Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Osborn, E. M. 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   E. M. Osborn, furniture dealer and undertaker, Veedersburg, came to Fountain
county from Ohio in 1829, with his parents, Oliver and Hulda Osborn; the former
a native of New Jersey, the latter of Ohio. They settled on Coal creek, three
miles east of Osborn prairie. Here he finished a mill which had been begun some
time previous. He continued to operate till his death, which occurred in 1838,
when he was thirty-eight years of age. By trade he was a mason, and built many
of the brick dwellings in Fountain county which are still standing. His wife is
still living on the old homestead, and is in her seventy-seventh year. He was
married in 1846 to Catherine Applegate, a native of Ohio, and daughter of Aaron
B. and Jane (Blackburn) Applegate, by whom he has five children: Orpha W.,
Oliver S., Mary C, Elizabeth E., and Freman. He and his wife are members of the
denomination known as Christians, or Disciples, in which he has filled the
office of elder for the past seven years. Mr. Osborn began life with fifty-one
acres of land and $10 in money, and an education such as he was able to obtain
in pioneer schools. He operated a saw-mill from 1834 to 1847, wholly within Van
Buren township. In 1872 he and his brother, E. B. Osborn, erected a planing-mill
in Veedersburg, which he was connected with till 1874, when he sold his interest
to his brother, E. B., and engaged in furniture dealing and undertaking with his
son, in which he still continues. He owns a good farm of 160 acres and
considerable town property. In politics he is thoroughly republican. Mr. Osborn
has ever been an active, industrious citizen, and one who has paid close
attention to the moral standing of the community and how it might be improved.

Additional Comments:
Van Buren Township

Extracted from:

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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