Chatham County GaArchives Biographies.....Osborne, William W. 19 Oct 1867 - living in 1913
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Author: William Harden
p. 550-551

   HON. WILLIAM W. OSBORNE is a member of the firm of Osborne & Lawrence,
general practitioners of law. The firm has been general counsel for the Savannah
Electric Company, which has operated the street railway system since 1897. Mr.
Osborne has been a member of the state legislature from Chatham county, session
of 1892-93, and state senator in the session of 1894-95. While in the lower
house he was chairman of the committee on immigration and in the upper, chairman
of the committee on railroads.

   Mr. Osborne was born at Graniteville. October 19, 1867. His parents were John
H. H. and Mary Stoney (Wilson) Osborne. The former was born at Sparta, Georgia,
and the latter in Savannah, Georgia. In his early childhood, Mr. Osborne removed
with his parents to Savannah.

He was reared in this city. Here he received his public school education,
graduating from the high school in 1882. For his higher education he became a
student in Mercer University at Macon in 1882 and 1883. The following year he
entered the University of Georgia at Athens, from which institution he was
graduated in 1885. With the idea of adopting the law as his profession he
entered the law office of Denmark & Adams and was admitted to the bar on
December 7, 1886. For a time he practiced alone, but subsequently formed a
partnership with the late Pope Barrow, a gentleman of many distinctions, who had
been United States senator and who later became judge. This partnership
continued from 1894 until 1902, and in the year last mentioned, Mr. Osborne
formed a second partnership with Alexander L. Lawrence, which has continued to
this day.

   In 1906, Mr. Osborne organized the Exchange Bank of Savannah, and is
president of the same. In 1910-1911, Mr. Osborne was elected to the office of
president of the Georgia Bankers' Association. In addition to the foregoing
honors, Mr. Osborne was elected and served as solicitor general for the eastern
circuit, superior court, for three terms of four years each, his tenure of
office extending over the period comprised within the dates January 1, 1896, and
January 1, 1908.

   Mr. Osborne was married in 1894 to Miss Louette Dale. They have two
daughters: Kate Dale and Mary Stoney.


Additional Comments:
From:

A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA
BY
WILLIAM HARDEN

VOLUME I
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1913


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