Osborne, John E
physician, legislator, governor, was born June 19, 1858, in Westport, N. Y. He first was apprenticed to a druggist in Vermont; later studied medicine and attended the medical lectures at the university of Vermont, graduating in 1880.
He moved west, opened a drug store in Rawlins, Wyo., where he accumulated a fortune and established an enviable reputation as a physician. He is probably the largest individual sheep holder in Wyoming , his flocks numbering over thirty thousand. In 1882 he was elected a member of the territorial legislature; in 1888 was elected mayor of Rawlins; and in 1896 was elected governor of Wyoming. He is president of the Rawlins Electric Light company; secretary of the Rawlins Wool Storage company; president of the Rawlins Hotel company; and director of a large drug supply house.
OSBORNE, [SAMUEL] DUFFIELD, author, was born in 1858 on Long Island. He is a littérateur of New York city; and the author of The Spell of Ashtaroth; and The Robe of Nessus.