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Osborn, R. H

physician, surgeon, state senator, was born June 27, 1823, in North Bloomfield, Ohio. He taught school for three years, and in 1849 graduated from the Medical college of Cleveland, Ohio. He has attained success as an eminent physician and surgeon of Michigan, and is the oldest physician on Lake Superior. In 1877-78 he served with distinction as a member of the state senate of the Michigan state legislature. He has been a school director for twenty-five years; is vice-president of the Merchants' and Miners' bank of Calumet, and a director of the Farmingdale Land and Live Stock company of South Dakota.

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