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| | Edwin Sylvanus Osborne, Major General, United States Army & Member of Congress |
 | | Thomas Osborne, the great-grandfather of subject, was a soldier in the war of the Revolution, and was killed at the battle of Monmouth, New Jersey. |
 | | General Osborne was the originator of the system of the National Guards of Pennsylvania, and it was by his efforts that the Legislature, in 1873, repealed the militia tax. |
 | | General Osborne was married October 12, 1865, to Ruth A., daughter of William and Mary A. (Smith) Ball, of Carbondale, Pennsylvania, and a descendant of Edward Ball, who came from England to Branford, Conn., in 1640. |
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