Fountain-Fulton County IN Archives Biographies.....Osborn, Oliver D. 1852 - 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   Oliver D. Osborn, farmer, Attica, is the second son of Thomas and Margaret
Osborn. In 1824 his grandfather, Daniel Osborn, bringing his son Thomas with
him, settled on the north fork of Coal creek, about a mile north of Veedersburg.
The "Osborn saw-mill," built by him on this stream, was one of the landmarks in
the early history of the country. Mr. Osborn was a Disciple preacher and
Thompsonian physician, who both preached and practiced through the country, with
a good deal of success, from the date of his settlement till 1848. Thomas Osborn
in 1846 married Margaret Herbaugh, and in 1848 moved to Dane county, Wisconsin;
about two years later he was followed by his father, who died there in October
1854. It was in this place that the subject of this notice was born, February 2,
1852. This was the natal place also of two sisters and a brother. His father is
a preacher in the New Light denomination, and was licensed over twenty years
ago. In 1858 he left Wisconsin and moved back to Fountain county, and in April,
1873, settled with his family in Tulare county, California, where he now
resides, engaged in sheep husbandry. The family returned in the fall of the
present year, on a visit to Indiana. Oliver was married in the spring of 1873 to
Miss Melissa Claypool, daughter of Abel Claypool. When his father removed to
California he and his wife went with the family on a pleasure trip of a few
months. In 1876 he and his wife again went to California. The latter died there,
and he remained two years mining, teaching school, grazing sheep, and operating
a saw-mill. He received a good common education, and before this period had
taught school in Indiana and Illinois. Having returned to the former state he
married again, in April 1879, Miss Kittoria, daughter of Dempsey Redden. By his
first wife he had one child, Frank, living with the grandparents in California.
Mr. Osborn was census enumerator for Shawnee township in 1880. He is a decided
republican. He owns 159 acres of land in Shawnee township, eighty acres in
Fulton county, eighty acres in Boss county, Ohio, and some mining claims in the
Mineral King mining district, Tulare county, California.

Additional Comments:
Shawnee Township

HISTORY OF FOUNTAIN COUNTY,

TOGETHER WITH
HISTORIC NOTES ON THE WABASH VALLEY,

GLEANED FROM EARLY AUTHORS, OLD MAPS AND MANUSCRIPTS
PRIVATE AND OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE, AND OTHER AUTHENTIC, THOUGH, FOR THE MOST
PART, OUT-OF-THE-WAY SOURCES.

BY H. W. BECKWITH,
OF THE DANVILLE BAR; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETIES OF
WISCONSIN AND CHICAGO.

WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHICAGO: H. H. HILL AND N. IDDINGS, PUBLISHERS.
1881.


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