. Biographical and genealogical history of Wayne, Fayette, Union and Franklin counties, Indiana .. . ho with his family emigrated to Toronto, Can-ada, where he engaged extensively in the real-estate business. William was then but a youth. He completed an excellent education andmastered the carpenters trade under the rigid Canadian law governing thesame. While yet a joung man he left Toronto and took up his residence inCollege Corner, Ohio, where he married Huldah Tucker. He located nearthe town, in Indiana, and taught school for some years in Ohio and Indiana,gaining a high reputatio
. Biographical and genealogical history of Wayne, Fayette, Union and Franklin counties, Indiana .. . ho with his family emigrated to Toronto, Can-ada, where he engaged extensively in the real-estate business. William was then but a youth. He completed an excellent education andmastered the carpenters trade under the rigid Canadian law governing thesame. While yet a joung man he left Toronto and took up his residence inCollege Corner, Ohio, where he married Huldah Tucker. He located nearthe town, in Indiana, and taught school for some years in Ohio and Indiana,gaining a high reputation as an educator. In the vacation he contracted ordid extra work in the line of his trade. Subsequently he purchased a farm inUnion county, Indiana, and devoted his time to agricultural pursuits. Hedied in 1866. His widow survived him twenty-nine years and devoted her-self to the interests of her children, giving careful attention to their educa-tion. They had two sons and four daughters, but the younger son died inchildhood. The four sisters, however, survive, and all became BIOGRAPHICAL AND GENEALOGICAL HISTORY. 617 At the age of eighteen years Clarence W. Osborne entered Miami Uni-versity, at Oxford, Ohio, and took two years of the course. He then spentthe succeeding two years as a student in the National Normal University, atLebanon, Ohio, meantime operating his mothers farm. He graduated atthe commercial course, but would have had to continue his studies for atleast another term of eleven weeks in order to complete the classical course,and a ripening harvest demanded his attention on the farm. Subsequentlyhe began teaching, and after four years service in the district schools was forone year principal of the West College Corner school. He was then electedcounty superintendent of the public schools of Union county, in i88r, andhas been re-elected at every election since, and has held the office continu-ously for more than eighteen years. No other county
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