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Source: Vol. II  pg. 20  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present   

OSBORNE, JOE  was elected chief of the police department of the City of Daytona 
on the municipal reform ticket, and in his administration he has shown that he 
knows what to do and proceeds to do it vigorously and effectively, with the 
result that his work has amply justified the popular confidence that led to his 
election.
	Mr. Osborne was born at historic Irvington, on the Hudson River, New 
York, and the date of his nativity was September 9, 1868. He is a son of JOHN 
and MARGARET (WATSON) OSBORNE, each of whom died at the age of fifty-nine years 
—the former in 1880 and the latter in 1887. JOHN OSBORNE was born in the City 
of Glasgow, Scotland, and his wife at Paisley. JOHN OSBORNE was reared in his 
native city, where he learned the trade of ship-joiner, and it was in the year 
1865 that he and his young wife came to the United States, their home having 
been established in New York State, where as a skilled carpenter he gave 
special attention to the erection of high-class greenhouses on various fine 
estates along the Hudson River. Later he held the position of sexton of the 
Fourth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City, of which Rev. HOWARD CROSBY 
was then pastor, both he and his wife having been reared in the Presbyterian 
faith, under the rigid Scottish discipline, and both having continued earnest 
members of the church until the close of their lives. He was affiliated with 
the St. Andrew's Society and the Caledonians. Two of the sons are residents of 
Florida, JOE, the subject of this sketch, and ROBERT W., who is engaged in the 
plumbing business at Coconut Grove, Dade County.
	The present chief of police of Daytona attended the public schools of 
the national metropolis, and when a lad of twelve years he went to sea, as 
messboy on steamers plying along the Atlantic Coast of the United States. He 
was in service on ships plying between New York City and Havana, Cuba, and was 
employed on the vessel "Rapidan" at the time of his father's death, when he 
left the sea and found employment in the Morgan Iron Works, which later became 
the Roach Shipbuilding Company and which constructed many vessels of the United 
States Navy. While Mr. Osborne was in the employ of this concern it built the 
battleship "Chicago," then one of the finest in the United States Navy. Mr. 
Osborne continued his service with the Roach Shipbuilding Company from 1880 to 
1884, and at the expiration of this period of four years he entered the employ 
of H. P. Slaven, a contractor for the French government in connection with 
canal work on the Isthmus of Panama. In March, 1889, Mr. Osborne was employed 
by a mahogany-producing company in Porto Rico, and he thence made his way to 
the City of Boston, whence he went to Philadelphia and entered the employ of 
the firm of Pancake & Kenna, then engaged in contract work for the Baldwin 
Locomotive Works. From Philadelphia Mr. Osborne returned to New York City, 
where he worked three years as a plumber, as did he thereafter in Chicago, 
Omaha, Denver, Los Angeles, as well as at Phoenix, Arizona.
	In 1896 Mr. Osborne came to Florida and engaged in construction work in 
connection with the erection of the great Royal Palm Hotel at Miami. Later he 
was identified with construction work on the East Coast, with headquarters at 
Key West, and in July, 1896, he established his residence at Daytona, where he 
has been actively concerned with development and construction enterprises of 
varied orders, including the improving of the Triple City, Seabreeze and 
Daytona Beach. Here he was first employed as a plumber in the service of GEORGE 
BALLOUGH, and thereafter he was for twenty-two years engaged independently in 
the plumbing business, as one of its leading representatives at Daytona.
	In 1908 Chief Osborne became a member of the City Council and chairman 
of the Board of Public Works, which latter position he retained from 1909 until 
the completion of the local water and sewerage systems. In this and other 
connections he proved alike his integrity, his progressiveness and his civic 
loyalty, and thus he held secure place in popular confidence and esteem when he 
was made the candidate for the office of chief of police, of which position he 
became the incumbent in March, 1922.
	Chief Osborne has twice served as master of Daytona Lodge No. 81, A. F. 
and A. M., and has served also as high priest of the local Chapter of Royal 
Arch Masons, and as eminent commander of Daytona Commandery of Knights Templar, 
his Masonic affiliations being extended to Morocco Temple of the Mystic Shrine 
in the City of Jacksonville. He has been for many years a trustee of the 
Masonic Lodge at Daytona, is a member of the building committee of the Masonic 
Temple in his home city, and holds membership in the local Masonic Trowel Club, 
besides which he is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, including the 
Dramatic Order of the Knights of Khorassan. He is an active member of the 
Kiwanis Club at Daytona, and in full accord with its progressive civic and 
business policies. He was reared in the faith of the Presbyterian Church, and 
his wife is a communicant of the Protestant Episcopal Church. The marriage of 
Mr. Osborne was solemnized in 1899, when Miss AMELIA PARKINS became his wife, 
she having been born at Carlisle, England. They have no children.



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