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Marriage: Children:
  1. Nathan Stickney Osborn: Birth: 11 DEC 1888 in Parkston, Hutchinson, SD, USA. Death: 23 JAN 1973 in Minneapolis, Hennepin, MN, USA

  2. Chauncey Gordon Osborn: Birth: 4 JUL 1891 in Parkston, Hutchinson, SD, USA. Death: 13 MAR 1958 in Hart, Oceana, MI, USA

  3. Eleanor Ida Osborn: Birth: 2 NOV 1892 in Parkston, Hutchinson, SD, USA. Death: 8 AUG 1971 in Hart, Oceana, MI, USA

  4. Mabel Winnifred Osborn: Birth: 30 MAR 1895 in Webster City, Hamilton, IA, USA. Death: 5 OCT 1962 in Owosso, Shiawassee, MI, USA

  5. Lillie Florence Osborn: Birth: 5 NOV 1896 in Webster City, Hamilton, IA, USA.

  6. Geneva Osborn: Birth: 6 JUL 1899 in Webster City, Hamilton, IA, USA. Death: 1904

  7. Mary Olive Osborn: Birth: 28 MAY 1903 in Ellsworth, Hamilton, IA, USA.


Notes
a. Note:   Web site www.osborne-origins.org
 bio of John Lockhart
 bio of P. B. Osborn
  The Biographical Record of Hamilton County, Iowa, Chicago, The
 S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1902. Page 579. (transcript)
  P.B. OSBORN.
 P.B. Osborn, who is engaged in the milling business in Ellsworth, owning
 and operating a mill with the capacity of seventy-five barrels of flour per
 day, was born in Washington county, Iowa, on the 20th of November, his
 parents being Nathan and Elizabeth A. (Olds) Osborn, the former a native of
 Kentucky and the latter of Indiana. In early life the father engaged in
 teaching school. At the time of the Mexican war he enlisted for service and
 was afterward granted a land warrant in recognition of his aid. With this
 he secured government land in Iowa, becoming one of the pioneer settlers of
 the state. He is now engaged in farming to some extent on Boone river. In
 his family were five children: Mrs. Sarah Ellen Hennis; Lucretia King, who
 died September 5, 1901; P. B., of this review; Mrs. Ann Eliza Davis, of
 South Dakota; and one that died in infancy.
 In the common schools of his native county Mr. Osborn of this review
 pursued his education and afterward spent two terms as a student at Battle
 Creek, Michigan. In 1879 he went to South Dakota, where he entered land
 from the government, remaining a resident of that state for sixteen years,
 during which time he devoted his energies largely to the cultivation and
 improvement of his own property. In the spring of 1895 he traded his land
 in South Dakota for a mill on the Boone river, south of Webster City, Iowa
 and removed to that place, which continued to be his home for four years.
 He was then offered good inducements to come to Ellsworth. The proposition
 he accepted, receiving fifteen hundred dollars and a free site upon which to
 locate his plant. His mill stands upon his own land and since coming to
 Ellsworth he has prospered in his work. At first he manufactured but sixty
 barrels of flour per day, but an increasing trade has caused him to enlarge
 the output to seventy-five barrels per day. He sells all of the best patent
 flours in his locality and sends his second grade flour to the Chicago
 markets. His enterprise, thorough understanding of the business and capable
 management have resulted in bringing to him creditable success.
 On the 18th of October, 1878, in South Dakota, Mr. Osborn was united in
 marriage to Miss Adella M. Stickney, who was born in New York, December 4,
 1859, and was the sixth child of William and Adelia (Hoeg) Stickney, the
 former of English lineage and the latter of German descent. Mrs. Osborn
 acquired her education in the Oneida schools and later engaged in teaching
 in the country schools of New York and for three or four terms in the
 schools of South Dakota. She has one sister and one brother, who live in
 South Dakota. Her mother died February 26, 1902, after an illness of ten
 days, at the age of eighty-one years. Her father, however, is living a
 retired life in Oneida, New York. Her brother, Leroy, makes his home in
 Syracuse, New York. Mrs. Martha M. Barber is living in Bridgewater, South
 Dakota. Homer is a resident of Parkston, South Dakota. George H. is living
 in Oneida, New York. Emogine died at the age of six years. Mrs. Osborn is
 the youngest of the family. By her marriage she has become the mother of
 six children: Nathan, born December 11, 1888; Chauncey Gordon, born July 4,
 1891; Eleanor Ida, born November 2, 1892; Mabel Winnifred, born March 30,
 1895; Lillie F., born November 5, 1896; and Geneva, born July 6, 1899.
 Mr. Osborn is now serving as a member of the city council for a term of
 two years. He was a delegate to the free silver state convention and is
 liberal in both his political and religious views. Fraternally he is
 connected with the Odd Fellows' Society, has served as vice grand in
 Ellsworth and is identified with the Order of the Rebeckah. He is familiar
 with pioneer conditions and with the development of the west. When he
 entered his land in Dakota he drove to and from that state, covering about
 three thousand miles in one year. The first year he built a dugout and
 lived there in true pioneer style. He owns the ground in Ellsworth upon
 which his mill and warehouses now stand and also has additional land where
 his mill is located on the Boone river; He also has a pleasant home in the
 northern part of the town and his property is the visible evidence of his
 well directed labors and his energy in business affairs.


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