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Bio. of Orson F. Osburn


   History of Jackson County, Iowa, Vol. II, Chicago, The S.J. Clarke
   Publishing Co., 1910.  Page 213.  (transcript)
   [See the bio. of Benjamin Franklin Osburn]

ORSON F. OSBURN.
   Orson F. Osburn is one of Van Buren township's prominent young farmers
who was born not only in the home county, but upon the very homestead upon
which he now resides.  His birth occurred March 21, 1881, his parents being
B.F. and Helen (Perkins) Osburn.  His father was likewise born upon this
place and here lived out his life.  Jackson was also the county of the
mother, her birth date being April 9, 1856.  Her parents were Charles A. and
Winnie (Stallard) Perkins, pioneer settlers in Iowa. The subject's father
was called to his final rest on April 15, 1904, his remains being interred
in Van Buren cemetery.
   Mr. Osburn obtained his early education in the district schools and
finished his preparation for life with a collegiate course.  Assisting his
father as be did in the manifold agricultural duties to be encountered on a
farm, he came to have a wide knowledge of the vocation when still quite
young.  After his father's death he took the management of the farm into his
own hands and has been most successful.  His specialty is the raising and
feeding of live stock, and he enjoys a high reputation as a horse breeder.
   Mr. Osburn was married on February 22, 1900, to Miss Lottie Pope, who was
born in Maquoketa township, this county.  Her parents were Thomas W. and
Emma (Hanner) Pope and they now reside in Beloit, Wisconsin.  Mrs. Osburn
was one of six children.  Mr. and Mrs. Osburn's union has been blessed by
the birth of four children.  Of these the eldest, Geneva, is deceased.  The
others are Helen Berneda, Albert O. and Franklin T.
   Mr. Osburn of the sketch is a stalwart and unfaltering republican and
gives intelligent consideration to all questions affecting the general
welfare.  Although of the younger generation he is prominent and popular in
his cornmunity, where he is recognized as a leading farmer and stock raiser.


Bio. of Edgar M. Osborn


   History of Marion County, Iowa, Vol. II, Chicago, The S.J. Clarke
   Publishing Co., 1915.  Page 296.  (transcript)

EDGAR M. OSBORN.
   Edgar M. Osborn is successfully engaged in merchandising at Tracy, having
there conducted a general store since February, 1912.  His birth occurred in
Dallas county, Iowa, on the 13th of October, 1881, his parents being J. P.
and Alice S. (Sumner) Osborn, both of whom were natives of Indiana.  They
removed to Dallas county, Iowa, in an early day, settling on a farm whereon
the mother eventually passed away.  The father survives, however, and now
makes his home in Arkansas.  They had three children, all of whom are
living.
   Edgar M. Osborn had the advantage of a high-school education in his youth
and remained at home until he was seventeen years of age.  Subsequently he
was employed in a grocery store for some time and in February, 1912,
embarked in business on his own account, opening a general store at Tracy,
where he has carried on merchandising continuously to the present time.  He
displays a large and well selected stock of goods and is accorded a liberal
and gratifying patronage because of his reasonable prices and his courteous
treatment of customers.
   In November, 1908, Mr. Osborn was united in marriage to Miss Leora M.
Hanna, a daughter of William R. and Julia (Rouze) Hanna, who were born in
Ohio and Iowa respectively.  Their three children all survive.  Mr. and Mrs.
Osborn are the parents of a daughter, Alice J., who was born on the 26th of
November, 1911.  Mr. Osborn gives his political allegiance to the republican
party, while both he and his wife attend the Methodist Episcopal church.  He
is one of the progressive and enterprising citizens of the community, as
well as one of the substantial merchants, and has many friends who accord
him the esteem he well merits.


Bio. of David Osborn


   Biographical History of Montgomery and Adams Counties, Iowa, Chicago,
   The Lewis Publishing Co., 1892.  Page 296.  (transcript)

DAVID OSBORN, a worthy citizen and a prosperous farmer, residing in section
36, Washington township, Adams county, Iowa (Mr. Etna postoffice), was born
in Guernsey county, Ohio, May 11, 1832.  His parents were Lewis and Mary A.
(Covey) Osborn, both natives of New York.  The father was a cabinet-maker by
trade, and was one of the early settlers of that locality.  He owned a farm,
and carried on farming also.  He died many years ago and his wife passed
away in 1872, aged seventy-three years.  She was a devout member of the
Baptist Church.  They had twelve children, our subject being the
eleventh-born.  Of this family ten are still living.
   Young Osborn begam life for himself at the age of nineteen years, at
which time he started to California in company with fifteen others from
Guernsey county, Ohio.  They made the journey via Nicaragua and arrived at
their destination March 5, thirty-one days after they left New York.  He
remained in California two years and a half, successfully engaged in mining.
July 5, 1856, he turned his face homeward, and made the return voyage via
the Panama route, arriving in safety after a journey of twenty-two days.  He
at once engaged in farming in Ohio, and was thus employed when the war came
on.
   In January, 1864, Mr. Osborn enlisted in Company D, Sixtieth Ohio
Volunteer Infantry, was in a number of important engagements, and on the
17th of June, 1864, while charging the breastworks in front of Petersburg,
was wounded in the hand, losing the second finger and the use of the others.
He was sent to the hospital, afterward to Washington city, and still later
to Little York, Pennsylvania, remaining in the hospital at the latter place
until his discharge in July, 1865.
   After returning home and recovering, he moved with his family to Story
county, Iowa, where he lived two years and a half.  He then moved to his
present location on the half section road which leads through Mr. Etna, and
here he owns 120 acres of land, a comfortable cottage home, orchard, etc.,
and is well fixed to enjoy life.
   Mr. Osborn was married September 23, 1858, to Miss Christiana McPeak,
daughter of Daniel and Lydia McPeak, of Guernsey county, Ohio.  Following is
the issue from their union: Lydia A., wife of James Homan, a farmer of Adams
county; Mary A., wife of Alpheus Madison, who is engaged in the lumber
business in Corning; Lizzie A., who has been a successful teacher for ten
years and is now engaged as Principal of the Mt. Etna graded school; Carlie
A., a farmer; Wesley E. and Rosella E.
   Mr. Osborn is a deacon in the Baptist Church, of which his wife was a
devoted member.  The latters death occurred July 4, 1879, at the age of
fifty-two years.  In her life she was the truest and purest type of
Christian wife and mother combined, and her death was a source of much
bereavement to her family and many friends.


Bio. of Nelson L. Osborn


   History of Scott County, Iowa, Chicago, Interstate Publishing Co.,
   1882.  Page 1245.  (Sheridan Township)  (transcript)
   [See a later bio. of Nelson L. Osborn]

   Nelson L. Osborn is a native of Meigs Co., Ohio, born Nov. 26, 1820.  His
father, Jeremiah Osborn, was born in Albany, N.Y., and served in the war of
1812; was stationed on Stratton Island, and died of cholera in 1854, at St.
Louis, on his way here.  Josiah Osborn, father of Jeremiah, was a solder
under Washington during the Revolutionary war.  There were nine brothers of
the elder Osborns, who came from Europe to America in an early day, and of
whom most all the Osborns now in this country are descendants.  Nelson
Osborn's Grandfather Parker was a surgeon in the Revolution.  The subject of
this sketch ran on the lower Mississippi River 22 years, eight of which he
navigate a boat of his own.  In 1843 he came to Scott County, on a visit to
his Uncle Lyman Osborn; being pleased with the prospect, he located here in
1856.  He owns 80 acres on section 30 in this township, 160 acres in Liberty
Township, and 160 acres in Cedar County, this State.  He has his farm in
this township under good cultivation, has planted groves and orchards, and
otherwise improved the place.  He was united in marriage, in 1842, to
Harriet Congrove, of Virginia.  They are the parents of eight children,
viz.: Alex. H., Phoebe M., Mary F., William H., Drusilla, Mary J., Melinda
A. and Iophia J.


Bio. of Nelson L. Osborn


   Biographical History and Portrait Gallery of Scott County, Iowa,
   Chicago and New York, American Biographical Publishing Co., 1895.
   Page 540.  (transcript)
   [See an earlier bio. of Nelson L. Osborn]

NELSON L. OSBORN.
The subject of this sketch is a direct descendant from a historical family
of nine brothers who came from Europe at a very early day and settled in
different parts of America.  From them have descended nearly all those who
now bear the name in the United States.
   Nelson L. Osborn was born November 26, 1820, in Meigs County, Ohio.  His
father, Jeremiah Osborn, was a native of New York State, and was a soldier
in the War of 1812, who died of cholera in St. Louis in 1854, while on his
way to Scott County.  His grandfather was a soldier under General George
Washington during the Revolutionary War.
   In 1843 Nelson L. Osborn came to Scott County to visit an uncle, Lyman
Osborn, and being favorably impressed with the country decided to make his
future home here.  In 1856 he purchased land in Sheridan Township, where he
has lived ever since, and where he now owns abut four hundred acres of
valuable land.
   In 1842 he was united in marriage to Miss Harriet Congrove, a native of
Virginia, and eight children have been born of this union.  Mr. Osborn has
held many school and Township offices and is classed among the
representative citizens of Scott County.


Bio. of William S. Osborn


   History of Emmet County and Dickinson County, Iowa, Vol. II, Chicago,
   Pioneer Publishing Co., 1917.  Page 105.  (transcript)

WILLIAM S. OSBORN.
   William S. Osborn, now living retired in Milford, Iowa, was born December
20, 1854, in Lockport, New York, and is a son of Stephen and Sarah (White)
Osborn, natives of England and Indiana respectively.  In early life the
father came to America and after spending about three years in New York
continued westward to Iowa, taking up his abode near Plymouth Rock in
Winneshiek county, where he bought a relinquishment.  He made many
improvements upon his farm and engaged in its operation for forty years,
after which he retired from active labor and removed to Cresco, Iowa, there
spending the remainder of his life.  He died in the fall of 1900, having
long survived his wife as she passed away in 1887.
   It was during his infancy that William S. Osborn was brought to Iowa by
his parents and in Winneshiek county he was reared and educated.  He
remained under the parental roof until twenty-five years of age and then
rented the home place, which he operated for three years in addition to a
farm of his own which he had purchased from his father.  He continued
farming in Winneshiek county until 1894, when he came to Dickinson county
and purchased eighty acres of land in Excelsior township.  Later he bought
another tract of eighty acres and upon his place he made many useful and
valuable improvements.  In connection with general farming he devoted
considerable attention to stock raising, including some thoroughbred
shorthorn cattle.  He continued to engage in agricultural pursuits until the
fall of 1910, when he retired and removed to Canton, Minnesota, but after
living there for one year he returned to Dickinson county, Iowa, and has
since made his home in Milford.
   In November, 1884, Mr. Osborn was united in marriage to Miss Alice
Seelye, by whom he had five children: Stacey, who died in 1885; Garner T.,
Sidney S. and Floyd, all living; and Bernice, who died in infancy.  The
mother of these children passed away in October, 1893, and in September,
1894, Mr. Osborn married her sister, Miss Julia Seelye.  To them has been
born one child, Grace, now the wife of S. W. Caauwe, a farmer of Osceola
county, Iowa.
   Mr. and Mrs. Osborn hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal church and
are most estimable people who have a host of friends in Milford.
Politically Mr. Osborn affiliates with the republican party and he has
always taken a commendable interest in local affairs, efficiently serving as
school secretary in Excelsior township for six years; as township clerk one
year; as assessor for five years; and as township trustee for two years.  He
has always been found true to any trust reposed in him and is regarded as
one of the foremost citizens of his community.


Bio. of Claude F. Osborne


   History of Franklin County, Iowa, Vol. II, Chicago, S.J. Clarke
   Publishing Co., 1914.  Page 334.  (transcript)

CLAUDE F. OSBORNE, M. D.
   While engaged in general practice, Dr. Claude F. Osborne has specialized
to a considerable extent in surgery and keeps in touch with the most
advanced methods and the latest scientific investigations.  He was born on
the 15th of March, 1877, at Clear Lake, Iowa, the son of a retired farmer,
George Osborne, and Anna (Booth) Osborne, who are now living at Hanlontown,
Worth county, Iowa.  The father was born in Jones county, this state, in
1851, and made farming his life work, continuing actively in agricultural
pursuits until his retirement a few years ago.
   Claude F. Osborne is one of a family of seven living children.  In early
life he attended the public schools of Clear Lake and afterward spent four
years as a student in Nora Springs Seminary and two years in the State
University at Iowa City.  He was also for two years a student in the medical
department of the State University of Illinois, which is the College of
Physicians and Surgeons, of Chicago.  There he graduated with the class of
1900, his thorough training well qualifying him for the onerous and
responsible duties of life.  He first located for practice in Aredale,
Butler county, where he remained until 1906, when he came to Hampton, where
he has since remained, building up an extensive practice.  While he is still
known as a general practitioner, he has more and more largely specialized in
the field of surgery and is continually attending clinics in Chicago and
elsewhere so as to keep in touch with the latest scientific methods of
operation.  His knowledge is broad, comprehensive and accurate and his
ability is manifest in the splendid results which have followed his surgical
work.  One of the old-time physicians of the county said: "He will shortly
be the leading physician and surgeon here if he isn't already."  Such is the
opinion of his brethren of the profession, who recognize the power that
native and acquired ability has given him.
   On the 1st of October, 1900, Dr. Osborne was united in marriage to Miss
Katherine Lang, of Clear Lake, a daughter of Frank and Julia Lang, the
father a prominent retired farmer of this section of the state.  Dr. and
Mrs. Osborne have one child, Gail M., born June 1, 1904.
   Dr. Osborne holds membership with the Knights of Pythias and the
Benevolent Protective Order of Elks.  Politically he is a republican, but is
too busy with professional duties to give much time to politics.  In
association with Dr. Powers he has established a private hospital in Hampton
and is doing more surgery in the city than all the other physicians
together.  He is modest and unassuming in manner, but with most commendable
ambition is striving to reach the top of the profession, prompted by a sense
of obligation toward his fellowmen in his efforts to alleviate suffering and
check the ravages of disease.  He never speaks boastingly of what he has
accomplished, being willing that his reputation should be established by the
report of his fellow citizens, and the consensus of public opinion now
places him among the eminent representatives in the practice of medicine and
surgery in Hampton and this part of the state.


Bio. of Ely Baldin Osborn-15188


   History of Taylor County, Iowa, Chicago, The S.J. Clarke Publishing
   Co., 1910.  Page 683.  (transcript)

REV. ELY BALDIN OSBORN.
   Among those citizens of Taylor county who are devoting their lives to the
uplifting of humanity through their efforts as preachers of the gospel is
the Rev. Ely Baldin Osborn, who has been the popular and efficient pastor of
the Baptist church at New Market since 1903. Born in Youngstown, Ohio, in
March, 1855, he is a son of Ely Baldin and Katherine (Baily) Osborn, the
former one of a family of five children born to Abraham Osborn and his wife.
The others were Jacob, Comfort, William and Traffina. Representatives of the
name were absolutely the first settlers of Page county and the family has
figured prominently in its development and improvement since early pioneer
days.  The mother, who after the death of her first husband, was again
married, her second union being with Patrick Moore, still survives at the
venerable age of eighty-five years and makes her home with her son Ely B.
Our subject had three brothers, namely: George Washington, who was killed in
the Civil war; Thomas Jefferson, who also served in the war of the
Rebellion; and David Willard.
   Rev. Osborn is indebted to the public-school system for his educational
advantages, passing through consecutive grades until, his graduation from
high school in 1873.  He then accompanied his parents on their removal to
Monroe county, Iowa, where they settled upon a farm which his father owned
near Blakesburg, and there the intervening years were passed until during
which time he had been ordained to the ministry at Blakesburg.  He was first
assigned to College Springs, Page county, and he ministered to that charge
until 1882, in which year he removed to Hopkins, Missouri, where he remained
for one year.  He then received a call to Wayne county, Iowa, which he
accepted and where he continued as pastor for four years.  In 1887 he went
to Clearfield, where he resided for nine years, and during this period he
filled the pulpit of the Baptist church for six years.  Throughout his
connection with the ministry he has been a very successful pastor, faithful
and efficient in the performance of the duties of his chosen life work, and
something of his personal popularity is indicated by the fact that after
presiding over the charge at Clearfield, New Market and also Hopkins,
Missouri, he was recalled by each church and is now serving for the second
time as pastor at New Market.  He was naturally well qualified for his
chosen calling and has at all times remained a student of religious problems
and has been a fearless and independent thinker.  With the passing of the
years his sphere of usefulness and activity has broadened and he has
endeared himself more and more to the people with whom he has come in
contact, while his brethren in the clergy have indicated their regard and
esteem for him in his appointment as moderator of the Baptist Association,
which office be has filled for four years.
   It was on the 12th of April, 1874, that Rev. Osborn was united in
marriage in Monroe county, Iowa, to Miss Margaret Stocker, a daughter of
Aaron and Mary Elizabeth Stocker, prominent farming people of that county,
who were the parents of twenty-one children.  The home of Rev. and Mrs.
Osborn has benn<sic> blessed with eight children, seven of whom survive:
Leo; Arthur; Walter; Glenn, who passed away and is buried at Davison
Cemetery; Lena; Milly; Effie; and Flossie. Of this number Walter and Flossie
are graduates of the high school.
   Rev. Osborn gives his support at the polls to the republican party, for,
after a close and thorough study of its platform, he was convinced that its
principles are best adapted to conserve the general good.  He is a
public-spirited citizen, at all times doing all in his power to promote the
welfare of the community, while his efforts toward the checking of vice have
been far-reaching in their effects.  Modest and unassuming in manner, he
nevertheless exerts a strong influence over those who come in contact with
him, and his teachings have proved the guiding influence in the lives of
many who have listened to his wise counsel and advice.


Bio. of Joseph H. Osborn


   History of Taylor County, Iowa, Chicago, The S.J. Clarke Publishing
   Co., 1910.  Page 399.  (transcript)

JOSEPH H. OSBORN.
   It is a well known fact that agriculture is the basis of all prosperity;
that the failure or success of crops affects in great measure all business
conditions, and that no country is prosperous in marked degree that does not
have rich resources at her command.  Iowa, although a comparatively recent
settlement, is recognized today as one of the foremost farming states of the
Union having attained leadership in the production of corn per acre, while
the yield of her fields is almost equally large in other crops.  Actively
and successfully associated with the task of tilling the soil in Taylor
county is Joseph H. Osborn, who lives on section 14, Polk township, where he
is busily engaged in the cultivation of one hundred acres of the old Osborn
homestead.  He was born in Polk township on the 10th of November, 1870.  His
father, Jason H. Osborn, was a native of Erie county, Ohio, where his
youthful days were passed.  In early manhood he responded to the country's
call for troops, enlisting as a member of Company G, Fifty-fifth Ohio
Volunteer Infantry, with which he served for nearly four years.  He had
veteranized on the expiration of his first term and at the close of the war
was honorably discharged with a most creditable military record.  He came to
Iowa in 1868, settling in Taylor county and was married here to Miss Emily
Baker, who was also a native of Ohio, born in Sandusky county.  She came to
Iowa to join a sister who was living here.  Jason H. Osborn took up the
occupation of farming in southwestern Iowa, becoming owner of eighty acres
of land, which he carefully tilled and improved.  As the years went by he
became recognized as a diligent and persevering farmer and a citizen whose
value to the community was widely acknowledged.  He spent his last years
here, passing away in March, 1905.  He had served as a member of the county
board of supervisors in Polk township, also filled the office of justice of
the peace and occupied other local positions of honor and trust.  He was
ever loyal to the interests of the community and discharged his duties with
a faithfulness and fidelity that none questioned.  Long an exemplary
representative of the Masonic lodge, he was buried with Masonic honors and
his death was the occasion of deep regret to his brethren of the order as
well as to his associates in other walks of life.  His widow survives him
and some time after his death she added to the home place twenty acres of
land.  Upon this farm she now resides with her son, Joseph H. Osborn, who is
one of three children.  The brother, Jason W. Osborn, is a carpenter by
trade and now resides in Sheridan, Wyoming.  His sister, Mary Osborn, is the
present county recorder of Taylor county.
   Joseph H. Osborn has known no other home than the farm upon which he now
lives.  At the usual age he was sent to the public schools of the
neighborhood and he has also largely supplemented the knowledge which he
thus gained by further reading, study and experience.  He remained upon the
old homestead until twenty-three years of age, when in 1894, he went to Ohio
and there operated a farm belonging to his grandfather, Sanford G. Baker,
who was a cousin of Ethan Allen, of Revolutionary fame.  After five years
spent in the Buckeye state, Mr. Osborn went to Reading, Pennsylvania, where
he was employed in the iron and steel works for six years and later he spent
one year in driving a fire team of Reading, having charge of the best
equipped hose line then in the state.  Returning to Iowa in September, 1905,
he took charge of the old home farm and the business connected therewith and
has since carried on the work of the place, which in its appearance
indicates the life of unremitting diligence and energy which he is leading.
Following the early spring planting and the cultivation of the crops in
midsummer he gathers abundant harvests in the late autumn and for his
products finds a ready sale on the market.  He also raises high grade stock
and is very busy with his daily duties, yet finds time to cooperate to some
extent in public affairs.  He served his township as constable before going
to Ohio and he has been officially identified with the schools, acting at
the present time as president of the school board.  In 1908, he was elected
assessor of the township.  He is quite independent politically, supporting
the candidate whom he regards as best qualified for office without
considering the party affiliation.  His mother is a member of the United
Brethren church to which the father also belonged.  Joseph H. Osborn is a
member of Plumb Lodge, No. 285. A.F. & A.M., in which he is now serving as
an officer.  He likewise has membership in Clay Lodge No. 584, I.0.0.F., and
also in the encampment, and is in thorough sympathy with the beneficent
purposes of these organizations which recognize the brotherhood of mankind
and attempt to be of service to their fellowmen.


Bio. of A.G. Osborn


   Biographical History of Shelby and Audubon Counties, Iowa, Chicago,
   W.S. Dunbar & Co., 1889.  Page 448.  (transcript)
   [See the bio. of Christopher Osborn]
   [See Some Bedford Co., PA Records]

A.G. OSBORN, Township Trustee, came to Shelby in the spring of 1877.  He was
born in Bedord County, Pennsylvania, July 5, 1826, a son of Christopher
Osborn, who was a native of the same county, and whose ancestry goes back to
William Penn's colony to Pennsylvania, when the first Osborn came to this
country.  The mother of our subject was Mary Griffith, of German and Welsh
origin.  Mr. Osborn was reared in his native county, and passed his youth in
farming and attending the common schools of that day.  Arriving at the age
of manhood he was married to Rosanna Foster January 23, 1851; she was born
and reared in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, a daughter of Benjamin and
Hannah Foster.  Mr. Osborn lived in Pennsylvania until 1856, when he removed
to Kosciusko County, Indiana.  In June, 1857, he went to Knox County,
Illinois, where he lived until 1868, when he came to Iowa, locating in
Johnson County, near Iowa City; here he lived north of the town three miles,
then he bought land and built where he now lives.  He has a good one and a
half story house, located on a fine building site, from which one has a fine
view of the town and surrounding country.  He has a grove and orchard, and
everything indicates the thrift and wise management of the proprietor.  He
owns forty-one acres in the town limits.  Mr and Mrs. Osborn have five
children living -- Mary Frances, wife of Henry Foster, of Bird City, Kansas;
Lemuel E., who is a farmer and lives four miles in Harrison County; William
P., a photographer of Shelby; Wesley E., a farmer of Woodbury County, Iowa;
Sarah Belle, at home.  Mrs. Osborn and three of the children are worthy
members of the Methodist Episcopal church.  Mr. Osborn is a Republican,
casting his vote first for Zach Taylor.  He has served on the council, and
was elected township trustee in the fall of 1888.  He is honorable and
upright in business, and the family are esteemed and respected by all.


Bio. of John Lockhart


   History of Linn County, Iowa, Vol. II, Chicago, The Pioneer
   Publishing Co, 1911.  Page 56.  (transcript)

JOHN LOCKHART
   John Lockhart, one of the prominent and representative farmers of
Washington township, his home being on section 8, just west of Center Point,
has spent his entire life here, his birth occurring March 6, 1851, upon the
farm where he still resides.  His father, Thomas G. Lockhart, was born in
Adams county, Ohio, May 28, 1814, and was a son of Thomas and Mary (Brown)
Lockhart, both natives of Pennsylvania, the former born in 1789 and the
latter in 1788.  They were of Scotch descent and at an early day became
residents of Adams county, Pennsylvania, where the grandfather owned and
operated a distillery, becoming one of the prominent men of his community.
He was a soldier of the war of 1812.
   Thomas G. Lockhart, the father of our subject, spent his boyhood and
youth in the county of his nativity and in 1837 removed to Sangamon county,
Illinois, where he resided for a few years.  There he was married December
10, 1837, to Miss Lettie Osborn, a native of Indiana and a daughter of
Jonathan and Susan Osborn.  In 1838 they came to Iowa and two years later
settled in Linn county, being among the pioneers of this region.  Here the
father entered the land on which our subject now resides and to its
improvement and cultivation devoted his energies throughout the remainder of
his life.  As time passed he converted the place into a most productive and
valuable tract and made many excellent improvements, including the erection
of three sets of farm buildings.  He prospered in his life work, becoming
the owner of three hundred and three acres of vary valuable land, and was
numbered among the most substantial farmers of Washington township.  He was
also prominent and influential in public affairs and served for twelve
consecutive years as justice of the peace and also as townsip treasurer for
some years.  His political support was given to the democratic party and he
was an active and faithful member of the Church of Christ at Center Point,
with which he was officially connected.  He died on the home farm, January
24, 1891, and his wife passed away July 5, 1899, both being laid to rest in
Davis cemetery, Grant township.  They were the parents of eleven children,
but only three are now living, namely: Craton, who is a resident of the
state of Washington; Mrs. Amanda Bunker, of Urbana, Iowa; and John of this
review.
   Reared upon the home farm, John Lockhart early acquired an excellent
knowledge of every department of farm work and his literary education was
obtained in the public schools which he attended to a limited extent, but at
the age of thirteen years began plowing corn and from that time on his
attention was principally devoted to agricultural pursuits, pursuing his
studies in the schoolroom only when there was no work to be done on the
farm.  After reaching man's estate he remained at home and cooperated with
his father in the operation of the farm which they successfully operated
together until the father's death in 1891, when the place passed into the
possession of our subject.  He has since sold twenty acres of the tract but
still has a very valuable farm of two hundred and eighty-three acres which
is under a high state of cultivation and supplied with all the modern
accessories found upon the model farm of the twentieth century.
   Mr. Lockhart was married October 12, 1882, in Benton county, Iowa, to
Miss Belle Cross of Vinton, that county.  Her father, Solomon Cross, was a
native of Tennessee, but just prior to coming to Iowa made his home in
Indiana.  He was one of the pioneer settlers of Benton county, but is now
residing near Hobart, Oklahoma.  Mr. and Mrs. Lockhart have three children,
namely: Inez May, now the wife of J.W. Warmer who is engaged in the grain
and elevator business at Center Point, Iowa; Ross W. and Paul C., twins.
   In connection with general farming Mr. Lockhart has devoted considerable
attention to the handling and raising of thoroughbred Hereford cattle and
keeps on hand high grade stock.  Since age conferred upon him the right of
franchise he has been an earnest support of the democratic party and in
November, 1908, was elected to the board of township trustees, in which
position he is now serving.  He also filled the position of township
treasurer for six years and his official duties have always been most
promptly and ably discharged.  Fraternally he is an honored member of Vienna
Lodge, No. 142, A.F. & A.M., and a demitted member of the Order of the
Eastern Star.  Both he and his wife take an active and prominent part in
church work, holding membership in the Church of Christ, of which he is now
an elder.  They are regarded as among the leading and prominent citizens of
Washington township and they have a wide circle of friends and acquaintances
throughout Linn county.


Bio. of Benjamin Franklin Osborn-6209


   Past and Present of Greene County, Iowa, Chicago, S.J. Clarke
   Publishing Co., 1907.  Page 487.  (transcript)
   [See the 1887 bio. of B.F. Osborn-6209]

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN OSBORN.
   Benjamin Franklin Osborn, whose life of unwearied industry has made him
one of the leading citizens of Rippey, and of Greene county, was born in
Westville, Indiana, July 17, 1854.  His father, William Osborn, a very
successful farmer, was an active, popular and public-spirited citizen, who
died in 1863, at the comparatively early age of thirty-five years, leaving
five good farms and considerable other property for the support of his widow
and five small children.  His wife bore the maiden name of Charlotte Long
and was born in Jackson county, West Virginia.  She was a good business
woman, a kind and affectionate mother and an active Christian.  She died in
Perry, Iowa, in 1897.
   The ancestral history of the family can be traced back to a very remote
period.  Osborn is a very old name, having been known fully a thousand
years.  Representatives of that name removed from Scandinavia to Normandy
and thence went to England at the time of William the Conqueror.  The direct
ancestors of Mr. Osborn of this review came from England to America early in
the seventeenth century.  For two hundred and fifty years, or as far as it
has been possible for him to trace, the family have all been members of the
Friends or Quakers church.  While there have been a number of ministers and
trades people in the family they all have owned land and have primarily been
farmers.  Although not of a restless disposition, still they have been
possessed of the spirit of the pioneer and for seven successive generations
the family have pushed westward, keeping to the front of civilization.
   B.F. Osborn. supplemented his early education by high-school and academic
work in Westville, Indiana, where he spent some time as a high-school
student and also as a pupil in the academy under Professor John Laird.  He
was a resident of Westville until the fall of 1870, when with his mother and
her family he came to Iowa, settling upon a farm near Perry.  The trip
westward was made in an emigrant wagon and it required twenty-two days'
travel before they reached their destination on the 5th of October.  Mr.
Osborn of this review spent nearly two years on the farm before going to Des
Moines to take up his school work.  He was very successful as an
agriculturist, but the desire for a better education made farm life seem
tedious and irksome to him.  He pursued a commercial course in the Iowa
Business College at Des Moines, after which he enterod Des Moines College
and was graduated therefrom in the class of 1876, with the degree of
Bachelor of Science.  For special work in geology and zoology he was granted
the degree of Master of Arts by the Des Moines College in 1886.  He did
county normal work along the lines of nature's study from 1884 until 1886
inclusive, and in 1889 and 1890 he was president of the Alumni Association
of Des Moines College, while from 1889 until 1892 he was a member of the
board of trustees of that institution.  He took up the study of law and
could have been admitted to the bar, but gave up the idea of becoming a
member of the legal profession on account of an injury to his eyes during
his last year in college.  He possesses the natural instinct of the
collector of the odd and curious.  He began making collections when a small
boy and by the time he was thirty years of age he had a very large general
collection, covering geology, zoology and numismatics.  Owing to the
pressure of other work he was forced to abandon systematic collecting twenty
years ago.  He still has, however, a large part of his collection, which
contains some valuable and interesting specimens.  He has always been
greatly interested in literature, history and science and has gathered
together a large library, appertaining thereto.
   In his youth his hours of play were few.  He was only nine years of age
when his father died and he early had to assist his mother in the care of
their property.  From the age of twelve years he has done a man's business
and carried a man's responsibilities in the active affairs of life.  He gave
up further study in college at the earnest solicitation of his family, who
opposed his further continuance in college work on account of his impaired
eyesight.  Then with an older brother he engaged in the grain and stock
business in Peru, Iowa, in 1876.  Through lack of experience, together with
unusually bad markets, this venture proved unsuccessful and they lost
heavily, at length closing out the business to prevent a complete failure.
   After retiring from the grain and stock business Mr. Osborn took up the
study of medicine under Dr. S. Pangborn of Perry.  He also took up the study
of pharmacy under his uncle and carried the two studies together, clerking
at intervals in drug stores in Perry until the 11th of May, 1878, when he
purchased the drug store in Rippey and has since been located at the same
site, having recently completed his thirtieth year in the same building.  As
a boy on the farm he had given considerable time to the study of veterinary
medicines.  In small towns during pioneer days a druggist was expected to
know a little of everything in relation to the medicines he sold, so that
during his early experience as a merchant here Mr. Osborn not only put up
medicine for the sick, but also acted as local dentist and as veterinary
surgeon and cared for the dead.  He now holds three certificates from this
state, that of registered pharmacist, registered embalmer and registered
veterinary practitioner, and is actively engaged in all three lines.  In
addition to his other interests he is a stockholder, vice president and
director of the Greene County Telephone Company, also the local manager for
Rippey.  He is likewise a stockholder and director of the Rippey Savings
Bank, and in business life has manifested a keen discernment and an aptitude
for successful management which have made him one of the prosperous
residents of the community.
   While in college Mr. Osborn became a member of the Olmstead Zuaves,
afterward known as Company A, Third Iowa Infantry, in which he continued as
an active member for five years.  While this command was often called for
police duty, they never saw actual service.  Mr. Osborn, however, has done
considerable service of a public nature in other ways.  In 1883 he was
elected a member of the board of supervisors and filled that position for
six years, discharging his duties with the utmost fidelity and ability.  The
opening of the big coal fields at Angus threatened to take all the business
from Rippey, and in order to prevent this the business men of the latter
town organized the Rippey Coal Mining Association in 1883, which, against
the most trying and discouraging obstacles, finally succeeded in locating
the vein of coal at Rippey, which was successfully worked for a number of
years.  Mr. Osborn was president during the life of the company and
superintended all of the prospecting.  He aided in the establishment of the
Independent school district in 1884, was a member of the board that located
the school site and had charge of the erection of the building.  He was
elected a member of the board of regents of the State University of Iowa in
1890, and served until 1896.  His name thus became widely known in
educational circles and he has long been recognized as a stalwart champion
of the school interests of the state.  Furthermore, he has figured
prominently in many other ways promoting public interests.  He was one of
the charter members of the Iowa State Pharmaceutical Association, was vice
president in 1888, and has served on a number of the more important
committees of that organization.  He was a member of the Iowa Academy of
Science and is also a member of the Iowas State Historical Society, his
identification therewith being a natural sequence of his deep interest in
historical and scientific subjects.  He is now president of the Pioneers'
Association of Boone, Greene, Guthrie and Dallas Counties, having served for
a number of years, and was elected a member of the board of trustees of the
Iowa Normal School, at Cedar Falls, in which capacity he is still serving,
having been elected for a term that will continue him as the incumbent until
1910.
   On the 17th of May, 1876, Mr. Osborn was married in Perry, Iowa, to
Mittie Shelton, who is a representative of an old Virginia family, having
been born on her father's slave plantation near Richmond.  In her childhood
her parents removed to the west, and most of her life prior to her marriage
was spent in Keokuk, Iowa.  Mrs. Osborn has a long and honored line of
Virginia ancestors who distinguished themselves in both civil and military
service.  Unto Mr. and Mrs. Osborn have been born three children, two sons
and one daughter: Dr. William S. Osborn, of Knoxville, Iowa, at present the
superintendent of the State Hospital for Inebriates, who was married October
8, 1906, to Miss Lucy Martin, of Cherokee, Iowa; Wayne M., who is a graduate
of the law department of the State University of Iowa and is now looking
after agricultural interests at Bennett, Colorado; and Charlotte Winston,
who was married May 8, 1901, to Charles Larrabee, of Clermont, Iowa, by whom
she has two sons, Charles, aged five, and Frederick O., aged two years.  Mr.
and Mrs. Larrabee reside at Fort Dodge, Iowa, and the Grandfather and
Grandmother Osborn make frequent visits to their very interesting
grandchildren there.
   Mr. Osborn was a member of the Odd Fellows Society in Perry and so
continued for several years, or until the lodge surrendered its charter.  He
joined the Masonic lodge in 1880, has since held all of the chars and is
past master.  He is also a chapter Mason, a Knight Templar, a noble of the
Mystic Shrine and a member of the Eastern Star, while in his life he
exemplifies the beneficent spirit of the craft.  He is one of the charter
members of Rippey camp, No. 1761, M.W.A., was its first consul and served in
that office for a number of years.  He likewise belongs to Pawnee tribe, No.
104, Independent Order of Red Men.  He is a stalwart republican and a member
of the Grant Club of Des Moines.  He has always been active in politics and
has repeatedly served on township and county committees.  Several times he
has been chairman of the republican county convention and has attended a
large majority of the republican state conventions during the past thirty
years, also acting as chairman of the delegation.  His labors have touched
the general interests of society in this part of the state.  He assisted in
organizing the Rippey Commercial Club and became its first president,
filling the position to the present time.  He is likewise president of the
Greene County Pharmaceutical Society.  He has served for several years as a
church trustee and was reared under Baptist influence, but has never
identified himself with any religious organization.  His influence, however,
has always been given on the side of right, progress, reform and
improvement, and the advancement which has characterized him in his business
career and in his social relations has also been manifest in his public
service whether such service has been as an office holder or as a private
citizen.  One who knows Mr. Osborn well said of him: "He is a man thoroughly
worthy the respect of his fellowmen, and those who know him give him their
warm esteem and admiration."
   There are some points which constitute the logical deductions fo the
foregoing life record.  To those at all familiar with this history it is
well known that what his hand has found to do he has done with his might and
with a sense of conscientious obligation.  There have been no sensational
chapters in his life record, but the account is that of a man who has done
his duty day after day to the best of his ability.  His leisure hours have
been few, and what he has undertaken he has carried forward to successful
completion, whether for the promotion of his private business interests or
the advancement of matters of public moment.  Not given to self-laudation or
praise, he nevertheless enjoys in full measure the esteem of those with whom
the varied relations of life have brought him in contact.


Bio. of P.B. Osborn


   The Biographical Record of Hamilton County, Iowa, Chicago, The
   S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1902.  Page 579.  (transcript)

P.B. OSBORN.
   P.B. Osborn, who is engaged in the milling business in Ellsworth, owning
and operating a mill with the capacity of seventy-five barrels of flour per
day, was born in Washington county, Iowa, on the 20th of November, his
parents being Nathan and Elizabeth A. (Olds) Osborn, the former a native of
Kentucky and the latter of Indiana.  In early life the father engaged in
teaching school.  At the time of the Mexican war he enlisted for service and
was afterward granted a land warrant in recognition of his aid.  With this
he secured government land in Iowa, becoming one of the pioneer settlers of
the state.  He is now engaged in farming to some extent on Boone river.  In
his family were five children: Mrs. Sarah Ellen Hennis; Lucretia King, who
died September 5, 1901; P. B., of this review; Mrs. Ann Eliza Davis, of
South Dakota; and one that died in infancy.
   In the common schools of his native county Mr. Osborn of this review
pursued his education and afterward spent two terms as a student at Battle
Creek, Michigan.  In 1879 he went to South Dakota, where he entered land
from the government, remaining a resident of that state for sixteen years,
during which time he devoted his energies largely to the cultivation and
improvement of his own property.  In the spring of 1895 he traded his land
in South Dakota for a mill on the Boone river, south of Webster City, Iowa
and removed to that place, which continued to be his home for four years.
He was then offered good inducements to come to Ellsworth.  The proposition
he accepted, receiving fifteen hundred dollars and a free site upon which to
locate his plant.  His mill stands upon his own land and since coming to
Ellsworth he has prospered in his work.  At first he manufactured but sixty
barrels of flour per day, but an increasing trade has caused him to enlarge
the output to seventy-five barrels per day.  He sells all of the best patent
flours in his locality and sends his second grade flour to the Chicago
markets.  His enterprise, thorough understanding of the business and capable
management have resulted in bringing to him creditable success.
   On the 18th of October, 1878, in South Dakota, Mr. Osborn was united in
marriage to Miss Adella M. Stickney, who was born in New York, December 4,
1859, and was the sixth child of William and Adelia (Hoeg) Stickney, the
former of English lineage and the latter of German descent.  Mrs. Osborn
acquired her education in the Oneida schools and later engaged in teaching
in the country schools of New York and for three or four terms in the
schools of South Dakota.  She has one sister and one brother, who live in
South Dakota.  Her mother died February 26, 1902, after an illness of ten
days, at the age of eighty-one years.  Her father, however, is living a
retired life in Oneida, New York.  Her brother, Leroy, makes his home in
Syracuse, New York.  Mrs. Martha M. Barber is living in Bridgewater, South
Dakota.  Homer is a resident of Parkston, South Dakota.  George H. is living
in Oneida, New York.  Emogine died at the age of six years.  Mrs. Osborn is
the youngest of the family.  By her marriage she has become the mother of
six children: Nathan, born December 11, 1888; Chauncey Gordon, born July 4,
1891; Eleanor Ida, born November 2, 1892; Mabel Winnifred, born March 30,
1895; Lillie F., born November 5, 1896; and Geneva, born July 6, 1899.
   Mr. Osborn is now serving as a member of the city council for a term of
two years.  He was a delegate to the free silver state convention and is
liberal in both his political and religious views.  Fraternally he is
connected with the Odd Fellows' Society, has served as vice grand in
Ellsworth and is identified with the Order of the Rebeckah.  He is familiar
with pioneer conditions and with the development of the west.  When he
entered his land in Dakota he drove to and from that state, covering about
three thousand miles in one year.  The first year he built a dugout and
lived there in true pioneer style.  He owns the ground in Ellsworth upon
which his mill and warehouses now stand and also has additional land where
his mill is located on the Boone river; He also has a pleasant home in the
northern part of the town and his property is the visible evidence of his
well directed labors and his energy in business affairs.


1910 Bio. of Ebenezer Osburn


   History of Jackson County, Iowa, Vol. II, Chicago, The S.J. Clarke
   Publishing Co., 1910.  Page 294.  (transcript)  (accompanied by portrait
   of Mr. and Mrs. Ebenezer Osburn)
   [See the 1889 bio. of Ebenezer Osburn]
   [See the bio. of Benjamin Franklin Osburn]

EBENEZER OSBURN.
   Ebenezer Osburn, who passed away on the 2d of February, 1906, was
accounted one of the well to do and prosperous farmers of Van Buren
township.  His worldly possessions had been accumulated by the labor of his
hands and brain and indicate the industry which he had exercised during the
pioneer days of Jackson county.  Mr. Osburn was a native of Tioga county,
New York, having been born January 4, 1832.  His father, Samuel Osburn, also
a native of the Empire state, started for the west, bringing his family with
him, in the summer of 1849, crossing the Mississippi river June 8th of that
year.  Ebenezer Osburn, the eldest of the family, was then a youth of
seventeen years.  In coming to the west, the Osburn family 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, Illinois, for which he
paid the sum of forty-five dollars.  He had visited this section three or
four years before, traveling on foot, and had chosen Iowa as his future
place of residence.  From Savanna they crossed the Mississippi to Sabula and
thence made their way to Van Buren township, this county, where the father
entered eighty acres of land and subsequently purchased ninetyfive acres
from a settler, and the son Ebenezer, three years later, entered the same
amount -- eighty acres.  This is still in the possession and occupied by the
widow and son of Ebenezer Osburn.
   The 12th of March, 1856, witnessed the marriage of Ebenezer Osburn to
Miss Mary Osburn, who was likewise a native of Tioga county, New York, and
came to Iowa with her parents in August, 1839, and settled in Van Buren
township, this county.  Four children were born to this union but the only
one now living is Albert, who resides on the old homestead with his widowed
mother.  Mrs. Osburn on coming to this county with her parents was a little
child of six and one-half years and consequently has passed over seventy
years of her life in Jackson county and is truly one of the early pioneers.
Mrs. Osburn's natal day was the 8th of November, 1832.  There were but three
families in the entire township at the time of her arrival here and
consequently she is a living witness to the many changes that have taken
place in this county.  Mr. and Mrs. Osburn have also reared an adopted
daughter, Ettie, who is now the wife of W.P. Potter, of Sparta, Illinois, by
whom she has two children.
   Mrs. Osburn and her son Albert own the old homestead farm of three
hundred acres in Van Buren township which, being well improved and under a
high state of cultivation, returns to them a gratifying annual income.  Mrs.
Osburn has now passed the seventy-seventh milestone on life's journey and
during the long period of her residence here she has enjoyed the respect
and esteem of all with whom she has come in contact, while her good deeds
have endeared her to many.


Bio. of William C. Osborne


   Indiana and Indianans, Chicago & New York, American Historical
   Society, 1919.  Vol. 5, page 2199.  (transcript)
   [Son of Edmond Osborn-1362]

   William C. Osborne is president of the First National Bank of Danville
and secretary of the Danville Trust Company.  Hendricks County's financial
history largely revolves around the First National Bank of Danville.  It was
founded in 1863, the same year that the National Bank Act was passed, and
one of the men interested in its establishment was the grandfather of the
present president.  It is an institution reflecting credit upon the
personnel of its officers and directors and of unequestionable resources and
strength.  The bank has resources of over $900,000, while its affiliated
organization, the Danville Trust Company, has resources of $120,000.
   Mr. Osborne was born in Howard County, Indiana, June 16, 1865, about two
years after the First National Bank of Danville was founded.  His parents
were Edmund and Martha (Cook) Osborne, and he is of an English Quaker
family.  His great-great-grandfather, Matthew Osborne settled in North
Carolina at an early day.  Mr. Osborne's grandfather, Henry Osborne, came
from North Carolina to Indiana in 1820 and located on a farm in the southern
part of the state, near Paoli, where for a time he engaged in wagon making.
In 1835 he again pioneered, this time locating on a farm in Howard County.
He was a devout Quaker and a man of exemplary life and principles.  In 1875
he moved to Hendricks County, having previously been interested in the
establishment of the bank at Danville.  His family consisted of three sons
and one daughter.
   Edmund Osborne was the oldest child.  He spent most of his life in Howard
County, where he became an extensive land owner, and much of that property
is still held by his descendants.  He died in 1907.
   William C. Osborne is the oldest of the three living children of his
parents.  He had a common school education, also attended West Town Academy
in Pennsylvania, and for several years taught school, his teaching
experience being in the states of Pennsylvania, Florida and Iowa.  Until
about thirty years of age he spent most of his time on his father's farm and
had an active share in the farm management.  In 1895 he located at Danville,
becoming bookkeeper in a local bank and serving as cashier four years.
Since 1906 he has been president of the First National Bank.  Mr. Osborne is
also one of the wealthy farmers of Hendricks County, having three well
improved farms in that county and 220 acres in Howard County.  He is a
republican voter and is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows.  He retains the faith of his forefathers, that of the Quaker
Church, and for a number of years has been a trustee of Earlham College at
Richmond.  His wife has served several years on the Educational Committee of
that college.
   Mr. Osborne married, October 24, 1899, Miss Christina Rogers, of Georgia.
They have five children: Annie Martha, Florence, Elizabeth, Miriam and
Edmund R.


Bio. of George A. Osborn-15154


   History of St. Joseph County, Indiana, Chicago, The Lewis Publishing
   Co., 1907.  Vol. 1, page 543.  (transcript)
   [See the 1901 bio. of George A. Osborne-15154]
   [See the bio. of William E. Osborn-15151]

   GEORGE A. OSBORN, M.D.  During many years Dr. Osborn was engaged in the
practice of medicine in South Bend, and in that time endeared himself to
many friends, so that his death was deeply mourned throughout this section
of the county.  He as born on the Ohio river in Madison county<sic>,
Indiana, February 28, 1823, his father, Isaac Osborn, having been
extensively engaged in shipping on the river.  The son, however, was reared
in Clinton county, Ohio, receiving his early literary training in its public
schools, and later pursued a scientific and medical course in Indianapolis,
Indiana.  For about fifteen eyars after leaving college he was engaged in
the practice of his chosen profession in Lafayette, Indiana, and in 1886 he
arrived in South Bend, resuming his medical practice, which was continued
until within a few years of his death.  His busy and useful life was ended
on the 5th of November, 1903.  His long professional career was attended
with marked success, while in private life he gained that warm personal
regard which arises from true nobility of character, kindliness and
geniality.  He exemplified in his life the beneficient spirit of the Masonic
order, of which he was long a faithful member, and he was also a member of
the Medical Society of Indiana.
   On the 22d of December, 1846, Dr. Osborn was united in marriage to Dr.
Margaret A. Fannon, who was born in Clinton county, Ohio, April 30, 1827,
the daughter of John and Helen (McGrath) Fannon, both also natives of that
commonwealth.  The father, who was an agriculturist, moved to Pickaway
county, Ohio, about 1827, while six years later, in 1833, he took up his
abode in Clinton county, that state, where his death occurred in 1834.  Mrs.
Fannon was but thirty-six years of age when she was called to the home
beyond, the husband and wife dying on the same day, leaving their three
children, two sons and a daughter, homeless and parentless.  Their daughter
Margaret was then but seven years of age, and she was bound out to a family
named Hoblit, with whom she lived until eighteen years old, in the meantime
pursuing her education in the public school until she had reached her
fourteenth year.  She later graduated at the Ladies Commercial College of
Xenia, Ohio, and after he marriage began the study of medicine under the
preceptorship of her husband and a Professor Brown.  She practiced during
the war of 1860-65, and had been actively engaged in the profession for ten
years before she received her license, but in the meantime had attended the
Indiana Medical College.  During a long period of years she has continued
the practice of medicine in Lafayette and South Bend, in the time winning
for herself a name and place among its leading practitioners, and she now
confines her duties to office work.  She is the mother of eight children,
namely: Eugene B., of Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Stephen P., a farmer of St.
Joseph county; Sarah E., the wife of David M. Reed, of Lafayette, Indiana;
Georgiana, the widow of F.W. Brown and a resident of South Bend; Chase S.,
a prominent journalist of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan; Horace E., at home;
Charlie, of Jackson, Michigan; Horace E., at home; Charlie, of Jackson,
Michigan; W.D., a plumber of South Bend.  Dr. Osborn and his wife took up
their abode in South Bend during an early epoch in its history, and during
the intervening years which have since come and gone they have witnessed
many changes, while they also performed their full share in its wonderful
development and improvement.  During many years they continued the journey
of life together until one, tired and worn, lay down to rest, while the
other continues on alone until she too shall be called to lay aside the
burdens and responsibilities of this life and join her husband in the home
beyond.


Bio. of William Osborn


   Counties of White and Pulaski, Indiana, Chicago, F.A. Battey &
   Co., 1883.  Page 745.  (Van Buren Twp)  (transcript)

   WILLIAM OSBORN was born in Hampshire County, Va., October 6, 1821, and is
the son of J. and Elizabeth Osborn, who were natives respectively of new
Jersey and Virginia, were both twice married, and were parents of ten
children.  William Osborn was married in Marion County, Ohio, February 11,
1844, to Rebecca Dilts, who was born in Muskingum County, Ohio, December 16,
1827, and is the daughter of Daniel and Martha Dilts, natives of New Jersey.
In 1859, Mr. Osborn came to White County, this State, where he remained six
years, and then came to Rosedale, this township, where he yet lives, and
where he has been engaged in milling since 1876.  He has had born to him
nine children, viz., Emily (deceased), Charles, William, C.H., Rebecca,
Elizabeth, Erastus (deceased), and two infants who died unnamed.  Mr. Osborn
is a member ofthe Masonic fraternity, is an Odd Fellow, and has been a
Justice of the Peace at Rosedale for eight years.


Bio. of Edward Osborn


   History of Madison County, Indiana, Chicago, The Lewis Publishing
   Co., 1914.  Page 626.  (transcript)
   [Son of Thomas Osborn and grandson of Redin Osborn-863]

   EDWARD OSBORN.  A member of the present Indiana legislature from Madison
county, Mr. Edward Osborn represents the progressive farming element and the
substantial rural citizenship of his section of Indiana.  He is himself a
practical and successful farmer, has a large acquaintance and is very
popular in his home county, and by experience and native ability is well
fitted to represent the interest of his constituency in the legislature.
   Edward Osborn makes his home on 80 acres of fine land on the range line
road in Pipe Creek township.  He was born in Franklin county, Indiana, May
6, 1859, a son of Thomas and Mary (Claypool) Osborn.  Both parents are
deceased and buried at Elwood, and the family has long been prominently
known in this state.  Mr. Osborn's grandfather, Redin Osborn was a pioneer
of this state and one of the early members of the legislature.  Mr. Osborn's
father was a California forty-niner, and came back home with a greater
degree of wealth won on the gold coast than most of the adventurers who went
out from this state during those days.  Thomas Osborn, the father, was born
at Brookville, Indiana, and with the exception of his California experience
devoted practically all his life to blacksmithing.  There were three
children in the family, and the other two are Charles Osborn at Elwood, and
Mrs. Cora Brier.
   Edward Osborn as a boy was reared in his native county, where he attended
the common schools, and he also attended Old Smithson College in Cass
county.  On leaving school he skilled himself in the blacksmith trade, and
worked at that for some years during his youth.  When about twenty-four
years old he took up farming as his regular vocation, and by application of
energy and good management has made a creditable record in this line.  On
May 31, 1884, he married Miss Emma Greenlee, daughter of John and Angelina
(Bartlow) Greenlee.  Her father was originally from Pennsylvania, and first
settled in Franklin county, Indiana, where Mr. Osborn was born.  Mrs. Osborn
was one in a family of eight children, the others being Leora, Clara,
Cassius M., Mollie, Flora, Mattie, and Ida.  Mrs. Osborn is a Methodist.
   Fraternally Mr. Osborn is a Mason, a member of the Blue Lodge and Chapter
at Elwood, Indiana.  One daughter was born to the marriage of Mr. and Mrs.
Osborn -- Bessie, who wedded Clarence Legg, and they reside in Madison
county.  The pretty estate of Mr. and Mrs. Osborn is one of the beautiful
homes in Pipe Creek township, and they are citizens who take much pleasure
in the entertainment of their many friends.  Mr. Osborn is a popular man
amongst his colleagues in the halls of legislature, and reflects credit on
his home county of Madison.


Bio. of Franklin Robert Osborn


   The Past and Present of Vermilion County, Illinois, Chicago,
   The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1903.  Page 142.  (transcript)

FRANKLIN ROBERT OSBORN.
   Franklin Robert Osborn, who is engaged in the publication of the
Ridgefarm Republican, was born February 24, 1859, in Mahomet, Champaign
county, Illinois, his parents being Robert Osborn and Margaret Allen
(Henley) Osborn.  The Osborns were among the early English colonists who
settled in North Carolina and gradually migrated westward first to Kentucky
and thence to Indiana.  It was between the years 1820 and 1823 that James
Osborn, the grandfather of our subject, settled in Vermilion county,
Illinois, where Robert Osborn, the father of our subject, was born in 1824.
The family resided at the place of their first residence for nine years and
then removed to a home near the present site of Homer in Champaign county,
where the grandfather remained for a year.  He next located in the western
part of the county and entered a tract of land, securing his patent from the
government.  This land constituted the old homestead down to the present
time.  Robert Osborn, who is spoken of in preceding histories of Vance
township and in whose home it it<sic> reported was held the first public
worship in that township, was a great uncle of the subject of this review.
The Osborns were ever an honored upright people and no taint of dishonor is
ever attached to the name.
   In the district schools Mr. Osborn of this review began his education,
which he continued in the Mahomet high school, in the Central Indiana Normal
School at Danville and in the Champaign Business College in which he was
graduated in 1887.  At night and morning he walked three and a half miles to
high school and was only once tardy during that period and that was on a day
when the hogs were being killed on the farm.  He was one of only two pupils
who studied grammar in the country schools, but he was always ambitious to
secure a good education and put forth every effort in his power that would
advance this result.  He remained upon the home farm assisting in its
cultivation and improvement until twenty-two years of age and in his youth
he was ever fond of outdoor sports, being quite athletic.  He engaged in
wrestling, racing and jumping and these boyhood pleasures also contributed
in large and beneficial measure to his physical development.  As he grew
older it became his desire to study law, but he was dissuaded from this step
by his parents who thought to succeed in that profession meant a life of
chicanery.  He, therefore, tok up the profession of teaching which he
followed with a marked degree of success for thirteen years.  During five
years of this time, from 1888 until 1892, he was principal of a graded
school at Thomasboro and in 1892 and 1893 he was at Ogden.  In 1894 he
entered upon journalistic work.  On the 24th of February of that year -- on
the day on which he was thirty-five years of age -- he purchased the Melvin
Transcript in Ford county and remained its editor and publisher for five
years, or until March, 1899, when he sold that paper and purchased the
Ridgefarm Republican, which he still owns.  Its patronage is continually
increasing and there is now a large subscription list in addition to which
the paper has become an excellent advertising medium.  Several causes led
Mr. Osborn to abandon teaching and enter into other work, the close
confinement of the school room, second, a desire for a more independent
life, third, a wish to prepare an employment which would keep the son at
home when not in school, and fourth, a wish to deal with people who had
attained mature years and to become an active factor in the business world.
On the 7th of August, 1889, Mr. Osborn was united in marriage to Miss Lilian
Elmira Thompson, of Rantoul, Illinois, Dr. Frank Crane officiating.  The
lady was born in Morris, Illinois, in 1864 and in 1868 was taken by her
parents to Champaign county, where she grew to womanhood and became a
teacher, successfully following that profession for nine years.  Her father,
Thomas Thompson, was a veteran fo the war of the Rebellion and served under
Commodore Foote in his operations which terminated successfully in opening
up the Mississippi river.  Three children have been born unto Mr. and Mrs.
Osborn: Merwyn Oliver, twelve years of age; Pauline Theodora, aged eleven
years; and Robert Thompson, seven months old.
   Mr. Osborn has never asked for nor held any public offices yet he has
been a very active factor in the progress and improvement of various
localities in which he has lived and has left the impress of his
individuality upon public thought and feeling.  While in Champaign county
he labored earnestly and effectively for the improvement of the county
schools and for a course of study with the result that the educational
interests of that portion of the state gained a place in the front rank in
Illinois.  Mr. Osborn has always been an earnest Republican, untiring in his
advocacy of the party principles and he has delivered many campaign -----
in behalf of the men and measures of that organization.  Reared in the faith
of the Methodist church, he became one of its members when nineteen years of
age and while in Champaign county he established the first "evergreen"
Sunday-school at Thomasboro and was also one of the most potent factors in
the founding of the Methodist Episcopal church at that place and he is now a
trustee of the church of his denomination in Ridgefarm.  He is the president
of the St. Paul's Epworth League and in 1899 he was a delegate to the
international convention of the League at Indianapolis.  Socially connected
with the Knights of Pythias fraternity, Mr. Osborn held the office of
prelate for two years and then declined to serve longer on account of
illness in his immediate family.  He is a member of the Modern Woodment of
America and of the Royal Circle and in the latter he served for three terms
as worthy ruler and then declined re-election.  He was also a member of the
McKinley Marching Club of 1898.  Activity, energy and determination have
been salient characteristics in his career and were noticeable when in his
youth and early manhood he was a social leader, while later they formed an
important part of his successful work as a teacher and are now manifest in
his career as a journalist.