of Jonathan and Betsey (Hixon) Osborne.  The mother is a daughter of
Thomas J. S. Hixon and his wife, Elizabeth, of LaPorte county, Indiana, and
they were among the early settlers of the county, Mrs. Hixon having been a
daughter of James Haskell, of English descent, and among the early settlers
of the Colonies.
   The Osborne family lived on a farm near Haskell's Station until 1878,
when they removed to Valparaiso, which since has represented the home of
the family.  Early in life Edgar Guy Osborne displayed a strong tendency
toward mechanics, and was known among his young playmates as a manufacturer
of kites, balloons, sleds, toboggans, boomerangs, etc.  It is the opinion
of many that an unusual mechanical genius was "spoiled" when E. G. Osborne
decided on law for a life work.  To him is ascribed credit for introducing
the first jointed fish pole into Valparaiso, as well as the first safety
bicycle, and with but one exception, the first automobile.  He entered the
public schools at the exceptionally early age of five, and was but sixteen
years old when he was graduated from the Valparaiso high school, in 1887.
He was chosen to represent the junior class in 1886 in giving the farewell
address to the graduating class of that year, and the following year was
Salutatorian of his own class.  The winter following his graduation he was
graduated from the commercial department of the Valparaiso University,
after which he accepted a position in the general store of C. J. Kern.  In
the fall of 1888 he entered DePauw University, at Greencastle, Indiana, and
his career there was most brilliant. He was a member of the Phi Delta Theta
fraternity and was an active and popular member of that fraternity
throughout his college course.  He represented the fraternity as the
delegate of his local chapter, Indiana Zeta, at its national convention at
Atlanta, Georgia, in 1891, and has ever been interested in the affairs of
his chapter. He was at one time associated with the College Paper, was
vice-president of the DePauw Oratorical Association, treasurer of the
Indiana State Oratorical Association, and in a competitive contest at
DePauw was awarded a delegateship from the local association to the state
association.  In his college work Mr. Osborne specialized in English and
mathematics, and was later chosen as one of the tutors in English in the
college.  During commencement week of 1892, when he was graduated with the
degree of Ph. B., he was elected to the honorary fraternity of Phi Beta
Theta.
   Upon his return to his home in Valparaiso Mr. Osborne became associated
with the firm of Parks & Turner in their abstract of title department, and
after the dissolution of that firm was taken in as a partner by Mr. Parks.
While in this connection Mr. Osborne took the law course at the Valparaiso
University and in 1894 graduated from the law department with the degree of
LL. B.  He immediately entered upon professional work upon his own
responsibility, and has since continued, having won to himself an extensive
and lucrative practice.  He has made a specialty of real estate and
insurance law, and has aimed to confine himself more largely to office
practice and the duties of a counselor.  He was chosen a member of the
faculty of the Northern Indiana Law School in 1909, as a lecturer and
instructor in real estate titles, and he maintains an abstract of title
department in his office, owning two complete sets of abstract books, the
one originally compiled by Parks & Turner and the set started by Jesse Love,
who had formerly been associated in the office of Hon. W. E. Pinney, where
he learned the details of properly preparing an abstract of title set.
   Mr. Osborne was married on October 6, 1897, to Miss Dotha L. Lewis, a
daughter of Sylvester A. Lewis.
   The fraternal relations of Mr. Osborne are represented by his Masonic
affiliations, which are with Porter Lodge, No. 137, A. F. & A. M.;
Valparaiso Chapter, No. 79, R. A. M.; Valparaiso Council, No. 86,
R. & S. M.; Valparaiso Commandery, No. 28, Knights Templar; Valparaiso
Chapter, No. 164, Order of Eastern Star; and Murat Temple, Ancient Arabic
Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He has been a member of the
Presbyterian church of Valparaiso for the past twenty-five years.


Bio. of Edward(Richard?) Osborne


   History of Franklin and Cerro Gordo Counties, Iowa, Springfield,
   IL, Union Publishing Co., 1883.  Page 650.  (transcript)

   Edward Osborne, M.D., located here in March, 1880.  He was born in the
province of Ontario, Sept. 3, 1838.  Richard<sic> Osborne's paternal
grandsire went to Canada from New Jersey in 1783, and served on the British
side during the Revolutionary War.  Dr. Osborne is a son of John T. and
Sarah (Greeley) Osborne, both natives of Canada.  The father is a farmer and
justice of the peace for the county in which he lives.  Dr. Osborne was
reared as a farmer's son and received a good education, graduating at the
Normal school at Toronto in 1865.  In 1867 he established a mercantile
business at Tyrconnell, in which he was successful.  In 1872 he bought a
tannery, which he managed three years, but not finding his investment
profitable disposed of the business in 1875.  During the balance of that
year and the following, he was local editor of the St. Thomas Journal.
Meanwhile, he had been reading medicine, and in 1877-8 he attended lectures
at Bennett Medical College and was graduated in 1878.  He opened an office
at No. 68 East Randolph street, Chicago, Ill., where he practiced until the
date of his settlement at Mason City.  He has founded a good practice here
and finds his duties gradually extending.  He belongs to the Iowas State
Eclectic Medical Association and is a member of the Masonic Order.  Dr.
Osborne married Henrietta C., daughter of James Bote of Brighton, Canada.
Two of their three children are living -- Winnie and Albert.  Dr. Osborne's
mother was a relative of Horace Greeley.


Eli Osborn-878 War of 1812 Pension


Papers


WC-35178
9/6/1814    Drafted at Falmouth, Pendleton Co., KY.  Served as Musician in the
                company commanded by Capt. James Ellis, in the 16th Reg. of KY
                infantry commanded by Col. Andrew Porter.
3/10/1815   Discharged in Canada.
1/18/1848   Marr. Matilda Hawkins (widow) according to Matilda's 1889 pension
                declaration.
11/4/1850   Res. of Fountain Co., IN, age 58 years.
3/23/1855   Res. of Fountain Co., IN, age 62 years.
3//1857     Eli Osborn died at age 63 according to John Hawkins and Malinda
                Romans affidavit for widow's pension claim.
3//1860     Eli Osborn died in White Co., IN while there on a visit, according
                to 1889 declaration of Eli Osborn's wife Matilda.
8/11/1861   Matilda Osborn, widow of Eli, married Lewis Evans according to
                Matilda Evans 1889 declaration.
4/22/1889   Matilda Evans, aged 77 years, a resident of Fountain Co., IN,
                declares she is a widow of Eli Osborn.  She was previously
                married to Joseph Hawkins, that Eli Osborn was previously
                married to Sally Hawkins
2/17/1902   Matilda Evans died.


Eli Osborn-878 War of 1812 Pension Papers


        Robert G. Osborn Genealogical Collection

Application by his widow, Matilda Evans, states:
Eli Osborn was a KY Vol. in Col. Richard M. Johnson's Co., was a musician in
Capt. James Ellis' Co.  Matilda Evans' application was #WO 44881;  WC 35178.
She states further that her husband enlisted 9/10/1814;  was discharged
3/9/1815; that their residence 1850-1855 was Fountain Co., IN;  that Eli
Osborn's first wife was Sallie Hawkins, who died before his second marriage;
that he died 2/4/1860;  that she re-married to Evans 9/26/1862.
Matilda Evans, widow of Eli Osborn & Ivan Lewis Evans, filed her pension
application as a widow of Eli Osborn, 4/22/1889, years after Evan's death.
Her marriage to Evans was her third.  She declared that she and Eli Osborn
lived in Fountain Co., IN all their married life and that he died there in
1860.  He obtained a land warrant but she did not know what he did with it
nor the number.  She signed with an X.  Eli Osborn married Matilda Hawkins
1/18/1848 in Fountain Co., IN;  Ivan Lewis Evans married Matilda Osborn
8/11/1862.  Evans died in Crawford Co., Kansas in April 1869.
Papers show that Eli Osborn was inducted in Falmouth, Pendleton Co., KY.
Also that Matilda died in Feb 1902.  Record does not say whether Eli Osborn's
first wife, Sally Hawkins & his second wife, Matilda Hawkins, were related
but Matilda did say that Sally died while she was there on a visit.
(War of 1812 Pension Applications - National Archives and Fountain Co., IN
& Pendleton Co., KY)  [Note: My reading of the pension papers gives some
different information on Eli Osborn's death.  Also, Fayette Co., IN deeds
show that Matilda Hawkins was first marr. to Joseph Hawkins, brother of Sally
Hawkins -- LKO.]


Enos Osburn War of 1812 Pension Papers



8/24/1814   Enos Osburn enlisted at Louden<sic> Co., VA.  He served in the
-9/22/1814      company commanded by Capt. Kitzmiller and regiment commanded
                by Col. Armstead Mason.
1/7/1823    Enos Osburn married to Sarah Castleman in Winchester, Frederick
                Co., VA by Edward Shipp, minister.  Enos Osburn was never
                married with anyone else.
1835        Moved from VA to IL where they resided until Enos Osburn's death.
3/14/1868   Enos Osburn died in Menard Co., IL.
8/19/1882   Claim of widow for service pension by Sarah Osburn, aged 84 years,
                a resident of Menard Co., IL who declares she is the widow of
                Enos Osburn.  Signing the claim were George W. Osburn, age 57
                residing in Menard Co., IL and Martha A. Osburn, age 52 also of
                Menard Co., IL, who are son and dau.-in-law of the claimant.
2/20/1936   Letter of inquiry by Lucy M. Ulyatt, saying she was dau. of Enos
                Osburn and asking about the possibility of getting a pension
                based on the service of Enos Osburn.


Enos Osburn War of 1812 Pension Papers


        Robert G. Osborn Genealogical Collection

Pvt. in Capt. Thomas Craggs Co. of VA Militia.  Wt 19865-4050; 27226-120-55;
Married, 1/8/1823, in Winchester, Frederick Co., VA, Sarah Castleman by Rev.
Edward G. Ship.
Soldier enlisted at age 18 in Leesburg, Loudon Co., VA in 1812.  Served from
Aug 24 to Sept 22, 1814.  Lived in VA until 1835 then moved to Menard Co., IL.
Applied for, 1850, and received Bounty Land.  Age 54 years;  Died March 1868
in Menard Co., IL.  Enos had a son, George W. Osborn.
Sarah, WO 42358;  WC 32796;  Said she was two years younger than Enos.  Enos
& Sarah had a dau. who in 1936 was Lucy M. Ulyatt.  In very shaky handwriting
Lucy wrote, "I am 101 years old", born in Morgan's Springs, VA."  Also said
her father never accepted a pension because he felt the government needed the
money.
(War of 1812 Pension Applications - Loudon Co., VA - National Archives)


Ephraim Osborn Rev. War Pension Papers



Pension application R7822
?               Served as a volunteer under Capt. Enoch Osborn and Lt. James
                Ward and first met at Osburn's Fort in Montgomery Co., but
                does not recollect the year.  Served for 6 months.  Again
                served as a volunteer, under Capt. Frederick Edwards.  Later
                served again under Capt. Abram Bletcher and a Col. named
                Christy.

8/9/1834        Filed for a pension in Perry Co., KY.  He stated he was 80
                years of age.  Made application in Perry Co. as he had
                acquaintances there.

                Jeremiah Smith, age 74, resident of Harlan Co., KY certified
                that he has known Ephraim Osborn since the time of the Rev..
                that he served under Capt. Enoch Osborn, at Osborn's Fort.
                Also certified that his brother Joshua Pennington was on the
                expedition against the Cherokees, and understood that Ephraim
                Osborn was with him.

                Application rejected.  No mention of family.


Bio. of Ephraim Osborne-2032


        The Annals of Haywood Co., NC, W.C. Allen, 1935.

About 1783, Christopher Osborne came from some point in VA, the exact location
unknown, to Mecklenburg Co., NC.  He was born in VA in 1740 and died in 1789.
Before coming to NC, he married Sarah Magruder, a dau. of Dr. Archibald
Magruder of VA.  Jonathan Osborne, a son of Christopher, came to Haywood Co.
in 1803 with John Howell who had married Essena Osborne, a sister of Jonathan
Osborne.  Jonathan Osborne was born in 1771 and died in 1826.  Lydia, another
sister of Jonathan's, married Henry Plott.

Before coming to Haywood Co., Jonathan Osborne married Martha Roland, of
Cabarrus Co.  Ten sons were born to them: Sherwood, who moved to TN;  Roland,
who moved to AR; Christopher, who died without heirs; Ephraim, who married
Mary Gooch and settled in the upper Pigeon river valley; Archibald, died in the
prime of life without heirs; John, whose family now lives in TX; Thomas, who
moved to TN; Enoch Morgan, who moved to AR; Joseph, who went to TN; and Judson
P., who remained at the old home place near the present town of Clyde.

Ephraim Osborn marr. 3/20/1822 Mary Gooch.  Their children were: Nancy Talitha,
b. 8/20/1823; Lucinda Emiline, b. 10/18/1825; Martha Adeline, b. 5/21/1828;
John Gooch, b. 7/22/1830, and d. without heirs; Laura Catherine, b. 8/28/1832,
and d. without heirs; Roland Calaway, b. 2/15/1837; Sarah Ann, b. 4/29/1839,
and d. without heirs; Adoniram Judson, b. 7/25/1841; Joseph Theodore, b.
7/20/1843, and left no heirs; Charity Haseltine, b. 2/20/1846; and Ellen R.,
who d. in infancy.  Martha Adeline Osborne m. 2/13/1849 Jackson Johnston.
Roland Caloway Osborn m. 5/6/1860 Kezia Stradley.  Adoniram Judson Osborne m.
7/25/1865 Mary Plott.

Judson Posey Osborne, a son of Jonathan Osborne and Martha Roland Osborne,
m. Charity Patton and had 11 children: Mattie E., who m. Jesse W. Morgan;
Joseph M., who m. Mary Wilson; James C., who m. 1st Jane Wells and 2nd Ruth
Howell; T. Fulton, who m. Ada E. Massie; A. Graves, who m. Lorena Gillespie;
Nellie, who m. Jones H. Morgan; Lola, who m. LaFayette Roberson; George, who m.
Maggie McCracken; Lura, who left no heirs; Alice, who m. Richard Kennedy; and
Mary Jane.