Wayne County IN Archives Biographies.....Osborn, Linden 1825 - 
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Author: History of Wayne County, Indiana;Volume II, (1884)

New Garden Township
p. 664

Linden Osborn, wagon-maker, Fountain City, Ind., was born in New Garden 
Township, Wayne Co., Ind., in 1825. His father, Eli Osborn, was born in North 
Carolina, Nov. 29, 1802, a son of William and Anna (Macy) Osborn, and a 
grandson of Mathew and Hannah (Reynolds) Osborn, who were natives of England. 
He was married in 1825 to Edith Reynolds, and the same year emigrated to 
Indiana. Our subject’s maternal great-great-grandfather, when small, in 
company with another boy about the same age, was enticed on a ship and brought 
to America, and here sold to pay their passage. His name was changed and he 
never knew his right name. He grew to manhood and bought three surveys of land 
near Philadelphia, and several lots in the city. He was lost at sea while en 
route for England. Linden Osborn was reared on a farm. He received his early 
education in the common school, and afterward attended a part of a session at 
Farmer's College, Ohio, and one session at Greenmount, near Richmond. In 1850 
he went to Washington and Oregon Territories and spent some time gold-digging, 
returning home via Panama. Mr. Osborn is a birthright member of the Society of 
Friends. He is a member of the Good Templars and Sons of Temperance. He is 
politically a Republican. He was early taught that it was wrong for one man to 
hold another in servitude, and therefore was foremost in upholding the 
principles of the anti-slavery party. The greater part of Mr. Osborn's life 
has been spent at his trade in Fountain City. He has never married.

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