For some time he attended college at Merom, Indiana, and
was principal of schools at Sullivan, in that state. He came
west in 1867 and settled in Pawnee county, where he has
since resided. He was elected county superintendent of
Pawnee county in 1869 and served for three successive terms.
Was married in 1869 to Miss Mary J. Gilkerson, and has a
family of five girls and two boys who are being carefully
educated. Senator Osborn cast his first vote for Abraham
Lincoln in 1864, remained a republican until the contraction
of the currency brought on the panic of 1873, when he joined
the "greenback" movement, voting for Peter Cooper in 1876.
He supported Honorable W. J. Bryan for congress in 1890, and
two years later, and was an enthusiastic advocate of that
gentleman's election in 1896. Mr. Osborn owns 640 acres of
valuable, well-stocked, unincumbered land in Pawnee county,
with other property interests, and still resides on the farm
where he first settled when he came to the state. He is the
able chairman of the committee on railroads, and is a member
of the committees on finance, ways, and means, agriculture,
military affairs, education, manufactures and commerce,
soldiers' home, and standing committees.
SENATOR FRANK T. RANSOM.
ON.
FRANK T. RANSOM, one of the acknowledged leaders of the free
silver republican, democratic and populist wing of the state
senate, represents Douglas county in the upper house of the
legislature. He was the most conspicuous leader in the
organization
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