OSBORNE
OSBORNE
mitted to the bar in 1861. At the outbreak of the
civil war he organized a company of artillery in
Watertowu, N.Y., was oommissioued its captain
and was assigned to the 11th army corps. He
served through the war as chief of artillery in
various army corps, and of the Army of the Ten-
nessee and was three times wounded. He was
commissioned colonel in 1865, and was appointed
assistant commissioner of the Florida bureau vi
refugees, 1865-66. He practised law in Tallahas-
see. Fla.; was appointed register in bankruptcy
in 1867; was a member of the state constitutional
convention of 1867, and drew up the constitution
which was adopted. He was a Republican state
senator and wa3 elected June 30, 1868, by the
Florida legislature, U.S. senator with A. S.
Welcli, drawing the long term expiring March 3,
1873. H^- died in New York city, Dec. 18. 1898.
OSBORNE, Edwin Sylvanus, repres. ntative,
was born in Bethany, Wayne count}-, la., Aug.
7, 1839; son of Sylvanus and Lucy (Messinger) 0.s-
borne; grandson of Cooper and Hannali (Oakley)
Osborne. His great-grandfather, Thomas Os-
borne, was a soldier in the Continental army
during the Revolutionary war and was mortally
wounded in the battle of JMonmouth, and liis
first ancestor in America, John Osborne,
emigrated from England and settled in East
Windsor, Conn., in 1645. Edwin S. Osborne was
graduated from the University of Northern Penn-
sylvania. Bethany, Pa., in 1858 and from the
National Law school of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., in
1860. He was admitted to the bar at Wilkes-
Barre, Pa., Feb. 26, 1861, and in April joined the
8th regiment infantry, Pennsylvania volunteers.
He served with General Patterson's division and
was honorably mustered out, July 29. 1861. In
August. 1862, he recruited a company and joined
the 149th Pennsylvania volunteers, being com-
missioned captain, Aug. 30, 1862. In September
he h.is appointed judge advocate and served as
such for the command of General W^adsworth,
1st corps. Army of the Potomac, until February,
1863, when, at his own request, he rejoined his
regiment and participated in the battle of Get-
tysburg. In the first day's battle this regiment
forming part of Stone's " Bucktail " brigade, 3d
division, 1st corps, succe.ssfully held an advanced
position for four hours against the repeated as-
saults of greatly superior numbers, meanwhile
executing the movement of " changing front to
rear" under heavy fire, and sustaining in the
battle a loss of seventy-five per cent of its efTec-
tive strength. Captain Osborne was afipointed
brigade inspector. Aug. 27, 1863, and assigned
to duty in General Wadsworth's divi.sion. He dis-
tinguished himself in leading a charge in the
Wilderness, May 6, 1864, and again in the assault
on Petersburg, June 18, 1864. He was commis-
sioned major of the 149th Pennsylvania, March 2.
1865, was several times mentioned in orders for
gallantry and skillful handling of troops in battle
and was three times brevetted for meritorious
conduct. In April, 1865, Major Osborne was re-
lieved froni duty in the inspection department
and appointed judge advocate at Washington.
In June, 1865, he was sent to Andersonville
and other Confederate prisons to investigate the
charges of cruelty to prisoners on the part of
those late in command. In July, 1865, he pre-
ferred charges of murder against Capt. Henry
Wirz of Andersonville prison and drew the spec-
ifications of the indictment under which that
ofl[icer was found guilty and executed. He was
honorably mustered out, July 21, 1865, and re-
turned to the practice of law. He was major-
general of the 3d division. National Guard of
Pennsylvania, 1870-78; was prominent in re-
organizing the militia system of the state; com-
manded the forces that quelled the riots in
Scranton, Pa., in 1871, and Susquehanna Depot,
Pa., in 1874, and prevented a similar outbreak at
Hazleton, Pa. He was commander of the De-
partment of Pennsylvania, G.A.R., in 1883, and
was a delegate to the Republican national con-
vention at Chicago in 1888. He was representa-
tive-at-large from Pennsylvania in the 49th and
50th congresses, and from the 12tli congressional
district in the 51st congress, serving, 1885-91.
During his service in congress he defended the
policy of protection and advocated the subsidizing
of American ships. He was married to Ruth
Ball of Pittston, Pa., Oct. 12, 1865, and their
son, John Ball Osborne, born June 24, 1868, Yale,
A.B.. 1889, was U.S. consul at Ghent, Belgmm,
1889-94, and joint secretary of the reciprocity
commission of the United States, Oct. 18, 1897.
Their second son, William Headley Osborne, born
in 1870, graduated from the U.S. Military
academy in 1891, served in the campaign against
Santiago in the war with Spain as lieutenant in
the 1st U.S. cavalry, and died of typhoid fever in
the military camp at Montauk Point, N.Y., Aug.
23, 1898. General Osborne died in Washington,
D.C., Jan. 1, 1900.
OSBORNE, John Eugene, governor of Wyom- ing, was born in Westport, Essex county, N.Y., June 9, 1860; son of John C. and Mary E. Os- borne. His grandparents were English. He worked on a farm summers, attended the district and high school winters, was api)renticed to a druggist in Burlington, Vt., in 1876, and was graduated from the medical department of the University of Vermont in 1880, after liaving at- tended the winter course of lectures, 1877-80. In 1881 he removed to Rawlins, Wyo., where he es- tablished a wholesale and retail drug store. He was appointed assistant surgeon of the Union
