Fresno County Biographies

DR. ROBERT M. OSBURN

Submitted by Kathy Sedler

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DR. ROBERT M. OSBURN
is a native of Pennsylvania, born in the year 1854.  His father, now deceased, 
was for many years a successful druggist, and in this line of work Robert M. 
laid the foundation for future study.  
	After a public school �drilling� at his home he entered the 
University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, graduating from the medical 
department of this famous institution in the year 1879.  Two years prior to this 
course of study our subject had taken an extensive trip west, visiting Oregon, 
Idaho, Nevada, and making a hurried tour of this region in search of health and 
also for pleasure.  He returned to this locality again after his medical studies 
in Philadelphia and settled in Portland, Oregon, in the active practice of his 
profession.  Five months later he entered the University of Willamette, and 
received a diploma from that medical institution.  He then came to California 
and was employed in the hospitals in San Francisco for a period of eight months, 
afterward coming to the San Joaquin valley and settling in Kingsburg, Fresno 
County, in which locality he practiced medicine for seven years.  At the end of 
this period the Doctor returned East and attended a course of post graduate 
lectures in New York city.  There were many distinguished physicians who at 
various times delivered these lectures, one of whom is in the mind of every 
student who was fortunate enough to be in attendance.  The physician referred to 
was Dr. Skeene, one of the ablest men in the profession and a general favorite 
in the school.
	Our subject also took a short course of study in the Brooklyn 
Medical College, and then visited his old home in Meadville, Pennsylvania.  
Making a brief sojourn here, he came next to California, and settled among his 
old patients again in Kingsburg.  In November, 1888, we find him a resident of 
Selma, in which place he has ever since made his home.
	A recent appointment from the naval department at Washington, 
wherein our subject is dispatched as assistant surgeon at the naval department 
at Mare�s Island, San Francisco, will result in the Doctor�s leaving Selma, 
January 1, 1891, and making his temporary home at least in that locality.
	He was married December 20, 1882, to Miss Van Tassel, a native of 
Kingsburg. There are no children.
 
Memorial and Biographical History of the counties of Fresno, Tulare and Kern, California
Chicago, The Lewis Publishing Company, 1892  p. 816