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| | History of Christopher Osborn the Younger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Christopher Osborn, one of the old and well-known pioneers of Decatur County, is a native of Bedford County, Pennsylvania, born October 30, 1819, a son of Christopher and Mary (Griffith) Osborn, who were natives of Maryland and Bedford County, Pennsylvania, respectively. |
 | | He is an active and public-spirited citizen of Decatur County, taking an interest in the various enterprises which have been of benefit to his township or county, and in pioneer days assisted in building the roads, bridges, churches and school-houses of Decatur County. |
 | | At Decatur, Iowa on the fifteenth day of August 1862 to serve three years; he was born in Bedford County in the State of Pennsylvania, is forty two years of age, five feet 8 ¾ inches high, fair complexion, blue eyes, brown hair, and by occupation when enlisted a Farmer. |
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