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Richard (Dick) Osborn - living in a family of Blacksmiths. |
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 Mouse Select picture to read the Dick's Blacksmith Poem all Richard or Dick Osborn material is copyright and owned by him 2005, 2006, 2007,2008
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I am so glad you responded to this definition. Dick -I have always viewed the Osborn Blacksmith as an artist first then an engineer second. The Osborn dna in me reflected into my ability to create a mental image and visualize what was to be made. I can do this. For example - take a home layout and place the furniture and arrange the place - I can do this in my head. Nobody in my family understood that I could visualize a design in my mind. this when applied to blacksmith work make a genius. By the way at in 1959 at Penn State I had to do the foundry and blacksmith course to graduate as a BSME mechanical engineer. A backsmith is no way dumb. Will you write me more about what it means to be a blacksmith. Ralph Yes I mostly agree with the printed definition, Heating and pounding which in some case was a form of welding was used long before ,arc welding, Mig welding, gas welding was discovered. When I was a small boy my Dad welded many and many pieces like that. However in my case once my Dad obtained an arc welder I don't remember him ever forge welding. Arc welding was much faster and easier to do As to the blacksmiths being dumb that is really a laugh, where would have been without their skill.
Dick 04/05/08 |
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eBook on Blacksmiths- the
Osborn way Depauville & Clayton, New York and Grand Rapids, Michigan Six Generations - a Family of Blacksmiths by trade 1760 to 2000. |
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1. Great Great Great Grandfather Phineas O born 1760 or 1766, was involved with agriculture in 1840. Was a blacksmith. Lived in German Flatts, Herkimer Co., NY before 1817. Lived 3 miles NW of Depauville in Elm Flat from 1817 to 1832. Lived in Brownville in 1820. Lived in Orleans, Jefferson Co., NY in 1830. Lived in Clayton from 1832, was an early settler there. Died 1847.
3. Great Grandfather Dexter Schuyler born 1826 or 1827. Was a Civil War veteran, 20th Cavalry Co. K. Was a blacksmith in 1850 to at least 1900. Ran his own blacksmith shop at Clayton Center and also Depauville. Lived in Clayton, NY in 1850, Depauville in 1870 to at least 1880, Clayton in 1880 (2 residences) to his death. Lived in Clayton for 75 years until his death in 1923. 4. Grandfather Charles Edward born 1855 was a blacksmith in 1880 who lived in Depauville, NY in 1870 to at least 1880 then moved to Grand Rapids, Kent Co., MI in 1936. Died 1939. 5. Father Claud D. was born 1893 and was a blacksmith. Died 1977 6. Richard E. was born 1926 and was a blacksmith, now retired. |
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| Perhaps we can get Richard (Dick) to write down and tell us his story of what is a blacksmith and how where the skills passed down or how did he learn the family trade. We must admit when you search Osborn and blacksmith you find a lot of them existed in the US and also a Kent UK blacksmith search shows an equally large number of names found. So the genes & DNA might be good for an Osborn creative engineering mindset for this art form. But we find no Book on blacksmiths. Go for it Dick - we will publish it on the internet for sale.
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Husband
Dexter Schuyler Osborn    Born: 17 NOV 1826 - Clayton, Jefferson Co., NY Marr: ABT 1848 - Died: 9 FEB 1923 - Clayton, Jefferson Co., NY Father: Schuyler S Osborn Mother: Chloe Patchin Other Spouses:
Wife Sarah Ann Eldridge Born: ABT 1824 - NY Died: 25 JUL 1903 - Clayton, Jefferson Co., NY Father: Clark Eldridge Mother: Sarah Oakley Other Spouses:
Children
1. John Dexter Osborn Born: 5 MAY 1849 - Depauville, Jefferson Co., NY Marr: 1882 - Elizabeth Massey Died: 2 DEC 1935 - Sandy Creek, Oswego Co., NY 2.
Joseph Clinton Osborn Born: ABT NOV 1852 - Clayton Center, Jefferson Co., NY Died: 3 MAR 1936 - Clayton, Jefferson Co., NY 3.
Charles Edward Osborn Born: 20 DEC 1855 - Marr: 1892 - Elizabeth R Ebner Died: AFT 1936 - 4.
William Jefferson Osborn Born: 5 APR 1860 - MI Died: 15 AUG 1940 - Clayton, Jefferson Co., NY 5.
Chloe Osborn Born: ABT 1863 - Marr: 1879 - Charles Uhl Died: ABT 1946 - 6.
Ruth Osborn Born: 11 JAN 1866 - NY Marr: 1887 - William Howk Died: ABT 1943 -
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Ralph: Anne Osborn is my mother, Virginia is my sister and Bill is
my youngest brother.
They were in N.Y. on a visit in 1936 when this picture was taken.
Dick
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Ralph: I have located the pictures you mentioned in your last e-mail
and I am attraching
them to this. Hope they all come out clear. I met all of them
in 1937 when we were in N.Y. except Mary Jebo who was away from home
at the time. The Jebos lived in Potsdam N.Y.
where as the Howks lived in Watertown. Will Howk had already
passed away when
we were there. Harold Jebo, Merle's husband was alive at that
time. Dick
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| 09/17/2008 mailto:ralphwaite@familycousin.com |
