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John Dunlop Osborne (Louisville, Kentucky, newspaper editor and owner)

b. 1816-03-16 d. 1882-09-24

Louisville, Kentucky, newspaper editor. Virginia native. Married to Harriotte Graves Osborne in Mason County, Kentucky, on October 9, 1851. Father of William J. E. Osborne, Emily G. Osborne, Mary Jane Osborne, Hattie Osborne, and Sallie Osborne. Editor of the Louisville Journal in Louisville in 1860. President of the Western Associated Press in 1865.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, 5th Ward, p. 144-45.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 7, p. 32

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Mason County Marriages, Film #000819593.

A. T. Andreas, History of Chicago: from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, v. II From 1857 Until the Fire of 1871 (Chicago: A. T. Andreas Company, 1885), 500.

Birth and Death Records: Covington, Lexington, Louisville, and Newport – Microfilm (before 1911), KDLA, Roll #7007127, Jefferson County Deaths, Louisville, Books 5-6, p. 270 of microfilm.

Find A Grave, "John Dunlap Osborne (1816-1882)," Memorial #93577314, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/93577314 (accessed October 24, 2019).

Citation

Osborne, John Dunlop. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32203418 (November 12, 2026).

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