Organized in 1871, Osborne County is
named after a private of Company B, Second Kansas Cavalry, Vincent
B. Osborne. While aboard the steamer Anna Jacobs near
Joy's Ford along the Arkansas River, Private Osborne lost his
right leg.
Although the 1870 census revealed only
thirty-three residents, Dutch, German, and German-speaking Swiss
settlers soon rushed to the area. The first settlers included
Zara M. Hill, who made the county's first land entry, and the
two Bullock brothers, who established the county's first permanent
settlement in 1870. By 1880, the county's inhabitants numbered
12,518.
Contact Us:
Osborne Genealogical and Historical
Society
307 W. Main
Osborne, KS 67473
(785) 346-2626 or (785) 346-2418
Sources
William G. Culter's History
of the State of Kansas (1976) was first published in 1883
by A. T. Andreas in Chicago, Illinois.
Nobel L. Prentis' A History
of Kansas was published in 1904 by Caroline E. Prentis.
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