Luther R. Osband the third son of Wm. Osband, was born in Nankin, March 14, 1826. He was the first white child born in the vicinity. The sturdy life in the woods gave him a good physical development; in fact, physical education was the most prominent feature of pioneer life. He worked on the farm till his majority. In December, 1847, he married Miss Elizabeth Charlesworth of Redford. They soon commenced housekeeping at Inkster; but after a few months they became members of his father’s family, and after the death of our mother, which occurred in November, 1848, they continued in the family as housekeepers for our father till his death, in 1861. He subsequently bought the northwest 1/4 of southeast 1/4 of section 14, and lived thereon and cultivated it till perhaps 1874. His wife died in December, 1872; he has never married since. His life has been one of hard, unremitting toil. They had three daughters; the eldest, Martha A., married James Hick, and died several years since. The second, Ellen F., kept the house for her father several years after her mother’s death, but is now the wife of Leander Meldrum of Livonia. The third, Jessie E., is the wife of Henry Walsworth of Osceola county. Luther still resides in Nankin, and is the only representative therein of his father’s family.
Edgar E. Osband was born February 21, 1832; he received a larger physical development than any of his brothers, being six feet four without boots. He married Miss Sarah E., daughter of Harcourt Ferguson, in 1857. They have a son, Wm. W., now superintendent of schools of Ontonagon, and a daughter, Meda L., now teaching at Calumet, Keweenaw county; both unmarried. Edgar left his farm several years since, and removed to Yspilanti to make a home for his children while pursuing their studies in the Normal school. After their graduation, he removed to Ontonagon, with a similar purpose in view, where he now resides as proprietor of the Paul House.
Edwin R. Osband the youngest son of Wm. Osband, was born March 20, 1836. In 1861 he enlisted in the first regiment Michigan engineers and mechanics, and spent the next three years in the service of his country. In February, 1864, he married Miss Louise F. Straight, daughter of Daniel Straight of Nankin. Soon after the war he removed to Lansing, where he still resides on a farm one and a half miles west of the city. They have three children. Edwin is now manager of the cooperative store of the Grangers of Lansing.
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