Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Osborne, Charles P. May 22, 1876 - 
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      CHARLES P. OSBORNE, general superintendent of light and power for the 
Portland Electric Power Company, stands among those who have earned the proud 
American title of "self-made man," for every step of his progress in life has 
been gained through unassisted effort and the exercise of the ordinary 
qualities of common sense, persistence and loyalty. Mr. Osborne was born in 
Muncie, Delaware county, Indiana, on the 22d of May, 1876, and is a son of 
David and Minerva Osborne. In 1887 his parents took their family to Colorado, 
where they lived about a year, and then came to Oregon, locating in Albany for 
a short time and then going to Corvallis, where the mother's death occurred in 
1891. The father is now retired and lives in Portland, at the age of eighty-
seven years.

     Charles P. Osborne secured his early education in the public schools and 
attended Oregon Agricultural College three years. In 1899, when twenty-three 
years old, he went to Alaska, where he remained two years, during which period 
he served as a United States mail carrier. His route lay from Juneau to Fort 
Ware, a distance of seventeen hundred miles, of which thirteen hundred and 
fifty miles had to be made with dog teams, and over this latter distance Mr. 
Osborne, who has always been very athletic, ran with the dogs, averaging from 
fifty to sixty miles a day.

     In 1901 Mr. Osborne returned to Portland and entered the employ of the 
Oregon Packing Company, with which he remained until August 2, 1902, when he 
went to the Portland General Electric Company, now the Portland Electric Power 
Company. He was employed in various departments, received deserved promotions, 
and in 1916 was made superintendent of power, holding that position until 
1924, when the scope of his authority was enlarged and he was made general 
superintendent of light and power, which is his present title. He holds a 
place of large responsibility and that he has been retained in it is evidence 
of the splendid quality of service which he is rendering.

     On January 17, 1905, Mr. Osborne was united in marriage to Miss Jean M. 
Scougall, of Portland, and they are the parents of a daughter, Ruth, who is 
now twenty years old and a student in Reed College. Mr. Osborne gives his 
active support to the republican party, while fraternally he is a member of 
the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, the Order of the Eastern Star and the 
Woodmen of the World. He belongs to the Multnomah Amateur Athletic Club, the 
Multnomah Golf Club, the American Athletic Association and the Portland 
Chamber of Commerce. Every measure for the betterment of the community or the 
advancement of the public welfare receives his whole-hearted support, and 
throughout Portland he is held in high regard by all who know him.


Additional Comments:
History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. II, Page 
689



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