Osborne, Edwin S
soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Aug. 7, 1839, in Bethany, Pa. In 1861 he enlisted in the union army; and in 1863 was promoted to major and appointed assistant inspector-general. After the close of the war he was detailed as a judge advocate in the bureau of military justice, at Washington. In 1883 he was commander of the department of Pennsylvania Grand Army of the Republic. In 1884 he was elected a representative-at-large from Pennsylvania to the forty-ninth congress; and re-elected to the fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as a republican.