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 | | of John Ball Osborne] OSBORNE, Edwin Sylvanus, representative, was born in Bethany, Wayne county, Pa., Aug. 7, 1839; son of Sylvanus and Lucy (Messinger) Osborne; grandson of Cooper and Hannah (Oakley) Osborne. |
 | | His great-grandfather, Thomas Osborne, was a soldier in the Continental army during the Revolutionary war and was mortally wounded in the battle of Monmouth, and his first ancestor in America, John Osborne, emigrated from England and settled in East Windsor, Conn., in 1645. |
 | | 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. |
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