My Genealogy Hound

Daniel Osborn, a prosperous planter of this county and a resident of McMinnville, was born October 6, 1822, in Wayne County, Ind. His father, Daniel Osborn, Sr., was born about the year 1792, at Long Island, N. Y., engaged during life at the different occupations of teaching, merchandising and farming, was a Universalist in religion and died in 1849, in Sioux County, Wis. Mary Washington, his wife and the mother of our subject, was a native of England, came to the United States with her parents when fourteen years old, and at an early day settled in Indiana, where she became Mrs. Osborn about the year 1820. She was a Baptist and died in Iowa, in 1876. Our subject is the eldest of twelve children. He obtained a fair education in youth, worked at the mechanic’s trade for a time, but in 1852 began merchandising in Richland County, Wis., where he remained eight years. He then moved to Grant County, where he sold goods about four years, then went to Dexter, Iowa, and still later to Des Moines. He remained in the latter city five years as merchant, and in 1876 moved to McMinnville, Tenn., which has since been his home, and near which he owns a farm of 176 acres. He also owns two farms of 250 acres near McMinnville, and two fine residences in town. A large portion of his fund are in bonds. He wedded Miss Mary, daughter of Abraham Heed, March 31, 1858, and by her is the father of four children, only one, Daniel, now living. The mother was born in Belmont County, Ohio, December 28, 1836, and is a member of the Christian Church. Mr. Osborn is a Universalist in belief.