Eben Osborne, father of Eben S. Osborne, was born in the Scituate Light House near Plymouth, Massachusetts, where his father kept the light for a number of years. Eben Osborne, Sr., died in 1858 at the age of thirty-three years when his son and namesake was but two years of age. As a boy he made trips in Cape Cod fishing crafts and was later interested in the whaling industry, sailing out of New Bedford. He was for a while financially interested in the whaling ship John Jay, and at the time of his death he was engaged in the drug store business at Fall River, Massachusetts, his store becoming the headquarters of the New Bedford whalers. His wife was of Scotch-Irish parentage on the paternal side and her father was a tailor of Lowell, Massachusetts. He married Mary Jane Barr in Lowell on March 4, 1851.
Bio. of Eben Sumner Osborne by Clarence Bagley, History of Seattle, Chicago, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co.,1916. Vol. III, page 479.
Bio. of Eben Sumner Osborne by Clarence Bagley, History of Seattle, Chicago, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co.,1916. Vol. III, page 479.
Eben Osborne, father of Eben S. Osborne, was born in the Scituate Light House near Plymouth, Massachusetts, where his father kept the light for a number of years. Eben Osborne, Sr., died in 1858 at the age of thirty-three years when his son and namesake was but two years of age. As a boy he made trips in Cape Cod fishing crafts and was later interested in the whaling industry, sailing out of New Bedford. He was for a while financially interested in the whaling ship John Jay, and at the time of his death he was engaged in the drug store business at Fall River, Massachusetts, his store becoming the headquarters of the New Bedford whalers. His wife was of Scotch-Irish parentage on the paternal side and her father was a tailor of Lowell, Massachusetts. He married Mary Jane Barr in Lowell on March 4, 1851.
Bio. of Eben Sumner Osborne by Clarence Bagley, History of Seattle, Chicago, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co.,1916. Vol. III, page 479.
Bio. of Eben Sumner Osborne by Clarence Bagley, History of Seattle, Chicago, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co.,1916. Vol. III, page 479.
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