Biographical Sketch of George Osborn, Lafayette County, Missouri

>From "History of Lafayette County, Mo., carefully written and compiled
from the most authentic official and private sources" St. Louis, Mo.
Historical Company, 1881.
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George Osborn, P. O. Aullville, Mo., second son of John and Rachel
Osborn.  Was born in Columbia, Boone county, Mo., May 18, 1828.  His
parents, now dead, were from Kentucky, and came to Boone county as 
early as 1818.  George moved the first time to Davis county, Mo., in
1841, where he remained twenty-four years, and then came to this 
county, September, 1865, settling about two miles northwest of Aull-
ville, where he now lives.  In September, 1855, he was married to Miss
Susan A. Rose, and has ten children living: John F., Charles E., Lou
Bell, R. Lee, F. May, Ruth, Ida Ann, George, Alvin K. and Floyd.  Mr.
Osborn, has an excellent farm of 280 acres, underlaid by the best 
class of coal.  The neighborhood use limestone rock for building pur-
poses, and his house is built of stone from his own land.  He is a 
member of the Baptist church, and a member of the Grange.  His farm is
of the first quality of corn and wheat land, and is well improved, 
with a large variety of fruit.  He has twenty-two stands of bees; one
half black, and the other half Italian bees.

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