Husband Dr. David Cuvier Osborne 1 2
Born: 3 Aug 1830 - Ripley, Chautauqua Co, NY 1
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Died: 26 Oct 1912 - Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Co, MI
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Father: Platt Smith Osborne (1798-1887) 1
Mother: Mary A. Platt ( - ) 1
Marriage: 23 Oct 1856 3
Wife Arvilla Maria Hill 2 3
Born: 29 Dec 1837 - Sheridan, Chautauqua Co, NY 3
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Died: 18 Oct 1913 - Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Co, MI 3
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Father: Rev. Bryan S. Hill (1812- ) 3 4 5
Mother: Mary E. Sanborn ( - ) 3
Children
1 M Bryan Hill Osborne 2 6
Born: 10 Aug 1858 - Franklin, Venango Co, PA 2 7
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Spouse: Stella V. Mitchell ( - ) 8 9
Marr: 11 Dec 1889 - ? Venango Co, PA 7 9
2 M David Winthrope Osborne 10
Born: 16 Mar 1861 - New Castle, Lawrence Co, PA 10
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Died: 14 Nov 1917 - Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Co, MI
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3 M Cyrus Clarke Osborne 11
Born: 19 Oct 1865 - Akron, Summit Co, OH
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Spouse: Myra Fay Mackey (1870- ) 12 13
Marr: 12 Oct 1893 - ? Venango Co, PA
4 F Mary Osborne
Born: 21 Sep 1869 - Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co, OH
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Died: 10 Nov 1904 - Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Co, MI
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5 M Donald Platt Osborne
Born: 28 Oct 1878 - Steubenville, Jefferson Co, OH
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Spouse: Mrs. Mabel H. Boudeman ( - )
Marr: 15 May 1918
General Notes: Husband - Dr. David Cuvier Osborne
He was given the best possible education under the circumstances, attending the local public schools and Westfield Academy, and made such good progress that at sixteen he was engaged to teach the village school at Sherman, where the family then resided. All the Osbornes were fond of music and talented in that line, and David was especially gifted. He cultivated his musical skill, spending two years in New York City studying with the best instructors of the time and later teaching music, both vocal and instrumental. For two and a half years he studied law in Panama, New York, in the office of Hon. Abner Lewis. But the course he had laid out for himself was changed on New Year's Eve, 1850, when he formally embraced Christianity while attending evangelistic services, and not long afterward he united with the Methodist Episcopal Church. He had already shown such promise as a public speaker that his friends saw a useful career for him in the ministry, which he soon decided to adopt, and in 1853 he was admitted to the Erie Conference to preach the gospel. The early predictions of his admirers were more than fulfilled. He became one of the leading ministers of the Methodist denomination, setting a standard of earnest and effective work in every pastorate and leaving substantial evidences of the vigorous spirit which animated him in every enterprise. His love for music led him to give it an important place in the church services, and he himself would organize and drill church choirs and labor zealously to provide musical facilities, pipe organs having been installed in many of the churches which he served through his influence. The young were always the special objects of his care and attention. It was not only his idea to make the church and its activities attractive to them, but he planned to make them take the serious responsibilities of maintaining the church organization, and met with great success in this field, no doubt attributable to the never fading youthfulness of his own spirit. He believed that the church should lead in social regeneration, and the famous "Akron Plan," originally used in the First Church, Akron, Ohio, he worked out while pastor of that church in collaboration with Louis Miller, superintendent of the Sunday school and financier of the enterprise, and Jacob Snyder, the architect. They usually met in Dr. Osborne's study to discuss their ideas, which had such wonderful fruit. These progressive souls were anxious to provide a building especially adapted to the needs of Sunday school and church social activities, and it proved so successful at Akron that it was adopted by other congregations with similar problems all over the country. Dr. Osborne was also called upon to help plan the Chautauqua movement, Dr. John H. Vincent asking counsel of him in arranging for and conducting the Chautauqua assemblies. While on the Barnesville district (1893-98) he was superintendent and instructor in the Epworth League Assembly of Bethesda, Ohio, and those who appeared on the program of that assembly in those years were guests at his cottage. A number of ambitious church building enterprises were carried to completion by his energy, his pastorates in every church having been periods of memorable activity. Yet with all the success he had in a material way, he never sacrificed the spiritual to that end-it was rather that he raised the spiritual to a vigor and intensity which made many things possible. His eloquence was appealing, and a number of laymen who proved highly useful to the denomination were brought in under his preaching, notably the late President William McKinley. His pastorates were as follows: Randolph, 1853; Wattsburg, 1854; Dunkirk, 1855-56; Warren, 1857; Franklin, 1858-59; New Castle, 1860-61; Erie, First Church, 1862-64; Akron, 1865-67; Erie Street Church, Cleveland, 1868-70; Titusville, 1871-72; Cleveland district as superintendent, 1873-76; Steubenville Kramer Church, 1877-78; Massillon, 1879-80; First Church, Canton, 1881-83; First Church, Youngstown, 1884-86; Painesville, 1887-89; Conneaut, 1890-92; Barnesville district as superintendent, 1893-98; Niles, 1899-1900; Madison, 1901; superannuated, 1902; moved to Kalamazoo, Michigan, where he died. While there he supplied a pulpit at Comstock, Michigan, 1904-07. [CAB, 481]