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BIOGRAPHIES

COMMEMORATIVE
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD
OF THE COUNTIES OF
HURON AND LORAIN, OHIO
CONTAINING
Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens
and of Many of the Early Settled Families
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO
J. H. BEERS & CO.
1894

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  JOHNSON OGILVIE

Source: Commemorative Biographical Record of the counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio - Illustrated_ Publ. Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co. - 1894 - Page 1026

  REV. CALEB ORMSBY

Source: Commemorative Biographical Record of the counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio - Illustrated_ Publ. Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co. - 1894 - Page 673

  ANDREW OSBORN, one of the oldest and most prominent of the agricultural citizens of Columbia township, is a native of Ohio, born in Summit county, in 1823, a son of JOSEPH and Phila (Ball) Osborn, of Connecticut.
     About the year 1811 Joseph Osborn, father of subject, came from the "Nutmeg State" to Ohio, making the journey in four weeks on foot, and after locating in Brimfield township, Portage county, returned for his wife, whom he had left behind in Connecticut.  From Portage they moved to Summit county, same State, whence they came, in 1836, to Columbia township, Lorain county, and hewed out a new home in the wild woods.  He was a useful man in his day, serving as trustee and assessor of Columbia township, of which he was a resident half a century.  He was born at Waterbury, Conn., May 13, 1794, and died Aug. 27, 1887, at the advanced age of ninety-three years, three months; he had served in the war of 1812, and was the recipient of a pension.  Before coming to Columbia township he built the locks at Akron, Ohio, and helped to raise the first building.  Mr. Osborn was twice married, first time to Phila Ball who bore him three children: Andrew, subject of sketch; Phebe Ann, deceased at the age of thirteen; and Hannah, wife of Ormal Smith, of Olmsted township, Cuyahoga county.  The mother of these died in 1831, and in 1832 Mr. Osborn married, in Summit county, Roba Harrington, who died Apr. 17, 1875.  Grandfather Andrew Osborn was a native of Connecticut, born of English ancestry.
     The subject of this sketch was thirteen years old when he came with his parents to Lorain county, and as a consequence he received part of his education in Summit county, Ohio, and part in Columbia township, Lorain county.   Since coming to Columbia he has lived with his father upon the old homestead, his present place, comprising 180 acres of well-cultivated land, where he is engaged in general agriculture.  In September, 1843, he was united in marriage with Miss Harriet Ives, daughter of Albert and Betsy (Russell) Ives, natives, the father of Connecticut, the mother of New York, who became early settles of Columbia township, Lorain county, where they passed the rest of their days.  Nine children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Osborn; George, married to Mrs. Mary (Hill) Harrington; Joseph, married to Jessie Jasper, and has one child, Bertha; Charley, who married Lizzie Yurman, and has two children, Lilly and Leon; Phila, married to Warren Goodman, and has two children, Guy and Forest; Mary, wife of George Howard, of Columbia township, has three children, Emma, Vivian and Clare; Frank, born Nov. 6, 1851, died at the age of nineteen, and three that died in infancy.  In his political predilections Mr. Osborn was originally a Whig, and, since the formation of the party, has been a straight Republican.  He and his wife have now for half a century traveled together the highway of life; and it is the earnest wish of their many friends that they may be spared to see many more anniversaries of the commencement of their married life.  
Source: Commemorative Biographical Record of the counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio - Illustrated_ Publ. Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co. - 1894 - Page 1099
  JOSEPH OSBORN - See Andrew Osborn.

Source: Commemorative Biographical Record of the counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio - Illustrated_ Publ. Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co. - 1894 - Page 1066

  HENRY A. OSBORNE - See Mrs. L. A. Osborne

Source: Commemorative Biographical Record of the counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio - Illustrated_ Publ. Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co. - 1894 - Page 1010

 

MRS. L. A. OSBORNE a resident of North Amherst, was born in Orwel, Vt., daughter of Ira W. and Lucy Smith, also natives of Vermont, where they were married, and where ten children were born to them.
     In the fall of 1832 Ira W. Smith came west to Lorain county, Ohio (the trip being made for the most part by water), and purchased a considerable amount of land about one mile from the present village of North Amherst.  Later on the rest of the family joined him; but he was not fated to long enjoy his new home, for in the spring of the following year, just six weeks after the arrival of his wife and children, he was killed by a falling three while out in the woods making a roadway through, on his land, which is now called the Middle Ridge.  He was in his fifty-second year at the time, and his sudden taking off was a terrible blow to the family; his widow died about twenty years ago at the age of eighty-one years.  They had a family of ten children, of whom the following is a brief record:  (1) Lucy married Daniel Cuts, and settled in Windham, Portage Co., Ohio, where she died.  (2) Ira W. was a land-owner, farmer and stockman at Kankakee, Ill., and died there leaving a numerous family.  (3) M. D. was a stockman and landowner at Wellington, Ohio, where he died leaving a large family.  (4) Sarah Ann married a Mr. Streator in Vermont, and died in Licking county, Ohio.  (5) Mariette is the wife of Orlum Winton of North Amherst, Ohio.  (6) Russell was a ranchman, and died at his residence in the city of Stockton, Cal.  (7) John (deceased) was a farmer in Iowa.  (8) Jane married Samuel Vining, and died in Illinois.  (9) Charles died in Kansas.  (10) L. A., the subject proper of this memoir, born in 1832, was married in 1850, at the age of seventeen, to William Walker, who was born in the State of New York and reared at North Amherst, Ohio.  He died sixteen years after marriage, leaving three children, viz.:  Zuleina L. wife of A. V. Kent, of Toledo, Ohio, by whom she has three children: Loula L., Grace E. and Amos Ross; Charles, a farmer on Middle Ridge, Amherst township, Lorain Co., Ohio (he has one child, Bertie); and William K., who died in October, 1892, aged thirty-two years. 
     Our subject was married, the second time, in 1868, to HENRY A. OSBORNE, a native of Lorain county, born in Avon, but most of whose early life was passed in Pennsylvania.  After marriage they made their home in Amherst township.  He was a soldier during the war of the Rebellion, and in the service contracted consumption of which he died July 26, 871.  One child was born to this union: Maude E., now the wife of J. H. Wright, of Grindstone City, on Lake Huron.  For the past sixteen years Mrs. Osborne has lived on Church street, North Amherst, and among her children.  She is identified with the Congregational Church; her second husband was a member of the M. E. Church. 
     Mrs. L. A. Osborne's early education was limited to the common schools, but an ambition to excel caused her to attain intelligence and culture rapidly, and this, coupled with a handsome appearance and genial disposition, made her an early favorite in society.  Her first husband was an excellent business man, and the Walker family became known as one of the prosperous and leading families of Lorain county.  Mrs. Osborne had grave responsibilities left upon her by her first husband's death; but she succeeded well.  She is still young looking, and still among the social leaders of North Amherst.  She is an active church worker, and one of the leaders of the Ladies' Relief Corps of North Amherst.
Source: Commemorative Biographical Record of the counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio - Illustrated_ Publ. Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co. - 1894 - Page 1010

 

PETER OSTRANDER

Source: Commemorative Biographical Record of the counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio - Illustrated_ Publ. Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co. - 1894 - Page 1198

 


 

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