Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Osborn, E. B. 1836 - 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   E. B. Osborn, dealer in lumber, groceries and dry goods, Veedersburg, is a
native of Van Buren township, born 1836, and was educated in the pioneer
schools. His parents, Oliver and Hulda Osborn, the-former a native of New
Jersey, the latter of Ohio, settled on Goal creek, east of Osborn's prairie some
three miles. There the former died in 1838, aged thirty-eight years. By trade he
was a millwright and a mason. He erected the first mill on Coal creek, in Van
Buren township, in 1829. Many of the houses built by him are still standing. He
was a member of a society called "Lodyists," and at one time its president. Its
motto was "Borrow but never return." His mother still lives on the old
homestead, and is now in her seventy-seventh year. In 1861 he was married to
Mary E. Phebus, daughter of Lewis and Mary Phebus, both natives of Ohio, and
settled in Fountain county, in 1838. By this union he has four children, John
L., James M., Emma, and Charley, and he has raised a boy named Wm. Shipman, whom
he regards with great affection because of his good traits of character. He and
his wife are members of the New Light order of christians, at Osborn's prairie.
He began life in moderate circumstances, but by his energy and good judgment he
has steadily advanced in business. He now is sole proprietor of a saw-mill at
Hillsborough, and the saw and planing mill at Veedersburg; the former valued at
$1,200, the latter at $4,000, and has a forty-acre farm, besides considerable
town property, and is operating a dry-goods and grocery store in Veedersburg;
stock in trade valued at $7,000. When he and his brother, E. M. Osborn, erected,
in 1872, the planing mill of which he is proprietor, at this place, there was
not so much as a single dwelling in Veedersburg. He is strictly a temperance
man, and is an active member of the "Blue Ribbon Club," of this place. He is
willing and ready to lend his influence and give aid to whatever is in the
interest of business or moral culture.

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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