For those looking for DIX-- see Asenath Osborn's husband, below referenced. -Holly Harris Jagger Bio. of William H. Osborn Commemorative Biographical Record of Northeastern Pennsylvania Including the Counties of Susquehanna, Wayne, Pike and Monroe, J.H. Beers & Co., Chicago, 1900. Page 1286. (transcript) WILLIAM H. OSBORN. Though he had almost reached the age of exemption from military service when the great Civil war began, being then forty-two years of age, the subject of this sketch was one of the first to enlist, once it was seen that there was serious work ahead for the government. Discharged for disability, he re-enlisted, and saw active service, participating in a number of engagements, including some of the most memorable battles of the war. It is a glorious record, and one well worthy a typical representative of a prominent Pennsylvania family. The grandfather of our subject, James Osborn, was a native of New York State, born near the Jersey line. He was a physician who, a century, or longer, ago, practiced his profession among the pioneer settlements of Lackawanna county, and there died. He married Asenath Brady in New York State, and left a family of eight children, namely: James, who moved to Ohio, and there died; John, whose descendants now live in Wayne county; William, father of our subject; Peter and Henry, who went West; Hannah, who married John Love; Polly, who married a Mr. Grist; and Betsey, who married William Ross. William Osborn, father of our subject, was born in Sussex county, N.J., December 23, 1778. At the age of eighteen years he removed to Lackawanna county, Penn., and there married Elizabeth Holden. He removed to Wyoming county, near Lake Winola, where he followed farming, and lived to the ripe old age of eighty-four years, dying in 1862; his wife lived to the age of seventy-two years. In politics he was a Democrat. To them were born seven children: Sydney, deceased; Asenath, who married a Mr. DIX, and is now deceased; Orilla, deceased; Polly, who died unmarried; William Holden, the subject proper of this sketch; Elizabeth, who married James Milligan, and lives at Mill City, Penn.; and Joseph G., a resident of Dorrance, Luzerne county.