. Indiana and Indianans : a history of aboriginal and territorial Indiana and the century of statehood . onthe slavery question. Even Vincennes was invaded by the anti-slaveryelement. In 1817 a number of Canadians who had served in the Ameri-can army came to the state to claim the bounty lands which Congresshad appropriated for them in Indiana. Among them was Major Markle,who located near Terre Haute, and built a celebrated old mill, and JohnWillson Osborn, who went to Vincennes. Osborn was a grandson ofCol. John Willson, a British officer, stationed in New York, who wentto Canada at the outbr
. Indiana and Indianans : a history of aboriginal and territorial Indiana and the century of statehood . onthe slavery question. Even Vincennes was invaded by the anti-slaveryelement. In 1817 a number of Canadians who had served in the Ameri-can army came to the state to claim the bounty lands which Congresshad appropriated for them in Indiana. Among them was Major Markle,who located near Terre Haute, and built a celebrated old mill, and JohnWillson Osborn, who went to Vincennes. Osborn was a grandson ofCol. John Willson, a British officer, stationed in New York, who wentto Canada at the outbreak of the Revolution. Ilis father was Capt. f* House Journal, p. 50. INDIANA AND INDIANANS 345 Samuel Osboru of the British navy. Although his people were wealthy,young Osborn learned the printing trade in the office of the Upper Cana-dian Guardian and Freemans Journal, which was conducted by JosephWillock, Member of Parliament from the Niagara district, who wasdecidedly pro-American in his views, and who was killed in the Ameri-can service, near Fort Erie. In this employment Osborn took on Ameri-. JoHN W. Osborn can ideas, and at the beginning of the War of 1812, went across LakeErie and joined Capt. Mahars company of Irish Greens, for whichhe was disinherited by his grandfather. This did not worry Osborn,who, when he got through soldiering, went into the newspaper businessat Homer, N. Y., for a time, and then started the Cortland Republican,at Cortlandville. While here he married Ruby Bishop. He arrived inVineennes in June, 1817, and at once found employment in the officeof the Western Sun, and a few weeks later became a partner, and edi- 346 INDIANA AND INDIANANS tor of the paper. This lasted Imt a few months as Osborii had verypronounc-ed anti-slavery views, which did not hinge with those of ElihuStout, the proprietor of the paper; and so they dissolved and Osbornwent to farming. In 1819 Osborn was joined at Vincennes by his brother-in-law, AmoryKinney, a native of Vermont
Size: 1376px × 1816px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, booksubjectmedicine, bookyear191
