Sullivan County PA Biographies
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JEREMIAH M. OSLER
JEREMIAH M. OSLER owns a valuable piece of land along Elk Creek, Elkland township, Sullivan County, where he is engaged in farming and lumbering, his life-long vocations. He is prominently known throughout the county as a man of untiring energy in any business venture he undertakes and his home and surroundings are of a character showing him to be a careful, conscientious worker. He was born in Hillsgrove township, Sullivan County, Pa., June 25, 1833, and is a son of John H. and Jane (Myers) Osler.
The grandfather of our subject, Jeremiah Osler, was a native of New Jersey. When a young man he settled in Philadelphia where he was known to be one of the best carpenters in that city. He left a wife and two children, John H., and Lydia, deceased. Our subject's grandmother was Catherine Hinkle Osler and she was again wedded to Samuel Bryan who in 1810 moved to Muncy township where he worked at his trade as a carder and cloth-dresser; later he removed to Elkland township and bought the farm now owned by Charles Bryan.
John H. Osler, father of our subject, started in life as an apprentice in the woolen factories at Muncy and being an economical man he saved enough of his hard-earned money with which to purchase a factory; after running a woolen factory from 1835 to 1841 he gave up that business and purchased the property now owned by Clay Osler. He died in Forksville in 1888 at the age of eighty-eight years. His wife was Jane Myers and they became the parents of the following children: Jeremiah M.; Sarah Jane, deceased; Catherine, now Mrs. Huckell; John S., who resides in Elkland township and married Gertrude Ketchum; Julia Ann; Clay M., who wedded Alice Corson and resides in Forks township; Lydia S.; David W., who resides in Lycoming County; H. Wilson, who died young; and Edwin R., who lives in Maryland where he practices medicine. Mr. Osler was an old line Whig, later a Republican, and held many township offices; religiously he was a member of the Methodist Church.
Jeremiah M. Osler attended the schools in his native township where he attained a good business education. The first two years spent on his own account were passed in farming and lumbering on his father's farm. He then came to his present farm, which consists of one hundred and eighty-five acres, and is situated in one of the best farming districts in Sullivan County. Our subject built a saw-mill and rafted his lumber down the river to the markets below doing a large business. He also owns a large tract of timber land and takes contracts for bark-peeling, giving employment to hundreds of men. Mr. Osler is liberal with the poor and among his fellow-citizens he is esteemed and respected by all; like his father and mother he is a good neighbor and an excellent citizen. In 1892 he erected a handsome frame dwelling and a large barn and has one of the best farms in Elkland township.
Mr. Osler formed a matrimonial alliance with Julia A. Brown, who has been of great assistance to him, and who has ably borne her share of the burden in accumulating their present fine property and rearing and educating their family. She is a daughter of George W. and Mary (Snyder) Brown. Her father was a son of John and Mary (Watson) Brown, who reared a family of six children, namely: William, George W., John, Thomas, Ann and Elizabeth.
John Brown settled where Henry Brown now resides and died there aged eighty-four years. George W. Brown purchased land in Forks township upon which he built a saw-mill and carried on farming and lumbering all his active days. He died in 1889 aged eighty-six years, while his wife departed from this earth in 1892 aged eighty-eight years. They reared the following children: Charles; Elizabeth; William W.; Mary; Julia Ann, our subject's wife; John S.; George W.; Effie; and Margaret J.
Mr. and Mrs. Osler are the proud parents of the following children: Hiram W., of Elkland township, who wedded Sadie King by whom he reared five children, Ina, Sidney, Marion, John, and Annie,-he was sheriff of Sullivan County in 1898; Horace Newton a prominent dentist of Dushore, Pa., formerly a veterinary surgeon, a graduate of the Toronto (Ont.) Veterinary College, who was joined in marriage with Catherine Rogers,- two children have been born to them, Lena and Donald; Charles W., died aged two years; John G., died aged twenty-six years; Joseph W., wedded Effie Jones and they reside in Tioga County, Pa.; Mary Jane, deceased, who was the wife of D. F. McCarty; Irvin, died aged four years; Lillie, wife of Grant Little and the mother of three children, Fanny M., Julia, and Otto G.; Fanny W., died aged sixteen years; Nellie J., joined in the bonds of wedlock with Moses Randall and two children, Jeremiah M. and Ransom W., have been born to them; and Boyd L., who is a student.
In politics our subject is independent and has served in minor township offices; religiously he and his wife are members of the Christian Church.
(Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District Published by Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY 1899 Page 155 Transcribed by Tammy Clark)
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