OSBORN-Oliver - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

Oliver D. OSBORN, farmer, Attica, is the second son of Thomas & Margaret Osborn. In 1824, his Grandfather, Daniel Osborn, bringing his son Thomas with him, settled on the North fork of Coal Creek, about a mile north of Veedersburg. The "Osborn Saw Mill" built by him on this stream was one of the landmarks in the early history of the county. Mr. Osborn was a Disciple Preacher and Thompsonian Physician, who both preached and practiced through the country, with a good deal of success, from the date of his settlement till 1848. Thomas Osborn in 1846 married Margaret Herbaugh and in 1848 moved to Dane county Wisconsin, about two years later was followed by his father who died there in October 1854. It was in this place that the subject of this notice was born, February 2 1852. This was the natal place also of two sisters and a brother. His father is a preacher in the New Light Denomination and was licensed over twenty years ago. In 1858 he left Wisconsin and moved back to Fountain county and in April 1873, settled with his family in Tulare county California, where he now resides, engaged in Sheep husbandry. The family returned in the fall of the present year on a visit to Indiana, Oliver was married in the spring of 1873, to Miss Melissa Claypool, daughter of Abel Claypool. When the father removed to California he and his wife went with the family on a pleasure trip of a few months. In 1876 he and his wife again went to California. The latter died there, and he remained two years mining, teaching school, grazing sheep and operating a saw mill. He received a good common education and before this period had taught school in Indiana and Illinois. Having returned to the former state he married again, in April 1879, Miss Kittoria daughter of Dempsey Redden. By his first wife he had one child, Frank, living with the grandparents in California. Mr. Osborn was census enumerator for Shawnee township in 1880. He is a decided republican. He owns 159 acres of land in Shawnee township, eighty acres in Fulton township, eighty acres in Ross county Ohio, and some mining claims in the Mineral King mining district, Tulare county California.