Marin County Biographies

LEWIS OSBORN

Transcribed by Betty Wilson

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
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             Whose portrait appears in this work, was born in 
Hamlin county, Massachusetts, September 4, 1824.  When about sixteen years of 
age, he moved to Suffield, Hartford county, Connecticut, in which place he was 
educated.  He afterwards resided for four years in Cedar (Tipton) and Jones 
counties, Iowa, when he started across the plains for California with teams and 
arrived in 1850 at Nevada City, where he stopped and commenced mining on Deer 
creek.  He left the mining districts in the Fall of 1853, and came to his 
present farm, where he now resides and owns one hundred and eight-five acres.
 
History of Marin County, California; Including Its Geography, Geology, 
Topography and Climatology; by J. P. Munro-Fraser, Historian; Alley, Bowen & 
Co., Publishers, San Francisco, California, 1880