BIO:  OSBURN, Dr. S.D., s/o Thomas & Martha (Pinkston) Osburn

Submitted by:  ivie@tima.com   (Diana Flynn)

OSBURN    PINKSTON    ODELL    WIBEL

SULLIVAN CO.
CURRY TWP.
PAGE 776
DR. S. D. OSBURN, physician, Shelburn, son of Thomas and Martha (Pinkston)
Osburn, who were natives respectively, of Kentucky and Indiana, he being
one of the pioneers of Hamilton Township.  Subject was born in Hamilton
Township, Sullivan County, October 12, 1857, where he was reared, his early
education being received in the neighborhood schools, entering in 1874, the
Sullivan Graded School, where he remained three years, when he entered the
Northern Indiana Normal School at Valparaiso, graduating in 1878.  He then
read medicine in Sullivan under Dr. R. H. Crowder till the fall of 1878,
when he entered the Medical College of Ohio, at Cincinnati, and after a two
years' course, graduated from that institution in the spring of 1880.  In 
April, 1880, he opened an office at Shelburn, where, although the Doctor is 
young, he has built up a fine practice, and at present fills the position of 
Health Officer of Shelburn. He was married in Sullivan County, September 21,
1881, to Miss Ettie Odell, daughter of Abram and Mary (Wibel) Odell, and born 
February 11, 1863.  This union has been blessed with one child, Imo.  
The Doctor is an I. O. O. F., Lodge No. 420, and a Republican.
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